Map: Meredith and Hill movements 1841-1911
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1891. Jack the ripper claims his last victim. Prime Minister Salisbury rules a country at war with the Boers. Agatha Christie is born. But more important events are at work. On 5th April the sixth full British Census takes place. In the small Staffordshire village of Kinver farm bailiffs and game keepers mind the land […]
So perhaps it was Charles Hull Sunter (a la Snowball family website) after all. Jane is working as a servant at the Hull family each year. The lads in the house could have been the suspects…but then there’s the Hull who lives a few doors away. Could there be more Hull family in the area […]
Jane Snowball gave birth to an illegitimate son, Charles in 1882. But who was the father?
The mystery of where Charles Sunter was in 1891 has been solved.
Aha…scandal in the family. Almost certainly Lofty’s father Charles was illegitimate.
Why was Jennifer not called Susan? What connection has the family got have with the Vaudeville and Music Hall? And how old was Auntie Gertie/Trudy? Read on and all will be revealed…
Now I’ve returned to the 1881 census. As noted previously Joseph doesn’t seem to appear on this census. But a search for his wife Isabella reveals that she has moved to West Derby, Lancashire and is living at 106 Edge Lane. The census entry reads: Isabella Sunter, head, 31, Milk Dealer William Sunter, son, 9, scholar, […]
1841 Census This is the earliest Census data availalbe. It is 1841 and again the Sunter family is strong in Lodge Green. Thomas Sunter, 60, Lead miner Mary Sunter, 60 Thomas Sunter, 30, Lead miner Christopher Sunter,25 Lead miner William Sunter, 15, Lead miner Ruth Peacock 15 There has to be a question mark […]
…and so we head towards the end of the trawl through the Sunter tree via the census. Here is the 1851 Sunter family: William Sunter, head, 27, Grocer and Drapers, Gunnerside abt 1824 Hannah Sunter, wife, 26, Blades Thomas Sunter, son, 6, scholar, Lodge Green James Sunter, Son, 4, scholar, Lodge Green Joseph Sunter, 2, […]