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Recent content by Katrina

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    An Evening with Carl Chinn 3 September 2024

    Many thanks for the link!
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    An Evening with Carl Chinn 3 September 2024

    I am so sorry to have missed this. Does anyone know if Carl will doing another soon?
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    Summer Lane Pubs

    Many thanks for the info Mike
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    Summer Lane Pubs

    Hi Mike can I be a pain and ask if you know if 298 Summer Lane was a pub in 1851? Thomas Showell is shown on the census as a licensed victualler living there.
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    Crescent Wharf

    Many thanks for the map. I can see now where the street meets with the wharf.
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    Crescent Wharf

    Just had another look at the certificate and I think it is Cambridge St. Does anyone know if that is Kingston Wharf please?
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    Crescent Wharf

    Hi I have just seen on a baptism certificate my great grandmother lived in Kingston Wharf in 1889. Do you know if there was a Burbridge Street there?
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    Lost streets of birmingham

    That makes more sense! Many thanks...
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    Lost streets of birmingham

    I have just had another look at the birth certificate and it might be Curzon Street! Is that in Aston?
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    Lost streets of birmingham

    Hi I know this is an old thread but does anyone know of a Curron st in Aston? My Grandmother was born there in 1886 (she was one of the Showell family) Katrina
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    Quinton buildings

    I have just found out my Great Grandparents lived in No 8 Quinton Buildings in 1911. Sounds like it was an awful place to live.
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    Inkerman St Vauxhall

    Does anyone know of the Edwards family who lived at 61 Inkerman Street in Small Heath in 1950?
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    St Edburgha's Church Yardley

    Hi I have been in touch today with the church for my own family research. The grave stones have been removed but there is a site plan in the office which may help. I am looking for the Showell family who attended the church in the 1700's to the 1800's.
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    H.P Sauce Birmingham

    We used to live near there and my school was also nearby. The stench used to be awful.................
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    D.N.A. TESTING

    I tested my DNA with Ancestry because I have a total brick wall with my dad's side of the family. I know my paternal grandmother was Rosina Showell (from the Birmingham brewers the Showells} but all I know of my paternal grandfather James Frederick Edwards is he was born in Westminster and his...
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