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1851 Gorsty Hill William Parkes (looks like Parker) 49 Nail maker Esther Parkes 49 Nail maker Sarah Parkes 31 Nail maker Mary Ann Parkes 29 Nail maker William Parkes 21 Bricklayer Eliza Parkes 18 Nail maker Esther Parkes 15 Nail maker Ann Parkes 13 Nail maker Thomas Parkes 11 Joseph Parkes 8 George ...

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Yes, I'm happy to archive it now. I can get back to my own tree, and see if any of my family appear in your BCC. Thanks once again.

I'm sure this is the right family - too many ends tying up for it not to be so. Big thank you to everyone for helping to sort this out. That was the last line in my friend's tree, all sorted now.

Marriage

PARKES, Martha & DEY, Thomas Dudley/18/408 Sep 1847

Possible?

Thank you.

rockyfowler wrote:Marriage DEY * Martha HAWLEY Thomas Dudley, St Thomas Dudley Register Office 204/009/426 1849

What are these numbers?

ann maria poss in yorkshire some time is martha with her ? extracted Ann Maria Priest Birth: 11 FEB 1845 Christening: 28 FEB 1869 Elland, Yorkshire, Father: Samuel Priest Mother: Hannah Priest Ann Maria Priest in 1861 poss, Elland, Yorks Thomas Hawley 32 Inland Revenue Officer Greesham? Worcs Marth...

I'm wrong to discount Martha in Lowestoft. I've found the Solomon/Martha Priest family indexed under Preece in 1861, and daughter Martha is living with them. So the Martha in Lowestoft looks like she is the right one after all - sorry Jimmy! Can't remember why I thought she wasn't - obviously i need...

Anyone got any idea which church records one would have to search (or any other way of finding out) to see if the M did stand for Martha in the 1851 Samuel Priest census? St Giles again? 1851 Mill Farm, Bromsgrove Samuel Prieth 38 - Farmer of 87 acres, employing 2 labs H Prieth 30 - Farmers wife A M...

That's very interesting - that Naboth was using Sidaway as his surname by 1871.

There is a Martha Priest (the one I think married Joshua Beal) in Mar 1848 - Dudley 18/ 261 Parents were Solomon and Martha.

Do you think, maybe I should let everyone get back to whatever else they should be doing, and just buy the birth certificate?! I think it's going to be hard to prove it one way or another.

I have already discounted this Martha Priest, I think she married Joshua Beal in 1869.

Odd though, if the family from Bromsgrove is the correct one, that having been presumably a Priest, she calls herself Sidaway on marriage. Would be good to find her in 1861.

I think you've cracked it - seems very likely to be the right family. And I'd never have found it by searching through Rowley Regis....Thank you so much.