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The Kites are an interesting Rowley Regis family and intersect with my own tree at various points through the Tromans, Lewetts, Plants etc.
In addition I had a colleague Barry Kite, from Rowley, who died in 2000, I've often wondered since then if we were somehow connected without knowing it!
I've been looking again at the line that begins with (probably) George Kight and Hannah Naile, both born about 1791 and who may have married 15 June 1812 at Old Swinford. If we have the right George and Hannah / Ann (Hannah was often shortened to Anna or Ann), there was a daughter Jane b. abt. 1829, as well as Joseph b. abt. 1816 whose line is already on Black Country Connections.

Jane had a son Ephraim Kite, father unknown, and she later (I think?) married James Bray 1828-1906 in 1872, she died in 1883.
James's first wife Hannah Plant, in the John Plant / Mary Hunt line, had died in 1871, they'd had seven children.

Ephraim married a Margaret, had at least 8 children and died in 1919.
One of those children had a son Ernest b. 1904 Sedgley who is with Ephraim and Margaret on the 1911 census.

Ernest married Edith M Darby in 1933 and their son, my colleague Barry was born in 1938.
I'd be grateful for any help in reconstructing this line - and the customary apologies for errors and omissions in the above!

1911
KITE, Ephraim Head Married M 62 1849 Married 34yrs Night Watchman Above Ground Staffs Rowley Regis
KITE, Margaret Wife Married F 57 1854 Worcester Dudley
KITE, Ernest Grandson M 7 1904 Staffs Rowley Regis
10 Children Born alive 3 died
102 Dudley Road Springfield Dudley
Staffordshire

9 Sep 1933 St Andew Netherton
Ernest KITE 28 B Motor Driver The Bungalow Dudley Road Springfield Father Not Given (Blank)
Edith May DARBY 28 S Hadley`s Fold Father Thomas Darby (Deceased) Occup (Blank)
Wit; Arthur Benjamin Darby Alfred Ernest Rawlings

Name: KITE, Ernest
Registration District: Dudley
County: Staffordshire
Year of Registration: 1904
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Volume No: 6C
Page No: Help 67
This should have mom`s name ?

Many thanks, RF, that's very helpful. Ephraim married a Margaret, surname unknown, date of marriage unknown,
I can see 8 or nine children:
Joseph W. c. 1875 d. 1951;
Thomas c. 1878;
John Thomas c. 1879-1950;
Edward c. 1880;
Edith c. 1882;
Sarah Jane c. 1884;
Amy c. 1885;
Lizzie c. 1888.

Sarah Jane Kite had an interesting life, according to one tree I was looking at.
She married James Jones b. 1885 Hatton, Shropshire in 1905 at St Giles' church, Rowley Regis and they emigrated to Ohio where they had children
Florence Catherine 1906-1996,
Ernest E 1913-1977
and Floyd Ellis Jones 1916-1984.

Ernest, father of my colleague, was born 4 Oct 1904 and died Jan 1987 Dudley.
Jane Kite c. 1829-1883 married - I think - James Bray 1828-1906 from Pencombe, near Bromyard, Herefordshire in 1872 at St James's, Dudley,
thereby inheriting James and Hannah Plant's 7 children.
But I may be wrong!

1861 census:

Jane Kite, abt 1829, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, Head, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Ephraim Kite, [mother] Jane, abt 1849, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, Son

James Bray, her future husband, is a couple of doors away:

James Bray, Hannah, abt 1828, Pencombe, Herefordshire, Head Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Hannah Bray, James, abt 1829, Dudley, Worcestershire, Wife, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Ann Bray, James, Hannah, abt 1851, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, Daughter, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire

1881 census:

James Bray, Jane, abt 1827, Pancorn, Hereford, Head, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Jane Bray, James, abt 1828, Rowley, Staffordshire, Wife, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
James Bray, James, Jane, abt 1866, Rowley, Staffordshire, Son, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Samuel Baugh, abt 1864, Rowley, Staffordshire, Nephew, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire

Death: Jane Bray. Estimated Birth Year: abt 1828. Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1883. Age at Death: 55. Registration district: Dudley

Lulu is this your line of Kites?

Do you have any more info on Josephs bapt

or Dennis did you ever find his bapt?

Can someone post census pls for Ephraim and margaret and all their kids

Dennis said...
"Ephraim married a Margaret, had at least 8 children and died in 1919.
One of those children had a son Ernest b. 1904 Sedgley who is with Ephraim and Margaret on the 1911 census."

1848
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Reference
KYTE Ephraim Rowley Regis Sandwell Register Office RR/12/206

Can anyone find his marraige to this margaret pls I cant

Although Joseph puts George as father on marriage certif
I am not sure he belongs to that George
No bapt for Thomas and Joseph yet these

parents of these George and hannah

1. GEORGE KYTE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 18 SEP 1831 Saint Thomas, Dudley, Worcester, England

2. JAMES KITE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 12 SEP 1824 Saint Thomas, Dudley, Worcester, England

3. JANE KYTE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 20 JUL 1828 Saint Thomas, Dudley, Worcester, England

interesting 1871 living next to Ephraim is a margaret darby housekeeper aged 58
widow born halesowen will open thread for her

this is getting odd

1838
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
BAUGH George KITE Mary A Dudley, St Thomas Dudley Register Office 204/001/269


1851 Ann (hannah) and dau Jane is with George Baugh and mary wife

then on 1881 Samuel Baugh aged 17 is there
I think he is Samuel Kite aged 7 on 1871 with brother Ephraim



Mary Anne Kite
Christening: 13 JAN 1822 Brierley Hill, Stafford,
Parents:
Father: Geo. Kite
Mother: Hanh. Kite Extracted

Can anyone pls find Jane Kite in 1871 I can find Ephraim but I cant see her

need a super sleuth pls to find her

Dennis I have added some but I dont have time to add any more

do you need any more on this thread or do we archive?

Many thanks, NL, yes by all means archive.