When Moses Devey and his twin brother Samuel were born on February 4, 1827, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, their father, John Devey John, was 28, and their mother, Hannah Butler Hannah, was 31. He married Emma Smallman and they had seven children together. He then married Susannah Oates on February 17, 1878, in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England. He died in April 1894 in Staffordshire, England, at the age of 67, and was buried there.
Sources
1841 Census: "1841 England Census" Class: HO107; Piece: 984; Book: 2; Civil Parish: Wednesbury; County: Staffordshire; Enumeration District: 6; Folio: 25; Page: 11; Line: 21; GSU roll: 474618 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8978 #13818760 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey (14) in West Bromwich registration district. Born in Staffordshire, England.
1851 Census: "1851 England Census" Class: HO107; Piece: 2021; Folio: 45; Page: 8; GSU roll: 87425-87426 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8860 #8572958 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey (23) head of household in Wolverhampton registration district.
1861 Census: "1861 England Census" Class: RG 9; Piece: 2034; Folio: 15; Page: 23; GSU roll: 542906 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8767 #20468981 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey (34) head of household in West Bromwich registration district. Born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.
1871 Census: "1871 England Census" The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 2989; Folio: 49; Page: 12; GSU roll: 838870 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7619 #15031945 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devy (48) head of household in West Bromwich registration district. Born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.
1881 Census: "1881 England Census" Class: RG11; Piece: 2784; Folio: 108; Page: 32; GSU roll: 1341667 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7572 #19370894 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey (54), married, Coal Miner, head of household at Mount St in Cannock registration district.
1891 Census: "1891 England Census" The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891; Class: RG12; Piece: 2216; Folio: 61; Page: 31; GSU roll: 6097326 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6598 #27020220 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey (64) father in household of John Devey (33) in Lichfield registration district. Born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.
Marriage: "England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973" Ancestry Record 9852 #11822206 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey marriage to Emma Smallman on 15 May 1853 in Wolverhampton, Stafford, England.
Burial: "Staffordshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1900" Indexes created from Anglican Parish Registers held at Staffordshire Record Office; Stafford, Staffordshire, England Ancestry Record 62294 #234953 (accessed 26 June 2022) Moses Devey burial (died in 1894) on 24 May 1894 in Hednesford, St Peter, Staffordshire, England.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Jim Thompson for creating WikiTree profile Devey-30 through the import of DavideSide.ged on Jul 22, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.
Is Moses your ancestor? Please don't go away! Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Moses by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Moses: