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Osborne & Whitehead

Butcher’s and baker’s shop in Down, Kent, run by Mary Osborne (1814–70) and her widowed sister, Sarah Whitehead (1817–69). Alfred James Osborne was their nephew.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/462/71/3)

Downe baptism register, burial register (kent-opc.org, accessed 22 September 2022)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 September 2022)

Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862

Bibliography

Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.

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