William Gerrish look up please

[denise westall]

Please can anyone help, me trace a William Gerrish.  The last record of him that I have is that he was resident at New Buildings, Whitely, Melksham -without.  I have no idea what happened to him after that.  His parents originated from Melksham.  His only daughter cut off contact from him in 1915 when his wife died, so he could have moved anywhere, or remarried, even emmigrated.  Does anyone have a directory that could help me start at that date? He was a plasterer and tiler by trade.  Thanks.

Denise

[Biker]

Hello,

I'm not sure which directories exactly you are referring to.  However, as a start you might try this site: http://www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk/home.htm

Otherwise you can check a selected number of historical directories online here: http://www.historicaldirectories.org

Good luck
Jonathan

[denise westall]

Thankyou Jonathon,

I was trying to save myself a journey over to Wiltshirerecords office.  I did not know that there were directories on line, I will give it a go.  The directories I had in mind were the County directories, giving information on residents in villages and towns, and local directories.  Some of these at the library give information on individuals.  Also at a recent fair I saw a cd rom with post office records of names and addresses, but can't remember the dates of those. wondered if anyone might have purchased one.

Denise