Frederick Richardson

[ricko]

Opinion sought on this:

1881 Census
Frederick Richardson, 20, unmarried, drapers assistant, born abt 1861, Tottenham, Middlesex.

Resident on Regent Street with lots of other Drapers Assistants, bearing in mind that Bancrofts School was set up by the Company of Drapers is this genuine or a coincidence.

Your opinions sought.
Cheers

[Valda]

Hi


Bearing in mind he won't have filled in the census schedule for this property which has a great many entries (it might be where Lillywhites was/is today) which somebody else laboriously had to write into the schedule and the census enumerator then had to copy into his enumeration district book, the Tottenham part of the entry could be an error.

You are left with obtaining the potential birth certificate, since there appears no obvious baptismal entry to help and trying to track down any surviving Bancroft pupil records which may give some background detail.


The Drapers' Company has an archivist who should be able to tell you whether these records have survived and who holds them - probably not the Drapers Company

http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/Contact-Us.aspx

They have deposited papers concerning the Francis Bancroft Trust that established the school

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=7255&inst_id=97&nv1=search&nv2=basic



If you have Frederick's death date you can search to see whether he left a will.


Regards

Valda