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Trantom & Co Pershore Road Stirchley

Viv, I’m still convinced the original photo is the one next to Selly Park girls school. 1st the number 164 is the same as the Adams Store, and secondly it looks like a post office on the left and that’s where there was the post office when I was a kid.
 
I was a bit concerned that the name on the photo was G Trantom but the listing in Kelly's did not give an initial. Perhaps it is just coincidence that there were Trantom shops in Birmingham. I have to say when I searched it seemed to be a Liverpool name.
 
Yes the Liverpool Trantoms had a pork sausage factory in Liverpool in the 1890s and a number of retail outlets. It’s possible the Birmingham Trantoms were related. It’s not a particularly common name.

In any case there’s no denying we have some Trantoms in Birmingham whether they’re related or not. Viv.
 
I tried reading the name on the postcard and it looks like Amy - interestingly on the 1891 census George Trantom (in Liverpool and definitely a grocer) has a sister Amy. At the moment I can't link her to a number 79. She doesn't appear to marry and I wondered if Ernest was her fiancee who perhaps died in the war as the postcard is dated 1915 but that might just be my imagination working overtime. I can't find an Ernest Trantom.
 
Nothing on CWGC, Janice, but he could have had second thoughts, perhaps. They didn't all come home to a "happy ever after" relationship.

Maurice :cool:
 
Amy appears to have died in the Leeds area in 1966, but there is no Probate entry.

Maurice :cool:
 
Same one, Janice, just wondering why the Probate entry didn't show up on my search. Thanks. Maybe Amy had second thoughts?

Maurice :cool:
 
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