Hi Elaine I've just realised the neighbours at 8 Bakers Row in 1881 census are also my relatives - and possibly yours, Elaine. If not, it's an indication of spelling you may have to try to find your OSTACCHINI family. You may recollect Maria GHIRARDANI married Vincenzo STACCHINI in 1875. It now seems to be DI STACCHINI. (I couldn't find them before in the 1881) At no. 8 Bakers Row, Clerkenwell: Vincenso DISTAKINI M 32 M Italy Fruiterer Mary DISTAKINI M 26 Holborn Wife Luigi JABICORANI (needs translating perhaps?) U 31 M Italy Boarder Ice Cream Seller Alexander DISTAKANI U 30 M Italy Boarder Ice Cream Seller Julie DISTAKANI U 28 F Italy Boarder Angelo BASSI U 30 M Italy Boarder Ice Cream Seller I think the spellings of this particular enumerator/ transcriber combination are very problematic. Anyone seeking Italians may have to trawl through all the likely streets in the index and think very laterally. I know this couple could not write since they were witnesses to a marriage. Many of the Italians and even the 2nd generation born in Britain may have been unable to write. No wonder the enumerator got it wrong. Daphne