Hello,
I am new to this forum having stumbled across it in researching my late father's ancestors. I don't know if this request is ok to make here - if it is not then please moderators, accept my sincere apologies and delete it.
My late father's family came from Birmingham. In the 2nd half of the 19th century they lived and worked in the area around the bull ring in places like Smithfield Passage, Bath Passage, Vine Street. They worked as poultry dealers, hawkers, florists, tote clerks. I have traced the line of my paternal grandmother a few generations but I have hit a complete blank wall in finding my paternal grandfather anywhere before his July 1912 marriage to my paternal grandmother.
His address on his marriage certificate was 15 Court 7 House Hurst Street, but he does not appear here in the 1911 census - in fact curiously the 1911 census has far fewer low numbers in Hurst Street than the 1891 census.
The name he used consistently in his marriage certificate, in registering the births of his children, in electoral registers and census records was Frederick Merrick, it was usually spelt like this. Sometimes there is a second and/or third christian name either Allen or Roger.
Where he has had to name his birthplace, he has said Birmingham. My best estimate is that he was born some time between 1883 and 1889, I know that he died in Birmingham in 1936 - I have his death certificate.
I have been using ancestry and findmypast but maybe he took a new name and I'll never find him. This post is a bit of a wild card, last ditch attempt to trace him.
I am new to this forum having stumbled across it in researching my late father's ancestors. I don't know if this request is ok to make here - if it is not then please moderators, accept my sincere apologies and delete it.
My late father's family came from Birmingham. In the 2nd half of the 19th century they lived and worked in the area around the bull ring in places like Smithfield Passage, Bath Passage, Vine Street. They worked as poultry dealers, hawkers, florists, tote clerks. I have traced the line of my paternal grandmother a few generations but I have hit a complete blank wall in finding my paternal grandfather anywhere before his July 1912 marriage to my paternal grandmother.
His address on his marriage certificate was 15 Court 7 House Hurst Street, but he does not appear here in the 1911 census - in fact curiously the 1911 census has far fewer low numbers in Hurst Street than the 1891 census.
The name he used consistently in his marriage certificate, in registering the births of his children, in electoral registers and census records was Frederick Merrick, it was usually spelt like this. Sometimes there is a second and/or third christian name either Allen or Roger.
Where he has had to name his birthplace, he has said Birmingham. My best estimate is that he was born some time between 1883 and 1889, I know that he died in Birmingham in 1936 - I have his death certificate.
I have been using ancestry and findmypast but maybe he took a new name and I'll never find him. This post is a bit of a wild card, last ditch attempt to trace him.
