It's Dryden Street Court. It's a bit more obvious if you look at the preceding page in the census - it's a bit more clear there. For some reason he's written "Court Dry", then "den St" up in the air, which helps even less! Another historical person with no intention of helping out the future investigator. ;)
Dryden Street still exists, but I imagine that the Court itself has long been consigned to history. Happily, if it was anything like most of them were!
For some reason he's written "Court Dry", then "den St" up in the air,
I'd imagine he means a court behind/off Dryden Street then, rather than a road called Dryden St Court, as most towns and cities had networks of 'courts' behind streets, with back to back housing in.
With swordznsorcery's translation, I'd imagine it's probably "No 13 Court, Dryden Street", which seems to be a fairly standard thing for the courts. (I have a lot of families living in courts in Bridgwater, and they vary across censuses between the street name, no court detail, court number/building name + street).
It is truly awful handwriting, isn't it! That's surprisingly common, too. You'd think that if you were hiring somebody to fill in important official documents, it might be a good idea to check that they can do it so it's readable!
To be fair, it was just for statistics - they took censuses in 1801-1831 as well, but they only wrote down heads of household and mostly didn't keep them, so there was no real reason to suppose that anyone would want them nearly 200 years later! (Some of the earlier ones for specific locations do survive in record offices.)
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Date: 2020-01-08 07:35 pm (UTC)It's Dryden Street Court. It's a bit more obvious if you look at the preceding page in the census - it's a bit more clear there. For some reason he's written "Court Dry", then "den St" up in the air, which helps even less! Another historical person with no intention of helping out the future investigator. ;)
Dryden Street still exists, but I imagine that the Court itself has long been consigned to history. Happily, if it was anything like most of them were!
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Date: 2020-01-08 08:45 pm (UTC)I'd imagine he means a court behind/off Dryden Street then, rather than a road called Dryden St Court, as most towns and cities had networks of 'courts' behind streets, with back to back housing in.
Nice detective work!!
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Date: 2020-01-08 11:25 pm (UTC)I knew I could count on you guys! Thanks! ❤
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Date: 2020-01-09 09:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-09 12:24 am (UTC)Such miserable places to live. Little wonder so many of them died of ghastly respiratory diseases.
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Date: 2020-01-09 02:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-08 11:23 pm (UTC)You're right about Dryden St too. I found an electoral register but couldn't work out how that was supposed to be Dryden St Court.
Thank you!
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Date: 2020-01-09 12:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-09 12:39 am (UTC)Bonus points if they're hard of hearing and mistake Lilian for William.
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Date: 2020-01-09 09:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-09 09:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-09 09:44 am (UTC)