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Family History Beginners Board / Edward Long - who is he?
« on: Wednesday 09 April 14 18:30 BST (UK) »
I have a bit of a problem with a relative and don't know if anyone can help me.
Edward Long (my great grandfather) was supposedly born 1855 in Dudley Worcestershire/Staffordshire (info via various census sheets) and he married Hagar Davis in Netherton (Dudley) in 1878. The witnesses to the 1878 marriage would seem to be from the Hagar Davis side of the family. The marriage certificate did not give the name of his father it just said ‘deceased’.
The problem I have is that I cannot find a birth registration for Edward Long or find him in the 1861 or 1871 censuses so I don’t know who his parents are.
I have managed to track Edward from the date of his marriage (on every available census from 1881 onwards) until he died in 1938 in County Durham. He seems to have been a miner for all of this time.
I did found a George Long in the same road as Edward on the 1881 census (Engine Row, Sherburn) but they do not seem to be brothers.
Does anyone have any idea how I can find out who Edward’s parents were and where he may have been between 1855 and 1878?
Thanks
David
Edward Long (my great grandfather) was supposedly born 1855 in Dudley Worcestershire/Staffordshire (info via various census sheets) and he married Hagar Davis in Netherton (Dudley) in 1878. The witnesses to the 1878 marriage would seem to be from the Hagar Davis side of the family. The marriage certificate did not give the name of his father it just said ‘deceased’.
The problem I have is that I cannot find a birth registration for Edward Long or find him in the 1861 or 1871 censuses so I don’t know who his parents are.
I have managed to track Edward from the date of his marriage (on every available census from 1881 onwards) until he died in 1938 in County Durham. He seems to have been a miner for all of this time.
I did found a George Long in the same road as Edward on the 1881 census (Engine Row, Sherburn) but they do not seem to be brothers.
Does anyone have any idea how I can find out who Edward’s parents were and where he may have been between 1855 and 1878?
Thanks
David