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If anyone has free access to 1911, that would give the number of years they were married, which would let us narrow down the marriage in the GRO index. They don't appear to have married in the Black Country as I can't find them on the West Midlands BMD site

That's excellent, I will go in and put all the census info in.

Is San around? I'd like to know how they know that Benjamin was baptised in Tipton, as all the censuses have his birth in Dudley.

OK we know from info on the net that her full name was Dorothy Edith Round. A lot of internet sources give her DOB as 13th July 1908, but the birth indexes show that the only Dorothy E Round born within a couple of years of that was the one born in July/Aug/Sept 1909. I suspect the internet sources ...

Hi everyone, Has anyone done any research on Dorothy Round, the tennis player from Dudley who won at Wimbledon twice in the 1930s? It seems from a brief search on the internet that there are a lot of people who claim they are cousins of her! I thought it would be useful to have her on the BCC so tha...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if there are any records available that are associated with people who worked at Marlow's or Turner's bedstead works in New Dock, Dudley? Lots of women from three generations of my family worked here, over a period of about 50 years. We even own a beautiful cast iron be...

Yes that''s great thanks, I'd ideally like to transcribe it myself from the originals rather than an index but it can wait. Thanks for your help everyone :

I'd love to read more of this report!!! I had ancestors in Greystone Street and Queens Cross at this time I'm so tempted to look on the 1851 census to see if I can identify any of the "20 bad girls" living in Brandy Row yard. ETA: I don't want to disparage anyone's memory but there are qui...

Hi Jan, I've been putting all of my photos onto Flickr, do take a look and grab any that you think would be useful: m I have loads so I didn't want to clutter up the servers here! There's a really nice wedding photo of Rena Pardoe (daughter of Ma Pardoe, landlady of the Old Swan in Netherton) though...

Hi everyone, Apologies if this isn't the right place to put this, but I just had to share it with someone! I was just surfing around the web when I stumbled across the following photo on the Black Country Bugle website, and my eyes nearly boggled out of my head: m I have a copy of this exact same ph...

Thanks Mark (and Maths Girl)! Do the names appear surname first in the actual census images, or is this info from an index or transcription? Also, does it give the marital status of each person?

I'm so frustrated that I can't see the census images!

Thanks loads! Sorry to be cheeky but when you get a spare moment could you possibly transcribe this household for me please?

Cheers,
Toni xx

Hi chaps, As I'm entering all my data into the BCC, I'm adding sources too and I've been going back and checking the original census images to make sure that I put everything in exactly as it is written. I've been collecting census data since the late 1980s (when I used to go and sit in the basement...

Hi Jenni, If you're still out there, could you possibly look for a reference to the memorial stone of any BARKERs who might be buried at St Lukes for me please? My great grandfather and all four of his brothers died of TB one after the other and were buried there between 1921 and 1932. I doubt they ...

Hi Jan, That all looks good, Elizabeth WOODALL was born on 6th August 1849 in Dudley (I own this certificate) and she died sometime after the 1891 census. The 1904 marriage of Elizabeth HICKMAN and John PARKES was probably in the St Lukes in Dudley (the one on Wellington Road) rather than the one at...

Thanks for this bit of info! My great great grandparents married on Christmas Day in 1889, my grandparents married on Boxing Day in 1937, and I also have GGGG grandparents who married on Boxing Day in 1820. The fact that these were days they would have had off work never occurred to me before! I've ...