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Sparkly Magnolia
Only church buriel record I could find, remember in that alot are not transcribed - is a Minnie Simpson 9 Nov 1895 19 months St Margarets Hollinwood district Oldham Lancashire -not much help really as not a boy
I only looked five yeasr either side of 1896 though Give me a bit more time and I will try before nad after those dates

Sorry

JA

OK Sparkly M - I have not found any in Staffordshire 1895 to 1905
These are the ones I found 1880s in Oldham

Edmund Simpson
10 July 1883
15 weeks
Place Failsworth
Church St John

William Edward Simpson
20 Jan 1885
2 days old
Place Royton
Church St Paul

Frank Simpson
9 June 1886
4 months
Place Failsworth
Church St John

Charles Simpson
19 Febraury 1887
8 months
Place Royton
Church St Paul

Ellis Gilbert Simpson
3 August 1887
7 months
Place Shaw
Dedication Holy Trinity

Data provided for all Manchester and Lans Family History Society

ot sure what you can make of tall this -the Frank Simpson Christine found would sem to line up - if so then the other Failsworth Edmund 10 july 1883 may possibly be linked

JA

At least now you know two parish names-St Paul and St John-try ther local records office and see if they can help you?

Sparkly -just looked back -Failsworth would seem to be a link as they married there
Back to checking staffordshire 1800 to 1900 -nothing coming up on the list from there sorry
JA

Getting late in the antipodes -google staffordshire bmd - there are a number of yonug Simpsons in the death indexes for the late 1880 and the 1890s
It will be good to acknowledge these children
Cheers

JA

Sorry for the late response, only just logged on since Friday !

Thank you all for your help, I am very grateful, will look into all the info you have given me

Kind regards

Maggie

A pleasure Sparkly M, let's know how you go -would like to know where this ends Blessings

JA

Hi All, just a query really. I have been sent an image of the 1911 census from a rellie on the other side of my tree that we are researching together. So now I see what Quinsgran meant about the image, but looking at the small print they only say how many children they had and no names or dates. Is this correct? or has anyone seen an image where they state names and dates. Just wondered...will buy some credits anyway.I have never done this before. but will have a go.!
Maggie

The 1911 census should just show the number of children the couple had - plus the number of surviving children. It should also show how long the couple were married.

However, I think it's worth getting hold of the image - especially if you have a query or two about the couple.

One of mine shows 6 children to the couple - when there were only 5 from that marriage - plus a blatant lie about how long they'd been married - because they weren't!

Another one - a classic this one - shows all the children born to the marriage. About 12 in all. Including all the children who had died. The father had listed them and shown their ages at death. The enumerator had then deleted all the dead ones. Dad had even shown the married daughter so she appears on the 1911 twice as she also shows at home with her husband. Oh, and again, a lie about the marriage - added by the enumerator guesstimated at one year before the age of the first child! Enumerator ignored the fact that the first two children of the marriage had died so his guess was well out!

So, you might strike lucky. Having all the names was a great help for me on that branch.

Jill

Thanks Mrs Grumpy for all your info. I I am definitely going to buy credits tomorrow for 1911 as I am so intrigued now. Have also sent an email to Staffordshire BMD asking if there is any way I could see any deaths on line for my greatgrandmothers children. I doubt it really, just clutching at straws, as we all do from time to time. I could just send for all the certs and hang the expense, but that would be frivolous, and an impending divorce...lol

Thanks again for all your help

Maggie

I'll keep my fingers crossed Magnolia.

I know I'm not the only one to have found additional info. There was a piece in a FH magazine last month about something very similar so I expect it happened quite a bit!

Jill

Burslem was in Wolstanton rego D.
Alice B1890q4, Dora 1900q2 and ChristineinPortugal's 1901 census were all Wolstanton rego D,
and we know Alice and the 1901 were for Burslem.

