Is anyone else trying to find Miles Oliver (b. Whitkirk, Yorks 1833) and his new wife Charlotte (Brookes) b. South Littleton, Worcs in 1834 in the 1861 Census?
In 1851 Miles is in Gosford St Coventry,a few doors from his sister Emma (Cleaver)s family.
in 1871 he is in Birmingham as visitor in the house of a shoemaker, who has an interesting visitor from Paris, whereas Charlotte is in Stourbridge with the children. Miles has died by the 1901 Census, but Charlotte appears in 1911 as widow withe eldest daughter Mary Ann. I tried looking for the children, but as Miles = Charlotte in St Martin, Birmingham in 1859 and Mary Ann born 1863, that did not work. I also tried parents. Miles' father William = Eleanor Brown Hayes
(from Brinklow, Warwicks) at Whitkirk 1833. Miles appears in Brinklow baptism register with a note he was baptised in Goole (Hook nr Goole). Olivers originated in Yorkshire (said to be Swanland with Cromwell Oliver among them) but William father of Miles and Emma is stated 'navigator' in one record presumably = navvy or road or canal worker, Miles and Charlotte can be traced throughout the Census but 1861 draws a blank. Perhaps they were travelling and not listed? Miles occupation a Cabinet Chair maker in Birmingham with no suggestion he was a journeyman carpenter.
