It's always worth asking people who've been round the area for generations and your neighbour sounds likely and the people in the antique shop too. They should be interested in local history if they're into antiques. Maybe George was a son of Charles. I suppose one has to think in terms of some of the older ones having lost their lives in the two world wars. My own father was shot and blinded in WW1.
I still have a subscription with Ancestry although I was going to cancel. My original email people suddenly stopped my email address and said it wasn't used or out of date or something stupid. Although it's good that a few people now can't get in touch with me, I need my old email address to get in touch with Ancestry to change it. How daft is that? I just don't get round to these things and it probably just means a phone call. It was all too difficult to get my original email reinstated and my 'little man' who fixes any computer problems just won't do it.
I seemed to get bored rather easily with any other bits of my family on my mother's side. My grandfather Parry married a lady from Shifnal, which you'd probably know quite well, but, although I contacted a distant relation there, she hasn't continued with any emails back to me. She even promised she'd send over some photos but didn't. I did manage to find out what had happened to my father's brother who'd moved to Lowestoft. When I found his son, he didn't want to know. Sounded rather a bitter man but I only had any contact through his ex-wife. His feeling was, what had happened to the 'family' when he needed them. Well, I could have said the same when my mother died and her brother (who was Dad's business partner) all within five weeks leaving my blind father on his own (I was 9). It wasn't my fault so why take it out on me and contact had been lost years beforehand. I suppose we just have to face these disappointments and not everyone is interested in this family tree thing. With each new "Who Do You Think You Are" I hope the Parry connection will suddenly take an interest particularly as some of them moved away.
With such common surnames, it's easy to make mistakes and I matched myself to a Parry family who'd originated in Shropshire, went to Birmingham, became Mormons (or Latter Day Saints) and moved to Utah at the beginning of the 20th century. It was quite a while before I found I'd boobed but the 'cousin' I've been in touch with for two years wasn't bothered and we still email all the time. I thought her family were from Worthington (on the census) although I can't find a place of that name. I just remember there was a Richard and a Clarence who were in Birmingham. I wondered if it was Worthen but don't really know the lie of the land. The people who filled in the census forms made errors and there are plenty of my family in Wales, the Meddins, who just don't crop up at all until married. Maybe they were wild mountain people who turned a shotgun on anyone who came within yards of the house.
Hope you enjoy your search. Thanks.
