1861 census look up please.

[Beard grandchild]

Can someone find me William and Ruth Stringer in Staffordshire, household 61 please? William was born in Worcestershire about 1822.

Who else was in the house ?

Cheers,
Pat.

[groom]

Hi

RG 09/2038/9/13
Torry Street, Rowley Regis, Staffs

William Stringer  head  39   coal miner            Hartlebury Worcs
Ruth Stringer     wife    28    nail maker            Rowley Regis
Henry Stringer   son    10   lab at bricklayer             "
Ruth Stringer     dau      2                                         "                               
Mary Stringer   boarder  24  house maid                    "


Jan

[kerry1212]

henry stringer 10
ruth stringer 2
mary stringer 34 boarder

kerry

[Beard grandchild]

Thanks to both of you.

I'm trying to find a link between the Stringer family and the Beards or Reeves.

 My grandfather was born to Annie Reeves and Thomas Beard in 1897, but his mother died soon after, and granddad was living with the Stringer family as their son in 1901, and was being called Stringer.  He ended up in Derbyshire in 1911, but somehow never lost touch with his 3 siblings, although he never met his father.

His youngest sister went to the Reeves family, elder sister was old enough to fend for herself, and I still haven't traced brother Ernest.

Now to see if I can find any link from any of the Stringers on this census!

Cheers,
Pat.

[jacquelineve]

Hello Pat
                Did Thomas Beard marry for 2nd time to Margaret Reeves? (possible widow of Charles Reeves)
Jackie

[Beard grandchild]

Hi Jackie,
He did. She was his dead wife's brother's widow!

On the 1901 census, her 3 children - 2 born when she was married to Charles, the 3rd a couple of years after he'd died, were all called Beard.

Florence and Ernest were still with Thomas at that time, but Minnie was with Joseph Reeves (Charles and Annie's brother), and James William was with  Job Stringer, son of the people I was asking about on the 1861 census.

We don't know if JW was actually adopted, or if it was just an unofficial arrangement, but Grandad was known as Jimmy Stringer until he married my grandma in 1918. He had to have a birth certificate to get married, and, as far as I know, that was when he realised that the Stringers weren't his real parents.

Ernest ended up in Deepcar , Sheffield,  but I have found no trace of him from the 1901 census until his death. I have an aunt who remembers him from her childhood.

I have recently made contact with Florence's Gt Gt grandaughter, but she had no record of my grandad being one of Florence's siblings.

I have found Minnie, still with the Reeves on the 1911 census, and Charles Reeves jnr was there as well, having reverted back to the name Reeves from Beard. What happened to Minnie after that, again, I don't know, but I do know that grandad was in touch with all 3 of his siblings as adults. This is why I feel sure there must be a link with the Stringer family somewhere.

Cheers,
Pat.

[jacquelineve]

Hello Pat

              Bit of a bugger this one!!
Any clues in the 1911 census? where does James Wlm say he was born? Is Job Stringer in Yorksh.in 1911.

Jackie

[Beard grandchild]

Hi again Jackie,
I've got James William on the 1911, living with Ernest Hill and his wife Harriet (Stringer) as their adopted son. His birth is listed as  Pershore, and he is entered as James Stringer, then William Beard added afterwards

.Harriet was classed as his sister on the 1901!
They are living in Denaby Main, nr Doncaster, Yorks.

On the 1901, when living as Job Stringer's son, they were in Rowley Regis.

This is all a very recent find for me. I had no idea where my grandad had been from his birth in 1897 until his marriage to my grandma in Clowne, Derbys in 1918.

It's his siblings I'm trying to trace now. Florence I have traced via her Gt Gt granddaughter, who had put  family geneology website online, but she had no knowledge of either my grandad or his sister Minnie. She's got the Reeves children as Beards as per the 1901 census.