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My Family - Knott, Cooke, Webb, Scully & Hughes... oh and Carters haha!

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Knotts, Hughes and Scully first - ooh and Webbs - Sorry Forgot the most important!

First is Clara Cooke nee Knott with her daughter Florence - (my great Gran & great Aunt)

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Then Clara's second husband Hugh(ie) Britton who was a boxer in Northern Ireland. We think he was born In Belfast. My G uncle George Cooke & his son Michael Britton (raised by Clara & Hughie)

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Then there Clara, Florence and Rosie Hughes who married Clara's son Arthur Cooke.

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This one was taken at the Beehive club where the family used to drink. The couple dancing are my grandparents Catherine Cooke & Frank Webb....

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Finally the Cooke girls - Marie, Catherine & Florence - I love this one!

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Carters: Not from Birmingham but my Roseannah Carter married Thomas H Boucher who was born in Birmingham and they moved up here where we all are now! I wanted to share as I love these pictures!

Frank Webbs Grandmother - Rosannah Carter & her siblings:

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Roseannah's father in his Fisherman's attire

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Henry Harold Carter & His wife Hannah on their wedding day

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and on their Golden Anniversary

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And finally Their daughter Anne (Rosannah's sister and her children in America)

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and finally - because i love how dapper he is - James Knott Clara's brother who emigrated to Canada (as part of the home children)

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I think there are some more but forgot the clocks went forward oops! So will dig around tomorrow x
 
Hi there
we met a tom scully way back in the seventys and the scullys did a fair bit of building work around brum way back with there lorry
old tom scully we called him a very nice gentlemam used to knock around the aston lichfield rd and the nechells area
to the early seventys my wifes family knew him before myself yes they was from ireland just like my in laws from ireland
 
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