Black Country (Bilston) Friends and Neighbours - more names

[emgee]

Hi nickbris

Post Office Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire & Worcestershire, 1850
has a Francis Nokes - printer etc. in Church Street Bilston

see here
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/pageviewer.asp?fn=0000aoaj.tif&dn=WVA16003tif&zoom=s

[ponjalow]

Hi There, has anyone any thing on Gozzard St or Tame St Bilston please.

[Willow 4873]

Hiya Ponjalow

Welcome to Rootschat!

Gozzard Street and Tame Street are both still there (I lived in Gozzard Street for a while) you can find them on Google maps

Willow x

[nickbris]

Hi EMGEE  Thanks for info about Francis Nokes.Him and his son Francis Nokes Jr started the Bilston Herald before Francis Jr became Postmaster and moved from No9 to No 13 Church St.Would there have been any photography in that period?

Harriet Nokes who became a Nun in the 60's also wrote a book of poems called The Home Wreath published by Longman and printed by Francis.Know anything about that?

[DudleyWinchurch]

Nick,

there are five children baptised in the 1830s to Francis and Anne Nokes, listed on FREEREG, including Francis and Harriet.  Francis senior is listed as a printer.

Do you know if Ezra Nokes was from the same family?
He married  Selina Gulick in 1853 and their son George married Mary Jane Thomas at Holy Trinity in 1881.

Sheila

[emgee]

Hi Nickbris

Harriets book  was written in 1857 but is currently unavailable; see

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+home+wreath++by+Harriet+Nokes&x=17&y=9

You could always ask Amazon or Borders  or a specialist poetry shop order it or try Longman.

[nickbris]

Thanks EMGEE,The Home Wreath can be read on Google Books.Harriet became a Nun along with her sister Sarah,they ran Female Penitentiaries.After 23 years Harriet wrote a book (I have a copy) called 23 years in a house of mercy.She carried on as Lady Superior in Stone Datford where she died in 1892.I found the grave of both sisters in St Marys Church STONE Dartford.I am trying to track down any photographs of this family.Francis Nokes Sr died in 1873 and seems to have been important enough to have been included in Lawleys History of Wolverhampton.

[jacquelineve]

From 1911 census

15, White Horse yd

Summerfield
George         1876
Bridget         1884 (nee Durkin)
James Wlm   1905
George         1906
Albert           1908
Joseph         1910

Jackie

[nickbris]

Hi Sheila,I have done a good search of my Nokes family but can't find an Ezra Nokes.Harriet and Sarah were my Great Great Aunts.

Nick