Sorry for the length of this but I didn't want to leave out what I knew.
He was born 8 October 1845 and baptised at Ettingshall, Staffordshire 2 Nov 1845
Of Finney Well (Bilston)
1851 , Finney Well, Bilston
William LONDON head Mar 45 Stone Sawyer b Birmingham, Warwickshire
Bella 35 b Darlaston, Staffs
William son 16 b Darlaston
George son 10 b Bilston, Staffs
Elizabeth dau 8 b Bilston
Benjamin son 5, b Bilston
John son 3, b Bilston
1861, Finney Well, Bilston
Samuel BARRETT 45 Collier b Wolverhampton, Staffs
Isabella ‘do’ wife 48 b Darlaston
George L. ‘do’ son 20 Coal Labourer b Bilston
Benjamin L ‘do’ 16 Iron Forgeman b Bilston
John L ‘do’ ‘do’ 13 Labourer b Bilston
Isabella L ‘do’ 8 Labourer b Bilston
Samuel BARRATT son 7 b Bilston
Sarah ‘do’ dau 4 b Bilston
In 1863, Benjamin LONDON an under puddler was bruised in a boiler explosion
11 Sep 1865 he married at St Stephens, Willenhall
Benjamin LONDON 20 Bachelor, Puddler, Willenhall father = William a miner (think he has said this because Samuel Barre/att was a miner)
Ellen ROBERTS 18 Willenhall, father= Edward a miner
Witnesses William PERKIN & Ellen EVANS
William is a regular church witness
Ellen EVANS, Ellen ROBERTS and Benjamin LONDON all signed with their MARK
Then there is this Benjamin. I don’t think he can be the same one.
Occupation is out, and there is conflicting information regarding his age at death neither of which is correct for a 1845 birth. in 1866 our one would have been about 21.
Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser 11 July 1866
Upper Gornall
Shocking and fatal Accident. - on Monday evening at the Horse Shoe Inn, Mr W. H. Phillips, deputy coroner, held an inquest on the body of Benjamin London, a brewer, age 36. From evidence it appeard that he died from injuries received through falling into some wort, where he was brewing at Dudley Wood.
LONDON, BENJAMIN 26
GRO Reference 1866, S Quarter in DUDLEY Volume 06C page 38
there is this birth. I cannot find a baptism. If he is Benjamin's son that is another reason the July 1866 death cannot be him.
David LUNDON, 1867 D qtr in Wolverhampton, Vol 06B page 529 MMN ROBERTS
He seems to be with his grandparents in 1871 at Wolverhampton Street, Bilston
Edward ROBERTS head mar 53 Miner, coal. N Wales Chirk(?)
Ann ‘do’ wife marr 46 N. Wales Oswestry ( Scrawled in the margin is Denbigh)
David ROBERTS son 19 unm Moulder Journeyman. b Bilston, Staffs as are the rest
William ‘do’ 16 miner Coal
Richard ‘do’ 14 miner Coal
Edward J ‘do’ 5
John ‘do’ 2
Sarah A ‘do’ it could say Mar or unmar. But I think the former. 23 Visitors
Ellen LONDON Dau 11
David ‘do’ Grandson 3
the age of Ellen is quite clear on the census but I am confident her details have been swapped for Sarah A’s.
It definitely does not say Wid next to either of their names
1881
Ellen has a new ‘husband’
at 1 Hornby Street, Pendleton, Salford are
Thomas ROBERTS head, 38 Coal miner b North wales ……..
Ellen ‘do’ 38 Bilston Staffs
Willem E ‘do’ son 7 b Bilston
Robert ‘do’ 5 b Lancashire …….
John J ‘do’ son 2 b Lancashire …….
David LONDON Wife’s son 13 Miners ……. b Bilston
Edward ROBERTS Wife’s father 62 Coal Miner b Chirk
Edward ROBERTS Wife’s father’s son 15 Coal miner b Bilston
John Thomas ROBERTS Wife’s fathers’ son 12 b Bilston
Ellen and the family can be followed through to her probable death in 1917
From the 1881 census she must have been with Thomas ROBERTS from 1873 ish, and in 1911 they say they have been married 28 years.
But I can see no marriage.
So - can anyone see where Benjamin went?