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    Upper Sutton Street

    Thank you very much Linda
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    Upper Sutton Street

    Thank you for these , I am really interested in my family history my dad passed away in 2016 at 94 years old but he talked a lot about the shop as he used to help out his brother Jim and I believe they had a horse called Dolly when they did there delivery round. My dad was Reg Hunt and was born...
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    Upper Sutton Street

    My uncle Jim had his grocer's shop on Upper sutton Street ,I think one of the photos is his shop. His name was James Arthur Hunt . We lived on Clifton Road at 154 until the house was knocked down we left in 1969 and moved to Quinton. I was only 4 so don't really remember Aston Linda
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    Key Hill Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions

    Thank you Wendy that is probably the one Lindy
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    Baptism Look up please for Jane Maud 1808

    Thank you for looking
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    Baptism Look up please for Sarah Martha Miles 1842

    Thank you very much
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    Key Hill Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions

    Could you please look to see if there is a inscription for Alice Amy Burford who died in 1912 Many thanks Lindy
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    Baptism Look up please for Jane Maud 1808

    Would be most grateful if you could look up this baptism record Thank you Lindy
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    Baptism Look up please for Sarah Martha Miles 1842

    Would you please be kind enough to look up this baptism record Many thanks Lindy
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    Hunt family ELECTORAL ROLL

    Re: ELECTORAL ROLL Hunt family https://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html
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    Hunt family ELECTORAL ROLL

    Re: ELECTORAL ROLL Hunt family Thank you it has been most useful and i am grateful for your help. Lindy
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    Hunt family ELECTORAL ROLL

    Re: ELECTORAL ROLL Hunt family thank you if you find out anything else i would be most grateful Lindy
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    Hunt family ELECTORAL ROLL

    I am trying to find out where my grandad lived after the 1911 census and for how long. His name is James Hunt born 1842 and his wife Elizabeth(Betsy)1840 lived in Carver Street Birmingham. I have found a couple of death records but am not sure if they are the correct ones and cannot afford to...
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    Harper

    I am looking for Harpers too,Jack Harper and Brian Harper who changed their surname to London and were Boxers,they are connected to my family somewhere and believe are cousins of my grandfather James Hunt,i know that Brian London lives in blackpool and had a very sucessful career as a Boxer has...
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    Pype Hayes Estate

    My nan lived at 141 Pype Hayes road up until 1981 when she passed away ,she moved there from Hunters Vale Hockley in the 1930's i believe.I spent many a happy time there during my childhood,i last visted there in late 1990s to have a look around and was suprised to see my nans house was the only...
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    Pineapple Creams

    I have seen them in Firkins and Greggs in firkins they do the fresh cream version too. Lindy
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    Clifton Road Aston

    Hi all Love reading all your replys about Clifton Road in a early message i said my Uncle Jims (James Hunt)shop was on Clifton Road where it was actually on the corner of Clifton road and Upper Sutton Street,i also went and had a look a few years back and there was nothing left,found out that in...
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    Clifton Road Aston

    Hi there Thanks for all your memories i know my mom Rene Hunt used to clean at a chip shop close to where we lived in Clifton Road,like i said my fathers was born at 154 and we moved out of there in the May 1969 . Lindy
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    Duffill brothers, WW1, help needed

    Hi there Does it say his regiment number on the medal card as this might help in tracing his army history i had a look on Ancestry can't find his record but might need further investigation William's details are on there all 16 images and there is a Walter Henry Duffill born about 1874.Don't...
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    B'ham Boarding School 1881

    Hi there Tennal School is now the Matineau Centre which offers education courses on behalf of Birmingham City Council and also Adult education courses during the day and evening, some of the playing field at the front now has houses and apartments on. I remember going to the summer fetes there...
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