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Title: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: basford08 on Sunday 15 June 08 17:07 BST (UK)
Hello there!
This is my first post, hope it makes sense :)
I am trying to trace the parents and wife of William Fowkes/Foulkes, who is in the 1881 census living on Prince Street in Ilkeston - he is shown as a widower and living with his family, eldest son is Joseph born in Ilkeston c1859. It gives William's birthplace as Heanor around 1839. Can anyone find this family before 1881, ideally firstly with his wife (who dies sometime after 1876) and then further back with his parents?
Any help received gratefully!
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: Tati on Sunday 15 June 08 17:16 BST (UK)
Welcome to RootsChat  :)

1871
RG10/3481 69 14 & 15
Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Wheatleys Row

Willm Foukes, head, 35, Coal Miner, b. Ilkeston
Elizth, wife, 35, b. do.
Mary, dau, 14, Work? Factory, b. do.
Jos, son, 12, Coal Miner, b. do.
Martha, dau, 10, scholar, b. do.
Willm, son, 8, scholar, b. do.
Elizh, dau, 3, scholar, b. do.
Ann, dau, 1, b. do.

 :)
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: Tati on Sunday 15 June 08 17:22 BST (UK)
1861
RG9/2436 27 15
Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Hamlet of Cotmanhay
Mount Pleasant

William Fowkes, head, 22, Coal Miner, b. Smalley
Elizabeth, wife, 23, Household Work, b. Cotmanhay
Mary, dau, 4, scholar, b. do.
Joseph, son, 2, b. do.
Martha, dau, 4 mo, b. do.

Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: basford08 on Sunday 15 June 08 17:26 BST (UK)
thank you so much (this website is brill!) :D
So thats 3 possible places of birth! But now i think I have the wife, guessing it's Elizabeth Limb going by bmd.
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: Tati on Sunday 15 June 08 17:28 BST (UK)
1851  8)
HO107/2144 359 2
Smalley, Derbyshire

John Foulks, head, 41, Farm Labourer, b. Horsley?
Martha, wife, 37, b. Kent 'Chattun'
John, son, 15, b. Heanor
William, son, 13, Farm Labourer son, b. Heanor
Mary Ann, dau, 9, b. Smalley
Joseph, son, 7, b. do.
Rebecca, dau, 4, b. do.
James, son, 2, b. do.

1861 confirms Martha's birth place as Chatham and there are 3 more children: Harriet age 9 born Smalley; Robert age 6 and Elizabeth age 3 born Heanor
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: Tati on Sunday 15 June 08 17:32 BST (UK)
and 1841
HO107/189 13 18 3
Morley, Derbyshire
Township of Smalley

John Foulks, 30, Ag lab
Martha, 25, not born in county
John, 5
William, 3
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: Tati on Sunday 15 June 08 17:39 BST (UK)
 ;)

1851
HO107/2126 141 12
Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Cotmanhay

Joseph Limb, head, 38, Coal Miner
Mary, wife, 38
Elizabeth, dau, 12
George, son, 11, Coal Miner
John, son, 7
Eliza, dau, 4
Mary, dau, 1(?)

All born Ilkeston
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: basford08 on Sunday 15 June 08 17:41 BST (UK)
thank you so much!
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: Tati on Sunday 15 June 08 17:50 BST (UK)
There's a possible marriage for John Foulks and Martha on the IGI at www.familysearch.org  :)
Title: Re: Census lookup for fowkes
Post by: basford08 on Sunday 15 June 08 18:01 BST (UK)
I've found a brilliant site for smalley that some lovely person has produced listing all the births and marriages that took place there:
http://www.smalley-ops.co.uk/foulks/index.html.
In about an hour you've helped me get the Foulkes family back to the middle of the 1600's, not bad for a lazy Sunday!  ;D
thank you :)