1841 census on the web today reveals identity of my great-great-grandmother!

Today, the 1841 England & Wales census data were made available online. A search for William Patrick, my great-great-grandfather, showed him working as a collier in Madeley, near Keele, Staffordshire. Included in the family list was his first wife, Sarah, aged 30 (so born in 1811) and five children including James (my great-grandfather born in 1833) who thus appears in every Victorian census from 1841 to 1901.

But who was this Sarah, and where did she come from? A search on the IGI-site showed that William had married a Sarah Clark in the nearby village of Standon on 28 August 1832, presumably in the parish church of All Saints. So the internet has enabled me to identify another early forebear!