Norman, Have you tried "Historical Directories" on-line? Here is the link http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp Regards Peter Subject: [MDX] "School" in Camden I wonder if someone with access to a trades directory or suchlike could help me with a brick wall. I'm trying to confirm that an Ellen Fletcher ran a "school' at 49 College Street West (now part of College Place), Camden, in the early or mid 1850s. She was widowed in 1851 and a newspaper report 1867 tells of a widowed Mrs Fletcher acting as informal foster parent of a small boy belonging to an unmarried couple nearby. They used the name Redpath or Redmayne. The report concerns a magistrates hearing brought by Mrs Fletcher complaining that the agreed maintenance payments have not been honoured. Mrs Fletcher says she was running a school at the time. The boy is possibly my GG-Grandfather (later know as Thomas Redmayne) but I cannot identify him in either the 1861 or 1871 census returns. Thanks and regards Norman Jessup