Sunday 18th March 2012
Danny Howell has received the following enquiry:
Hello,
I wonder if you would be able to help me, I have been given your name by a member of the Warminster People [sic Warminster Forum] website. I am trying to trace my Great Great Grandad Herbert Shaw and I recently found out he rented number 59 (now I believe renumbered number 8) Vicarage Street, Warminster, from the 5th Marquess of Bath on 31st May 1912. I understand you keep some local records and I wondered if you might have any further information regarding that address or Herbert Shaw.
Fingers crossed in hope,
Carole.
Danny Howell has replied:
Hello Carole,
Thank you for your enquiry.
I can confirm that the property that was numbered 59 Vicarage Street was renumbered 8 Vicarage Street.
The 1911 Census for Warminster shows people with the surname Kill as residents of 59 Vicarage Street, Warminster.
The West Wilts Directory 1911 lists: “H. Shaw, 59 Vicarage Street, Warminster.”
Collins Almanac and West Wilts Directory, 1912 lists: “J.H. Elkins, 59 Vicarage Street, Warminster.”
The Warminster Directory, Almanack, Local & Village Guide, 1914, lists: “Herbert Shaw, 59 Vicarage Street, Warminster.”
But the West Wilts Directory 1914 lists: “J.H. Elkins, 59 Vicarage Street, Warminster.”
It has to be said that the compilers of some directories sometimes used slightly out-of-date information.
But it seems Herbert Shaw was a resident of 59 Vicarage Street, Warminster, circa 1911 / 1912 ~ maybe up to 1914.
By the way, the Longleat Estate sold 100 properties in a sale held on 5th and 6th September 1919, to raise money to pay death duties. On the first day of the sale, Lot 11 was: “Two stone built houses, 59 and 60 Vicarage Street, rental £26.” They were purchased by Mr. Rutter of Shaftesbury, for £340.
The above information seems to confirm that Herbert Shaw lived at 59 Vicarage Street (now 8 Vicarage Street), Warminster, for a short period.
You have not given me any other details for Herbert Shaw (such as birth, marriage or death dates, or where else he may have lived, or who is parents, wife and children were), so I am unable to find out any more about him at the current time.
Yours sincerely,
Danny Howell.