Walter Withers b1854

[heywood]

Family Search seemed to be playing up last week.
It is there today
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M786-9BT

[Ratty2]

Thanks for the FS updated link - glad to know it works at your end, but at my end the pidgeons are refusing to cooperate. FS sends me off to one of their local centres.
Nevermind, I may get to the library later today to retry both FS, FindMyPast and Ancestry.

Many thanks for your help anyway, it is gratefully received.

[heywood]

Are you signed in to FS?
I know last week when there was a blank instead of the info, I had to click on ‘sign in’ and the page was fine.
I didn’t have to re- sign just click it.
Now, though, it is ok.
Good luck.

[Ratty2]

Many thanks for those directions. I did find 1851, 1871 and now 1881 results. I had access to the library computers.
Could not - again! - find the 1841 Census. Tried as many tricks as possible but still no response from Ancestry, FindMyPast. Didn't have time to check FS
1841 there will be no Walter, but there should be:
Edwin Withers, b1805, perhaps: tea merchant?, tobocco?, twine? or rope?.
wife: Sarah
son William E  age 3
dau  Clara age 1
may have been living at Ravenhurst street. Not sure, that's part of what I would like to find out

Many thanks
David

[heywood]

1841
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQBT-9BN

Transcription
1841 piece 1148/Book 7/folio 18/page 29

Ravenhurst Street

Edwin Withers 30 yrs Tobacconist
Sarah 20 yrs
Edward 3 yrs
Clara 1 yr
All born in county

A few entries above is
Elizabeth Withers 50 yrs independent b in county

[Ratty2]

Thank you very much.
Yes, Elizabeth, his mother, had taken control of the family fortune when her husband, Edward Weston W, died in 1819. So she rushed to London and was given authority over the estate valued at 800 pounds.
She could afford to live in Ravenhurst st, I think she took in her daughter with her.

Many thanks again
David

[Ratty2]

Hi all

Just checking re Trade Directories 1872-1880 for Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Walter Withers in 1872 in the 'Birmingham Post' is found guilty (alongside some mates) of destroying some gates of a school master.
Then, in 1878 he is at 8 Upper Sutton Street
1880 at 7 Caroline St as an engraver, lithographer
1881 Census he is at Park St, Soho.
Cannot find any Directories for 1872-1880 to see what he was up to. He doesn't appear in the 'Post' during those years.
Cheers