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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.

I will have a go

Done that but not added all info in your post will leave you to do Hons

Thanks Jan for doing that for me Will add the info later.

I was born at 71 Beamont Road in 1942 and I remember Mrs Bowater at 73 Beaumont Road as 71, 72,73 and 74 all had a joint yard and entry . Guy family lived at 72

Just checked my birth cert. and I was born at 72 and Guy family were at 71 ,
72 was empty in 1939 as my parents moved there in 1941 when my brother was born
Road was renumbered after war and 72 is now number 18