The family are living in Dark Lane, Sedgley,

Joseph is listed as aged age 40 - although in the one ten years later he is 55 - so there is a problem somewhere!- I reckon him to be 43

He is working as a miner

Mary, his wife, is listed as being aged 35

Children:

• Levi - age 10
• Phebe - age 5
• Absolom - age 4

James age 55 - could also be lying about his age. If he was Joseph's father he would be 70.

James Jackson - age 20 - son-in-law of James? - but anyway not born in the same county

Next door there lives a closely related family:

It is always worth looking at the others on a census page - families often lived in close proximity - it allowed support in hard times and when children were born to a family.

Phebe Stanley age 70 (Joseph's mother-in-law)

Noah Stanley age 25 (Phebe Stanley's child?)

Mary Stanley age 30 (Phebe Stanley's daughter-in-law?) - As she was not born in this county it is probable that she is a Stanley by marriage.

The family is living at 58 Cinder Hill, Ettingshall.

Joseph, age 55 (by my reckoning 53), is a miner. His wife Mary is 48 and their 14 year old son, Absalom is a labourer in the iron works.

Mary Ann Clifford is listed as a granddaughter.

Husband:

Wife:

Joseph, listed as being of the age of 66 years, is living with his new wife, Susannah, aged 56, and her son Henry Diggott, aged 29, who is working as a sheet iron furnaceman. Joseph is still working as a coal miner.

Susannah is listed as being born in Ocker Hill, and her son as being born in Hall Fields, Bilston - on here it says Hall Green - but that is in Birmingham - the family lived in Bilston at Hall Fields.

Registered in Wolverhampton - but his birth year is questionable.