Hi Everyone,
Back from my epic journey south…to absolutely no avail…I found zilch at the Met Archives. Looked through interminable parish records and went very cross eyed.
However I did buy an Alan Godfrey map of the area and this has proved very useful.
I decided to go through the whole of the Shadwell districts in 1861 street by street and found this:
The description of District 6 (RG 9-282) says:
The parish of St Paul comprising
Bell Wharf Hill no 165
The whole of Dean Street
The whole of Gould Hill
The whole of Gould Hill Green
Spring Gardens Place
Three Cup Alley, Three Cup Court
Broad Bridge, both sides of Middle Shadwell and the whole of Lower ShadwellHowever only 22 pages are available it seems and the streets covered stop half way down Three Cup Alley. There is a mysterious note in the top right of 9/282 Folio 136 page 21. It has END written next to the folio number then ‘* see overleaf’ written next to it. I assume this means on the reverse as page 22 is there and no notes are visible.
Ancestry stops at p.22 and Find My Past stops at p.21
Of course all this means that Three Cup Court, Broad Bridge, both sides of Middle Shadwell and the whole of Lower Shadwell are missing, the most likely bit for my ancestors…..
Has anyone any idea how to find out what is written overleaf or where the rest of this district is. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Linda
