Surnames

Here's a list of surnames mentioned in the book 'Tales From Four Towns'. If you're a family history fan researching an unusual surname, you just might find a story about one of your ancestors.


Adams Adey Agers Allen Allsop Arkinstall Asbury Atkins Ayre Bagot Bailey Bannister Bardell Bargen Barrett Bashford Bates Bayley Beard Beards Beech Bennett Beston Bevan Birch Bird Blower Book Boswell Botham Bowater Bowen Bradbury Bradley Brawn Brewer Brice Broadbent Brookes Brown Buckstone Budd Bullus Butcher Butler Bytheway Caddick Cane Cartwright Carty Chatwin Cheadle Childs Clancey Clark Clarke Colclough Cole Conolly Cooper Cope Costigan Cozens Craddock Daniels Darley Darlington Davenport Davidson Davis Dean Dell Derry Devaney Dickenson Didcott Didlock Dight Drury Dudley Durkins Dyke Eagles Eales Ellis Evans Eveson Farley Farmer Farnall Farren Farrington Fenner Ford Fox Foxall Fryer Fuel Fullard Gallagher Gannaway Garner Gee Genders George Gibbons Gibson Godfrey Golby Goodwin Gould Greenfield Griffin Grigg Grimes Guest Hadley Hall Hampton Harper Harrison Harvey Hassall Hatton Hawkins Hayes Heath Hill Hobbins Hodson Holden Holloway Holt Howard Hughes Hunt Huntley Husband Jackson James Jarvis Jasper Jenks Jennings Johnson Jones Keep Kelly Kendrick Killean King Knight Knock Lake Lambert Langley Lavender Lawrence Lemperi Leonard Lewis Lindop Lockley Lucas Lyall Lycett Macantire Malone Malone Maloy Mannion Marlow Marsh Martin Matthews Maxwell McCrohan McDermott Meredith Merrick Middleton Mills Mizen Moore Moores Morris Morrison New Nicholls Norman O'Malley Oakley Oldbury Onions Overton Owen Owen Page Parker Parkes Parton Pearce Pearson Pedley Pemberton Perrins Perry Phipps Podmore Poole Powell Pratt Preston Proctor Pugh Pye Raymond Richards Roberts Robinson Rogers Rose Rubery Ruby Rushton Russell Salter Samuel Sheepy Sheldon Shore Simms Simpson Slim Smith Somers Sparrow Spencer Stackhouse Stanton Stevenson Stockton Sutherland Tanday Taylor Tew Thacker Thomas Thompson Timmins Tonge Tonks Toy Turner Waldron Walford Walker Ward Wardle Wayte Weaver Whelan Whitehouse Wiggins Wilberry Wilkes Williams Willis Wilson Winkle Winter Wood Woodall Woodward

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Oyster Jack

Oysters were incredibly popular throughout Great Britain in the Victorian era and the Black Country had it's share of street vendors and shops selling this edible mollusc. Read the tragic tale of 'Oyster Jack', who ran such a shop on West Bromwich High Street, in Tales From Four Towns (available in paperback, PDF, and eBook format). Also available from the iBookstore, Barnes & Noble and direct from Penk Publishing (penk.publishing@gmail.com).

Wolverhampton Gunpowder Explosion

The living room of a house in Cobden Steet, off Steelhouse Lane, was virtually destroyed thanks to the carelessness of one young man and he almost killed his young cousin in the process. Read more in Tales From Four Towns

- Death, Destruction, Crime and Notable News From 19th Century Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton

Did You Know #2

Old limestone workings underlie the pool at Walsall Arboretum and the deep water claimed two lives in 1845; more details can be found in the book 'Tales From Two Towns'

Racecourse Crime

The racecourses at Walsall and Wolverhampton were a magnet for petty criminals in the 1800's... find out more in Tales From Four Towns.