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I have Emma Bomber b June q 1865 Walsall Wood Staffs. She married James Edwards June q 1890 Walsall. I have her married in 1891, 1901 and 1911 and she consistently says she was b Walsall Woods, so why can't I find her earlier??
There is a Bomber family on the earlier census where the mother is Emma but she is not with them.
I would like to give her some parents.
maggie_4_7
03-10-09, 19:25
What about this one in 1881
RG11; Piece: 726; Folio: 11; Page: 16
listed as Niece born in Walsall
Maybe she had a step-father and was listed with his surname?
Were the couple you saw Charles and Emma?
Maybe she had a step-father and was listed with his surname?
Were the couple you saw Charles and Emma?
They were the ones that I found. The niece that Maggie found looks possible. I will look at the wider family and see if I can tie the aunt in.
Yaaayyy! Got them in 1871 mistranscribed as Blanch! :rolleyes:
Emma is with Charles and Emma so I had the right family! Woohoo!
Joan of Archives
03-10-09, 21:20
Well done Chris lol! :d
Aaagggghhhh!!
I've got about 10 marriages in front of me for the names Rowlinson, Lowbridge, Fuggle, Nicholls and Bomber and I'm very confused about who is who now.....and now you have found her anyway???!!! pmsl :d
Lol I had tried all that Merry and was confused as well! Did you find the fuggle marriage? The closest I came was a Richard who was calling himself Ward? :confused:
This is the Fuggle marriage. They have Alice's unmarried sister with them in 1901.
Marriages Mar 1881
Fuggle Richard Greenwich 1d 949
HAYWARD Charlotte Ann Greenwich 1d 949
ROWLINSON Alice Greenwich 1d 949
SMITH George Greenwich 1d 949
Somehow I missed that, I only found an Alice Rowlinson married to a Richard Ward! That really confused me!
The gremlins must be out as Soundex didn't find Fuggle when I had entered Fuggles lol
I am really pleased I have tidied up this lot. They are part of my clergy research. Emma married James Edwards who was a coal miner and their son became a C of E Priest and was a missionary in Melanesia. He taught priests in the Solomon Islands. He was "high" church and his legacy remains, the church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands remains "high" church. Interesting that the son of a coal miner in many ways has left a more lasting impression that the sons of the nobs!
So Fr Jim now has a full set of parents and grandparents!
That's very interesting. Wouldn't he have had to have a degree to become a C of E priest in those days? I just wondered how they could have afforded that?
Joan of Archives
03-10-09, 21:42
Ooooo that sounds great! Well done Miss Marple! :d
There were theological colleges that were not so accademic, many of the clergy who came from working class backgrounds made it out to the mission field. FR Jim was a carpenter by trade and only did his theology training post WW1. He was in the Solomons until the outbreak of WW2 when he was in Australia doing a tour for the Australian Board of Missions. He then stayed in Australia until the end of the war. Not all of the missionaries made it out ahead of the Japanese invasion, there are some who died as POW. After the war he went back to the Solomons until the 1950s.
In his retirement Fr Jim went back to the UK and was curate of Walsall Wood, where he was born.
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