Genealogy Chat

Looking at maps of the area north of Birmingham, Dudley (in Worcestershire) is due west of West Bromwich (Staffordshire? - yes, historically), and there is Hill Top golf course just east of there.

Gertrude and Annie's births are registered in West Bromwich in 1868 and 1873:

Name: Annie Beeman
Year of Registration: 1873
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: West Bromwich
County: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire
Volume: 6b
Page: 799

Trying an alternative theory, there is another niece and sibling in Worcestershire in 1881 - Gertrude Beeman aged 12 and her little sister Annie aged 7. If this is the right one, she would be 17 in 1891, and it should just be possible for her to have a 2 year old daughter. Looking at the workhouse returns, it looks less like the transcribed 37, and more like 27 (or possibly even 17). The girl in 1881 is stated to be born at Hill Top Staffordshire, but is living in Dudley by the time she is 7. She might therefore not know her place of birth.

NB Easily disproved if we can locate Annie Beeman (b abt 1874) elsewhere on the 1891 census

Thanks for all your help in this

A bit more.
On 1881 Edwin is still with his aunt and uncle John and Rebecca. Address shows as 31 Bark Hill Bewdley but looks like Bank Hill on the original image. John is now shown as a farmer of 15 acres employing one man. Edwin is shown as ag. lab so probably he's the one man.

I can find no trace of Annie/Emma Beaman on 1881 or 1901 census though.

There is a marriage in Kidderminster in 1906 to a Charles Mills.

The only birth I can find in 1854 Kidderminster was for Emma Beaman
1st qtr 1854 ref. 6c 264

On the 1861 census there is an Emma Ann Beaman born 1854 Kidderminster. Quite often second names were added at the christening after the birth registration.

John Beaman
Rebecca Beaman
Emma Ann Beaman niece
Edwin John Beaman nephew

John is a marker gardener and address shows as Bank Hill Bewdley


On the 1871 census they are all still together at the same address.

Thanks for that I already found her in the 1891 census, I am trying to trace her back from here?

1891 England Census
Name: Annie Beeman
Age: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854
Relation: Inmate
Gender: Female
Where born: N

Civil parish: Kidderminster
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
County/Island: Worcestershire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Kidderminster
Sub-registration district: Kidderminster
ED, institution, or vessel: Kidderminster Union Workhouse
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
James Andrews 77
George Palmer 65
John Buckler 85
William Lawley 63
John Carter 81
George Turberville 51
Shadrach Nott 60
John Colman 46
James Smith 63
James Roberts 76
Isaac Edwards 79
John Pountney 66
Thomas Price 46
Thomas Wenlock 80
William Baylis 76
Henry Powell 55
Selma Bishop 46
Sarah Taft 83
Mary Poole 62
Eliza Whitmore 35
Agnes Webb 20
May Crane 77
Mary Randle 80
Clara Ward 44
Eliza Beeman 43
Emma Oakley 40
Maria Yates 61
Mary Ball 31
Hannah Battram 70
Mary Hawkes 52
Jane Crundell 49
Susan Morris 22
Jane Cook 22
Catherine Earls 71
Maria Heath 83
Ann Andrews 19
Elizabeth Evans 26
Emma Pountney 63
Fanny Lines 80
Maria Lea 60
Emily Rowley 34
Elizabeth Cooper 24
Jame Brinton 55
Catherine Cook 77
Hannah Ellis 68
Mary Evans 42
Elizabeth Nevell 67
Kezzia Westbury 80
Eliza Silk 60
Eliza Harris 59
Jane Loney 48
Mary Wilson 77
Emily Hairs 15
Mary Taylor 44
Ann Baylis 70
William Jones 5
Henry Ross 5
William Botfield 4
Elizabeth Davies 45
Eliza Giles 37
Edith Giles 4 days
John Morgan 81
Edwd Brazier 49
William Millward 78
Lamb Hatterby 25
James Weaver 71
James Brever 79
Samuel Dudley 75
Thomas Richards 78
John Grove 68
John Hughes 64
Michael Mulkeen 78
Ann Wood 79
Mary Heywood 92
Hannah Titley 84
*********************************Annie Beeman 37
*********************************Annie Beeman 2
Maria Vaughan 23
Mary I Evans 24
Eliza Stanton 24
Eliza Smith 34
William Preston 72
Peter Burk 74
James Humphries 60
Thomas Shingles 74
Thomas Tyse 73
James Oliver 80
Herbert Barker 68
Edward Ruston 67
John Marchant 61
John Richards 66
James Griffitts 75
Joseph Haynes 62
William Buttland 70
Charles Morgan 70
Richard Broadhurst 65
John Jones 60
John Willes 77
Charles Pardee 63
James Higgins 61

Any idea when/where Ann was born?

Sam x

I am looking for ann beaman, mother of annie beaman born in kidderminster workhouse in 1889, can anyone help me please