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Many thanks, Mark. It certainly looks as though you have come up with the information we were seeking. Google searches had produced the Kent & Bromsgrove locations. We had disregarded the Kent one as being much too far away to be the right one. Bromsgrove was nearer but still wasn't right: "...

Hello, everyone. I am a 3 x great-grandson of Samuel Dearn (1768-1839) and his second wife, Elizabeth, née Swain (1770-1853), who were impoverished nail makers. Samuel's death certificate shows that he lived and died in a place called Rat Castle, Warley, Salop. The 1841 census shows Elizabeth and...

Hello, Everyone. I am a retired local government officer living in rural West Sussex and have only recently joined this Forum. Surprisingly, given that I started researching my family history way back in 1992, I had not previously hard of the Forum! My attention was drawn to it by a newly "foun...