Millership/Millichamp/Millichoppe/Millichap

[woody123]

Thats very interesting cire,

I couldn't find the George & Eliza marriage at all!!

What you say i'm sure will help blancsanglier..


Off to look/change my tree!!

[cire]

The entry for the marriage of George and Eliza in the IGI gives their ages as 20 and 19 respectively. This agrees closely with the ages for George and Eliza Millership in the 1871 census.
It is rather unusual that there was such a gap in time between the marriage and the birth of the forst recorded child!!!!
The IGI entry for the marriage gives George's father's name as John!!!!!which I am sure is an error.

Eric

[Al in Vane]

Not sure if it is any help to you but a couple of miles from Bedworth is a small coal mining hamlet on the edge of Nuneaton called Bermuda and there have been Millerchips there from the 1800s to my knowledge, in fact I know one or two of them, at one time the football team had four of that name in the team.
Bermuda was named because the local landowner, one of the Newdigates, was Governor of Bermuda in the West Indies, the houses were built for the miners who worked in the Newdigate pits.
Bermuda came under Chilvers Coton and there are three Millerchips listed in the memorials there.

[cire]

Thanks for the reply.
I had a lot of relatives in the Foleshill/Bedworth area but I had not heard of Bermuda. From the map it looks as though it is now a small industrial estate.
There were quite a few Millerchips in the Bedworth/Foleshill area from the mid 1700s, when several brothers moved there from Broseley in Shropshire. They were nearly always specialist miners and wherever new mines were opened the Millerchips were there, the Black Country, Nottinghamshire and Durham.

Most of the families had left Bedworth before 1841.

Eric

[Al in Vane]

Eric, I can assure you that the 'village' is still there, actually it is just one street with a club but has always had a reputation for sporting prowess which continues to this day and there is still a football club with a fine ground behind the houses.
These days the whole is owned by (I think) Deeleys who were/are an opencast mining company, they modernised all the houses etc some years ago.
One of the Millerchips was in recent years on the books of Manchester United.

[dclark01]

Hi Mark

I've been looking at George Millership and have found that he married Eliza Griffiths on 2 September 1861 at Tipton, I took a photograph of the marriage certificate at the Sandwell records office.  If you got the marriage to Lucy Fisher in 1866 from IGI I have also seen that and I believe it is wrong.  Eliza died in 1874.
Lucy Fisher married Thomas Roberts in Q3 1867 at Dudley (registration district for Tipton) and he either died or divorced after birth of third child in 1875.
I cannot find a marriage for George and Lucy but they are together from the 1881 census. The names, ages and birth places of all the children from both marriages tally so I believe that I have the correct people.

Dave

[dclark01]

Hi Mark

I've been looking at George Millership and have found that he married Eliza Griffiths on 2 September 1861 at Tipton, I took a photograph of the marriage certificate at the Sandwell records office.  If you got the marriage to Lucy Fisher in 1866 from IGI I have also seen that and I believe it is wrong.  Eliza died in 1874.
Lucy Fisher married Thomas Roberts in Q3 1867 at Dudley (registration district for Tipton) and he either died or divorced after birth of third child in 1875.
I cannot find a marriage for George and Lucy but they are together from the 1881 census. The names, ages and birth places of all the children from both marriages tally so I believe that I have the correct people.

Dave

[POCKET DRAGON]

Hi Cire,
You mention in your discussion about a Richard Millerchip/Millership being the son of Job Millerchip/Millership and Elizabeth Haywood (Job later marrying Elizabeth Lee after the first one dies).
Job and Elizabeth Haywood are my 5x g-grandparents, via their son William and his wife Phoebe Stapleton, their son Job and wife Eliza Carrington, son William and wife Sarah Ann Simpson, daughter Mary and husband William Wood, daughter Doreen and husband Fred Smith (nightmare name!!) and my mum Margaret!
I have lots of Millership/Millerchip names on my family tree, but I'm not entirely certain that I haven't somehow got two different branches of the family entwined!

Regards x

[cire]

Hi
Thanks for the message.
My notes show the same line from Job and Elizabeth Hayward to William and Mary Ann Simpson. That is as far as I went.

I have a lot of notes on the Millerships in Nottinghamshire, mainly culled from the censuses and parish registers and from other contacts.

If you let me know where you think you might have two branches intertwined!! I will see if I can help. I think virtually all of the families in Nottinghamshire are descendants of Job and Elizabeth Hayward

Some of the Millerships from Nottinghamshire later moved to the Oldbury area, to join the offspring of Job and Elizabeth Lee, including Richard Millership, Job's brother who married Elizabeth Stapleton, Phoebe's sister. It seems likely that Richard and Elizabeth had children from 1818 to 1832 but didn't get married until 1855.

regards

Eric (cire backwards!!!!!)