« Reply #89 on: Wednesday 16 February 05 08:25 GMT (UK) »
Ever wonder what Mr Tesco did before opening his supermarkets?
It seems he was a Bandmaster in the royal Navy

Mr Antonia
Tesco is living with his wife and son in Minster in Sheppey in 1881
And I also found Mr Thomas
Lidl and his wife Ann living in Bromley. He was a draper...a bit nearer to his later job....but I'd always thought he was German.....seems he was actually born in Middlesex ;
Cork: Collins,
Herts/Beds: Pope,Harwood
Essex: Bryant, Pumfrey, Williams, Keyes,Totham, Citchen
Surrey/London: Shields, Woolf, Cooper, Quinton, Plumer
other: Cuskern, Domazsewicz
Wales: Morgan, Mathews, Thomas (x2), Trew, Protheroe, Owen
Census information is Crown copyright