Hi Linda Madeley Wood is part of Madeley, and Broseley Wood is part of Broseley. As the names suggest, they are the wooded areas on the north and south banks of the Severn Gorge respectively. At http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Madeley/Madeley.shtml you will find a photo of the workhouse built at Brockholes in 1796-7. It was replaced by a larger building in 1868 and converted into houses. It is now known as 12 - 14 Belmont Road, Ironbridge. If you put that address into Google Maps you will find exactly where Brockholes is, although the name no longer appears on maps. John Message: 1 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:37:22 +0000 From: "saira Horner" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] (no subject) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Have you seen this link? http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crippen/a2a.htm Particularly this section... * Collection from the Broseley Office of Messrs. Cooper and Co., Solicitors [1681/102 - 1681/154] [1544-1995] - MADELEY DEEDS* *Hodgkiss and Hotchkiss family* *FILE - Copy will of William Cox of Madeley - ref. 1681/152/27 - date: 26 Dec 1770 [from Scope and Content] Wife - Hannah - the house in which he lives in Madeley Wood with the garden, the house in Madeley Wood adjoining the house of William Crippin (Beriah Baugh); 2 houses at the Brockholes, Madeley Wood (Gabriel Dixon, Edward Plimmer). [from Scope and Content] Samuel to pay the testator's daughter Elizabeth Crippin ?5. FILE - William Crippin not to require any acknowledgment of Christopher Cox for the gable end between them. - ref. 1681/152/28 - date: 27 Jul 1772* There are lots of references to Madeley Wood on Google - and it seems that Brockholes is/was very close by (although not in Yorkshire) Saira :o) 2008/11/19 Linda Marsh <[email protected]> > Hello to All, > > I am new to the list after being directed following a query I have > regarding Brockholes. > > My Cox ancestors lived in Madeley / Broseley area. At least two of the > children were born in Brockholes. They are then found in King Street, > Madeley. Another child was born in Madeley Wood and another born in > Broseley Wood. > > William Cox was a Cooper and his wife Emma (nee Smith) lived in the area > until 1871 when William died in Bicton Heath Assylm and Emma took her family > and moved to Brierley Hill. Emma's father was David Smith a Farm Bailiff > and the Smith family apart from Thomas (who had already moved to Brierley > Hill) stayed in the area. > > I would like to know where Brockholes and Madeley Wood were / are, and from > anyone else researching these families. > > Kind regards, > > Linda > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------ To contact the ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ 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 email with no additional text. End of ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 332 *************************************************** -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 11111 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Thank you for this link John, I have found it very informative. Kind regards, Linda