-----Original Message----- From: staffordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:staffordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of staffordshire-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 15 August 2012 08:01 To: staffordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: STAFFORDSHIRE Digest, Vol 7, Issue 218 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:02:22 +1000 From: "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: [STAFFORDSHIRE] Brickwalls - Bassett/Meddings To: <staffordshire@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000c01cd79ea$c0f8ee60$0400a8c0@family> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Lilian, I don't mean to be rude, but you've failed to establish the basics. You should be able to at least find the marriages of both couples and then purchasing certificates should provide parents. Perhaps it's how you write it down. With over 25 years of experience I've learned to think this way. Daniel Bassett born c1819 Carmarthenshire, and Catherine .............. born c1817 Breconshire were married on ............ at ......................... Known children were Elizabeth b......... Mary b........... Leah b............... In 1841 census he was a ................ at.................. In 1851 census he was a ................ at.................. In 1861 census he was a ................ at.................. Etc, etc I'm looking for descendants / ancestors of .............. Similarly, John Meddings born 1840 Bridgnorth, Shrop and Emma ...............born 1839 in Wolverhampton were married on ............ at ......................... Known children were Jane b1874 John Henry b1877 I'm looking for deaths and .................... Looking at ages, both marriages should be on FreeBMD. I could find them, but I have a feeling you know them. Daniel & Catherine's origins may be a bit harder because of earlier dates but John & Emma should appear with parents in at least 1841 & 1851 census. You also need to make it clear if you are looking for births, deaths, ancestors or relatives. Hope this helps to get some better results. Peter ------------------------------ Hello Peter, I appreciate your reply - I possibly didn't make my details clear. I have the marriage certificate of Daniel and Catherine Bassett nee Williams and also their death certificates and where they are buried. I of course know their parents from these. I have the census records from 1841/1851/71/81 and know where they are living on those dates. 1861 for Daniel, Catherine and their children I can't find and I would like to know whether they were still in Wales at that time, I feel that they were but without proof I can't be sure. 1891 census is a mystery for me as regards to Daniel as he was alive until 1895. His youngest daughter Leah Bassett was my gt. Grandmother. I have her birth, marriage and death certificates, and again I have her burial record - however I have looked for her on the 1881 census when she was married to William Banner and have not been able to find her either in the Stoke on Trent, West Bromwich areas and even in Wales just in case they were visitors to relatives, so this is another case of really wanting to know where they were at that time. I know that most of the Bassetts were ironworkers at the Iron and Steel works locally and until they moved to Staffordshire were generations of Welsh people. William Banner was a miner. Regarding John and Emma Meddings(nee Armstrong) I have their birth, marriage and death certificates and where they are buried. I have had a bit of difficulty in locating them on the 1861 census as they didn't marry until 1862, but having looked at the 1861 differently I think that I have found them and neither of them were living with their parents at that time. It is the 1881 census again that I find frustrating as I have tried to think of different ways and ideas of looking but still no luck. Meddings as a name isn't that common and could be spelled in different ways. I have been very lucky in the sense that I am in touch with members of both families, but it appears that we are all looking at the same brick walls. Once again Peter, many thanks to you. Lilian