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Dimmocks seem to be dominating discusions at the moment. Can anyone throw some light on Joseph? He seems not to have been on the same ship as the rest of his family in 1886, but I can't find him in the UK in the 1891 census. Did he emigrate earlier, and his family then go to join him? Joseph and Emma are back in Providence Street in 1901 and Joseph died in 1927 (we have the M.I. from Cradley Heath cemetery).

so this is Joseph
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =587576082

Yes, sorry not to have more precise.

Hi Rich Tea, I would track down the children see when and where they were born, that should give you a trail of where they lived in the missing years. Linell.

is this the one that Jo was looking for the 1891s ?

do you want me to brickwall this?
or archive richtea?

RF found Joseph Tibbetts next door to his married sister Elizabeth Wells.

1881. 48 Providence St, Rowley Regis.
Joseph Dimmock 30. Coal Miner.
Emma Dimmock 45.
Joseph Tibbetts 25. Chain Maker.step son
Samuel Tibbetts 20. Coal Miner.step son
Fanny Tibbetts 16.dau in law
Emma Tibbetts 14.dau in law
William Tibbetts 11.son
Harry Dimmock 9.son
Samson Dimmock 8.son
Thomas Dimmock 6.son

1891?

1901. 49, Providence Street, Rowley Regis
Joseph Dimmock, head, 52, Carter,
Emma, wife, 65,
Joseph Tibbetts, wifes son, 46, chain maker
All born Cradley Heath

RF is correct, Joseph Tibbetts (a genuine son of Emma and Samuel) did live next door to his married sister Elizabeth in 1891. But, many of the family appear to have been in Australia at the time of the 1891 census. Some of them appear to have returned in time for the Samson Dimmock/Tibbetts wedding in 1896, and Frances/Fanny had certainly returned before her death in 1899, and more of them in time for the 1901 census!
Unless someone can clarify their comings and goings from Australian records and ship arrivals (and also for William Bullock), we do seem to have reached a gap in the knowable if not a brickwall.
We still don't know whether Joseph Dimmock was actually the father of any of Emma's children that subsequently called themselves Dimmocks. Frances/Fanny was the last child that could have been fathered by Samuel Tibbetts. The later children were all born before Emma married Joseph Dimmock.

RichTea wrote:RF is correct, Joseph Tibbetts (a genuine son of Emma and Samuel) did live next door to his married sister Elizabeth in 1891. But, many of the family appear to have been in Australia at the time of the 1891 census. Some of them appear to have returned in time for the Samson Dimmock/Tibbetts wedding in 1896, and Frances/Fanny had certainly returned before her death in 1899, and more of them in time for the 1901 census!
Unless someone can clarify their comings and goings from Australian records and ship arrivals (and also for William Bullock), we do seem to have reached a gap in the knowable if not a brickwall.
We still don't know whether Joseph Dimmock was actually the father of any of Emma's children that subsequently called themselves Dimmocks. Frances/Fanny was the last child that could have been fathered by Samuel Tibbetts. The later children were all born before Emma married Joseph Dimmock.

I agree Richtea do you think we leave those kids with Joseph Dimmock and put a note on each of kids?
or
do we put unknown unknown as father and put them with them?

I am happy to do either let me know and I will amend

I think unknown, unknown is the way forward, perhaps with a note that any information to the contrary would be welcome. Each of the children born after Frances would be attributed to unk, unk. We do know that all Emma's children were registered as Tibbetts, but a descendant of one of the 'Dimmocks' may at some stage obtain a birth certificate which would clinch the paternity. Then, again, there's always DNA testing...

ok amended kids.

Moving this to Brickwalls

Has anyone been able to look to see who is at 48 or 49 Providence St., Rowley Regis in 1891?

Just in case it's of use:

New South Wales, Australia, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853-1900:
May 1889
Deposit made by Samuel Dimmock of Greta (NSW) For the benefit of:
Mary Dimmock 34 (wife)
William Dimmock 14 ) Family
Joseph Dimmock 12 )

Address of the family in UK: 107 Greens Yard, Five Ways, Cradley Heath, Staffordshire

Ship: S.S. Croya 16 Sept 1889

I think this is Sampson Dimmock and Mary Tibbetts.

RichTea wrote:RF is correct, Joseph Tibbetts (a genuine son of Emma and Samuel) did live next door to his married sister Elizabeth in 1891. But, many of the family appear to have been in Australia at the time of the 1891 census. Some of them appear to have returned in time for the Samson Dimmock/Tibbetts wedding in 1896, and Frances/Fanny had certainly returned before her death in 1899, and more of them in time for the 1901 census!
Unless someone can clarify their comings and goings from Australian records and ship arrivals (and also for William Bullock), we do seem to have reached a gap in the knowable if not a brickwall.
We still don't know whether Joseph Dimmock was actually the father of any of Emma's children that subsequently called themselves Dimmocks. Frances/Fanny was the last child that could have been fathered by Samuel Tibbetts. The later children were all born before Emma married Joseph Dimmock.

Think the 1896 wedding was Sampson Dimmock/Tibbetts (son of Emma) to Martha Emma Shaw, and the marriage of Sampson Dimmock (son of William & Betty Dimmock) to Mary Tibbetts (daur of Emma & Samuel Tibbetts) was in 1875. These families where they all use the same set of first names and where a woman marries her daughter's husband's elder brother make my head spin

dianel wrote:Has anyone been able to look to see who is at 48 or 49 Providence St., Rowley Regis in 1891?

A good suggestion. Detective work shows a Mansell family living at 50 Providence Street in both 1881 and 1891, from that a check of 47 and 48 in 1891 reveals:

47 George and Lottie Rose & family
+ Edward Kimberley
48 Samuel Grosvenor and family
49 Isaac Hill and family

I looked at all the houses in Providence Street, some other family are there but not them ones.
Some we have found, cant think who now
Jo