Thanks DW and Willow. In fact Willow, that's amazing.....I have searched and searched for ages and not managed to find the right Talbots....I was beginning to think they might have been averse to filling in census forms or anything like, and possibly avoided the enumerator too. This is the right area, and judging by the names (which I had no idea of in this generation) likely to be correct, since many of these names were passed to the next generation. This gives me a toe-hold, thanks again!
As for the Winspers, as a Bilston name goes, I was under the impression that there were a few, but not as many as say Fellows or Hickman or a few others I could mention. They appear to have been a fairly short-lived group, although I gather there may still be one Winsper living in Bilston. Parish/Parrish also seem to be similarly short lived and relatively infrequent.
Wellings is an interesting one....after the death of the household (William) in the iron foundary accident, the wife remarried to Probert and the children took on the new surname. This caused all sorts of problems until I had worked out what had happened. At least one of the children by the first husband then reverted to the original name, Wellings, although I suspect they may all have done this....so there is a James Edward Wellings (I have this completely covered), Rose Wellings (apparently became a landlady of a pub possibly in Moxley), Albert Wellings (possibly coal and possibly served in WW1) and William Wellings who apparently moved to Shrewsbury and became a market trader....and these I have not managed to trace as yet. The Winspers, Boads, Parish/Parrish, Higgs and Bunce families are further back in the Wellings line and are fairly new discoveries. Incidentally, James Edward Wellings went on to become Mayor of Bilston.
Any ideas how I could track down reports of William Wellings industrial accident and that of Joseph Bunce who died on 29th August 1891, although apparently the accident had happened a week or so previously? It's just conceivable that they were both mortally injured in the same "explosion". I've tried all the obvious on the internet.....but then Willow made that breakthrough where I had failed. Just goes to show that more than one working on something or taking a break and going back to a problem often results in a solution.
Thanks again.
JJ
