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Northern Lass wrote:Thanks added most now

will start new thread for Griggs

Is this now Completed?
flagging to archive unless you need any more on Sarah

Yes the query for Sarah can be closed, I'm sure I'll get stuck again though!

Thanks
Tom

All I can say is thanks again, achieved more in half a day, than in 2 years! Pity won't be able to find my Great Great Grandfather down this route, but at least I've discovered the Griggs connection and GGG Grandfather Joseph Edwards Good this one think we have a deep seam of connections on this lo...

All I can say is thanks again, achieved more in half a day, than in 2 years! Pity won't be able to find my Great Great Grandfather down this route, but at least I've discovered the Griggs connection and GGG Grandfather Joseph Edwards

The other thought I have had is that Sarah, would appear to be born 32 years after Mary Ann & Joseph were married, not uncommon, but perhaps Sarah might be the daughter of Mary Ann, b1830, so the original Mary Ann's grand-daughter?

Good fun this!

p.s.
Our surname moved between Willits & Willetts over various records

Crossed over on the posts!

I agree with all that, but the only fly in the ointment is Sarah's marriage certificate that shows her father as John Edwards. Now it could be that as her father died around when she was born, that she has this wrong (she wasn't literate, signs with her mark on the marriage cert.) The certificate is...

Thanks all so far for your help. But now I'm really confused!
The marriage cert, has Edwards! But the 1911 census has as you have found a brother with the surname Whitehouse.
I'm wondering if Sarah's mom re-married, I'll see what I can find

Cheers
Tom

Yes
I have attached the Marriage Cert.

For William I have YOB 1857, West Bromwich

Thanks
Tom

Sarah Edwards, is my Great Grandmother born c1860 in Oldbury according to the Census Records 1881 onwards. I cannot find her before that. Her marriage cetificate (to William Henry Willetts, 16/10/1882 St Michaels, Handsworth), has her aged 22, so that is consistent and that her father was a Miner, J...