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William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

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Brotog

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AI search informs me that a family headed by William Smith, sawyer, aged 32, was living in 29 Upper Marshall Street on the evening of the 1851 census. Can anyone please verify this for me as I am very suspicious of information provided by AI? Thank you.
 
That's a tall order as the 1852 directory lists over 50 people living in Birmingham called William Smith. I can't search by address on Ancestry and any name search brings up all the children named William Smith as well. :rolleyes:
 
pjmburns said:
That's a tall order as the 1852 directory lists over 50 people living in Birmingham called William Smith. I can't search by address on Ancestry and any name search brings up all the children named William Smith as well. :rolleyes:
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Thank you so much for trying! Really appreciate it!
 
brummy-lad said:
From the 1851 census at 29 Upper Marshall Street it is a Williams family
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Thank you so much. I was very sceptical about the information provided by AI….it seems I was right to check this….this is what it gave me….all sounded very plausible!
 

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Brotog said:
Thank you so much. I was very sceptical about the information provided by AI….it seems I was right to check this….this is what it gave me….all sounded very plausible!
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That would be a tremendous research tool if it gave the correct results, I've searched on findmypast for the family in Birmingham in 1851 but had no luck yet.
 
Pedrocut said:
What actually was the question you asked of AI for it to give such a detailed answer ?
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I started by asking why a child born in Kenilworth might be baptised in Birmingham instead of Kenilworth. It explained that almost certainly the family would have moved for employment possibilities. It then offered to search for the family, so I offered the information of the sawyer’s name. This is what it came up with. 1851 and 1861 entries from the census. It was such a detailed reply that I became suspicious.
 
brummy-lad said:
That would be a tremendous research tool if it gave the correct results, I've searched on findmypast for the family in Birmingham in 1851 but had no luck yet.
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I had searched for this family for decades….and had discounted the Birmingham baptism because I knew the family had lived in Kenilworth in 1845 when Hannah, the daughter, was born. All of my searches had been in the Kenilworth/Leamington area. Thanks for commenting!
 
brummy-lad said:
Could this be them in Leamington
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Thank you for showing this….I was quite interested in this family for a long time and followed it through the years of census returns because the child Hannah’s age seemed to fit with that of my great grandmother…..but the father was a bricklayer in every census, and never a sawyer….so I could never be certain I had the right family. Thanks again for your help!
 
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