Wild children of Bilston

[Toban]

Hi,

William Wild came to Australia in 1858. When he died in 1879 his death certificate stated that he had one male and two female children currently living and nine sons deceased (12 kids all told!). I am a little skeptical about the accuracy of this, as I know he had two daughters who predeceased him... Regardless, there should be more children than what I have in my files currently. I have found the four children he and his wife had after arriving in Australia, which leaves eight to find (if the death certificate got the numbers right). I assume they were born in Bilston or Wolverhampton.

William Wild married Eliza Hale in 1845 in Wolverhampton and was living in Bilston in 1851. I know of three children who were born in Bilston: Dennis in 1845 (d. 1848), Ann in 1847 (d. 1869 in Australia), and Sarah in 1852. This leaves five children to find.

If anybody has access to Bilston baptisms and burials and can find the children on William & Eliza Wild therein I would be very grateful.

Cheers,

T

[Milliepede]

Doesn't quite pan out does it.  He can't have only had two female children if one died before him and two were living when he died!

Who filled in the death cert with that info?

[Lynntony]

Have you checked out
 http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl ?

By just entering the surname and the years ie 1845-1858 and the area Wolverhampton, which Bilston came under until 1935, I found plenty of deaths for Wild. Unfortunately the records don't list parentage or age so, unless you know of any names of the deceased children, it's a bit like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack!

Another possibility is the FamilySearch website.

I also came across this site
http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/resources/indexes

If you scroll down the page there is a listing for Bilston St Leonard's Burials 1813-1837 A-Z. Looking at the listing there are burials for eight Wilds but the dates are too early for the children. They may, however, be relatives of the family.

Tony

[MargP]

Hi

What was the address that William was living at in Bilston, also what was his year and place of birth, I don't seen to be able to pick him up on the 1851 census

Margp

[Milliepede]

I can see him either Margp.

There's a William and Margaret with a Mary Ann not a William and Eliza with an Ann 

[Milliepede]

Hold up could it be under Wels? 

William 24
Eliza 22
Ann 3

Can't read the address but could be Wild on the original.

[MargP]

Yes Millie that's him and the address is Oxford St Bilston, I lived not far from there, until I married many moons ago

I have found the following burial record

James Wild
Aged 2 years and 1 month old
12 Nov 1848 St Georges Wolverhampton
Abode Oxford St Bilston

Margp

[Lynntony]

Interestingly, when I did a search on FreeBMD, the only marriage that fits was to an Eliza Hall, not Hale, but FamilySearch came up with the following:-

parents: J. Wild
spouse: Eliza Hale

  
groom's name: William Wild
groom's birth date: 1826
groom's age: 19
bride's name: Eliza Hale
bride's birth date: 1828
bride's age: 17
marriage date: 03 Feb 1845
marriage place: St. Peter, Wolverhampton, Stafford, England
groom's father's name: J. Wild
bride's father's name: D. Hale
indexing project (batch) number: I03185-3
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1040904

so maybe the FreeBMD record is a transcription error. There are also records for the birth of Ann to William and Eliza and also Dennis to same.
The only Eliza Wild I can find in Bilston is working as a servant at the home of Robert Hodgkinson who is listed as a courier.

Tony

[Lynntony]

Well done Milliepede! looking at the record, it's difficult to see how it was transcribed as Wels as, comparing it to the style of writing on the other entries, it quite clearly says Wild. (I've put a correction in on Ancestry to update the record)

I'd also go along with Oxford Street MarjP

Tony