My very first thread :-)
Not sure Ancestry was ever updated with the image - does anyone have FMP sub that they could save and mail me the image?
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Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born Original census image GORDON, John Head Married M 41 1850 Puddler Bilston Staffordshire GORDON, Eliza Wife Married F 41 1850 Woodside Worcestershire GORDON, Martha Daughter Single F 17 1874 Brick Maker Bilston Staffs GORDON, John Son Single M 15 1876 Scrap Cutter Iron Scotland GORDON, Thomas Son M 12 1879 Scholar Bilston Staffordshire GORDON, Charles Son M 11 1880 Scholar Willenhall Staffordshire GORDON, Mary Ann Daughter F 8 1883 Scholar Huyton Quarry Lancs GORDON, Agnes Daughter F 6 1885 Scholar Oakengates Shropshire GORDON, Joseph Son M 4 1887 Oakengates Shropshire GORDON, Gertrude Daughter F 1 1890 Willenhall Staffordshire RG number: RG12 Piece: 2236 Folio: 9 Page: 17 Registration District: Wolverhampton Sub District: Wolverhampton Eastern Enumeration District: Ecclesiastical Parish: All Saints Civil Parish: Wolverhampton Municipal Borough: Wolverhampton Address: 38, Sutherland Place, Wolverhampton County: Staffordshire
John (Bilston 1850) and Eliza (Dudley 1844) were my great grandparents. In 1881 they were living in Huyton-with-Roby and in 1901 in Newport Monmoutshire.
But try as I might I cannot find them in the 1891 census.
I believe the family in 1891 would have been:
John Cording Bilston 1850 Eliza Cording Dudley 1844 Martha Cording Bilston 1874 John Cording Scotland 1875 Thomas Cording Bilston 1878 Charles Alfred Willenhall/Bilston 1880 Mary Ann Cording Liverpool 1882 Agnes Cording Oakengates Shropshire 1884 Joseph Cording Oakengates 1886 Gertrude Cording Willenhall 1889
There might even be other children - in 1911 census Eliza answered the question about live births as 12 - and I have only 9 (Mary Ann Silvia died in 1880). As far as I am aware they moved to Newport around 1897/8 so I expected to find them in the Wolverhampton area. At the time of Gertrude's birth in April 1889 their address was St Ann's Terrace, Ann Street, Willenhall. I have trawled Willenhall street by street in 1891 to no avail. I have admitted defeat.
Can anyone find them?
Jude
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