1871 staffordshire look up please

[fizzybubble]

Am trying to find a family of Pope.


One definite entry will be :

Mary Pope b 1848 Cadbury Devon

Please let me know if you need any other info.

Thanks
Fizzybubble

[Biker]

Hi,

Mary Pope, umn, 24, assistant, occupation milliner, b. cadbury

at 24 Dudley street, Wolverhampton - seems to be a Drapers Shop.
Proprietors seem to be the Tolefree ? family and there are other assistants too, no Popes though.

Jonathan

[Willow 4873]

And here is how Dudley Street used to look

http://www.bgallear.co.uk/wolverhampton/

Willow x

[Biker]

Great site that willow, thanks for putting up the link.

Jonathan

[fizzybubble]

Thanks.

Dudley Street looks like a very busy thoroughfare. It must have appeared quite awesome to a girl who came from a small Devon village where everyone knew everyone else.

She married my Great Great Uncle John Thirlwall who became a photographer in Hereford. there is no mention of her being a milliner once she was wed.

Fizzybubble

[Willow 4873]

Your welcome both of you

Dudley Street is still very busy but a lot wider now. They knocked down most of the shops on the right hand side in the 1950/60's to make way for the Mander Centre

I agree Fizzybubble it must have seemed a really busy place to Mary Pope when she moved here I wonder what she would make of it today

Willow x

[ejt]

Hi Fizzybubble,
Just did a search on my mothers maiden name Tolefree (not a very common name it seems). Her family were originally from Wolverhampton and may well have been the proprieters of the Drapers shop...if so, hope they were nice to your young Mary!
Regards, Elaine

[fizzybubble]

Yes its funny how they all tie in isnt it ?

Fizzy