Hello Anne, ----- Original Message ----- From: "A P L" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] What records are available in Warwickshire > Am not sure whether you are new to Warwickshire or just looking for new > avenues of research in this beautiful county. In my case it is probably the latter - my dad grew up in Coventry, so I was fairly frequent visitor whilst his family there were still alive, and I have been a fairly frequent visitor more recently to do family history, however, I am not local (I live in Suffolk). Usually when I can get sufficient time off work I come up for a few days, maybe going to Warwick for a day and Birmingham library for a couple of days and a couple of other places depending on where I have most outstanding look-ups that I want to do. I am sufficinetly far away that I need to plan ahead to make best use of my time and I tend to use record offices rather than libraries because you get a good concentration of resources at the record offices. Part of the reason for asking the question however was because things were so quiet of late (seven messages in May and nothing in June before I posted) I thought in my role as list-admin I ought to try to generate some discussion on a topic that might be useful to all listmembers - and of course we have a wide selection here, some local, some like myself living elsewhere in the country and some overseas who might be able to get to Warwickshire once in a lifetime if they are lucky - and I hoped maybe any discussion of this topic could come up with some new ideas for list-members wherever they live. The specific brick wall I had in mind when I posted was Sarah Edwards who was born c.1803 in Great Alne. She married Thomas Hall in Birmingham St Martin in 1825 and one of the witnesses was an Alice Edwards. I wonder whether Alice might be the one baptised in Great Alne in 1798 daughter of George and Elizabeth Edwards. There is a gap in Edwards' baptisms in Great Alne between 1800 and 1805 and there is also a George and Elizabeth and a George and Mary as follows: George & Elizabeth 1 (probably Elizabeth Taylor m. Great Alne 5 Jan 1792) Children Mary (1792), Hannah (1794) Elizabeth (1796) Alice (1798) George & Mary Children Thomas (1800), Dinah (1805) George & Elizabeth 2 Child Ann (1808). I believe the George married to Mary and Elizabeth 2 was the same George - a shoemaker (c.1765-1845) and Elizabeth 2 lived c.1771-1858, and according to the 1851 census she was born in Buckley Green. I actually wonder given the absense of burials and marriages whether all three families are the same and Elizabeth 1 and Elizabeth 2 are the same person whilst the "Mary" in the 1800 and 1805 entries was an aberration and I wondered whether there were clues to be found in other resources which might tell me more about the movements of the Edwards' family. Regards Peter