Definitely Shawbury Charani! Here`s the kids off IGI if you haven`t allready got them. 1. JAMES PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 28 SEP 1862 Shawbury, Shropshire, England 2. GEORGE WILLIAMS PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 23 DEC 1860 Shawbury, Shropshire, England 3. WILLIAM PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 23 FEB 1868 Shawbury, Shropshire, England 4. JOHN PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 30 JAN 1870 Shawbury, Shropshire, England 5. MARY PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 27 MAR 1859 Shawbury, Shropshire, England 6. THOMAS PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 08 JAN 1865 Shawbury, Shropshire, England 7. ALICE PYE - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 06 APR 1873 Shawbury, Shropshire, England I checked that year of death and yes I think you should take that as a good one as it shows his age at death in 1912 as 83 which ties in well with his birth at 1829. Wem is the odd one though isn`t it? Keith Charani <familyhistory@charani.plus.com> wrote: 2twigs3 wrote: > In Mercer & Crocker 1877, page 161, John Pye, Blacksmith, is at Shawbury. > 1881 you of course quote. > 1901 index he gives birth place as Shrewsbury rather than Shawbury, age 72, > living Shrewsbury, civil parish St. Mary's, Blacksmith. > Could not find wife Harriet on the 1901 index. You may well have him 1901. > > So if labourer in 1881 was correct, he must have moved up the ladder again. Very many thanks for that. That's brilliant :)) It looks like Keith was right in saying that the 1881 was an error on the part of the enumerator and the entry should have read "Blacksmith. 1 labourer" and not "Blacksmith's labourer". It could be that Shawbury, which I'd never heard of before, has been misread as Shrewsbury. I thought it was supposed to be the latter initially, but it didn't look right, did a bit of checking and found it was the former. It also means that the 1912 death at age 83 is the one I want. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

KEITH ROBERTS wrote: > Definitely Shawbury Charani! > Here`s the kids off IGI if you haven`t allready got them. > > 1. JAMES PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Male Christening: 28 SEP 1862 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > 2. GEORGE WILLIAMS PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Male Christening: 23 DEC 1860 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > 3. WILLIAM PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Male Christening: 23 FEB 1868 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > 4. JOHN PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Male Christening: 30 JAN 1870 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > 5. MARY PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Female Christening: 27 MAR 1859 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > 6. THOMAS PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Male Christening: 08 JAN 1865 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > 7. ALICE PYE - International Genealogical Index > Gender: Female Christening: 06 APR 1873 Shawbury, Shropshire, England > > I checked that year of death and yes I think you should take that as > a good one as it shows his age at death in 1912 as 83 which ties in > well with his birth at 1829. Wem is the odd one though isn`t it? Brilliant!!! Many thanks :)) Most of the children I did have, but not Alice. I went through FreeBMD and pulled up all the children registered in Wem RD because there are some long gaps between those I knew about. Alice was one of those I picked out as most likely being one of John and Harriet's, but I wasn't sure. The two youngest are Annie (b Higher Ercall 1875 [Wellington RD]) and Emma (b Shrewsbury 1879 [Atcham RD]) Harriet's maiden name was WILLIAMS, hence George Williams. It looks as though she probably lost 3 children though. I'm pretty sure that John went home again because Wem RD covers Shawbury. I think I may have found John's baptism and his parents. If I'm right they were Thomas and Mary nee EVANS.