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 >