Hello Mike,
Yes it is surprising to me as well that Town Row is shown. Augusta
cellars, Hall street, Lethbridge terrace, Bath terrace, areas of
Victoria, Ebbw Vale all show on 1851 and 1861 census.
I will have to check if my wife's family appear on 1871 index in the
area. I was at PRO London today and I reported that there were 30 pages
missing on part of the Argoed area for Monmouthshire.
I have never heard of Town Row myself. Victoria town probably!
In fact the colliery disaster at Victoria in No.1 pits in March 1871
where 19 miners were killed included the following:-
As the dead included Samuel Cooke of Bee Row (affectionate for Lady
Llanover) SEE:-
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gwenynen.gwent/Home.htm
John Evans of Shop Row, Victoria Town for example.
Keep you posted as our Gwent FHS 1871 census index could be incomplete
if indeed the enumerator did miss the areas.
best regards
Barrie Jones, Gwent FHS
In message Mike Kohnstamm <mike.kohnstamm(a)btinternet.com> writes:-
Does anyone have any idea what happened to the street names in
Victoria,
near Ebbw Vale, in the 1871 census?
In the other censuses, before and after, the main streets in Victoria were
Hall St, Augusta St and Queen St. But in the 1871 census there are no such
streets. Instead there is just Town Row.
Was the enumerator just too lazy to find out the street names, and invented
one of his own, or was this an alternative name in common use? If so, how
did the house numbers of the three streets map onto those for Town Row? I
think there was a colliery disaster just weeks before the census, but this
hardly seems reason to rename the streets like this.
Incidentally, I presume Hall St and Augusta St were named after Benjamin
Hall and his wife Augusta, who once owned the place.
Mike Kohnstamm