In message <LEEKKHIGLPJPKNHOFKOJOEICELAA.abruce@madasafish.com>, Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> writes >Anyone know how houses were identified in New Bradwell in the 1860s? > >The birth certificate for my great-grandmother (Mary Jane Marley SALTER) has >When & where born: Twelfth April 1863; 135 New Bradwell This was a railway town and long lines of terrace houses were being bult all the time, which were eventually given street names. But maybe this naming was not far advanced at this stage, and the enumerator chose to ignore it. It is even possible these are the first #railway houses' along the very long Newport Road, off which the shorter half dozen streets like St Mary Rd, St Giles Rd, etc ran. The Newport Rd houses were larger, the side ones tended to be neat two up two down style. There are pictures of the Newport Rd houses in Julian Hunt and Denis Mynard's book:@ Milton Keynes, a pictiorial history. Checking the precise distance from St James's church (built 1860, on the Newport Rd should pinpoint it. > >No street name - just the number. Curious? I have just found the record for >them in the 1861 census. At that time they were at Number 118 is this the street address or the household schedule number? >As a clue, No 118 appears to contain 3 large families, and the next 2 >entries in the census are the Railway Tavern and St James Church.... half way down the Newport Rd -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

Thanks to those who offered their suggestions - no clear proof so far but it does seem quite possible from the references and ideas that this is Newport Road, and perhaps before street names were universally used. At least, nobody's denied the possibility! Let's me look at the maps etc with better understanding. (I know odd things happen - Nantwich had 2 rows of houses called 1 to something Vauxhall, and when one was given its own series of numbers, my relatives seemed to insist that every other reference reverted to the old style!) The numbers quoted by the way, were house numbers, not the schedule numbers, though since Dianne Sutton & Bob Strong mention renumbering & renaming, may not match what's there now! (The map on www.old-maps.co.uk gives names like "Top Street" - I think I can now match that up to the current streets, with those clues) Thanks again...... Adrian Bruce adrian_bruce@bigfoot.com -----Original Message----- ... To: adrian_bruce@bigfoot.com Cc: BUCKS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BKM] New Bradwell houses without street names