kingswinford

[signalman]

hello all ., could any one in form me ,was kingswiford ever in warwickshire as my ancesters have put it in the 1881 census or the enumerator has MARRIA NEWMAN born around 1867 Kingswinford Warks  ,Signalman

[Keziahemm]

Hi Signalman,

Never known Kingswinford to be in Warwickshire     Could be the enumerator didn't know the area 

My lot come from Kingswinford Staffordshire!


Susan 

[Cal241]

Hi
Not that I know a lot about this area but I have been sufing the net and found a reference to Kingswinford in 1637 where it says Warwick!

Cal  

[Cal241]

Maybe it is on the border???

Do you have parents names ?

Cal

[Keziahemm]

Cal,  that's put the cat among the pigeons    

Wonder if it belonged to the Lords/Earls of Warwick in those days?  Kingswinford is south west of Dudley.

Susan  

[Cal241]

http://home.earthlink.net/~corbinb/d0/i0000409.htm

This is the site I saw it on.(ignore the part where it says some was 343 years old ...  )

If it is near Dudley that is well south of Staffs?? But stranger things have happened over the years with boundary changes

Ooops maybe I have stirred up a hornets nest

C

[Keziahemm]

Hi Cal,

This is one of those funny ones    I have ancestors from Kingswinford and some were christened/married at Kingswinford Staffordshire and some at  Dudley Worcestershire!  So if anything I would have said it would be Worcestershire rather than Warwickshire   


Susan 

[Rebecca Steele]

I have ancestors that lived in Kingswinford, Worcestershire.

[signalman]

HI CHUI,ok tell me more ,im paticularly interested in the Gardners although i cant find any reference to a Gardner marrying a Newman even though a Marria was born there in about 1867 . Signalman