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[Susan foster]

Hi I'm looking at an cencus of my family and it wentworth street but it say Kelsey jand do you know what it means or what it was 

Thanks

[Jim Hardie]

1 hour ago, Susan foster said:

Hi I'm looking at an cencus of my family and it wentworth street but it say Kelsey jand do you know what it means or what it was 

Thanks

I think you’ll need to give a bit more detail.

[sadbrewer]

Are you looking at the 1861 census for Hezekiah Kelsey?...if so and you are looking at the box at the side of  'Kelseys Houses, Wentworth Street' I think it is a number 1, denoting 1 inhabited house. If it said 1b it would indicate 1 house being built....if I remember rightly.

 

Just to add to that Edwin Kelsey had a son called Ellis, you won't find the boy on the census as he died in 1879 at the age of 1yr 5 months.

Edited February 17, 2021 by sadbrewer

[redcanuck]

 

Hezekiah KELSEY	41	head	LIN	Haxey
Mary Ann KELSEY	43	wife	YKS	Doncaster
Henry KELSEY	16	son	DBY	Bakewell
Edwin KELSEY	13	son	YKS	Sheffield
Annie KELSEY	11	daughter	YKS	Sheffield
Thomas KELSEY	9	son	YKS	Sheffield
Catherine E KELSEY	5	daughter	YKS	Sheffield

 

This is from the 1861 Sheffield census on SheffieldRecords.org.uk   

 

You can follow Hezekiah through the 1851 , 1861 , 1871 and 1881  censuses on FamilySearch.org.  He died in Sheffield in 1890,  April--June.

 

If Hezekiah is not the one you are looking for, there is a James Kelsey and his wife Elizabeth, no kids, and a Henry Kelsey and his wife Sarah and their children in that Sheffield 1861 census  on SheffieldRecords.org.uk 

 

 

Edited February 17, 2021 by redcanuck