Hi, my grandfather was an Hodgkiss, and lived on the Stafford Road in Wolverhampton...He died in the early 1960's...I was about 12 at the time...think his name was Jim, but may have been Tom...my mother, his daughter, was Jane, and his wifes name was Mary( my grandmother) It was a large family
..my mother, Jane, was born in 1912...some of my aunts names where, Lily, Molly, Nellie, my uncles, Tom, Eric,...they were dark skinned...perhaps Gypsy origins? My mother married my father, Harold Durnall in 1944, at Christ Church, Wolverhampton....the Hodgkisses were a short, stocky build.....I THINK my grandfather, at some time, worked on the barges...My mother died in 1977, my father in 1971.Hope this helps,
Best,
Harry