Notes
Note N00030
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1881 Census
Dwelling: Green
Census Place: Torphichen, Linlithgow, Scotland
Source: FHL Film 0203709 GRO Ref Volume 671 EnumDist 1 Page 6
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Jane ARTHUR W 49 F Armadale, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Head
Edward ARTHUR 12 M Torphichen, Linlithgow, Scotland
Notes
Note N00031
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In 1847 - 1851 the family resided in Pott Shrigley,Prestbury,Cheshire.By 1871
the family had moved to Newchapel, Staffordshire.
1881 Census
Dwelling: Newchapel
Census Place: (Wolstanton) Thursfield, Stafford, England
Source: FHL Film 1341649 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2708 Folio 107 Page 9
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
William SHRIGLEY M 57 M New Mills, Cheshire, England
Rel: Head Handicap: Blind
Occ: Ironstone Miner When Working
Mary A. SHRIGLEY M 55 F Bollington, Cheshire, England
Rel: Wife
John LAVIN U 21 M Ireland
Rel: Lodger
Occ: Ironstone Loader (Miner)
Notes
Note N00032
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The 1851 census records her place of birth as Bollington, whereas the 1871
census records same as Rainow, being small villages 2 miles apart.
Notes
Note N00033
Index
1881 Census
Dwelling: 11 Cochrane St
Census Place: Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Source: FHL Film 0203706 GRO Ref Volume 662-1 EnumDist 4 Page 2
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Robert THORNTON M 45 M Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Head
Occ: Coal Miner
Lisabeth THORNTON M 37 F Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Wife
James THORNTON 12 M Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Robert THORNTON 5 M Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Jane THORNTON 9 F Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Daur
Occ: Scholar
Mary THORNTON 7 F Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Rel: Daur
Occ: Scholar
Lizzy THORNTON 3 F Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland
Notes
Note N00034
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Surname variously spelt Benny, Bennie and Binnie in the IGI.
Notes
Note N00036
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Lived at Myring Place, Sutton Coldfield.
Myring Place (grid reference SP137965)
Myring Place is shown on 1889 Ordnance Survey map and was the name of a hamlet on the south side of Rectory Road in Sutton Coldfield. It is now recalled in Myring Drive. The modern road lies just west of the row of cottages which stood opposite Blakemore Drive.
The hamlet may well take its name from the surname of the landlord who had the cottages built. It appears to be a West Midlands name and is found in the 18th century at Shenstone, a village about 8 miles to the north, and at Coleshill in 1841. The 1861 Census shows this to be a working-class hamlet of five households. Three households were headed by agricultural labourers, the others by a bricklayer and a cordwainer (William Horton).
Described on his certificate of death as a “Cordwainer Journeyman”. Cause of death was Phthisis, the old name for Tuberculosis of the lungs (from the Greek, phthinein, to waste away), a disease characterised by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body.
The informant was Jane Perks (illiterate), possibly his sister-in-law, who was present at the death at Whitehouse Common, Sutton Coldfield.
Whitehouse Common (grid reference SP135975)
Whitehouse: first record 1725
This self-explanatory name was in use by 1725. It may have referred to Whitehouse Farm which stood on Whitehouse Common Road between Ashfurlong Crescent and the Tamworth Road.
A common was land over which manorial tenants had certain rights, usually that of pasture for livestock. The junction of Tamworth Road and Whitehouse Common Road is described as Whitehouse on the Ordnance Survey map 1st Edition 1834. The area around Whitehouse Common Road covered by the modern district of Whitehouse Common was then known as Whitehouse Enclosure having been enclosed with the rest of Sutton's common land in the 1820s.
A small quantity of prehistoric worked flint was found in 1999 in fields near Wheatmoor Farm. It may be of late neolithic c2500 BC or mesolithic type c8000-c4000 BC. And off Withy Hill Road a 1st-century Romano-British brooch clasp from Chester was also found on the fields of Wheatmoor Farm.
Medieval ridge and furrow is visible north of Barn Farm on the south side of Withy Hill Road east of the junction with Lindridge Road; also off Lindridge Road south of Barn Farm and north-west of the junction of Lindridge Road with Springfield Road. These are important evidence of open fields probably dating from the Middle Ages. Ridge and furrow is a surface feature which is easily ploughed out and survives only on land that has been used for pasture since the demise of the open-field system. Once destroyed it cannot be distinguished archaeologically.
At the junction of Tamworth Road and Weeford Road a small early 16th-century building survives incorporated into a late 18th-century house. Vesey Grange is one of only seven houses left of the 51 built by Bishop Vesey in the 16th century. It is now a large six-bedroom house standing in some 2˝ hectares of grounds. It is Grade II* Listed and includes the original spiral and oak staircases. Vesey Grange is protected by a Grade II* Listing.
At the junction of Tamworth Road with Whitehouse Common Road is Wheatmoor Farmhouse built in 18th-century revived gothic with a castellated parapet. Although originally a working farmhouse, it was most likely designed to be part of a picturesque view for the residents of Ashfurlong House.