Street location

[Ouse who]

Where was Somerset Street, Old Ford, Bow?

A press report on an inquest in September 1861 gives the above as the address of my wife's ancestor. I have looked at several 19th C on-line maps but haven't managed to spot it yet.

I would appreciate directions to the street, preferably in relation to an obvious nearby landmark!

Thanks O.

[carol8353]

The 1861 census has one in St Mary's Whitechapel district,would that be it?

RG9 piece 271 folio 186 page 10
 

The page after that is Mansell Street,any good?

Carol

[jennifer c]

I have checked the street index for 1861 & 1871 census for Old Ford area for Somerset Street and nothing is coming up. Nearest I can get is Summer Street?

Is there a death certificate?

Jennifer

[jayaydee]

Summer Street is just off Old Ford Road at the top of this map:

http://london1868.com/weller36.htm

[Ouse who]

Thank you all for your responses.

I suspect it was Summer Street, as it was a few streets away from the address her son was born in 1860 (Albert Road). Another press article gives the address as Somers Square, so I think it could just be down to how the reporters took down the details. In the census earlier in the year at Tower Hamlets the address is indecipherable.

There is no address given on the death certificate; she died at the scene of the Kentish Town railway accident.

Regards, O.

[[Ray]]

Hiya!

2 Summer Street is where your relative was living 1861Census

RG9 304  1 ,  Bow, District 39, Page 1
(There seems to be a problem on Ancestry with page numbers and no scan of district description page)
 
The enumerator "walked"
Summer Street, Spring Street, Crescent Place(OakCottage),
Mary Street, Mary Street East, Crescent,
ending in Douro Street which is still there.

At the top of this page ......................................
http://london1868.com/weller36.htm


Enjoy!

Ray

[Ouse who]

Thanks Ray for checking out that address entry in the 1861 census.

Modern maps seem to suggest that several of the streets you mentioned are now part of the foundations of the northbound access road to the Blackwall Tunnel. 

O.