Hi with some great help from the users of the forum I have managed to get back to my great great great grandfather James Smith but no appear that I may have gone as far as I can.
With help from Elaine I managed to obtain his marriage certificate in which he marries Hannah Clarke on 3/3/1845 in Wolverhampton. Unfortunately my plan was to try to locate him on early censuses through his father but his father is only listed as W Smith (occupation gardner). I have James on the 1881 census aged 60 with place of birth as Sharnton, Warwick (occuption boatman) and a place of residence as Canal Grain Boat, Coventry Holy Trinity, Warwick. In 1871 he is aged 53 (occupation Canal boat steerer) with a place of birth as Sharntone Staffordshire and living in Darlaston near the Birmingham canal. In 1861 he is aged 40 (occupation boatman) with a place of birth as Sharntone, Warwickshire and living in Tipton (I think) at 2 Tipton Wharf. I couldn't find him in the 1851 or 1841 censuses and unfortunately no longer have the ancestry membership to look further.
Basically I am looking to see if I can take the line any further eg James birth or death or whether that is pretty much as far as I could expect to go. It was a little easier with James son and grandson who were called Solomon as the name was a little rarer but with James I always felt that this would complicate matters.
Thanks
Steven
With help from Elaine I managed to obtain his marriage certificate in which he marries Hannah Clarke on 3/3/1845 in Wolverhampton. Unfortunately my plan was to try to locate him on early censuses through his father but his father is only listed as W Smith (occupation gardner). I have James on the 1881 census aged 60 with place of birth as Sharnton, Warwick (occuption boatman) and a place of residence as Canal Grain Boat, Coventry Holy Trinity, Warwick. In 1871 he is aged 53 (occupation Canal boat steerer) with a place of birth as Sharntone Staffordshire and living in Darlaston near the Birmingham canal. In 1861 he is aged 40 (occupation boatman) with a place of birth as Sharntone, Warwickshire and living in Tipton (I think) at 2 Tipton Wharf. I couldn't find him in the 1851 or 1841 censuses and unfortunately no longer have the ancestry membership to look further.
Basically I am looking to see if I can take the line any further eg James birth or death or whether that is pretty much as far as I could expect to go. It was a little easier with James son and grandson who were called Solomon as the name was a little rarer but with James I always felt that this would complicate matters.
Thanks
Steven
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