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I also have an ancestor that was an Inn Keeper of the Black Bull at Lane Head. He died there in 1804 & his name was James Read. He was married to Tabitha Crossley.

James's will dated 26th July 1804 says that James built new cottages at Lane End and was able to leave one to each of his sons when they achieved the age of 21. I have no idea where these are so would be grateful for help in this matter.

I had a look for the post code given in one of the posts from mosiefish but www.maps.live.com isn't accessible for some reason.

I love the photo of the Black Bull from kris_baxter73. Does anyone know what date it was taken? Perhaps the cottages that James built are those to the left of the pub.

Hi Psychonaut1

My husband was born in Harthill.

The first George born to of Stephen & Jane Storey must have died before the 2nd one was born. The 2nd George is too young to have been my George.
 
I have the following thoughts on the 1841 census record of George indicating that he was the son of William & Fanny Storey. Fanny would have been 45/46 when she had George. That isn't impossible but fairly unusual. Sarah recorded as younger than George in the census, had granddaughter recorded against her record & crossed out & there is a baptism record saying that Sarah was Harriet's (William & Fanny's daughter) child.

I've looked in the Harthill baptism records on GENUKI Harthill & can find baptisms of other children, including Julia b. 1824 & Fanny b. 1828, born to William & Fanny, but not George. Fanny Snr (b. Retford 1781-1784) still having children in 1828 makes the birth of George in 1829/1830 to William & Fanny more acceptable.

The 1851 census records William as being born in Ulley c 1772 & I wonder whether George could have been baptised in Aston for some reason. Those baptism records aren't on line, that I know of.

If anyone has any relevant information or comments, including information about William's & Fanny's parents, I'd be very grateful for them.

Thanks for your help, Brita

Thanks Billy Blue.

The family know very little about this chap. I've had a look on the Ancestry service records but can't find anything, but as you can see from my response to Suffolk Sue, I don't appear to be very good at searching. I'll check again.

I haven't heard of TROVE so I'll investigate that next.

I have searched the BMDs for a marriage but I haven't any information that defines this Smith, except his common forenames, from any other on line. I will need to go somewhere that I can find the whole records, perhaps Kew. I can't find access to NZ BMDs on-line.

I really appreciate your help. Thanks.

Thanks very much for the tips.
Unfortunately, I had already looked in these places. Perhaps you're right & the parents never married. The Smith I'm looking for had an older brother, who is now deceased, & a younger one. The oldest brother was born in Dublin & the youngest one in England.
The Smith I'm looking for had both mother & father on his birth certificate & the surname was spelt Smith but I think the surname was also spelled Smyth at times.
Both parents were killed in 1945.
I hope this is OK.