Also if your family is from that area and your surname is Baker or Reynolds - hi cousin (probably)!

Update: answered!
https://mathstodon.xyz/@EdS/116776509672925968

Can anyone help me locate (not just READ) this address from my great-grandmother's birth extract?

The catch here is that even if I'm reading the text correctly, the street may not exist in 2026 so it may also need some local knowledge or old map searches to actually locate.

Her father is J. T. Williams, the entry date is April 29th 1886 - and the address is a bit inconclusive. I'm not going to type what I'm see it as so I don't influence anyone, but I can confirm we're in the confusingly ambiguous Bromley-by-Bow area which has been redeveloped a hell of a lot.

Update after reading on the X4 for a bit - it's maybe a little bit smaller than I want, but I can adjust. It doesn't need to. I fat-fingered the buttons a lot at first but I'm not doing that now.

I like the tiny electric book.

"1700 [...] Sept. 20 Affidabit was then made before Mr Horn of Widdow Shrub was buried in woollen only."

Goodnight, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandma Joan who didn't even get a box.

I have traced some branches of my family tree back as far as the 16th century and so far every single person is ... nobody.

Nobody did any notorious crimes, traded any slaves, conquered any nations. Nobody got a statue. Hardly any even got gravestones.

I'm more than OK with this.