Black Country (Bilston) Friends and Neighbours - more names

[RoDe]

RoDe you are a star     

Only reason it's taken me so long to respond is that I had a quick look and couldn't tear myself away.

Some of the info was on the old site but there is lots of new stuff with loads of detail.  Found additional info on a number of rellies already.

I'm very familiar with the E & S but don't get it here in Yorkshire.  My uncle used to work for them and I once had a tour of the place with a friend.  Back in the old days when they still set type...

Hi Dudley
Until I saw this posting I didn't realise you lived in Yorkshire.  If I can do anything in the Bilston area for you please ask.
Rgds
Royston

[DudleyWinchurch]

Hi Royston,

thanks very much for the offer.  I'll bear it in mind if anything urgent comes up.  I still have relatives and friends in the area so get to visit a few times a year, including some visits.  I even did the Bilston Town trail just over a year ago, adding in some extra family addresses.  Not many of the houses are still standing, and didn't like to photo private homes wiithout permission, but found all the churches and the Tram Company offices as well as other interesting buildings.

Sheila

modified:  these apostrophes are catching, removed an excess one 

[DudleyWinchurch]

I have a question (or two).

Is anyone else missing young men in the Bilston area in the 1851 census?

Anyone any ideas why that should be?

I have gradually noticed that, of some otherwise very traceable families, there are now at least 4 young men missing in my (extended) family in the 1851.  Two of them married.

Were there any wars with conscription or was there anything political in particular going on that could account for this, or were they most likely just omitted while on the over-night shift at the ironworks?

I'm about to do (another) page by page search, in case it's just bad transcription.

Anyone got any other names that they would like me to look out for (i.e. apparently missing from 1851)?

[Burto]

Hi,
My GGGrandfather, Thomas Smith was born around 1816 in Bilston, father John, according to his marriage transcript. The only suitable Thomas I can find was baptised in 1813 to John and Sarah, looking at all the baptisms online. Are these full transcripts like what you can buy on CD? I just want to make sure I've got the right one.
Many thanks.

[Harli]

Hi

I have ancestors from Bilston. My 2x great grandmother was born in Bilston in 1849, her name was Sarah Cox, her mother was Catherine Cox and her siblings James, Ferdinando and Catherine.

Harli

[DudleyWinchurch]

Harli,
when I've entered all my census data into my FH software I'll check for common ancestors as we have links with 3 different? Cox families in Bilston.

Jackie,
did you happen to have a Mary/Maria Durcan in Mayo in early 1851?  Could have been her married name, of course.  If so she could have been at my great-grandparents marriage, as a witness.  Found the record on the new IFHF site - not a lot of detail but it means that I now know their parish in Mayo.

Sheila

[jacquelineve]

Hello Sheila

 Re Mary Durcan
 Quite possible. I know she and her husband James had
their 2nd.child bapt.at R.C.Dudley in 1853-their 1st born
Ireland 1849-50
     No sign of them in Dudley in 1851,so likely they moved
to England between 1851-53.
   I've been looking at Durkin marriages on the Deesegenes
site, especially interested in those where Rinaneel-Ruchane
+Moorehall are mentioned (Ballintober)

                     Jackie.

[DudleyWinchurch]

Hi Jackie,

I found my great-grandparents marriage (McDonough/Oliver) in Kilconduff.  There are some baptisms there that might belong to my family too, but the site doesn't really give enough information to go on to narrow down where there are choices and, at 5 euros for each record (transcription only) looked at, it could quickly get expensive, and still need to see original sources, if possible.

Now I know where to look, I will probably need to get a film of the registers (and I'm planning my trip, of course  ).

I now know that my GGparents were married in Kilconduff in February of 1851 and had their first child in Bilston at the end of December.  As at least one older child, possibly two (or more) were then born in Ireland, they obviously went back soon after but seem to have settled in Bilston by 1857.

Sheila

[Harli]

Hi Dudley

Sarah's father was James Cox if that is any help.  I am not sure who his parents were.

Best wishes

Harli