Does anyone on the List have a copy of a Tithe Map from Tendring circa 1841. I have an ancestor living in "Cottage Lane" ( 1841 Census) and I would like to try to find/photgraph the location today in Tendring. David Vesey Toronto Canada

David I can't help directly - I have a reprinted Ordnance Survey Map for the area from 1838, but unfortunately it only lists the names of farms, not of the little lanes around them. I popped into Manningtree Library yesterday to see if they had anything, but they didn't (it's only a small library). The librarian suggested I try Colchester, but that they may not have anything either as a lot of things have been moved to the Essex Records Office in Chelmsford. I'm happy to go to Colchester Library for you next time I'm heading that way (Chelmsford is a bit far); if you want me to do that it would be helpful if you could contact them beforehand to see what they've got. Another thing I did yesterday (as it's the sort of thing I like doing!) - I used the "Search by address" feature on FindMyPast to see who else was living in Cottage Lane in 1841, and then looked for them, by name, in 1851 (as Cottage Lane didn't seem to exist then - at least not as a street name). I found that several of them were living at addresses such as "31 Cottage" and "37 Cottage". I don't think these would have been an abbreviation of "Cottage Lane" (as we don't abbreviate street names like that here - I know you do in Canada, where I've just come back from), so I'm wondering if, by 1851, they had adopted a system of simply numbering all the cottages in the village without using street names? If you ever find out where your ancestors were living I'll be happy to go and take a picture for you - I don't live all that far away (and have a friend in the village). BTW, as you may know Tendring is also the name of our local government district (no idea why they called it after that tiny village), so things get a bit confusing at times. Angelika On 15/02/2013 20:45, David Vesey wrote: > Does anyone on the List have a copy of a Tithe Map from Tendring circa 1841. > > I have an ancestor living in "Cottage Lane" ( 1841 Census) and I would > like to > try to find/photgraph the location today in Tendring. > > David Vesey > Toronto Canada > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >