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    toll gate keeper

    Hi , According to her wedding cert,my 3rd x great grandmother ,was a toll gate keeper . On the cert she lived at sutton Coldfield so any way I can find out where the tollgate was please? Would she be documented anywhere etc? She was written down as ''widow'' on the wedding cert so maybe she and...
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    savage george b 1833-bidford on avon

    George Savage was my gt x 2 grandfather who worked as a lemonade and soda bottle maker.Where would this factory have been -any ideas?He lived in the West Bromwich area on the 1881 cencus.His daughter's father in law was a glass blower,possibly at the same factory??(mentioned on her wed cert).
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    surname=salisbury/salesbury

    Can someone help please?Any idea as to how to find who her parents were?Indeed,have I found them already? I have in my tree a lady called Ann Kesterton nee Salisbury(also spelt Salesbury),born 1809,essington wood ,staffordshire.(details off 1851 cencus where she lives with her son George Albon...
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    help with a birth record

    Can someone help me please?I have been trying for ages (years!) to find the mother of William Rollins born Dec 1852 ,Ufton,warwickshire.Thought I had found her through this site a little while back,but was wrong!It was his aunt who was on the 1851 cencus where he was a ploughboy. I know his...
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    clough-where are you?

    Anyone live in the sparkbrook area during the 60's? My parents lived in medlicott road and had a very good friend by the name of derek clough who lived in lodgings on anderton road.Anyone know of his whereabouts now as the family lost touch when we moved to erdington . What happened to him?He...
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    rollins(or is it rawlins?)-whats in a name?

    Rollins is the surname of my great x 2 grand dad William born 1852c.He wed Elizabeth Berrick in 1878 and I know this because I have managed to get a copy of their wed cert.I also have his death cert,he died in 1908 of TB in Hay mills.I have cencus info on him too.On the 1881 cencus though ,the...
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