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This message was updated on 8/18/2007 3:31:34 PM by Patrisia

Wilson/Kerry
replied on: 8/18/2007 3:21:04 PM

I thought I might pop in and help out a little -

Firstly, Sarah Wilson nee Kerry; did you get her name from the IGI or a marriage cert?
The IGI gives it as 21 Sept 1846 at St Alkmunds, Derby, and gives their ages as 40 and 38 and both fathers as William; the GRO index ref is Sept 1846 Derby 19/471

Sarah's husband is given as Henry Wilson on Charles Kerry's pedigree for that Kerry line; unfortunately, he gives no other details.
BTW, an error has crept in on the web page for Sarah; the source for her birth date is CK, not a memorial inscription - my apologies.
This age fits with that given on the IGI marriage.

Re the 1861 census - could that be Spink Wood?; and the 1871 census - I think that reads as Common (East), Biddulph

There are a couple of deaths for Sarah that might fit -
Dec 1863 Congleton 8a/179 (no age given)
March 1870 Congleton 8a/219 (age given as 58 ie born abt 1812, which might be a little late; though given her recorded age in 1861 anything is possible)

Henry & Sarah seem to have evaded the enumerator's net in 1851 and the only slight possibility I could find for Henry in 1841 is this, which might be a red herring, (there is another Henry & Jane in 1861/1871/ in Burton on Trent but he is not a game keeper)

Ho 107/188/18 folio 8, page 9
Keepers Cottage, Heanor Common, Heanor
Henry Wilson 30 Gamekeeper
Jane Wilson 30
William 13
George 10
Henry 8
Samuel 6
John 4

The occupation and children's name seem a good coincidence!
There are a couple of deaths in the Basford District that would fit with Jane dying and Henry re-marrying; March 1843 and March & Sept 1845.

Henry is still in Biddulph in 1881, a retired gamekeeper, and there is a possible death for him Sept 1881 Congleton 8a/159.

As to the whereabouts of Henry in 1851, I remember searching in vain, in the 1851 Shipley, for another researcher who I now cannot remember!

However, I have found the parents of Henry and Francis -
HO 107/191/2 Folio 8 page 10
Winshill
William Wilson 70 gamekeeper
Elizabeth Wilson 64
Francis 23
Elizabeth 20
Charles 18

If you would like any of these census images, contact me via my website, and I will send them on to you.

Finally, I don't know if you have the baptisms of the children of Henry & Sarah; if not, you can find the transcription, along with those of Francis & Mary Ann, though Mary seems to have been entered instead of Sarah, as the mother of Charles -
http://www.spendlove.co.uk/

Hope this has been of some help.
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