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OK, went back to the search and accidentally clicked on the item again and got through???

Was actually Anna's obit, as I suspected.

Now have her death date.

Sorry if anyone has already started looking.

And, done!

From 1860 to 1861,
Anna 'moved' from 40 First to 62 First
Horace Hoag (a sign-painter) moved from 42 First to 64 First, exactly as you predicted.

Between 1860 and 1861, the house numbers on First Street in San Francisco changed.

I would note that prior to the surname Hoag, most who lived on First St and had a number in 1860 had either moved or left SF (or, at least, the directory).
Also, in 1860, most of the address give were of the 'bet This Street and Another Street' rather than having numbers. But the problem is solved.

Many thanks

Thanks for that.

I'd found most of those already, sadly they show block numbers, not the actual house numbers.

The only maps I've seen with individual buildings are the survey maps, and they don't use any numbers.

B

Hi All,

I've found my relative in San Francisco in the 1850s. She was running a boarding house in First Street from 1850 into the late 1860s.

She first appears at the address 'First n Mission' in the SF directory, then at '40 First' and finally at '62 First'. Her name was Anna Mordecai, but she appears variously as Mrs Mordica (in 1850), or Anna Mordacai and so on.

My question is: Did the street numbering change as First street filled in across the 1850s? So that these three addresses might all refer to the same building? (This area is outside all the great fires, but a little fire might also have forced a move.)

It seems clear that there was at least one change between now and then. The location of #40 now is at a place that is clear of buldings on the 1853 Coastal Survey map.

Any ideas?

For the record, she arrived in Oct 1849 on the Alhambra.

Cheers

Bill

In the census records, I can trace my gg grandparents Thomas Jenkins and his wife Barbara (nee David), in Llandyfodwg (and variant spellings) from 1841 to 1891 (Thomas, at least, Barbara died in 1878). Mostly at Cae Rosser farm (again with variants), except in 1891 when Thomas had stopped farming (he was 85 and died later that year).

But there is a gap. I cannot find the 1861 census returns for Llandyfodwg. Are they missing completely, or were never scanned, or...?
I've occasionally tried various neighbouring parishes to see if Llandyfodwg ended up with them in 1861, but no luck so far.

A scan of the relevant page(s) would be nice, but a transcript will obviously be perfectly acceptable.
If the pages are damaged, the fact I want to check is the location of their daughter, Gwenllian, in 1861. By 1863 she is in Cardiff marrying William Howell, prior to seeking pastures new in Australia (well the colony of Victoria). Even a fragment that shows she was still with her parents in 1861 will save me from trying to find Gwen Jenkins in Cardiff in 1861!?
I've even tried looking there with no success. All I can say is that she wasn't at 3 Church St, Cardiff, which is the address given on the marriage record in 1863.

Many thanks for even reading this far!
Bill