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1851. Spring Hill, Hasbury
Josiah Coley, head, 42, Horn Button presser
Mary, wife, 42, horn button finisher
David, son, 17, Carpenter
Mary, daur, 13,
Sarah, daur, 10 in a button manufactory
Martha, daur, 8,
Joseph, son, 6,
Samuel, son, 2
All born Halesowen


thomas lane married one sister she died married another ?

COLEY Mary LANE Thomas 1861 Dudley, St Thomas West Midlands Dudley Register Office 204/020/215

COLEY Mary 1866 - Halesowen West Midlands Dudley Register Office HAL/013/147

COLEY Martha LANE Thomas 1866 Dudley, St Thomas West Midlands Dudley Register Office 204/024/142

by smoky » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:23 pm

Apologies to all. I'm new to computers and genealogy and, frankly, I like genealogy better. I still write with a fountain pen and like to fill it with a bottle of ink. And, I'm left-handed and, according to my grandfather, Clarence BATE, was the first in generations to be so. And, no, I'm not hundreds of years old.

Thanks to all those who have put information on the board esp. peterd, linell and jimmy, about both BATE and COLEY families.

COLEY: The right family thread. Of my grandmother's 4 siblings, I only knew two: Great Aunt Verena [who married a Quaker called CROSS] and Great Uncle Tom who married Joyce and was a Cabinet-maker and Church Organist somewhere in Stourbridge. I would like to trace where he lived in the 1950's which was somewhere very rural with a pump for water in the yard behind the cottages. Are we saying that Thos. COLEY Shoemaker [senior] born c.1835 was father of Albert COLEY born c.1864, father of Dora Millicent COLEY born 23/12/1893? Might have known there'd be cobblers in the family.

As to the CONFUSION, I was sitting writing all the stuff down as best I could [on paper with ink!] and only went to the loo. When I came back, it had all gone.
Not the paper [still surrounded by that], the website.The board doesn't look the same, and I can't find the place with all the answers. Can anyone help?

Yours Cag-handed.

PS. I'm writing this here because I can't find anywhere else to write anything, either. Did try to send messages to each person individually [particularly the one who said there was a photograph of my grandmother aged 7 which I'd love to see] but they kept popping off before I'd finished them.

smoky

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This looks like marriage for Thomas


1951
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
COLEY Thomas B HEATHCOCK Joyce K Oldswinford, St Mary Dudley Register Office 003/017/6

you would need to do a bit of digging with where he lived
maybe look at marriage see what address is
and kids see where born- and electoral registers

flagging to archive this one now
if you need help with another ancestor do pls put a new post on.