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I have some postcard photographs of several Public Houses in the Redditch area. If anyone has an interest in any of these please let me know. These are the inscriptions on the back of the cards.

The Woodland Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Redditch, circa 1910. The pub is still there today.

The Rose & Crown, Heathfield Road, Webheath, Redditch, circa 1900. The pub was rebuilt in the 1980s

The Village Inn, Beoley, circa 1905. The pub is still there today and was once a popular watering hole for passing cyclists.

The Tea Cannister, Unicorn Hill (Redditch), circa 1890. Located on the site of what would become The Unicorn; this was one of the town's oldest pubs and took its name from a tea shop in the same building.

The White Lion, Evesham Road, Astwood Bank, circa 1910 when Daniel Dibble was the licensee.

The Brook Inn, Elcotts Brook, Callow Hill, circa 1905.

Angela

Thanks to CaroleW for her help in finding these birth registrations.

Hannah Stephan, Sep qtr 1842 Madeley  18  80

Edward Stephan Nickless, March qtr 1847 Madeley  18  92

George Stephan Nickless, September qtr 1844 Madeley  18  92

Peter Nickless, December qtr 1849 Madeley 18  85

I believe these birth registrations are all for siblings, children of Peter Stephan. The family lived in Broseley Shropshire (Madeley reg dist)

Is anyone out there able to look up these baptisms in Broseley Parish Registers please? I would like to find out if they all had the same mother. It looks as though these children were born before Peter married their mother in 1850.

Would be very grateful for some help with this.
Thank you
Angela

I have been trying to find out what happened to my g g grandmother after the 1861 census. In 1851 she was with her husband and 6 children. Her husband had a well paid occupation so times shouldn't have been too hard for them. Her husband died the following year, so I'm sure this would have been a very difficult time for the family.Mary had moved (same town) by 1861 and 3 of her sons were with her, aged 10, 12 and 19. Then Mary disappears!

I have tracked all 6 of her offspring. In 1871 most of them were still living in the same town - most had their own growing families. No sign anywhere of Mary. I used FreeBMD to look for death registrations with no luck. Perhaps she remarried, but couldn't find anything here either. I even went through all the death and marriage records for MARY no surname for the following 10 year period.

This was about 3 years ago and it still bothers me that I don't know what happened to her. She was a year or two past 40 in 1861 (39 in the census!) Recently I have been visiting the Family Records Centre which covers the area she lived in. I was sure I would find a burial record for her (or perhaps a 2nd marriage) In spite of returning many times and going through reel after reel of microfilm for any parish in the area I have been unable to find anything. Her parents burials are there and her husbands but I still can't find Mary!

I know mistakes/ommissions occur but it seems strange that there's nothing in registrations OR Parish registers. Has anyone else had a similar experience? If the family couldn't afford a burial does anyone know what would happen?

Angela

Peter Stephan (Surname sometimes written as Stephen/Stephon) originally from Staffordshire, is living in Broseley, Shropshire on all censuses 1841-1871. I presume that he spent all of his adult life there.

There is a marriage for him at St Leonard Broseley in 1818, spouse Sarah Shenton. This is followed by the births of 3 children to Peter and Sarah Stephan between 1819 and 1824.

In 1850, Sep qtr, there's a marriage registration for Peter Stephan to Susanna Bradley, Madeley district. As censuses say that Susanna was born in Madeley, the marriage could have been at Broseley or Madeley (Madeley is registration district for Broseley)

On the 1851 census Peter and Susanna are in Broseley with 4 children, all born Broseley
Hannah, daur, born c1842 - Probably registered Madeley Sep 1842
George, son, born c1845
Edward, son, born c1846
Peter, son, born c1849

I can't find suitable birth registrations for the 3 boys.

As Peter and Susanna have only been married a few months, I am wondering if there was another marriage for Peter, perhaps about 1841/2. If this 2nd wife died during the late 1840s she would not show as Mrs Stephan on any census records.

If anyone has access to records for Broseley/Madeley please could you check for a marriage for Peter during the 1840s and or baptism records for the 4 children mentioned above. Perhaps this will give a clue as to who their mother was.

Thank you
Angela