Howe family in Staffordshire

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birth Frank Dawson 1866 - mother Fear   - can you find this in the GRO

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GRO Index

DAWSON, Frank - mother's maiden name : FEAR
GRO Reference: 1866 J Quarter in PENKRIDGE Volume: 06B 426


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Penkridge, Staffs, is just a few miles from Cannock (I lived there for 20 years)

Not sure what area PENKRIDGE District cover in 1866 - will look at FreeBDM

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Penkridge District covered:

and include

Cannock
Cheslyn Hay
Great Wyrley etc

On Free reg, Frank DAWSON, son of George and Mary - birth date is given as 22 April 1866

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Such a mystery
Frank Dawson lists his father as Baldwin Walter Howe on his 1894 marriage certificate but was born with Dawson - will try and get this birth certificate
Interestingly George Dawson baptism as Dawson has his birth certificate with BWH as father and birth recorded as Howe
A big thankyou to everyone with such great research skills and time and energy that assisted
Lots to digest and explain to others who have been looking for BWH
My dad is DNA linked to Frank Howe (Dawson) which started this search to find the father and only this week had contact from George's family who were also looking for BWH
Thanks again ........... Alison

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I think the mystery is getting very interesting.

British Newspapers on line.  Trying to call this up.  Can call up the first one.

Nottingham and Midlands Counties Daily Express Monday 25 November 1867.  It’s all about George Dawson a night watchman at Mr Gilpin’s edge tool manufactory at Churchbridge who was sent on Saturday to the bank with £370  and disappeared.  Mentions his wife and four children.  Also a Miss Pink who came from London and was on friendly terms and was supposed to elope together.

Also Saturday 23 November 1867.  Leeds times headed

Bradford

Announces the disappearance under disgraceful circumstances of a man named Dawson, messenger of the firm Messrs Gilpin and Co. of Wedges Mill, near Cannock.  Dawson who seems to have trusted but his employers, was despatched on Saturday.


Sorry, I am just about to go out, so haven’t got time to type it out.

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ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY

A young man named George DAWSON, a night watchman at Mr Gilpin's edge-tool manufactory, Church-Bridge was sent as usual on Saturday to the bank for £370 to pay the workmen's  wages, and was expected back by the 4.10 p.m. train from Walsall, but as he did not arrive by that train it was thought he had missed it, but would come by the next train.  That, however arrived, and also the last, but no tidings of either the missing watchman or the cash.

Next morning his wife received a note from him, requesting her to kiss his four children for him, as he would never see her of them again.

The same day (Sunday) a Miss PINK, who came from London, and who had opened a school at Landerwood, and with whom DAWSON was upon very intimate terms, left the place, and as she is said to have taken a ticket towards Hull, it is supposed she has gone to join DAWSON and that they have eloped together.

In addition  to £370 wages, it is stated DAWSON had in hand other sums of money which he had collected for his employer, so that it is quite probable he has little short of £1,000 with him.  A warrant for DAWSON's apprehension has been signed by the Justice at the Rushall petty sessions..


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I'll try again to open up the other Paper Leeds Times - 23 November 1867 - which talks about DAWSON, messenger of the firm of Messrs. Gilpin and Co. of Wedges Mill.

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I've found the next article in the Leeds paper (it's on the following page to the link) - will type out later.  Sorry, just meeting friends.

However, it does say, he leaves a wife and four children at Churchbridge and has eloped with a single women.

man named DAWSON, messenger of the firm of Messrs. Gilpin and Co.

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I assume, because Miss PINK, from London - booked a railway ticket towards Hull, which is in Yorkshire, England, this article appeared in the Leeds TIMES - Saturday 23 November 1867.   

Hull - East Riding of Yorkshire
Leeds - West Yorkshire


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A Birmingham paper announces the disappearance under disgraceful circumstances, of a man named DAWSON, messenger of the firm of Messrs. Gilpin & Co. of Wedge's Mill near Cannock.
DAWSON who seems to have been much trusted by his employers, was despatched on Saturday to bank certain bills and fetch the money required for the workmen's wages.  As neither messenger nor money was forthcoming at the proper time, inquiries were made, and it was found that the bills had been deposited in due course, and that DAWSON had received £170 at Wolverhampton and £200 at Walsall on his employers' account.
It was further ascertained that he was on the Walsall railway station platform at four o'clock in the afternoon, and there were good grounds for believing that all the money in his possession was in GOLD
Nothing has been heard of him since.
He leaves a wife and four children in Churchbridge.
There seems good reason for believing that the fugitive has eloped with a single woman, a schoolmistress, with whom he was on terms of great intimacy, and who took her departure from the neighbourhood on Sunday.
It is also stated that he had in his possession to his employers other large sums, in addition to those he had received in the bank.

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So we have Miss PINK from London, Schoolmistress - who caught a train up to Yorkshire!!! before, DAWSON - got hold of GOLD and followed her.

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The previous article mentions Miss PINK who opened a School and LANDERWOOD, this place is LANDYWOOD, which is near Great Wyrley, Walsall.

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As this events took place in 1867 - this is just a part of the article

From GENUKI Staffordshire - This is from the National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868


CANNOCK

'GREAT WYRLEY, a township and ecclesiastical district in the parish of CANNOCK, hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county Stafford, 7 miles N.W. of Walsall, 9 S.E. of Stafford and 1 mile S of CANNOCK.
It has a station on the South Staffordshire branch railway.  The village is situated on the border of Cannock Chase.
The ecclesiastical district is of larger extent than the township. 
The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £130.
The Church, dedicated to St Mark, was erected in 1845.
The Wesleyans have a chapel at Landywood.
There are National Schools, built in 1849 at a cost of £700.

British History on line mentions a Wesleyan school connected to the Chapel at Great Wyrley was built there in 1867 or 1868