In the 1871 census John Saunders is living in Dudley with
his wife, now called Mariam, his 6 year old son and Hannah Mills who is 17 and
visiting
John Saunders married Julia Mills in Dudley in 1865, but she
died in 1866. A John Saunders married Myra Mills in 1869. Is this our Miriam,
and he re-married to Julia’s sister.
In the 1881 census William and Elizabeth Mills are living in
Ladywood in Birmingham with the Saunders family. William, aged 79 is described
as formerly whitesmith. At this stage John’s wife name is clearly written as
Myra. I’m sure that I have the right family because Alexander Saunders was one
of the witnesses at the marriage of Sarah Emily Mills to Joseph Hamilton.
By the 1891 census we know that Elizabeth Mills is living
with Sarah Emily and Joseph Hamilton and I can’t find the Saunders family.
We must therefore assume that William died between 1881 and
1891, but there were an awful lot of William Mills of the right age died in
Birmingham and the Black Country in those ten years, so without more to go on,
I can do no more.
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