Hello
Sorry to not get back to you earlier but I'm not online at home and with the holidays everywhere has been shut.
Yes all the information except that about the tithe taxes was from Find My Past.
The tithe was a land tax gathered locally to pay a 1/10th of your income to the Church or the parish to cover it's expenses and pay for the poor.
In the 1830s when the common fields were enclosed and the strips of land farmed in the common fields where amalgamated into one holding per person tithe maps were made and a list of owener and occupiers was made for each parish.For staffordshire the lists of oweners and occupiers of the land is on the Staffordshire name index website.It gives a general date for the whole collection of 1835-1845,but each parish would have been done seperately.
The list is available to search for free.
The map showing you where she lived is available here:-
www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=42310&PageIndex=1&SearchType=2&ThemeID=774The plots are at 3 o'clock on the map at the edge of the parish.
I'm sorry but it is very difficult to use their free search but they do want you to buy the map.
As for the census you may wish to consider that the image we see was a transcript of the form Ben would have filled and written out again by the enumorator.
How much room was there in the original box for birthplace? Was the last bit cut off or squeezed in making it Hands?.Was Ben's handwritting difficult to read.Was the enumorator tired at the end of a long day and just went with a place he had heard of?
1871 is Handsacre,1861 is Handsworth,1851 he is the lodger so on theory Elizabeth Burdett filled in the form,could she write or was she just telling the enumorator who wrote down what he thought he heard? 1841 it's yes Warwickshire.So was the question just -do you come from Birmingham and he said yes because he lived there?
It looks like Margaret Yeomans was born in Ashbourne/Brailsford Derbyshire
You probably already have the 1871 census with Margaret lodging in Ryland Road Edgbaston age 75 born Ashbourne Derbyshire with an Elizabeth Green widow age 53 and in 1851 also at Ryland Road vister age 55 tailor born Brelsford? Derbyshire with Benjamin Bailey 61 coal dealer from Chesterfield ,his wife Elizabeth 60 from Worksop and child Thomas 34 and d in law Elizaabeth 29.
1861 she is Ryland Road again lodging with an Elizabeth Blyth widow 81 laudress born Birmingham and her widowed daughter Elizabeth Green aged 43
Margaret Yeomans bapt Brailsford d of John and Sussanna 20 May 1796. perhaps but there are other alternatives.
(Just in case you don't have it )
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