After finding our John Gough and his wife, Susan McCloskey, in the 1861 Philadelphia city directory, we next needed to figure out where he was living. Nonnater’s Court, the name of his street in the directory, doesn’t exist anymore. So where exactly was it? I searched online using multiple search terms and phrases, but Nonnater’s Court didn’t turn up.
To figure out where it was, we went back to John and Susan’s listing in the 1860 census and then listed their neighbors on a spreadsheet. To make sure we had enough data points to figure out the location, we copied the 30 heads of households who appeared in the census before John and Susan as well as the 30 heads of households listed after our Goughs. This list was done in sequence to recreate their neighborhood.
Continue reading “Making a historical family map (part 2)”