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    The Royal Oak, Barn Road

    Hello Janice, Mile and Astonian, thank you so much for all your help in my search, I am learning so many new pieces of Rose and Harry's life. It looks as if I can almost plot their lives via the various pubs and establishments they ran throughout Birmingham. I certainly didn't know that Rose...
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    The Royal Oak, Barn Road

    Thank you for that info Alan, I wonder how long my Aunt and her husband ran it for and if they were there until 1955, have you ever heard of the Grubhams by any chance? He went by the name Grubham and they had children one of which, a little girl, was involved in an accident involving a dart and...
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    The Royal Oak, Barn Road

    To Lynn and Mike Thank you both so much that is fantastic, the only thing I could come up with was the Crown which was in High street so I was going round in circles, I will take a look at the site you mention. How wonderful that it is still there, I must go and visit it when I next get to...
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    The Royal Oak, Barn Road

    Hello, wonder if anyone can help me. I just found a electoral roll from 1925 which lists my great Aunt Rose as living at a public house in Barn Road Deritend with her husband Henry Grubham however I can't work out if the pub is called the Rose and Crown or the Royal Oak as it says both on the...
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Dear Bewdley That is wonderful of you to send me as some of those poor soldiers would have signed up with Walter,I would have thought, as they have consecutive numbers. I have often wondered if he was in some kind of Pals regiment or just joined up with his friends. When his brother William...
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Hi Janice Of course, Presumed dead, I thought it said pronounced!!! I am really so thick.Do you think the first line refers to money in his pack which he had left behind, and the second perhaps pay owned? maybe the figures refer to pounds shillings and pence? Best wishes Maria
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Hello Steve. Thank you so much for that, I think I agree, it is far more likely that he was killed in action as his family placed adverts in the Birmingham Gazette up to a month later searching for him as missing in action. Surely if he had died in a hospital they would have known for sure what...
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Dear janice Thank you, so so much that is super and will be such a help, how very sad though, so few affects to show for his nineteen years Why didn't I find this when I was on Ancestry? You are so kind and very clever thank you
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Hi Bewdley, thank you so much for that. So, if I am reading that right the 1st DCLI became the 95th brigade with the 5th division and so I am looking at the correct diary. Also may explain why I could find no mention of them. I think it mentions an attack at 3am but lists it as 22nd and I...
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Oh wow Haven't seen anything for him on ancestry, that is definitely him, his mother was Rebecca and they often wrote the name wrongly, that is the first time I've ever seen an effects list. I assumed as he was classified as missing no effects were found, perhaps this was money owed to him or...
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Hi Maypolebaz Thank you for that, maybe they were together at Hill 60. Do you know where that is and any idea how your uncle came to be in DCLI? Where did you your information from by the way, was it in his records or was that from the battalion diaries? 24 years old, awful isn't it, they...
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    The Duke of Cornwalls War diary

    Hello everyone My great uncle Walter Holtom was in the Duke of Cornwall's 1st Battalion aged 19 and lost his life in the battle of High Wood, we believe, on 23rd July 1916. I am writing a family history novel about the lives of Walter and his family and in order to get as accurate as possible...
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    Owen, James the bloody steps murderer

    Hi Janice, yes I spotted that, first time I have ever seen anything like that. In fact it made me think more than ever that James was married at Brinklow as the clergy must still have had knowledge of the family to write that in the records. All of the children were baptized there and all the...
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    Owen, James the bloody steps murderer

    Hi postie, thanks for that, no mention of wifes name but its a lovely site and some super pictures, I love what Colin Dexter did with the story, so very clever and the real murder victim was actually married to a magician who died in Ireland. Shame that James Owen and his men were very very...
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    Owen, James the bloody steps murderer

    Hi MWS, he was a cousin of my great grandmother and I am writing up the story as part of a family History book. I have even read the trial transcripts and am in contact with the murder victims ancestors but although mention is made that he was married and that his wife visited him in jail and...
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    Owen, James the bloody steps murderer

    Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me, my ancestor James was hung in 1840 for murdering a passenger on his Pickfords' canal boat so he is a very interesting person in our family tree. (Also a horrible piece of work) I have his mother and father Joseph and Avis and his brothers and sisters but...
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    Tonks,Sarah Whitmore

    Belive she may have made a marriage in her youth and this prevented her from marrying again although she lived with a man for 28 years and had 8 children all taking her name. She was born 1857 father John Tonks a railway guard. Or it could have been her partner Harry Short born 1857 mother Emma...
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    Whitmore Tonks - Sarah

    The above lady was my great grandmother and a lady of mystery. I have found out a lot about her but would most like to know why she lived with a man for 28 years and had 8 children with him but they never married. The children where even baptised late in life and his name changed to Harry Tonks...
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    Charles Short

    Charles was my Great uncle and I have only recently found what I believe to be his WW1 records on the forces Genealogy site. Only problem is that the info I have on him from the family is that he was captured in the Balklands and sent to a salt mine as a prisoner of war died there. problem is...
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    R A F querry

    Hello, can anyone please tell me what rank an AM in the RAF was. I have found a Great Uncle on the Absentee Voters List (thanks to a member on here) and don't know if he was an Airman or an Air Mechanic. This is the entry at 8 court 3 house Howe Street Harry...
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