William RILEY born "Kershill" Coventry - and idea where that is?

[Lisajj]

http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/SearchResults.pl?RecordType=Baptisms&RecordID=3323923

This is on free reg. If you search for Riley, William on here you will get another option for Foleshill St Laurence.

I can look him up in the parish registers for Exhall St Giles too as many people from Keresley used this church - it is on the edge of Bedworth and Coventry - you can see it from junction 3 of the M6!

Lisa

[cov2811]

Possible a brother of William?
Foleshill Independant Chapel
Joseph Birth 11 July 1823
Baptism ?   1823
Parents Joseph & Mary


This link may give you an idea of areas
http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/maps/foleshill.jpg

[AMBLY]

Thanks cov2811
I'll have a look at that map....

Using the batch number, there's also a sibling among others named Rueben b 1836 - found them on the 1841 at Carpenters Lane in Foleshill.....no William - but then, if this is my William's family I think he would have been in the Army about Jul 1840...

Thanks Lisa,
I forget about Free-Reg, I know it's getting more and more records every day! This web site has a lot of on-line data including Exhall - I'll have a look at that too, my trouble is not knowing where places are and so not recognizing possibilities  so thanks for the suggestion
http://www.hunimex.net/warwick/bmd/bmd_indx.html

What is really  interesting is seeing "Foleshill" written on that 1841 Census sheet - I can see how similar writing being read by someone unfamiliar with the place, could see it as maybe "Kershill"...

[AMBLY]

And this is how my William's pob is stated (the middle one, the one above and below is for comparison of letters)

[AMBLY]

Cor !

Life in Foleshill in the 1840's (from a report done in 1841)

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WAR/deloyde/foleshill1840.html

"...mass of the people, with the exception of a few young men, are brutally ignorant, and the intelligence which is to be found in the exceptions has manifested itself only within the last half-dozen years. It is not the population which has gone down into ignorance: it has never emerged from it."

"One great cause of the decline was the war, which took the young men out great fools, and brought them home big rogues, to contaminate the rest"

Well!

Cheers
AMBLY

[Al in Vane]

Think you may find that is his version of modern day Hearsall which was a district just below Folehill and now is more or less the name of a common.

[Lisajj]

There is also a Hearsall Common in Coventry which is next to Canley and Tile Hill.
If you find any problems with the Exhall registers, let me know as I did the transcription for them :-)

[Kelper58]

I think you will find William Riley died in the Falkland Islands and is buried in the cemetery in Stanley.  His wife Bridget came from Cork.  Their daughter married a man named Anderson who came from Denmark, lived in the Falklands too.

[Kelper58]

I believe Mary was about 9 years old when they went to the Falklands