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Enos Edwards - Engineer of Birmingham Fire Office 1805 / the Bull Ring Riot 1839

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Petal

proper brummie kid
Hi

I have several generations of ancestors that worked as fireman for the Birmingham Fire Office 1805-67 in Union Passage. Although there is lots of information on the later fire service i,e from 1870’s and the Tozer family, I wondered if anyone new of where I could start to find information on the earlier insurance company fire offices/companies, which I believe the Birmingham Fire Office was one of. I have checked out previous posts and there is a little info and some pictures.

I am specifically interested in Enos Edwards ( snr) and Enos Edwards (jnr) Birmingham Fire Office - Union Passage. I do have a bit of information but would like to delve deeper if I can.

Enos Edwards (b1793) and his son Enos Edwards (b1818) were both apparently chief fire engineers for the company - I found this link in a book Ihttps://www.kirkyards.co.uk/historyarticle.asp?ID=382&p=26&g=4. I have also found from reports of state trials that Enos junior was a witness at the trial of chartists after the choas of the 1839 chartist Bull Ring Riots, as he was on duty putting out fires started by the mob (a good general link if anyone is interest in Bull ring riots is https://www.lerwill-life.org.uk/history/gutenberg/1877%20Edwards%20-%20Personal%20Recollections%20of%20Birmingham.pdf .

Does anyone know if it is worth trying the central library in case it has more records of this insurance company, or any other sources I could find? I would like to find the parents of Enos Senior who's father, I presume, must have been chief fire engineer before him too.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Many thanks
 
The 1841 Pigots directory lists the Birmingham Fire Office, John Simmons, at 27 Union St Later directories show it as 25-27 Union St. This was directly next to UnionPassage. It was still there in 1862, but it, and references in the directory of the firm, have disappeared by 1867
 
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