Amelia’s parents.

Thomas Beesely: probably baptised 2nd April 1823, St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth. If so, his father was William Beesley, a peruke maker and his mother was called Hannah. Possibly an “Ag Lab” at Villiers Hill, Kemilworth in 1841.

Hannah Brown: born about 1827. 1841 living with her father, Benjamin (a watchmaker), her mother Susannah and her younger siblings Emma, Benjamin, Henry, and Eliza. Coventry, Town Walls

Marriage 9th April 1848: (father’s occupation Hair Dresser fits with the peruke / wig maker on the baptism

Susannah born Q1 1849, Amelia was born on the 8th October 1850 in Chandos Street, Leamington and baptised 29th December in All Saints Church, Leamington Priors.

At the time of the 1851 census they and the two girlsr Susannah) were lodging with the Brookes family at 19 Chandos Street. Thomas a Painter and Glazier, Hannah a Dressmaker.

In 1861 census Hannah was in 5 Court 10, Thomas Street, Coventry with the two girls and two younger sons Thomas and Herbert. Thomas senior was not there, but Hannah’s two unmarried sisters, Emma and Eliza Brown, were. Hannah was a dressmaker, Susannah (aged 12) an apprentice silk ribbon something, Emma and Eliza both silk warpers. Aparently Thomas Street was the heart of Coventry’s silk industry at the time.

Thomas was in Preston.

Hannah might have died in 1865