Seven Houses Wolverhampton

[colin+maureen]

Hi, Looking for ancestors who resided around Goldthorn, however on a church record it stated "7 houses" as an area! Can anyone help?

[richy B]

The best I can do, I'm afraid.
About halfway down the page.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Wolverhampton/index.html

I have to confess I have never heard of the area before.
Reading the location distances.

Goldthorn Hill, one and a half miles S, is a high district of scattered houses, extending into the parishes of Sedgley and Penn. The large reservoir of the new Water Works were constructed here in 1850-1.

Seven Houses, half a mile S, is an increasing suburb, with many new houses.
 
I think Seven houses may be called Blakenhall today.

[colin+maureen]

Thanks for that Richy

[cati]

I was in Wolverhampton Archives today, and found a reference to 'Seven Houses Row': this was not in the Goldthorn Hill area, however. 

The book I was reading - 'Local Slums' by Tom Fisher* identifies Seven Houses Row as 'now known as Brook Street', which is in the parish of St Marks, and at that time lay within - or adjoining - the area known as 'The Besom Yard', which was a very poor - and pretty rough - area.

*There is no date of publication of this book, which appears to be a bound copy of weekly newspaper articles; internal evidence suggests that they may have originally been published in the Wolverhampton Chronicle. The syle of writing and of the illustrations (black and white photographs of water colour sketches) suggests to me a date of 1920-1930.

Hope that this may be of interest.

Cati

[colin+maureen]

The plot thickens....

Thanks Cati