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rockyfowler wrote:Name: Harry Moody
Registration Year: 1866
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: Luton
Inferred County: Bedfordshire
Volume: 3b
Page: 446

He is still with parent Charles and Selina in 1871, 1881, 1891.

I was wondering with the surname Moody if there was any connection to the printing and publishing company Mark & Moody of Stourbridge so I've done a google search. It appears that the 2 "brothers" of your Henry weren't in fact brothers.

This link states that Charles Harry Moody was the youngest son of CHARLES MOODY.
http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html ... eId=752835

This link gives further info on Charles Harry Moody, and also Arthur Hatfield Moody (his father was GEORGE MOODY, the Moody of Mark & Moody)

http://www.mocavo.com/Whos-Who-Men-and- ... 22982/2076

More info on Arthur Hatfield Moody

http://newsimages.worldvitalrecords.com ... 7%5C38.pdf

This doesn't solve the mystery of when your Henry Moody was born, but it does give that Charles Harry Moody & Arthur Hatfield Moody weren't brothers.

Edit:
Sorry, just re-read your original post and you say that you have already researched these 2 Moody men.

It said on marriage father Harry Moody, crossed out,

there was an Harry Moody living in the area.

1861. Bilston.
John Rogers 40.
Hannah Rogers 39.
Robert J Rogers 12.
Dinah Rogers 9.
William Rogers 6.
John Rogers 2.
Harry Moody 21. Servant . Assistant hair dresser. Basingstoke, Hampshire.

1871.
Harry Moody 30. Hair dresser. Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Sarah Moody 28.
Sarah M Moody 8. Dau.
Mary E Moody 5. Dau.
William Moody 7. Son.
Samuel Moody 1. Son.
Rebecca Moody 16. Servant Bilston.

Others born Sedgley.

Harry Moody.
Christening Date: 28 Jul 1839.
Christening Place: , BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND.
Father's Name: William Moody.
Mother's Name: Margaret.
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C13654-2 , System Origin: England-VR , GS Film number: 1041202 , Reference ID: 2:1Z2FHMJ.

West Midlands Marriage indexes for the years: 1861.
MOODY Harry. JOHNSON Sarah. Coseley, Christ Church. Dudley Register Office. 208/003/67.

Sedgley Staffs.
Church name Christ Church (Coseley).
Register entry number 67.
Marriage date 1 Sep 1861.
Groom forename Harry
Groom surname MOODY.
Groom age 21.
Groom condition Bachelor.
Groom abode Daisy Bank.
Groom occupation Hair Dresser.
Bride forename Sarah
Bride surname JOHNSON.
Bride age 20.
Bride condition Spinster.
Bride abode Daisy Bank.
Groom father forename William
Groom father surname MOODY.
Groom father occupation Cabinet Maker.
Bride father forename Samuel
Bride father surname JOHNSON.
Bride father occupation Engineer.
Witness1 forename Samuel
Witness1 surname JOHNSON.
Witness2 forename Elizabeth
Witness2 surname NORTON.

jbradford wrote:
The people my grandfather identified as family members clearly exist but I can’t find any connection, and how would he (or his father) have had access to all this info to make up?! (I can see how he would have known about the two Moodys with Stourbridge connections who were supposedly his brothers, but how would he have known about Charles and Selena Durrant?) To make things more complicated, in the 1911 census Henry is listed for the first time as having been born in Ross, Herefordshire, but I haven’t had luck tracking his birth there either.


Joanna

For what its worth, it looks to me as though your grandfather had some research done (or did it himself) and the dots were connected to make a pretty pattern. You seem to have done everything right yourself though.

The Ross entry in 1911 is very odd. I can't see why that would suddenly pop up unless he believed it to be true. There was a Moody family there at the right time and the kids seem to have landed in the workhouse after their mother died, but I don't see any reason for a younger child to be deposited in a totally different workhouse.

There is another Moody in the Stourbridge one though, viewtopic.php?f=31&t=16401&hilit=john+moody but again there is no connection to yours.

So frustrating!

Thanks again everyone! My head has been spinning with all the possibilities.
Jimmy, thanks for searching for Henry's baptism/birth. I was hoping it was just hidden away somewhere. And thanks for finding that other Harry Moody--I hadn't found him before. I've been digging into his family but no connections yet.
Northern Lass, thanks for adding my Henry Moody to BCC. Yes, please add my username in the notes just in case someone has any info. I believe Henry Moody b 1866 died in 1942 in Stourbridge (following his wife Sarah who died in 1935). The Ross birthplace is really a mystery...but since Henry was the one who signed the 1911 census form, I'm leaning towards it being true. Do death certificates list place of birth?
Gardener, I think you're right that someone must have researched this and pieced a pretty story together! It has sent me on all kinds of wild goose chases. My grandfather moved to Kenya when he was 20 and spent almost all the rest of his life there & in South Africa, so either he did it before he left or his father or sisters did it and passed the stories on to my grandfather.
I really appreciate all your help in sorting through this. I wish there had been more info in the workhouse records, because that seemed like the best source for a possible answer--oh well.
Thanks,
Joanna

Ok added you in here
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =633837107


I too think he was born Ross herefordshire....if he filled in the 1911 census he would have put where he came from.

was there a possible birth regis for that area for a henry moody?
if so might be worth sending for

No birth in Herefordshire that fits.

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