Does anyone have access to the index to the 1851 census for Worcestershire, which I believe is available on CD, as I am trying without much success to find out a bit about my gg grandfather, Charles Simmons. All I can say is that by the time of the 1851 census he was married to Sarah who would have been aged about 17 or 18 and was, I believe, born in Cradley. It is likely that they would have been living in the Malvern area. For what it is worth, by the time of the 1861 census, Charles had died but Sarah was living on Upper Howsell Road, Malvern. I would just say that as Charles could not read or write the name Simmons might have been spelt in whatever way the census clerk thought appropriate. Regards Paul Taylor

Paul Sorry I was thinking of Oldbury not Cradley - Cradley is part of the WOR Census, comes under Stourbridge District! Helen New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: Paul Taylor [mailto:northshields1947-worcestershire@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2005 6:05 a.m. To: ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WOR] 1851 Census - Simmons Does anyone have access to the index to the 1851 census for Worcestershire, which I believe is available on CD, as I am trying without much success to find out a bit about my gg grandfather, Charles Simmons. All I can say is that by the time of the 1851 census he was married to Sarah who would have been aged about 17 or 18 and was, I believe, born in Cradley. It is likely that they would have been living in the Malvern area. For what it is worth, by the time of the 1861 census, Charles had died but Sarah was living on Upper Howsell Road, Malvern. I would just say that as Charles could not read or write the name Simmons might have been spelt in whatever way the census clerk thought appropriate. Regards Paul Taylor ==== ENG-WORCESTER Mailing List ==== FreeREG Project: parish register database http://freereg.rootsweb.com UK Census on-line http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ http://www.worcestershiresurnames.co.uk/