Staffordshire Birth indexes for the years: 1890
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Reference
SIMPSON Alice Burslem Stoke-On-Trent BUR/103/064

1911 With their boarder in rd360=Wolstanton, Residence BURSLEM

HOUSEHOLD SIMPSON WILLIAM M 1861 50 Wolstanton Staffordshire
HOUSEHOLD SIMPSON JANE F 1861 50 Wolstanton Staffordshire
HOUSEHOLD SIMPSON DORA F 1900 11 Wolstanton Staffordshire
HOUSEHOLD FINDLER JOHN THOMAS M 1890 21 Wolstanton Staffordshire

Now StaffsBMD haven't finished Burslem births (cover only 1837 - 1897), [they erroneously omit 1860-1888]
but I would concentrate on Burslem events - there's a lot of Simpson births there though:
1884-1897 lists 5, 9, 6, 1, 7, 4, 9, 6, 4, 2, 10, 3, 4, 6, i.e., with 35 after 1890 and StaffsBMD has no coverage of Burslem deaths..
However, the Wolstanton deaths are listed under Newcastle-u-L, and the Tunstall (excl 1890) are under Stoke-o-T, so one could figure them out by subtraction.

It just seems too big a task, so what's the alternatives.

If you knew their church, one could check the baptism and burial registers.
The LDS has films of 2 C of E churches for this time:

Title Parish registers for St. John's Church, Burslem, 1637-1947
Authors Church of England. St. John's Church (Burslem, Staffordshire) (Main Author)
Notes Microfilm copies of original records in the Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford, England.
Item 18 is in Latin.
1702 is at the end of the first item on film 1278910.
High reduction microfilm (42 X). Use high magnification reader.
Staffordshire Record Office no.: D3571/1/1-29, D3865/1, 3-5, 11.

Note Location Film
Baptisms, burials, marriages, 1637-1693. FHL BRITISH Film 1278909 Item 18
Baptisms, 1702-1906; marriages, 1702-1850; burials, 1702-1802. FHL BRITISH Film 1278910
Marriages, 1850-1897. FHL BRITISH Film 1278929
Marriages, 1897-1902; burials, 1802-1947. FHL BRITISH Film 1278930 Items 1 - 11


Title Parish registers, 1877-1958
Authors Church of England. St. Paul's Church (Burslem, Staffordshire) (Main Author)
Notes Microfilm copies of original records in the Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford, England.
High reduction microfilm (42 X). Use high magnification reader.
Staffordshire Record Office no.: D1428/1/4-5, 14-16, 30-31.

Note Location Film
Baptisms 1877-1901 Marriages 1880-1896 FHL BRITISH Film 1278930 Items 12-15
Marriages 1896-1902 Burials 1878-1958 FHL BRITISH Film 1278931 Items 1-3


Undoubtedly there's a mess of non-c churches, but the LDS only has film of the RC church:

Title Church records for St. Joseph, Burslem, 1895-1997
Authors Catholic Church. St. Joseph (Burslem, Staffordshire) (Main Author)
Notes Microfilm of original records housed at the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, Birmingham.
Text mostly in Latin.
Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives no.: P264/1/1-5; P264/2/1; P264/3/1-3.

Note Location Film
Batptisms 1895-1897. VAULT BRITISH Film 2353384 Item 16
Baptisms 1897-1934; Confirmations 1898-1997; Marriages 1896-1949. VAULT BRITISH Film 2353385 Items 1 - 8


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Although visiting Staffs rec off, and/or renting LDS films are options, perhaps the best thing to do would be to ask Stoke-o-T rego office to find the 5 boys born to William and Jane in Burslem.
Although they'ld have a range of dates to check, if you stuck to Burslem, it would only be in one register (or one series, really).

The Register Office, Town Hall, Albion Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, ST1 1XP.
Tel: 01782 235260. Fax: 01782 235258.


The other option is to locate their grave, as they're possibly buried together. Can't help here - you can google just as well as me.

Thank you mgnv for all the info. I have just viewed the 1911 census image and it says Jane Simpson lost 4 children, but unfortunately no names were on there. Worth a try though.
Can anyone tell me how to save the image to my computer please ?
I have tried all the obvious things but nothing works !

Maggie

Don't know how to save it-but you should be able to print it out?

thanks FFF....I have printed it out but half of the page was black ink, which annoyed me...lol..hoped i could save it to my computer, crop it then print it out as I do with other census images. The main thing is I have it.
Thanks again

Maggie

When you use the download the image box you only get the enumerators summary.

Eg the initial and surname of the head of house at each house.
What is useful is you get the whole page of families living in the street.
You may be lucky and can recognise family members


Checked my images and when I downloaded 1 showed the original page the rest were only enumerators summary

thanks for your help. Had another play around on 1911 and downloaded it.
I found it fascinating to read. Hadn't realised there was so much info I could reach.
Thanks again

Maggie