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Please can someone help reading the address on a census It looks like something Yard. 1841 Fanny Carruthers Macclesfield HO 107/132/5 Thanks Cheryl

have you got the folio, book and page number I think they are below the HO number Jeanette

Nixons Yard. Jan

i thought MYSONS yard - but it isn't at all clear

Impossible! Moon? On the next page it looks more like Myon's and on previous pages more like Myons. On the page describing the enumeration district it looks like Nixons!

Hi Janette the only numbers I have on the census are Ho 107 /131 / 5 Everybody on the census seem to be living at the same adress do you know why?

Looks like Nixons Yard Love Michelle:) X

I tend to agree with Jan - Nixons Yard. It doesn't look like the other Ms on the page and it's certainly not a W. Have you tried to find it on Streetmap.co.uk?

Thanks very much everyone for your help. Best wishes Cheryl :)

Cheryl, it wasn't until much later that houses had numbers, so in the census returns they just showed the name of the street (or in this case the yard) where people lived. Jan

Thanks Jan for that bit of info. I had already ruled out the work house but could not for the life of me work out why there was no numbers on the houses. Best wishes Cheryl :)

You're lucky you've got the name of a road, even if you don't know what it is! On my rural ancestors' earlier censuses, there's nothing apart from the village name to tell where they lived. nell

Must have been a nightmare for the postman. Ha ha Cheryl

As they mostly weren't able to read, I don't suppose in most villages the postman was even considered. When I looked up where my husband lived in the 1881 census (no, he wasn't there then, but the house was), we had a job to find it, because we looked for the number it had now, and found that in fact the numbering had been changed, because more houses had been built along the road. We were able to pinpoint his because some of the houses had names, which hadn't been changed. So imagine the confusion if you used to live at 150 London Road, and it suddenly became 160 London Road. Jan

A possible way to check further is to go into the census options for that year, underneath the search box all the counties are listed, then when you click on the correct county you will find the diff enumeration districts listed - before you go out of your census return check all the details it should give you the district etc at the top of the return. Find that district and it will give you the enumeration details for the census- the names of all the roads that are enumerated will be listed on the page. It may help clarify the name. Hope all that makes sense, I will have a look there for you now. Regards, Lyn x

Just checked via the other route and would agree with Jan and say Nixon'x Yard. Lyn x