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I keep it online and open to all. I see it as a way of almost 'bringing people back to life' by creating an online profile for people from 200+ years ago who have since been long forgotten and then letting the world have a look.  A bit like publishing a book really.

I don't see the point of keeping it private. It is a bit like doing historical research and finding something that no one else knows about and then keeping it quiet.  Covid can strike at anytime and valuable historical and family-related information on private trees often goes with it, back into the unknown.

If someone maps out my life and the life of my children in 200 years time, then I would like to think that they would tell the world about it, rather than keeping it hidden away in a folder on their laptop.

Hi all, I was just hoping that someone may have some information about the birth details of a John Proffitt, who was a locksmith in Willenhall from around 1800 until his death in 1859.

I know that he married Ann Smith at St Peter's, Wolverhampton in August 1805 and had eight children born in Little London, Willenhall between 1806-1825 and all were christened at St Giles, Willenhall. 

He is on the census returns for Willenhall (as a widower) in 1841 and 1851, with the 1851 census showing that he was born in Walsall around 1786, however I can find no record of any John Proffitt born in Walsall around that time (other than a John Proffitt, son of William Proffitt, born in Walsall in 1780 who I believe died in 1785).

Can anyone help at all? I can trace all of his family from 1806 onwards but am at a real dead end before then 

There is also a service record for Albert Victor Werren, with marriage and child, so some maybe kept the name, have not traced fully yet, will leave to you.

William Henry Werren was killed in action 1916 

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/820435/WERREN,%20WILLIAM%20HENRY

Cas

Thanks Cas. I think Edwin and Ida had eight children and the five of them that survived infancy (William and Albert included) all kept the Werren name in the Wolverhampton area.  Like I said earlier, tracking the children is relatively easy - it was the 'complicated' relationship between their parents that was causing all the trouble. Thanks again, Abby

So, deep breath....

It looks therefore like Edwin Hughes married Sarah Bond when they were both 16 years old in 1874 and then he did a runner, somewhere between 1890-1893, and somehow came into contact with Ida Reynolds, who he then set up with in Shropshire/Staffordshire.  Ida was single in 1891 and as you said Ruskie, there is no mention of Edward b.1890 with her (I'll look for where he was in 1891 in a bit). I'm assuming for now that William Henry b.1892/3 was the son of Edwin/Ida (as he was registered as Reynolds in Worcestershire in 1893) and that Albert Victor Hughes, born in Darlaston, Staffs in 1895 was also their son (if only because the deserted wife must have been out of the picture by then).

The key revelation seems to be that Edwin and Ida may never have actually married, which is good in a way because I thought it saves me having to track down a non-existent marriage record.. In 1898, Rosina is then born and finds herself christened Werren, in a household where her older brothers are possibly still called Hughes or Reynolds!.  At least the 4 children that they had after then were all given the same name.