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    Amy Jones

    This is a needle in a haystack search. I am seeking info on someone with very little details and a very common name. I am looking for info about an "Amy Jones" family folklore says she was born between 1931 to 1933 possibly in Wales. I did find some details that matched this, but the death...
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    • jones wilkins
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    Raymond Bertie Wilkins

    Seeking info about the family of Raymond B Wilkins born 5th Aug 1929 to Bertie Wilkins and Clara Elise Elizabeth Bates. Raymond married and Amy Jones posibbly born between 1931 to 1933. We know very little information about her and may need to order thei wedding certificate to find correct...
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    • jones wilkins
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    • Forum: U - Z
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    Boer War Sword

    One of my grandad's uncles Robert Jones fought in the Boer War and brought back with him a sword that has the number F2 82 8H19 inscribed on it. I have not been able to find his war record as there are simply too many Robert or R Jones listed on ancestry but wondered if this inscription might...
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    Maltsters And The Birmingham Brewing Industry

    At least two generations of my Jones lineage were malsters. Thomas born in Tipton c1833 is regularly described as such in censuses and marriage / birth certificates that or a labourer to a malster. He moved to Hockley in the late 1860s. His father William was also a malster born around 1800...
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    Winson Green Mental Hospital And Rubery Hill Asylum

    A very sad discovery in my family history was the treatment of Betsy Jones, sister of my great grandad Frank Jones. She was deemed to be a "congenital idiot" and placed in the Winson Green mental hospital in 1878, then the new Rubery Hill Asylum in 1882. On becoming an inmate her records state...
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    Jones Mountford Fenton Parlett Et Al

    https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/13811590/family gun percussion's (Mountford) masters and milk dealers (Jones) paper hangers and decorators (Fentons)
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    Stuart Street, Nechells

    Does anyone have any images/photos of Stuart Street, Nechells in the 1960's or before. Members of my family used to live in this street between the late 18, early 19oo's until it was demolished in the late 1960's. I have some family photo's taken in the back but struggling to find any of the...
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    • ames bramely hicks hill jones nechalls nechells park road stuart street trevor street
    • Replies: 54
    • Forum: Neighbours & Streets
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