I thought I'd just tell you about an extremely successful bit of googling over the weekend.
I thought I'd look up a couple of addresses from the census images. I dont often bother with addresses but one family, the Mills seemed to live at a farm called Roach End farm for several years so I thought I'd look it up.
5 minutes later I was on a site all about the Roaches in Staffordshire and a page detailing a walk around Roachend farm. I contacted the owner who confirmed it was the same farm I was looking for (in the area of Leek Frith).
He then sent me photos of the farm, a picture of my 4x great grandfather's sister and best of all, a photo of some graffiti carved into a rock which reads WH Mills 1892. This would have been done by William Mills, brother of my 4x great grandfather - a stone mason.
I thoroughly recommend address googling, you never know what you might find!
I thought I'd look up a couple of addresses from the census images. I dont often bother with addresses but one family, the Mills seemed to live at a farm called Roach End farm for several years so I thought I'd look it up.
5 minutes later I was on a site all about the Roaches in Staffordshire and a page detailing a walk around Roachend farm. I contacted the owner who confirmed it was the same farm I was looking for (in the area of Leek Frith).
He then sent me photos of the farm, a picture of my 4x great grandfather's sister and best of all, a photo of some graffiti carved into a rock which reads WH Mills 1892. This would have been done by William Mills, brother of my 4x great grandfather - a stone mason.
I thoroughly recommend address googling, you never know what you might find!
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