The Sheffield Indexers................

http://www.sheff-indexers.thewholeshebang.org/1841census/

..........have started to put the details of the Sheffield Trade Directories on-line - this is at the very early stages but there are already over 1,000 records on this website. The 'search' system is very straightforward: forename or surame or occupation or abode.

The Sheffield section of one of the earliest directories, the Universal Directory of Great Britain 1791, has been made available in full and at the other end of the calendar work has just started on White's Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham 1911.

G

:thumbsup: Thanks for this info' Graham, will chech the site out it will be a great help in my research...Englishedith

:confused: Whoops sorry GRANTHAM.

Are you aware of this website?

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp

Originally posted by drolnhoj
Are you aware of this website?

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp


Yes...there's a Kelly's for Sheffield in 1901 on that site, and also transcribed directories for Sheffield in 1822, 1829, 1834 and 1852 at Genuki...

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield/index.html

...links about halfway down the page.

Thanks a lot both - looks like a lot of people are looking after Sheffiled and it's heritage!

G

....oops SHEFFIELD!!!!!!

Here's a handy link for the gazettes if anyone is looking for WW1 records, London Gazette.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/

The good thing about the Sheffield Directories on the

http://www.sheff-indexers.thewholes...org/1841census/

is that it is a searchable database. you can put a name or a business or an address into the database, and bingo!

On the the Historical Directories site all the data is there but you you seem to have to read through each directory as it is printed out. And the info is all listed by surname or compnay name.

So if you put in 'Eccleshall Rd' you find all the entries that are there to date.

The datasbasing job is not finsihed yet but there are thousands of entries to search from the Sheffield Directories for 1911, 1828 and 1791! New ones being added each day.

Originally posted by Grantham
On the the Historical Directories site all the data is there but you you seem to have to read through each directory as it is printed out. And the info is all listed by surname or compnay name.



Grantham,

you can search the historical directories. Put in your key word and it lists all the directories that contain the keyword. Select the directory you want and then you can skip to each occurrence of the keyword by selecting the "next hit" key. Hope this helps.