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i have an address that im trying to find where do i start duturnals building shaw leasow,walsall foreign i know that there is a shaw street in walsall but this leasow is a bit puzzling although there is a place in walsall called leamore could this be it and could the name have changed sorry to keep asking of you all

where has the ref come from. is it an address on census or wot?

Kelly, I Live not far from Walsall, never heard of Leasow, but there is definately a Leamore :O)

yes its fron a census...

Sorry to butt in ... but it sounds odd to me ... are you sure you've read it right (or that it has been transcribed right?)? Good luck, Jane

From 1881 census Duturnals Buildings Shaws Leasow, Walsall Foreign, Staffordshire, England

I think the name of the building is Disturnal Buildings. Apparently there was a Richard Disturnal who was a coachbuilder in the area, according to Google. Kath. x

I 'Googled' and there was a similar question on another Gen site. 'Shaw's Leasow in Walsall became Shaw Street' Chris

What exactly do you mean when you say 'Ii have an address that I am try to find' Do you want to locate the proprty in a census? Are you trying to acertain the modern day location? Are you trying to find it on an old map? Are you trying to work out what it really says? I can see the name on the 1881 census and have also read the description of the enumeration district. Is this what you need? Pete

If you go to this site:- http://www.walsall.gov.uk/census81.pdf you will see that both Shaw's Leasow and Disturnal Buildings are both mentioned on fiche 131 Kath. x

The original census books have a description of the enumeration district they cover. This varies from 'the entire village of A' to 'All of B Street, the north side of C Street, including D Row.....etc' Usually the latter description will include part of at least one identifiable major road, though that may have changed name in the succeeding decades. It is always worth finding this description. I believe that Ancestry does hold these images, but they are not in same place that you would find them if you looked at the records in microform. If you look at the page numbering, you will realise that the books contain a good many pages besides the actual schedules of households.

thanks to you all for your help and advice ...i was just trying to find out where it would have been if that makes sense