1921 Census and business addreses

[GrahamSimons]

If there was nobody in the premises on the night of the census, then nobody would have been recorded there. The census is asking the question, "Who is here this night?" so non-residential premises would have not had a record, and people away from home should have been enumerated where they were at the time.

[rosie99]

Lilian Mary Evans, Aunt, born 1907 in Warrington
John Francis Evans, Father, born 1911 in Warrington
Sydney Thomas Evans, Uncle, born 1914 in Warrington

Was Elizabeth Anns surname Daniels  .   Birth registrations don't have middle names for first two children

EVANS, LILY       mmn DANIELS 
GRO Reference: 1907  March Quarter in WARRINGTON  Volume 08C  Page 238

EVANS, JOHN       mmn DANIELS 
GRO Reference: 1912  March Quarter in WARRINGTON  Volume 08C  Page 405

EVANS, SIDNEY  THOMAS     mmn DANIELS 
GRO Reference: 1914  Dec Quarter in WARRINGTON  Volume 08C  Page 373

[Keithiow]

Was Elizabeth Anns surname Daniels  .   Birth registrations don't have middle names for first two children

EVANS, LILY       mmn DANIELS 
GRO Reference: 1907  March Quarter in WARRINGTON  Volume 08C  Page 238

EVANS, JOHN       mmn DANIELS 
GRO Reference: 1912  March Quarter in WARRINGTON  Volume 08C  Page 405

EVANS, SIDNEY  THOMAS     mmn DANIELS 
GRO Reference: 1914  Dec Quarter in WARRINGTON  Volume 08C  Page 373
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Yes, those are the correct people.

[Keithiow]

If there was nobody in the premises on the night of the census, then nobody would have been recorded there. The census is asking the question, "Who is here this night?" so non-residential premises would have not had a record, and people away from home should have been enumerated where they were at the time.

I think the shop in Warrington was in the back streets and was a grocers shop. I think the family lived over the shop as that is the address on my fathers birth certificate.

The shop in Manchester I am unsure if they lived there over the shop but assume they did as they bought a new 3 bed semi in another part of Manchester for £750 in the late 1930's.
The trouble is I can't find any family with the right names on the 1921 in Manchester, and that's whats confusing me.

[ShaunJ]

I think the shop in Warrington was in the back streets and was a grocers shop

But he was a pawnbroker by 1911 (per census and John junior's baptism)

[Keithiow]

I think the shop in Warrington was in the back streets and was a grocers shop

But he was a pawnbroker by 1911 (per census and John junior's baptism)

Yes, he was a pawnbroker but his wife Elizabeth was a grocer in 1911.
Interestingly the Warrington property, 110 Algernon St, is not listed in the 1939, it leaps from 109 to 111?