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Hi Carol,
Please thank your mum for her quided tour of almost forgotten places. In a few weeks I hope to be visiting Gladys Lorna Perkins daughter who still lives in the midlands. She will be most interested in your memories.Lorna and her aunt and uncle originated in Devon and so it is still a mystery as to why they turned up in Oldbury in about 1920.I have noticed a small group of Wooldridge names around Oldbury but haven't been able to connect at the moment so I will have a closer look in this area. Terry Daniels has shared my interest in Church St with the Oldbury History Society and I have looked at a couple of beek on Oldbury in Old Photos.

Many thanks for your help.

regards

keith

David Stapleton was my ggggf and born somewhere in Ireland about 1770. His military service records provide a little information about his family but no mention of his wife's name.

He was married at Templemore 3rd September 1795.

1st child:  Richard born 4 June 1796 (Tipperary or Portsmouth)
2nd child: Sarah born 14th July 1798 (Tipperary)
3rd child:  Paul born 19 Nov 1800
4th child   John born 19 April 1803
5th child   David born 19 March 1807
6th child   William born 6 Feb 1809 (Dublin) was my gggf and Coastguard

there were two other daughters whose births match my records but were not born in Ireland.

Any help in identifying Davids church record of marriage will be most appeciated and indeed any other refence to Stapleton in Templemore and the surrounding area in the later part of the 18thc.

kind regards


keith

I am researching a great aunt who was sent stay with a family unknown in Church Street Oldbury in about 1920. I have very little to go on except a mention in an old letter. "Standing with my back to the Westlayen Chapel, Tom Cooper's bicycle repair shop was opposite and my home was a large house slightly to the right. I spent my time with Toms daughter Eva. I lived in a large house to the right of Toms shop".

I am hoping that someone with a personal knowledge of old church st may have some idea of where this shop was. The only surviving 'old house' nearly opposite the Chapel is 'The Big House' but in the  1920's  there may have been more choices to speculate on.I have the previous owners listed for 'The Big House'

regards

Keith15

My great grandfather was an Edwin Ernest Perkins, cab proprietor who lived in Summerland St/Terrace/Place.I had found information on 12 of his children through two marriages until the revelation in the 1911 census that there were 13 children and one died.

Edwins second marriage was to Mary Emma Andrews 21st August 1887. Mary was just 17 and three years elapsed before Alice Lousia was born in 1890.

I believe that their first child could be  Mary b. Mar qtr of 1888 and died in the same period. Can anybody help with  baptism or burial information

kind regards

keith

I am in the process of unravelling information on a Carey family of Ringmer. John born abt 1802 had sons which included a Charles b. abt 1839 and William b. abt 1849. I believe that their mother was Elizabeth and may have been born IOW. I have no immediate access to PR's but believe that at least the childrens bp may be recorded under South Malling. I have no idea of John's origins though they were probably local to the Lewes area.
Can anybody help with this enquiry.

regards

keith