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[Girl Guide]

That looks really promising Heywood.   Not coming up with a marriage between Richard Sheldon and Matilda between 1875 and 1911.

[heywood]

No I couldn’t see one but her first child is Samuel and then Hannah Jane as josey mentioned. 

[heywood]

Younger children have mmn Foster too.

[Girl Guide]

The 1901 suggests that Matilda has remarried again

Deaths Mar 1893 
Sheldon    Richard    40    W. Bromwich    6b   521

1901 Piece No. 2722, Folio 80, Page 21 - Living at Ebeneezer Street

Marriages Dec 1895   
Knott    Charles        W. Bromwich    6b   1457    
Sheldon    Matilda        W. Bromwich    6b   1457
       

[Girl Guide]

SHELDON, MAUD       FOSTER 
GRO Reference: 1890  S Quarter in WEST BROMWICH  Volume 06B  Page 799

SHELDON, ROSANNA       FOSTER 
GRO Reference: 1888  D Quarter in WEST BROMWICH  Volume 06B  Page 757

SHELDON, JOHN  RICHARD     FOSTER     
GRO Reference: 1892  J Quarter in WEST BROMWICH  Volume 06B  Page 840


 

[Girl Guide]

KNOTT, CHARLES       FOSTER     
GRO Reference: 1898  J Quarter in WEST BROMWICH  Volume 06B  Page 916   

KNOTT, WILLIAM       FOSTER     
GRO Reference: 1896  S Quarter in WEST BROMWICH  Volume 06B  Page 861   

Looks like Charles and William died before the 1901 census.
 

[heywood]

I saw some of those too but I can’t match Samuel to a birth with mmn. 

[candrjm]

This looks like Samuel's birth reg:

COATS, SAMUEL        Mothers maiden name FOSTER      
GRO Reference: 1877  S Quarter in STOURBRIDGE  Volume 06C  Page 222


In the 1881 census Maria is recorded as Maria Coates Sheldon

In the 1891 census Samuel is recorded as being born in Worcestershire and the other children were recorded as being born in Staffordshire

[heywood]

Thanks for Samuel’s birth   
Richard and Marie are a different family though.

Matilda was originally recorded as Coates and ‘mother’ in 1881. Sheldon has been added, I think.