Birmingham Daily Post , 29th December 1883 As the search continues I have found what is likely another instance of my ancestor William Wheelock before the stipendiary. The Birmingham Daily Post published the account on 29th December 1883, when William would have been 65. Unfortunately my last known residence for William is The Gullet, Stafford Street, in May 1874. I have been unable to find him in the 1881 census, though I do get a glimpse of him in 1880, but only as the victim of an assault in a pub in Aston. In 1883 William's wife, Ann died. I doubt this would have caused much turmoil though as I believe they were seperated by this time. In the 1881 census she is living on Sun Street with her children and has reverted to her previous married name of Maydon. It seems she has distanced herself from William, perhaps wisely. The 1880 newspaper report called William a labourer, however, the latest report I have discovered calls William a pestiferous mendicant - or a nuisance b...
Searching for my 3x Great Grandmother