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toll gate keeper

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miss muffett

proper brummie kid
Hi ,
According to her wedding cert,my 3rd x great grandmother ,was a toll gate keeper .
On the cert she lived at sutton Coldfield so any way I can find out where the tollgate was please?
Would she be documented anywhere etc?
She was written down as ''widow'' on the wedding cert so maybe she and her 1st hubby were both t.g.k??Was that possible?Their names were Ann and Charles Salisbury.
Just curious!!(This lady has proved elusive and is still a big mystery to me!).
regards miss muffett
 
BGFL is the best site that I ever found dealing with toll roads / gates. Here is a map that I saved from that website & also Peter Walker's map. There are various pictures available of turnpike cottages on the web if you want to see something generic. The turnpike cottage still stands on Smethwick High St.
https://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/re...ory/jm_jones/aston_manors/duddeston/page5.htm
https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-c/catchems-corner/
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O79430
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A38_road
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42345&strquery=turnpike
 
Hi ,
Many thanks for taking time to show me the toll gate info!I think it was the Kingsbury one that my relative
was on.Very interesting -I will certainly look into further detail .
regards miss muffett
 
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