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The pearl button maker I have found has a wife Ann….not Sarah….is that the one you mean?

I presume this would be the St. Bartholomew’s that used to be in Digbeth?

I am so grateful for your help….I think the Gosta Green one is well worth me investigating…especially with that pearl button connection. I have had my mind opened up to not jumping to conclusions. To be honest I’ve never heard the name Gosta Green before!

That is unbelievable that you have found and posted this….thank you so much! This gives me so much more to go on….I’ll apply for the death certificate in the hope that she’s the right one!

Thank you for posting this….all information is helpful!

I was hoping this was the family….but not totally sure!

If the 1841 census family I have found is the correct one, living in Shut Lane, William and Sarah had four children, Alfred 1834, William 1835, Jane 1837 and Mary 1839. I can find no evidence of other children before Hannah arrived in March 1845. I realised that by the time of the 1851 census...

Would there possibly be any illustrations of the canal lock-keeper’s house in Adderley Street around 1845?

Thanks so much again for this! You really have helped me to gather all the facts of William’s life. I am very grateful for all of your inputs. I am now trying to find his first wife’s death date, sometime between April 1845 and may 1849 when he remarried to Ann Bradburn. It seems he and Sarah...

I now think Haseley, otherwise known as Haseley Knob, is very likely…..it is just 5 miles from Kenilworth. Actually on the 1851 census he is shown as a pearl ash maker….which is a maker of potash or potassium carbonate….so could already be considered a chemical worker?

I took a risk by ordering the Sarah Smith death June 1849 reg. from Aston. I thought it looked the most likely. Unfortunately her husband was Samuel Smith, not William. If anyone is interested in this I’ll be happy to pass it on.

I think you have all solved one of my longest standing mysteries of my family tree. Using the information a number of you have contributed, I first found the marriage of William Smith to Sarah Wilkinson in Kenilworth St. Nicholas in October 1833. So this must be where the idea of a Kenilworth...

Once again you have given me a lot to think about, so thank you very much for continuing to help! I will now look into these things and possibly order those digital certificates.

That is amazing to see that it’s still there!

That IS compelling evidence! Thank you for pointing that out. i think that clinches the connection with the Adderley Street baptism! I have tried in vain to find this couple on the 1841 census….William and Sarah married in 1833 and Hannah was born in 1845…so she was still alive then…so I should...

Thank you again! Your comments, once again, have helped convince me that I have put too much faith in what was told to the enumerator.

Thank you so much for this! This gives me so much information about names I thought I knew so much about! I was not aware that after Alfred, Hannah’s husband, had died in March 1921that she had gone to live with her youngest son and his family. The birthplace Hannah gives in Birmingham is also...