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Bloxwich Cemetery

geneageek — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:50:31 +0000

Bloxwich Cemetery, located on Field Road, was opened in 1875. Until 1875, burials had taken place in the churchyard of All Saints – the parish church of Bloxwich (built 1793).…

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Christ Church, Blakenall Heath

geneageek — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:44:45 +0000

Christ Church on Ingram Road, Blakenall Heath was opened for service on 3 December 1870. It cost about £3000 to build and able to seat more than 500 people. An…

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Mary Wilcox – A Minor Mystery Solved

geneageek — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:50:02 +0000

(continued from previous post: Who was Mary Wilcox?) The first step was to do a ‘blanket search’ for Mary born c1828. There was another Mary Wilcox of a similar age…

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Who Was Mary Wilcox?

geneageek — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 15:50:16 +0000

I first came across Mary Wilcox quite a few years ago. She was recorded on the 1881 census, in the home of Thomas Henry Wheeley, as his cousin. At 53,…

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Stonewall Johnson

geneageek — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:36:55 +0000

I’ve recently designed my own colourful family trees (see more about that here). The information held is minimal but besides looking pretty on the wall, it’s a useful way to…

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Forbidden Marriage

geneageek — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:15:44 +0000

While researching some extended family members, I came across an unusual marriage. Ernest Wheeley and Emily Marian Phipps were married in 1923 and their daughter, Cissie was born the…

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Persistent Cruelty

geneageek — Mon, 18 May 2020 10:51:56 +0000

In 1901, Thomas Henry WHEELEY and Ann ROGERS had been married for 23 years and had had 8 children together. They were living on Dalkeith Street in Walsall – a…

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Wheeley Interesting Sequel

geneageek — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:02:11 +0000

I previously wrote about the brief marriage between William Henry Marston and Blanche Emma Wheeley in the post, Wheeley Interesting. I have just discovered that five years after their unhappy…

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Wheeley Interesting

geneageek — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:04:49 +0000

Researching the children of Thomas Henry WHEELEY led me to a few interesting discoveries this morning – particularly to do with his eldest daughters. His first born daughter, Gertrude Annie Wheeley…

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George the Absconder

geneageek — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:08:41 +0000

The family story goes that George Ebbans (b. 1893) left his wife and children around 1927 and started a new family with another woman. In my mother-in-law’s words: George Ebbans…

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