49.3 Siblings of Caroline Wheaver (née Barnes)

Charles and Sarah Barnes had eight children. They are mostly recorded as having been in the Aston district, which often meant Duddeston.

• 34.1.1 - Elizabeth Barnes (1843)
• Married Henry Chattaway (1844-1915) at Bishop Ryder Church, Aston in 1865. This church and the entire street were demolished in 1960 to make way for Aston University.
• Henry was a gold engineer; they lived in Adelaide St, Duddeston, close to her parents
• By 1881, he was a gold and silver engineer, and they lived next door to her parents in Cathcart St, Duddeston.
• 1891: he was a silver engraver; Devon St, Duddeston
• 1901: widowed, with two adult children still at home
• Children:
• Frank Henry Chattaway (1880)
• Mary Chattaway (1883)

• 34.1.2 - Caroline Ann Barnes (1845-1931)
• See Chapter 49

• 34.1.3 - Sarah Rose Barnes (1848-1849)
• Sarah died as an infant

• 34.1.4 - Baron Charles Barnes (1848)
• No record found after 1861

• 34.1.5 - Rose Martha Barnes (1849-1912)
• 1871: Housemaid to a commission agent in Cardigan St, Duddeston
• Married George Henry Bennett (1848) in Bordesley, Birmingham in 1878
• Bordesley is in Nechells, and is the real life setting for the TV series Peaky Blinders (the gang of that name were active from the 1890s into the C20. My grandad used to have fights with them, or so I'm told).
• George was a carter, and they lived in the same street where she had previously been in service
• By 1891, he was a bricklayer's labourer; she was a laundress. It looks like they were in back-to-back terrace in Inkerman St, Vauxhall. In 1901/1911, they were still there but he had a job as a railway labourer.

Inkerman St, Duddeston (credit)

• Children:
• Ellen Maud Bennett (1878)
• Florence R Bennett (1885)
• Alice Rose Bennett (1892)

• 34.1.6 - Samuel Hedges Barnes (1852-1904)
• Married Ada Sarah Ann Smith (1857-1934) in Aston in 1874
• 1881: (Railway?) wagon maker, Gatton St, Duddeston
• There was a wagon works there - information and pictures here and here
• 1888: listed in Kelly's as a General Dealer, 8 Great Francis St, Birmingham, which is a main road in Vauxhall
• 1891/1901: Carpenter at the same address
• Children:
• Walter Clifford Barnes (1875)
• Samuel Barnes (1877)
• Lizzie Jane Barnes (1879)
• Ada Charlotte Barnes (1882)
• Rose Ellen Barnes (1883)
• Charles Cornelius Barnes (1888)
• Fred Barnes (1894)

• 34.1.7 - Mary Ellen Barnes (1853)
• No record found after 1861

• 34.1.8 - Fanny Maria Barnes (1855-1922)
• Married William Kent (1853-1927) in Walsall in 1876
• William was a builder's clerk; they lived in Aston Manor, and then in Handsworth, Birmingham (the population of which doubled between 1881 and 1901)
• Children:
• William Charles Kent (1876)
• Frederick Kent (1878)
• Alice Gertrude Kent (1880)
• Ethel Kent (1883)
• Walter Leonard Kent (1885)
• Stedman Francis Kent (1888)
• Rose Ellen Kent (1890). Rose died in 1891.
• Rose Annie Kent (1892)
• Marie Doris Kent (1895)
• Fanny Kent (1896)

• 34.1.9 - John Smith Barnes (1858-1862)
• John died as a child

• 34.1.10 - Martha Maud Barnes (1859-1929)
• Still at home in 1891, age 30; no subsequent records found

• 34.1.11 - Horatio John Barnes (1863-1935)
• Married Ellen (Nellie) Blakemore (1864-1947) in Birmingham in 1886
• No known children
• He was an Assistant Inspector of Postmen in 1891/1901/1911; they lived in the back-to-backs in Dollman St, Duddeston, and by 1911 in Cato St.

More information on these individuals in Chapter 57.

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