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Smith William, sawyer, Upper Marshall Street 1851 census

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!
 
Brotog said:
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!
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The pearl button maker I have found has a wife Ann….not Sarah….is that the one you mean?
 
Brotog said:
The pearl button maker I have found has a wife Ann….not Sarah….is that the one you mean?
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I have found another 1841 census William with wife Sarah and son Edward aged 6, shown as a labourer living in Fazely Street. The 1848 death of Sarah Smith gives her address as Fazely Street. Could be a possibility?
 
No, it's a William, Sarah and 2 children - Thomas and William.

Sarah's age is quite a bit out but 1841 census has a lot of inaccuracies. However, there's no way to know if it's the right family.
 
Brotog said:
The pearl button maker I have found has a wife Ann….not Sarah….is that the one you mean?
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Sorry….just found the Gosta Green one you mean, with wife Sarah, and he’s Pearl Button maker. Gosh it’s hard finding the right William Smith!
 
Brotog said:
I have found another 1841 census William with wife Sarah and son Edward aged 6, shown as a labourer living in Fazely Street. The 1848 death of Sarah Smith gives her address as Fazely Street. Could be a possibility?
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That sounds more likely than the one I found, William had a brother called Edward.

It seems probable that that is the Sarah in the burial but doesn't make it certainly your Sarah.
 
Just seen a baptism for an Edward Smith, son of William and Sarah, Jun 1835 Kenilworth.

Possible death reg. Bham 1846.
 
MWS said:
Just seen a baptism for an Edward Smith, son of William and Sarah, Jun 1835 Kenilworth.

Possible death reg. Bham 1846.
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Goodness me….that sounds very hopeful….the birth in Kenilworth, not long after the wedding of 1833, and his death in Birmingham.
I will get into investigating this.
 
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MWS said:
Just seen a baptism for an Edward Smith, son of William and Sarah, Jun 1835 Kenilworth.

Possible death reg. Bham 1846.
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There is a burial in 1846 of an Edward Smith At St Peter and Paul Aston, but Mother is given as Elizabeth (writing very smudged)
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I think it fits this baptism but will look for Kenilworth one
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Thanks. Can rule that one out then.

And he appears to be alive in 1861, a railway porter living in Camp Hill with wife and children.
 
I searched for the death reg. of Sarah Smith dying in Aston in 1848…found her on free BMD March 1848 but when I tried to order the online cert. It said record not found. Then tried September 1848 on free BMD….no luck.
 
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