Recent content by negritaspider

there is a "Rachel family" on ancestry, access to all available- with photos of Lily and all the children (none of which remain alive, unfortunately). Hope this helps.

There is a "fletcher family" on Ancestry - not private - which fits the info you've given... hope this helps!

- I think y'all realisethat I'm just back to this site (big grin!) Collars and cuffs, I think, come from the days when these were removable starched items.... and then translates to "White collar workers" workers in later years - am I correct??

....and then in the 1950's - am assuming it was a newly built area (to replace bombed houses?) Dart St - just down from the Brum City football club!!

lovely looking thru these photos..... so am now hoping that there are still some photos around of the following(for my ancestry files!) - Trafalgar terrace, Latimer St (circa 1901), Owen St (Circa 1910), Brighton Terrace, Hope St (circa 1910-1920), Whitehead St (Circa 1920), Pickford St (Circa...

does anybody have an idea as to what the weekly widows pension (including 3 children) was in 1965???

Many thanks, will give the link a try....

Hello, Have found a marriage for John T Lorton to Ann Wormington in 1st Qtr 1962, Birmingham (volume 9c, page 995). As I am in Tunisia, can't order the cert.... Is there a chance that the next time someone passes to the Library, they could check out whatever further info is on the cert for me...

Hi Janice, The link you gve me for the Birmingham round in 1965.... dated 21st May. My dad died 23rd Aug that year - any idea who won? Many thanks! Barbara

OH YES, as was just trying to go to the photo - woudn't work!! Def my dad, thankyou!! Now got it!

WOW! Thanks Janice, yes - that's my dad, John Thomas Lorton!! I've tried to screen in on the photos of the newspaper page - but it won't work..... i think that the man shaking hands on the photo on the right is my dad... Any way you can post the actual photo for me????!!! He went, apparently...

Thanks all! I am looking for specifics, ie - WHEN was my father (surname Lorton) Lorry Driver of the year - the site given by Janice, many thanks for that - it was interesting!, only has headlines (unfortunately!)... My father died in 1965, so I know it was before then.... Can anyone try to...

Hi all, I have recently found out that my father was the regional winner for the Midlands - and went on to win the National Lorry Driver of the year award. This must have been very late '50's, or early '60's.... I think he was working for Dunlop at the time?? I've tried to find out info on this...

Hi all (especially Shera, who has helped me so often in the past :-) ) Have a bit of a sticky one this time, methinks! I already have several threads concerning the Macquaker family - am trying to find who Alice is the daughter of... I came across a marriage (index card only) for Edmundus...

Hello Janice, We had thought of that possibility - and it would tie in with the fact that an Alice Macquaker (married earlier in 1932, stating father DAVID MACQUAKER deceased) was the Lorton wife showing at 3/143 High St from where Ellen married...... I have been trying to tie Alice and Ellen...