Hello Barbara Did you know that the Parish Records for Christ Church in Oldbury haven't been transcribed on to the IGI. If you haven't already looked through these records at Smethwick Archives, I'll put it onto my list for when I go there next week. Maggie ======================================== Message Received: Dec 30 2009, 02:26 PM From: "Barbara Whitehouse" To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: [Black Country] DARBY HOLDEN HUGHES STEVENTON WHITEHOUSE I've resubscribed after an enforced absence. I'm still on the search for DARBY HOLDEN HUGHES STEVENTON WHITEHOUSE all from the Black Country area and would love to hear from fellow researchers. At present I'm trying to find out more about the HOLDEN family. My husband's ggg grandfather was William HOLDEN a miner. He was alive at the marriage of his son William HOLDEN on 25 Sept 1837 to Hannah HUGHES. This William gg grandfather; according to census info was born around 1818 in Oldbury, he was a miner. William's death cert states he died from an accidental fall of coals at Lamb Colliery. There is no mention of the accident or him on The Coalmining History Resource Centre Website www.cmhrc.co.uk./site/disasters/. Does anyone know anything about Lamb Colliery? I've also been unable to find any baptism record for William in the Oldbury area around 1818. William and Hannah had 8 children (Maria, Mary Ann, Rosanna, Mercy, William, Selina, Levi and Jacob). Mercy is my husband's g grandmother born 29 June 1844 at Chapel St Oldbury. She married Samuel STEVENTON on 29 Oct 1865 in Parish Church rowley Regis. Is anyone connected with this family? ------------------------------------- The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://thesaltfamily.tribalpages.com/ www.familytrails.net Researching : SALT, BARKLAM/BARTLAM, LOWE, JONES, RILEY, DEAN, SAUNDERS, BURBRIDGE, BURNS, BROWN, FOSTER, HUMPHRIES, STACKHOUSE, SCANLON, SHIRLEY, WEAVER, BENNETT