Sarah Bridgwater was my great Grandmother on my paternal side. Her Father was Edward Bridgwater born c1833 in Dudley and married Martha Tibbitts of Wednesbury.They had four children George Edward (1858) Sarah (1859) Alice Maude (1861) and Harry Ernest (1864.
I can find no baptism records nor any marriage for Sarah...although I know she had 2 sons Charles and Frank Bridgewater (no father named on birth cert) folowed by a marriage to Harry/Henry Brown c1885 (living in Kings Hill, Wednesbury 1891cen).Children were Harry, Jane, Edward, Maude, Kate,and Frederick my Grandfather.On 1901 census the family was named as Whitehouse (not sure what happened) Sarah listed as head of household but NOT as widowed.
Does any of this sound familiar to anybody...getting desperate..........