LawAndOrderFan
master brummie
Good Evening All.
A friend and I are trying to find out more about Harry Longfield who on his marriage cert to my friend's Great Aunt Mary Kathleen Powell in Aston in 1916 was shown as living at Cateswell Cottage in Green Lane Hall Green. We have no idea if this was a family home or if he was a lodger. At the moment we are trying to build a tree for him to see if he connects to Alexander Brown and his wife Henretta who are there on the 1911.
As far as we know he was from Leeds - this is what his family believe, and indeed he & Mary moved there at some point, and there they remained. None of his grandchildren recall him having any relatives. The best they can come up with is that his mother was a single Irish girl, or so they believe. They do not know when & where he died as the marriage eventually failed and Mary found a new partner, but did not re-marry until 1953.
This has led us to question how the cottage or cottages if there were more, got their name. Close by is Cateswell Road so why weren't the Cateswell Cottages in Cateswell Road for instance? There is still a cottage in Green Lane which could even be it but at the moment nothing to confirm that. We've Googled and anything else we can think of to find where the Cateswell name came from. We are both Brummies and we've always believed that most Birmingham names had some significance; we just can't find this with Cateswell.
Any knowledge or thoughts would be very welcome. Many thanks. Jill
A friend and I are trying to find out more about Harry Longfield who on his marriage cert to my friend's Great Aunt Mary Kathleen Powell in Aston in 1916 was shown as living at Cateswell Cottage in Green Lane Hall Green. We have no idea if this was a family home or if he was a lodger. At the moment we are trying to build a tree for him to see if he connects to Alexander Brown and his wife Henretta who are there on the 1911.
As far as we know he was from Leeds - this is what his family believe, and indeed he & Mary moved there at some point, and there they remained. None of his grandchildren recall him having any relatives. The best they can come up with is that his mother was a single Irish girl, or so they believe. They do not know when & where he died as the marriage eventually failed and Mary found a new partner, but did not re-marry until 1953.
This has led us to question how the cottage or cottages if there were more, got their name. Close by is Cateswell Road so why weren't the Cateswell Cottages in Cateswell Road for instance? There is still a cottage in Green Lane which could even be it but at the moment nothing to confirm that. We've Googled and anything else we can think of to find where the Cateswell name came from. We are both Brummies and we've always believed that most Birmingham names had some significance; we just can't find this with Cateswell.
Any knowledge or thoughts would be very welcome. Many thanks. Jill
