TheGenealogist has just released a new circa 1921 resource, covering 23 counties, with over one million records. These formpart of the Trade, Residential & Telephone record sets on TheGenealogist covering a period currently not served by a census.
The fully transcribed, searchable records released today will allow researchers to:
search on forename, surname and profession
search by street, town and county
look for a business name
discover your ancestors’ addresses
find professions listed
These 1921 directories cover the North, South, East and the West of England, the Channel Islands and as far up the country as Aberdeen. If you have ancestors who you are tracing in 1921, this new release from TheGenealogist adds a fantastic name rich resource to your family history research armoury.Searching for householders within these 23 newly released county directories returns a good number of names from that time, including many that are still famous today.For example, in these new records we can find Harry Gordon Selfridge, founder of Selfridge's department store; Jesse Boot, who was behind the chemist chain that still carries his name; Winnie-the-Pooh’s author A. A. Milne; J.M. Barrie, who created the characters of Peter Pan and Wendy; plus the celebrated economist, John Maynard Keynes. You can read more about finding them in the records in our featured article at: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2017/addressing-where-they-were-in-1921-571/The areas covered in this release include:
Aberdeen
Bath
Berkshire
Bradford and Surrounding Districts
Bristol and Suburberbs
Brixton and Clapham
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Channel Islands
Cheshire
Cumberland
Dorset
Durham
Hessle
Hull
Lincolnshire
London
London County Suburbs
Middlesbrough
Norfolk
Northumberland
Oxfordshire
Somerset
Suffolk
Westmorland
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
TheGenealogist says that they will be adding further counties in the coming months.
