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Hello Dud,

I have a g g grandfather who was born in Bilston. Henry Williams was born and baptised in December 1837. His parents were William Williams and Sarah Jones, Oxford Road, Bilston. They were married in Wolverhampton in May 1832 and lived in Bilston at least until about 1841. After that they moved to West Bromwich. They had nine children, six in Bilston and three in West Bromwich.

William was a Forgeman and was born about 1807. He gave his birthplace as Shropshire. Sarah was born about 1813 in Bilston. I have not been able to extend either of them any further back.

Leighton

Hello morningglory

The family can be found on the 1841 census:

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I have recently had a disappointing experience on RootsChat. I am unable to explain why it happened.

Two weeks ago I saw a posting from a member requesting information about one of his ancestors. The name in question looked familiar, and when I checked my own records sure enough there he was. I sent a reply giving details of where the person fitted into my tree and quickly received a reply confirming that we did have a match, and we were in fact distant cousins. We exchanged personal messages and agreed to swap family trees. I copied out the relevant branch from my FTM file and sent it to his personal e-mail address, which he had sent me. Since then I have had no reply, neither from his own e-mail address, nor from a personal message through RootsChat. I know that he is not away on holiday, because he is still posting messages on the board. He is deliberately ignoring my messages.

In the past, I have made contact with several other cousins from different branches of my family. We have exchanged information and even BMD and census records. I have never had this problem before, in fact I have never even heard of this happening before. It never crossed my mind that it could happen. I am completely baffled by it, I cannot explain his motive. Surely, it cannot be some ancient family dispute, our nearest common ancestor was born over two hundred years ago. Can anyone offer me an explanation? What has he gained by it? Is he now one up on me? Or was it just plain old-fashioned selfishness?

Looking at his profile, this particular member has made many requests for information (I probably should not mention his name). Those who have helped him in the past, what do they think of his attitude.

Perplexed
leighton

Hello genewizard,

The address is

MERKLAND ROAD EAST

It's off King Street.

linslade

Can anyone help?

I have recently discovered that one of my g g grandfathers was born in Bilston, Staffordshire about 1839/1840. However, looking in the Free BMD website, there were no registrations in Bilston before 1935.
My question is: where would he have been registered?

Leighton