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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    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...
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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    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!
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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    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...
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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    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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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    He has a wife called Sarah and a child aged 6 named Hannah. All born Kenilworth. These I know for certain. Although born in Kenilworth, Hannah was baptised in Birmingham in April 1845
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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    Thank you so much for trying! Really appreciate it!
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    Upper Marshall Street 1851

    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.
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    William Smith, sawyer, upper Marshall street 1851 census

    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.
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