Address query

[Kit]

My 2g aunt was sent from India to London for schooling in 1890, specifically Hanover Street School in Islington.
Hanover Street School (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1938/31949_212924-00028/9495157?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/157838415/person/212070596898/facts/citation/722106406870/edit/record)

The record gives a home address of 13 Colebrook Terrace. I guess this could be an address in India but I doubt it. Can anyone find out who lived there or tell me how? I tried the electoral rolls but without a name I can't get an answer and the surname (Bridges) didn't work. My 2g aunt is Louisa Bridges.

[kiterunner]

I found something saying that Colebrook Terrace is now called Duncan Terrace. So looking at a modern A-Z, it is parallel to Colebrook Row.

[kiterunner]

The 1891 census street index on TNA says that Colebrook Terrace was already part of Duncan Terrace then:
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Place:Islington_Registration_Distr ict,_1891_Census_Street_Index_C-F

This is the start of Duncan Terrace on the 1891 census but I don't know which number would correspond to 13 Colebrook Terrace:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6598/LNDRG12_166_169-0333/7997548?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2 fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3duki1891%26hc%3d20%26_FCF51D62 %3d115%26_FCF51D62_x%3d1%26_FFEC2492%3d167%26_FFEC 2492_x%3d1%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26 uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=LNDRG12_166 _169-0333

[Phoenix]

Did you ever read A Little Princess, Toni?
Guess it's not a book you'd have about the house these days, but it describes the sort of school your aunt would have lived in.

[kiterunner]

The link in post #1 says her previous school was Warrender Park in Edinburgh. She was only at Hanover Street School from 2 Jun 1890 to 18 Oct 1890. It doesn't look as though it was a boarding school, and it wasn't a private school either, so not much like in A Little Princess. Here is a picture of it:
https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XJ105217/Hanover-Street-School-in-Islington

[kiterunner]

1885 London directory:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61265/47056_302022005561_0561-00160/7373176?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2 fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dlondondirectories%26gsfn%3dwi lliam%26gsln%3dclows%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3d1%26h c%3d20%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh %3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=47056_30202 2005561_0561-00125

Colebrooke terrace, Islington (N) opposite 31 Colebrooke Row
11 Thompson Misses
12 Rowe Bernard Meredith, surgeon
13 Gurney Henry

1890 London directory:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61265/47056_263021009500_2500-00168/11154395?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dlondondirectories%26gskw%3ddu ncan%26gskw_x%3d1%26msrdy%3d1890%26msrdy_x%3d1%26h c%3d20%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26fh%3d480%26fsk%3dBEH q368IgADvUQDFvCo-61-%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=47056_26302 1009500_2500-00132
10 Scott John, tooth brush maker
12 Rowe Bernard Meredith, surgeon

Then in the 1895 directory, Miss Thompson is at 48 Duncan Terrace and John Scott, tooth brush maker, is at 49 Duncan Terrace:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61265/47056_263021009499_1515-00223/12658793?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dlondondirectories%26gsfn%3dbe rnard%2bmeredith%26gsln%3drowe%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln _x%3d1%26hc%3d20%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfa lse%26uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=47056_26302 1009499_1515-00176

So 13 Colebrook Terrace was probably renumbered as 46 Duncan Terrace.

[kiterunner]

A lot of people living at 46 Duncan Terrace on the 1891 census but none called Bridges:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/6598/LNDRG12_166_169-0338/7997625?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk %2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3duki1891%26gsfn%3djudah%26gsfn _x%3d1%26gsln_x%3d1%26cp%3d0%26gskw%3dislington%26 gskw_x%3d1%26msbdy%3d1828%26msbdy_x%3d1%26hc%3d20% 26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=LNDRG12_166 _169-0344

But I guess they had moved in Oct 1890 and that's why Louisa left the school then.

[Kit]

Thank you so much for working this out.

Sadly I could not work out who Louisa may have been living with. I was hoping it was some family that I could identify but I did not recognise any of the names.

Phoenix I'm not familiar with the story A Little Princess. The whole family seem to have received an education. I have a photo of my great grandma in graduation clothing. I have it in my head she went to university but I could be wrong.

[Kit]

A lot of people living at 46 Duncan Terrace on the 1891 census but none called Bridges:

I don't think Louisa was with her immediate family, I was hoping for a relative I know to be related to the Bridges family.

I wonder why she moved schools? Islington isn't far from where her father grew up but there is no Edinburgh connection that I know of.

[kiterunner]

Are you sure the Louisa at Hanover Street School is yours, Toni?

[Kit]

Yes, her date of birth matches.

[Kit]

They could have just had her boarding with someone, whether they knew them personally or not.

[maggie_4_7]

This picture looks like it was situated on Regents Canal.

https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XJ105217/Hanover-Street-School-in-Islington

There is a Hanover Primary School that looks like it is now situated on the original site of Hanover Street School which is in Noel Road.


https://www.hanover.islington.sch.uk/

https://www.bing.com/maps?q=hanover+primary+school&FORM=HDRSC4

I know that area well.

[Kit]

Thanks Maggie