"derek deShelfe" <derekdeShelfe1@activemail.co.uk> wrote..... > I went to the library again this afternoon to try and solve 'The Mystery of > Maltby Street'.I decided to use the Burgess Rolls which were a kind of > early version of Electoral Registers.They are very much under-used by > searchers,but they are very useful for looking for people in the > between-census years. > There wasn't a B.Roll for 1881,but there was one for 1879-80,and one for > 1883-4. > In 1879-80 I found the following--- > 13,Maltby Street.Occupier-Alice Crabtree. > So the David Benson Marr.Cert.WAS correct after all.There WAS a No.13 > before 1881. > In the 1883-4 B.R there was no trace of No.13 ; in fact,apart from No.4,the > lowest number was 15,just as I found on the 1881 census yesterday.> I DOUBT there is much of a mystery. I have experienced the same kind of thing when searching the Bradford Burgess Rolls (in effect, they were electoral registers but of people qualified to vote in local elections) in the Barkerend Road area. My ancestors appeared to have moved, since they appear at different numbers in different years, but I gather there was a good deal of renumbering of roads and streets, as new houses were erected and others disappeared. It's possible that some houses were pulled down or that No. 13 was empty when the BRs were drawn up. Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies) SoG Executive & Director of Projects, FFHS Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith