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    William Adams Silver Birmingham

    Hello from the USA. Thank you for allowing me to join this forum. I have acquired two silver trays. I am trying to trace the year of manufacture, history, value and material makeup of these pieces. I believe they were made by William Adams by the hallmark. (see pictures below) according to what...
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    Turland, Betsy Or Elizabeth

    My 2x Great Grandmother Elizabeth (Betsy) Turland (born Elizabeth Grant 1847, Great Glen, Leicestershire) lived at 54 Hope Street, Birmingham in 1901 with the Sheffield family - Joseph Sheffield (a publican born in Nuneaton), his father and his young son. Mrs Sheffield had evidently died...
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    Davis, William 1811-1890

    William Davis was born in Birmingham. It is likely he married Ann Smith at St Philips on 2 Dec 1831. At each census they both record their ages as 40, 50, 60, 70 before their demise. William had a son John born 1833 in Birmingham. Then the family move to Sheffield, from where my father...
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