Greenways6@aol.com wrote: > Hi Gord, > > Is your MASON family from Kidderminster related to Josiah MASON born > there in 1795 and died in Birmingham in 1881? > > Rita > > http://www.webspawner.com/users/ritabailey/index.html Hi Rita, I don't know this at present but let's look at how Lloyd, Mason and Pace come together on Green Lane, Walsall in the 1901 census. 1901 census 9 Green Lane, Walsall EMILY DUDLEY Head 51 (my great grandmother) had married Reuben Dudley after 1st husband Edward Pace died http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/dudley.htm THOMAS PACE boarder 26 (brother of my grandfather, married ROSE LLOYD) WILLIAM PACE boarder 24 MARY ANN DUDLEY dau 18 REGINALD C EMERY grandson 7 ...Later emigrated to TOLEDO, Ohio USA ...son of GEORGE EMERY hd, 27, ag lab, b Cannock. m Mar 1891 - 175 East St, Bridgtown + FRANCES EMILY PACE - (b 22 Aug 1869 SHARESHILL) d/o Emily Pace/Dudley nee Culwick above nearby, a Lloyd family 13 Green Lane WILLIAM LLOYD 25 Collery Fireman EMILY LLOYD 23 wife dressmaker (Emily could be Eliza ?) THOMAS MAUSFIELD boarder 49 widower mine collery manager EDITH MASON general servant 14 there was an EDITH MASON b. 1874, Blakenall, Stafford of the Kidderminster/Lichfield MASON family but she would be 27 in 1901 instead of 14. She was of the Kidderminster/Lichfield MASON family, of my group. WILLIAM LLOYD Spouse: ELIZA STARKEY Marriage: 01 AUG 1870 Pelsall - M039442 It would seem likely, Rose Emma Lloyd may be connected to this nearby Lloyd family but I couldn't find this info. Keith Lloyd writes: The DUDLEY name stems from the maiden name of ANN SILVERS, who was the wife of John Silvers of Dudley, and mother of ELIZA SILVERS who married WILLIAM LLOYD of Pelsall, my great grandfather. I copped Dudley too as a middle name. Reuben Dudley's 1st wife was an Elizabeth Raybould; http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/dudley.htm (info from June & Trevor Ridgway's Bible) I don't find Reuben/Elizabeth marriage but find: JEREMIAH SILVERS Spouse: EMMA RAYBOULD Marriage: 26 NOV 1849 Saint Thomas, Dudley JOHN DUDLEY Spouse: HONOR RAYBOULD Marriage: 25 DEC 1852 Saint Thomas, Dudley Interesting facts indicate the families crossed paths, got connected, etc. Maybe some census info is off some. Cheers, Gord Pace

On 18/12/2010 06:51, gtp3066@nexicom.net wrote: > Greenways6@aol.com wrote: >> Hi Gord, >> >> Is your MASON family from Kidderminster related to Josiah MASON born >> there in 1795 and died in Birmingham in 1881? >> >> Rita >> >> http://www.webspawner.com/users/ritabailey/index.html > Hi Rita, > I don't know this at present but let's look at how Lloyd, Mason and Pace > come together on Green Lane, Walsall in the 1901 census. > May I join in here? I am definitely related to Sir Josiah Mason Rita. He was my 3x great grand uncle via his sister Elizabeth who married Abraham Smith in 1818. Nuala

A long way from Walsall, but if anyone has Masons from Ellesmere I pretty much have all of them copied from original parish registers. Lookups no problem. Cheers Graham Melbourne Oz My December edition of Genetree (private family history journal, not commercial) is now finished and available on PDF if anyone wants a copy - apart from those who regularly receive it! Contact off-list. This edition normally 20 pages, but only 16 this time. I must be slowing down :-|. About 2500k, but downloads in seconds on broadband. Might give you some ideas of how you too can publish family history on a regular basis! Anyone interested in the 1914-1918 war in Palestine/France might find some value in reading "Nearer am I to Home" a factual based fictionalized story about my dad and his war service from Gallipoli through Sinai and finally Palestine and certain folk in London and France. Some romances there too 8-). Whoopee!