Rissbrook and Bickley

Family history from South Staffordshire — now the West Midlands — and the Black Country, traced across six surnames over more than twenty years by Robert Bickley.

180 people across 48 surnames.

The names he traced

  • Bickley traced back to about 1803, Little Wenlock, Shropshire
  • Rissbrook traced back to about 1790, Brandon, Suffolk
  • Blackham traced back to about 1800, Kingswinford / West Bromwich, Staffordshire
  • Morris traced back to about 1808, Mainstone, Shropshire
  • Sellick he also recorded Sillick and Sellek traced back to 1718, Devon
  • Francis traced back to 1857, Wolverhampton

Other names in the research

Recorded by him, but not among the six lines he set out to trace.

About this site

Robert Bickley hand-wrote every page of the original site in plain HTML. This is that research, rebuilt so it can be found — not extended, corrected or tidied. Where he was uncertain, this site is uncertain in the same way: a date he wrote as abt 1817 still reads about 1817, and a registration quarter is still a quarter, never a birthday.

His original site is preserved, exactly as he left it .