Bob Davis
Bob Davis
I had a previous post on this name, but one evening recently gently wandering through the forum, I came across Kellys entries. On chance I put in Durows and came up with Francis William Durows my great grandfather being a shop owner at 145 Grosvenor Street West. In the 1881 census, although identified as Durries, he is shown as living at this address as a silversmith. Other entries for him in censuses show him as a silver plater. The family is extremely hard to trace as there have been so many misspellings of the name and in later days some members changed their name to DuRose (whether by accident or not is not known) My question is where was Grosvenor Street West and what sort of shop did Francis own. He was born in 1852 and died in 1915 in the lunatic asylum at Rubery and is buried in Witton cemetery. If he was a silver plater, would there have been noxious substances that he could have inhaled? I remember from my time at Cannings, tales of plating liquids have strange effects or being dangerouse (this was of course in the days before COSSH and HASAW) and I regularly heard tales of Triclorytheleyne sniffers. Greetings to cousin Peter if you read this, still no luck in finding Francis's mothers or father's roots beyond what we have put on the family tree. If any one had a relative born about 1820 called Jane Webb, like to know, my Jane is nowhere to be found in FreeBMD or censuses. Birthplace Worcestershire (King's Norton probably)