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Need help on my GG Grandad

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Michelle

Michelle Report 10 Oct 2007 18:34

Hi, i am new to this but i am stuck. I have managed to go back to my gg grandad (Samuel Bood) and now i am trying to find his father but i can't find a birth record for samuel so i don't know where to go from here. If anyone could help that would be great.
I feel like my head is going to explode i just keep going round in circles
Thanks Michelle.

Andrew

Andrew Report 10 Oct 2007 18:39

Do you know roughly when and where your gg grandfather was born?

Andy

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 10 Oct 2007 18:41

Do you have Samuel on any census which will help wth the search

Michelle

Michelle Report 10 Oct 2007 18:41

Yes he was born around 1852 probably wolverhampton area, i can find him on the 1881 census but nothing in between.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 10 Oct 2007 18:45

Marriages Dec 1877 (>99%)

BOOD Samuel Wolverhampton 6b 783
Green Mary Ann Wolverhampton 6b 783
Jones Mary Ann Wolverhampton 6b 783
Williams Henry Wolverhampton 6b 783

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 10 Oct 2007 18:50

Just wondering if the name was BOOT

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 10 Oct 2007 18:52

Could this be him with parents in 1861? The name has been transcribed as Booth, but on the image the name has first been written as Boode, but then crossed out at what looks like a later time when the enumerator was checking the details and the name Booth written in. Bushbury is in the city of Wolverhampton according to an online map I use.:-

Name: Samuel Booth
Age: 8
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Thomas
Mother's Name: Mary
Gender: Male
Where born: Bushbury, Staffordshire, England

Civil Parish: Bushbury
County/Island: Staffordshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View Image

Registration district: Penkridge
Sub-registration district: Brewood
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 55
Household Members: Name Age
Elizabeth Booth 3
Emily Booth 1
Joseph Booth 5
Mary Booth 38
Mary Booth 6
Matthew H Booth 1 Mo
Samuel Booth 8
Thomas Booth 38
William Booth 10

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 1981; Folio: 56; Page: 12; GSU roll: 542897.

I can send you a copy of the image if you don't have access to Ancestry - just send me a pm with your email address.

Kath. x

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 10 Oct 2007 18:54

1891 poss

Name: Samuel Bird
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary Ann
Gender: Male
Where born: Bushbury, Staffordshire, England

Civil Parish: Wolverhampton
Ecclesiastical parish: Christchurch
County/Island: Staffordshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Wolverhampton
Sub-registration district: Wolverhampton Eastern
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Alice Bird 5
Betsy Bird 3
Elizabeth G Bird 15
Mary Ann Bird 32
Mary Ann Bird 9
Priscilla Bird 7
Richard Bird 11/12
Samuel Bird 38
Walter H Bird 11
James Green 68 wifes father

Image is Bood

Michelle

Michelle Report 10 Oct 2007 18:57

Kathleen, it looks like your information may be right, there as been a theory that our name originated from booth, so if you don't mind sending me the information i have sent you my email address. Thanks for all the help from everyone, you have been great.