Thanks for this Chris............. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Cole" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [B'ham] Brick wall > > Maybe I misunderstood; I thought you said they were potters. Perhaps they > were labourers in the pottery industry? Have you looked at the possible > employers around where they were living? There may be something about > them > in archives. I would contact the firms and look in the local archives. > You > could also look for parish records to see if any settlement certificates > etc > have survived. I have found out quite a lot about my ancestors this way > but > I had to sift through a lot of papers; wages books, sickness records, > piece > work details, rent books, etc. If you are lucky and the parish records > have > survived you may find them mentioned in the poor law records which should > tell you the parish they were settled in before arriving in Stoke. > > Good luck, > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > > Thanks Graham, > The only trade description I have is labourer.......... > Sandra > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> Have you tried tracing them through their trade? >> Chris >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Hi Graham, >> I know that Thomas Bevington buried his probably first wife Sarah at >> Stoke >> on Trent in 1776. He married again at Stoke to another Sarah in 1779. >> He >> died at Penkhull in 1812. >> His son also Thomas died at Penkhull in 1814. >> I have no idea where these two Bevingtons came from. My guess is out of >> County so I am trying to widen the search through rootsweb to places I >> think >> >> may be a possible birth place. >> >> I have another family group starting with Richard Bevington. I do think >> there may be a connection between these two families. >> Richard was the father of Samuel Bevington one of the Stoke family of >> potters. >> >> Richard is on the 1841 census and gives his place of birth as out of >> County. >> >> Also I can find no baptism records in Staffs for any of the above three >> Bevington men. >> >> Samuel Bevingtons marriage entry has a Thomas Bevington as a witness. >> Could >> >> this have been Thomas Junior above? If so where they cousins/ uncle and >> nephew/ or maybe no link at all. >> >> I also have a marriage for Thomas Jnr above at Newcastle under Lyme. >> Strong >> >> Methodist family so did they walk to Newcastle rather than go to the >> local >> Anglican Church. Two years later Richard did exactly the same thing and >> married at Newcastle. Lots of similarities but no definate link. >> Any help will be most gratefully received!! >> Thanks to all reading this........ >> Sandra >> >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on >> www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will >> then be able to make contact. 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