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I am adding info onto BCC from Bell End Chapel Rowley Regis headstones from the forum.
The children of Samuel Bowater - John, Mary and Samuel are not the children of Mary Ann Roberts, as on the GRO birth index it gives their Mother as Hipkiss.
BOWATER, JOHN HIPKISS
GRO Reference: 1876 M Quarter in STOURBRIDGE Volume 06C Page 209
Baptism: 7 May 1876 Blackheath, Worcs
John - Parents: Samuel & Mary Bowater
BOWATER, MARY HIPKISS
GRO Reference: 1878 J Quarter in STOURBRIDGE Volume 06C Page 167
Baptism: 2 June 1878 Blackheath, Worcs
Mary - Parents: Samuel & Mary Bowater
BOWATER, SAMUEL HIPKISS
GRO Reference: 1884 J Quarter in STOURBRIDGE Volume 06C Page 167
Samuel marries Mary Ann Roberts
1) 18th September 1871. St Thomas Dudley (FROM BCC)
Samuel Bowater, 19, B, Miner, Dudley, William Bowater, Miner
Mary Ann Roberts, 21, S, Dudley, Thomas Roberts, deceased, Miner
Banns
X of Both
X of William Bowater. X of Mary Ann Willetts
Mary Ann (Roberts) Bowater dies
Possible Death: Jun Qtr 1872 Dudley Reg Dist 6c 2
Mary Ann Bowater - Age: 22yrs
Samuel then marries Mary Hipkiss
2) Marriage: 6 April 1873 Brierley Hill, Staffs
Samuel Bowater, 21, Wid, Father: William Bowater
Mary Hipkiss, 23, Single, Father: Eli Hipkiss Born: 1850
Mary Hipkiss is already on BCC.
If agreed, could somebody please do the honours of disconnecting on BCC as I don't want to mess it all up, then I can carry on adding the info from the headstones.
Thanks.