MWS

Strange that Boisell seems invisible. No one of that name appears in the London Gazette. The agent advert for Lahore has the same spelling.

I had a look for someone called Boisell which seemed an unusual name but only found a few and they were likely misspelt Bissells. So...

Possible History of the firm James Gisborne. 1839…James Gisborne, musical instruments maker, Cross Street. 1845…moves to 37 Suffolk...

I think you are spot on here. There is another picture marked Cliche Nadar of a boy playing a trumpet.

The write up suggests that the instruments were made in Bham but sold in London. Therefore would there be a more varied clientele...

Internet find - go to the Cofton Collection site at www.coftoncollections.net - enter Birmingham in the search engine and over 150...

A happy dna story... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6z72z9lno Maybe not as extreme but as anyone found else out (not...

replacing a photo of hanley st and also another one showing a back court but i have read that someone thinks the older photo is not...

The days when families lived close to each other. On the 1957 Cecilia is listed at 62 with your mom and dad. Your one uncle, John, is...

1950s map, aerial view 1951 and photo of The White Swan.

In 1921 Ellen Jane is with her daughter, who remarried Benjamin Turner although her name is mis-transcribed as Laura Mary. She seems to...

Ellen died in 1945, reg. Mar qtr Rowley Regis. In 1939 she is with her daughter in Pedmore (Rutherford Ham Lane). Louisa has...

Now we're getting somewhere, Ellen is in Wales 1891, as MWS said, then 1901, Ladywood, with other family members. I am so glad I'm a...

baptism for louisa mary was at st annes church duddeston...fathers occ was a clerk...address was erskine street..looks like it says back...

People did get confused make errors or even lie. Accents also didn't help. Before Lyn said George's father was listed as an accountant...