New User Help for street name

[Chris]

Hi Everyone this is my first post on this forum so I hope that this question is in the right section?
I need help with a street name from the Birmingham 1861 Census. It looks like it could be Lower "Efex" Street but I can't make out the last "Efex" part? I am sure that the Lower is correct as the person I ws looking up is a Francis Bowler b.1842 and the Bowler and Lower look similar. The record is on page 48 and the ref number is RG 0/2141
Thanks
Chris

[HOLLY]

Hi, Looks to me that District 9 covers Kent Street and Lower Essex Street - Holly....

[Chris]

I have had a good look at the document and it loks llike either a C or E as the first letter so it could be Copex, Efex but it dosent' look like it could be an S as in Essex as there is a "tail on the letter.

[HOLLY]

Hi Chris, have a look at the Enumerators District and it gives the area he has covered which reads Kent and looks like Essex Street which would make sense with them both being English Counties. The district No. is 9 - Holly

[Chris]

Thanks Holly I will do that now and see if I can find it

[PJLong]

Hi Chris, welcome! Had a look and I've seen this one before....where the double "s" looks like an "f". Confused me something awful when I first started looking at these old records! It's defo courts in Lower Essex Street. Good Luck. Pauline.

[PJLong]

Lower Essex Street still exists!

[Chris]

Thanks Holly and Pauline I had a look at the distrct and it did say Lower Essex but because of the double s looking like an "f" I did not think it was it. At least now I will know for future documents. Thanks for your help
Chris

[Tina]

Hi Chris
You've joined the best forum around.
It does look like Lower Essex St looking at previous entries i.e page 38.

My OH works in Kwinana.

All the best
Tina

[dickiesam]

Hi Chris,
I gather you didn't do German at school? The script in German is very similar to the 'Caxton' style script used in old formal English. A double 's' is written like an upper case B with a tail, and a single 's' looks like a lower case 'f'.

My nickname before going to secondary school was Sass. Within a month of starting German I was Fab! And that was a long time before the Fab Four hit the headlines. I never thought all those years ago that one day my school German would help me to read census documents!
Cheers,
Dickiesam