For those of us with #FamilyHistory roots in the #BlackCountry this article has started off a cracking read (not yet finished it) with all the usual caveats about what area actually IS the Black Country.
This is a straight copy of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council burials index on the Dudley MBC website. Been on the internet for years.
The old website is a bit old fashioned, clunky and it works. The new has lost the "same grave" function but just needs grave details fed back in again.
The data seems to have been copied across "as is". Mr X and Mrs X were filed under "M" :))
Thought my brick wall was about to crack - #SuffolkFHS have released baptisms for Orford from 1650. Sadly the parish I need, #Aldeburgh only includes 1691 to 1753, and I want 1675. #Genealogy#familyhistory#Suffolk
I share your anguish ... In my family patch the county boundary between Staffordshire and Worcestershire across the #BlackCountry slithered about from time to time with mixed consequences :(
A #Genealogy question for those who have worked with 18th century #polish vital records. The other day, I found a single birth record entered in 1834 for 4 children, none of whom were born in that year. It was like the father had decided to “come clean” with the local #parish. I’ve never seen anything remotely like this. Have any of you encountered anything similar to this anomaly? Can provide more deets if needed. #geneadons#Ancestry#familyhistory
Not Polish, but English working class in the late 1860s. My great grandfather was obliged to move about the country making spades ... Being an edge tool maker.
The 4 Birley children shown here were born variously in the #BlackCountry (Worcestershire/Staffordshire), at Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire and at Coaley in Gloucestershire. Why he and his wife chose to do this at Coaley I do not know. Perhaps to attain respectability? Either way they were on the road again soon after.
#Genchat
The cemetery offices in Smethwick/Sandwell in the #BlackCountry have been rationalised to one for the local authority. The archives gave me their contact should I need a map of the cemetery ... bit surprised the archive didn't have a copy but heigh ho.
I was born in Smethwick and worked at Round Oak Steelworks in Brierley Hill before coming to live in London and Sydenham. Hence this article linking all the Black Country manufacturing of the Crystal Palace and it's final resting place less than a mile from my home fascinates me.
I hope you will find it interesting too and a reminder of the times when we could really make stuff.
I used to travel round the UK for work. Hearing local accents in their subtlety going from place to nearby place always fascinated me.
And, of course, now and then, away from home, I'd hear a "normal" accent. That cross between #BlackCountry and west Birmingham that's my #Brummie accent.
Checking this morning's batch of new #AncestryDNA matches ... Someone joined #Ancestry last month and added an outline tree ... am smiling at the journey they just started from New Hampshire that will take them to a beer house in Sheffield then to their family of spade makers in the #BlackCountry and maybe even to the their tailoring ancestors in St Luke in London.
Two things I will tell you about life in the #UK. Always be suspicious of famous people having heart attacks, and always be suspicious of #Historic buildings catching fire.
Let's just leave it at that.
"Firefighters across the #BlackCountry battled a severe fire that broke out at the iconic #CrookedHouse pub at #Himley last night (August 5)...
"...A spokesperson confirmed that an investigation into the fire is still in progress."
"A fire which ripped through a landmark #Pub days before it was unexpectedly demolished is being treated as arson...
"...The Crooked House, near #Dudley in the #BlackCountry, caught fire on Saturday night and was then bulldozed on Monday, prompting anger from local residents..."