Am forwarding this due to technical error! Nettie is on the list! Julie ----- Original Message ----- From: nettie edwards <[email protected]> To: CANAL <c> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 5:29 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Hello to the list !!! > Hello Julie ! > > It's great that you've started this list ! > Here are some of my interests to get the ball rolling! > > THOMAS EDWARDS and family of TIPTON , STAFFS. > married Mary Hixon in Oldbury 1845 > gave his father's name as Benjamin ( can't find Thomas's baptism , though > he claimed Tipton birth ) > > Their son Benjamin bpt. 1853 - (from whom I'm decended ) was also a boatman > for a while but his second wife - my 2 x great grannie - Mary Jane Johnson ( > nee Smith ) had other aspirations and he ended his days running a second > hand furnature shop an the Oldbury Road , Smethwick ! Benjamin's first wife > may have been Mary Tudor . > > other children of Thomas and Mary - Hannah ,Joshua ( Josia ) Thomas ,Sarah > Ann > > Cannot find them in the 1851 or 41 cesuses - total brick wall !!! > > WILLIAM HIXON(HICKSON) and family of TIPTON. > laboourer and boatman - ran a beerhouse on the canal at Tipton > died between 1849 -51 ( unfortunately ! ) > Married twice - 2nd wife was , I think , MARY ALLENDER > some children - John , Hannah, Elizabeth ,Thomas , Mary , Eliza > > Tracing my canal - living ancestors is so fustrating that I " do " my gypsy > forebears as light relief !!!! > > Best wishes to everyone who has joined the list so far , > > Nettie in Cheltenham ( but from Smethwick ! ) >