Has anyone done any research on Dorothy Round, the tennis player from Dudley who won at Wimbledon twice in the 1930s?
It seems from a brief search on the internet that there are a lot of people who claim they are cousins of her! I thought it would be useful to have her on the BCC so that people have somewhere they can check. I believe a lot of these claims are based on the fact that these people have relatives called ROUND from Dudley so assume they must be related, but as we know it was one of the most common names there.
If this research hasn't been done by anyone I'll give it a go
OK we know from info on the net that her full name was Dorothy Edith Round.
A lot of internet sources give her DOB as 13th July 1908, but the birth indexes show that the only Dorothy E Round born within a couple of years of that was the one born in July/Aug/Sept 1909. I suspect the internet sources have all been quoting one another and getting it wrong, as I can't believe they would have waited a year to register her birth....! There is only one Dorothy Edith in the 1911 census, the other Dorothies within a couple of years all have different middle names.
Initial research was surprisingly straightforward:
Possible sister - Daisy M ROUND b. sep qtr 1913 Dudley reg dist (mother's maiden name WILLIAMS)
1911. 12 Park Road, Dudley John Benjamin ROUND, head, married, 37, building contractor, b. Dudley WOR Maude Helena ROUND, wife, married for 12 years, 37, b. Dudley WOR Arnold Williams ROUND, son, 11, school, b. Dudley WOR Lawson ROUND, son, 9, school, b. Dudley WOR Hubert John ROUND, son, 4, b. Dudley WOR Dorothy Edith ROUND, dau, 1, b. Dudley WOR Gertrude WATSON, servant, single, 19, general servant domestic, b. Dudley WOR
Lawson ROUND b. June qtr 1901 Dudley reg dist
1910. 25 Grange Road, Dudley John B ROUND, head, marr, 27, builder contractor's assistant, worker, b. Dudley WOR Maude H ROUND, wife, marr, 27, b. Dudley WOR Arnold W ROUND, son, 1, b. Dudley WOR Beatria(?) JE WOODALL, servant, single, 23, general servant (domestic), b. Dudley WOR
Dorothy E ROUND birth registered 1909 Dudley reg dist
John Benjamin ROUND marr. Maude Helena WILLIAMS, Sep qtr. 1898 Dudley reg district
1891. Park Road, Dudley (next to Grange Road) Mark ROUND, head, marr, 43, builder, b. Dudley WOR Amelia ROUND, wife, marr. 45. b. Dudley WOR John B ROUND, son, single, 17, carpenter, b. Dudley WOR Joseph H ROUND, son, single, 16, clerk in accountants office, b. Dudley WOR Alice L ROUND, dau, single, 15, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Florence A ROUND, dau, 14, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Maud M ROUND, dau, 11, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Mark H ROUND, son, 9, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Beatrice M ROUND, dau, 5, scholar, b. Dudley WOR
1881. 9 Oxford Street, Dudley Mark ROUND, head, marr, 33, carpenter partner firm of Webb & Round, b. Dudley WOR Amelia ROUND, wife, 35, b. Dudley WOR John B ROUND, son, 7, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Joseph H ROUND, son, 6, b. Dudley WOR Alice R ROUND, dau, 5, b. Dudley WOR Florence A ROUND, dau, 4, b. Dudley WOR Maud M ROUND, dau, 1, b. Dudley WOR
Mark ROUND married Amelia EDWARDS 1872, St Marks Pensnett
1871. 19 Vicarage Prospect, Dudley Sarah ROUND, head, widow, 50, b. Dudley WOR Mark ROUND, son, unmarr, 23, carpenter, b. Dudley WOR Jabez ROUND, son, 14, bricklayers labour, b. Dudley WOR John ROUND, son, 11, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Joseph ROUND, son, 8, scholar, b. Dudley WOR George ROUND, son, 5, scholar, b. Dudley WOR
1861. Vicarage Prospect, Dudley Benjamin ROUND, head, married, 42, bricklayer, b. Dudley WOR Sarah ROUND, wife, married, 40, b. Dudley WOR Hannah ROUND, dau, unmarr, b. Dudley WOR William H ROUND, son, 15, labourer, b. Dudley WOR Mark ROUND, son, 13, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Sarah ROUND, dau, 7, scholar, b. Dudley WOR Jabez ROUND, son, 4, b. Dudley WOR John ROUND, son, 1, b. Dudley WOR
1851. Porterfield, Dudley Bejn. ROUND, head, marr, 32, bricklayer, b. Dudley WOR Sarah ROUND, wfe, 30, b. Dudley WOR Hannah ROUND, dau, 9, b. Dudley WOR Mo?? ROUND, son, 6, b. Dudley WOR Mark ROUND, son, 3, b. Dudley WOR Willm CLIFTON, lodger, unmarried, 27, puddler, b. Dudley WOR
1841. Porters Field, Dudley Benjamin ROUND, 20, bricklayer, yes Sarah ROUND, 20, yes
I have changed that bapt to a possible one in the notes and have changed his place of birth as Dudley although I think it is probably Tipton
Tipton is fairly near Dudley and it does look like his sibs are born Tipton on the census Living West Brom area too! The church I find they use is St Martins Tipton
but I have deleted the place of birth for sibs of Benjamin all the bapts I have put as a possible but again having looked at it I think that those bapts are good esp with those sibs on the 1841 being bapt at St Martins Tipton
this could be a possible... 1838 Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference ROUND Benjamin BUNN Sarah Sedgley, All Saints Dudley Register Office 216/001/216
