Help required please in reading 1851 Entry for Staffordshire

[shattonblade]

I would appreciate an opinion on reading the occupation and Birthplace of a relative, Thomas Robinson on the 1851 Census, listed by Ancestry as Morin, Staffordshire, residing in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1851. Name Thomas Robinson abt 1796. References HO 107/2120. Schedule No 248, GSU No 87749

[DebbieAnn]

It sure looks like Morin, Staffordshire. Thought at first the M was a W, but W's started higher (half-way up, not at the bottom), and the second stem also started half-way up the first stem (see William and Mary, lines 4 and 5). I read age given as 53, making year of birth 1798 (or 1797) not 1796 - but those are commonly off...

Debbie

[Lynda Cunningham]

Hi

How about Tea Dealer & Grocer as the occupation ?

ATB
Lynda

[shattonblade]

Thank you for your help that's marvellous ! I have been staring at it for ages.

[Lynda Cunningham]

Dear shattonblade

I've failed to find a Morin in Staffordshire, I see that you're practically a local, being over the border in beautiful Derbyshire, what did you decide?

In Staffs, the best I could find were Milton (Stoke & Wolstanton), Lower Milton (Kidderminster) Milwich (Stone) Maer (Newcastle under Lyme)

There is a Meir today(Stoke) but I don't know if that existed in 1851?

Anyway, I've had a quick look at 1841 and I think I've found a likely chap?
HO107/999/2/12
Stafford Street, Wolverhampton

Thomas Robinson/40/Provision Dealer
Mary Robinson/35
Mary Smith/85
Paul Taylor/10
Abraham Danford/79/Ind ....... (all born in County)

best wishes
Lynda

PS. Looking at the census image over my shoulder, hubby has just said that it looks like Stafford shire to him

[Lynda Cunningham]

Meir existed in 1890 - http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

Genuki = Meir, in the Parish of Caverswall 1851

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Caverswall/

ATB
Lynda

[shattonblade]

People are very helpful. Tea Dealer and Grocer are spot on as other family members were also Grocers.
Will settle for the name you suggested in Staffordshire.