1861 census
Catharine Poole 1859 Walsall Staffordshire D Ogley Hay
Elias Albert Poole 1860 " S "
Elisabeth Julia Poole 1857 " D "
Esther Ann Poole 1858 " D "
Joseph Poole 1835 Upton Magna Shropshire England H "
Martha Poole 1834 " W "
Martha Ree Poole 1860 Walsall D "
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found this marriage Cheshire Marriage indexes for the years 1856 to 1860 506/1/301
Poole Joseph Barton Martha Congleton St Peter Cheshire East
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sylvia
Dear Sylvia
Thank you very much for looking for me - I am most grateful.
It makes me wonder if the marriage you found might be either the said Joseph and Martha who are my ancestors.
I know that Martha had a short surname but it was indecipherable when we saw the original document [now, unfortunately, lost] and it looked like a surname of Ree or Pee or Pec. There was a Martha Ree in Shropshire that I found in the 1851 census but I could find nothing for Joseph Poole at all in the 1851 census. However, some of the census is lost. Maybe Joseph and his family were in the lost documentation.
I do not have many other names for the family, as POOLE was the main one in that family.
The 1861 census you show is definitely the right one.
Also the 1881 census.
I know that DAVIS was in the family because FRANK DAVIS is shown as a NEPHEW in a census in the late nineteenth century.
If this means that Frank Davis was the nephew of JOSEPH, this would mean, probably, that Joseph Poole had a SISTER who married someone called DAVIS and then she had a child called Frank. There is only one slight problem with this - by 1881 Joseph was almost 50, and any sister of his would likely to have been MUCH younger to be of child-bearing age in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Not impossible but needs bearing in mind. Of course, Frank Davis might be a GREAT-NEPHEW and that would muddy the waters further!!
Thank you again for all your help
Imison
