The following are 19 free digitized directories found online for the city of Manchester New Hampshire covering the years of 1860-1918 (incomplete). Directories can provide such information on an individual such as their employment and address during the year issued. They may also indicate whether they were renting or residing with somebody else at the time.
Free Directories
- Adams, Sampson & Co., 1860 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1866 Manchester City Directory
- Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1869 Manchester City Directory
- Adams, Sampson & Co., 1879 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1882 Manchester City Directory
- Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1883 Manchester City Directory
- Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1884 Manchester City Directory
- Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1889 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- 1890 Manchester City Directory
- Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1906 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- Polk’s 1906 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1908 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1915 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1916 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
- 1918 Manchester City Directory
- Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1921 Manchester, New Hampshire, city directory
Business Directories
- Greenough, Jones & Co., The Merrimack River Directory for 1872 & 1873
- Pocket business directory and industrial and social statistics of the city of Manchester, N.H., 1879
- Pocket business directory and industrial and social statistics of the city of Manchester, N.H., 1884
Subscription Alternatives
While we try and provide as many free options for our researchers in each subject matter, in this case we found we were limited to only the free Manchester New Hampshire Directories listed above. In actuality, however, these directories were consistently published since about 1840. The available 17 free Manchester New Hampshire Directories online is only a small portion of the available volumes covering the 125 years of publication. While the Manchester City Library and the New Hampshire Historical Society both have extensive copies of the directories, neither have placed them online yet. That left me looking for at Ancestry to see what they have available and they do have the following 88 years in one of their larger collections of directories:
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 $$$
Years covered for Manchester NH: 1844, 1846, 1848, 1852, 1854, 1856, 1858, 1860, 1864, 1866, 1871, 1873, 1875, 1877-96, 1899-05, 1907-15, 1917-34, 1936-42, 1945-50, 1953, 1955, 1957-61, 1964