More mysterious Mills

I finally found the family in 1861, by doing an address search on their 1851 address and they are still there. Still in Dudley Road Sedgely but very badly transcribed

Mils	Elizabeth	Head	Married	1814	Labourer	Sedgley
Mils	Julia	Daughter	Unmarried	1837	Tailoress	Sedgley
Mils	Maxian	Daughter		1846	Tailoress	Sedgley
Mils	Thanya	Daughter		1846		Sedgley
Mils	Phobe	Daughter		1845		Sedgley
Mils	Hannah	Daughter		1854		Sedgley
Mils	Sarah	Daughter	Unmarried	1857		Sedgley

It is clear from the original however that Elizabeth is a laundress not a labourer and that her daughters’ names (especially if you already know) are Miriam, Thirza and Phoebe. Hannah and Sarah have obviously been born since the last census. So, is William dead, as implied by Elizabeth being “Head”, or is he away, as implied by her being “married”? I’m guessing the former, in whichcase he died some time after 1857 and before 1861.

By 1871 the family have left Dudley Road but I am now inclined to believe that they are somewhere in the area. Hannah is visiting the Saunders family in Nitte Place Dudley in 1871, which doesn’t help me locate them. (And John Saunders appears to be married to a Marian (Miriam?) not Julia. I can’t trace Elizabeth, Thirza or Sarah Emily in 1871, but we know that Sarah Emily married Joseph Hamilton in 1873 at St Edmund’s in Dudley and that Joseph lived in Tipton

IGI suggests that William Mills and Elizabeth Webb married in 1832 in Wolverhampton.

And until I can check back further in parish records this is as far as I can take the mysterious Mills family.