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TOTALLY AMAZING!!!!!!! Many thanks for sharing that!!!
PS We visited Birmingham last year (made my Australian wife walk round Witton Cemetery in the March rain ha!) and we walked down Witton Lane and Lichfield Road (home to MANY of the HUMPHREYS clan!)
WE also visited the back-to-back house...
https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/tree/58290248/family?cfpid=122485428204
on Ancestry as FRANCIS HUMPHREYS & MARIA MOORE family tree.
MARIA MOORE 1881-1935 is my paternal Grandmother (ANOTHER LONG STORY! Ha!) she married THOMAS HUMPHREYS 1888-1929 (my Paternal Grandfather) he was the...
CHARLOTTE (like ALL the HUMPHREYS characters - past and present - are very interesting.... - had THREE children with her husband WILLIAM H WHALE 1865-1896 - THEN lived with his brother (after husband died) had FOUR children with him (JOSEPH WHALE 1856-1929) THEN married JOHN RAYBOULD in 1905.
Dear Lyn,
You are finding things it took me MONTHS to find! ha! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
YES, Ive seen Rose Hannahs Headstone... Its on my Ancestry Page
https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/tree/58290248/family?cfpid=122485428204
Thanks Lyn,
I saw that reference... so... ordered her Death certificate (enclosed) ..."Mother LOUISA HUMPHREYS put me off that clue... (also father CHARLES HUMPHREYS is listed as a "CARMAN"... But (in the Marriage Certificate to new wife ELIZABETH EVANS) he is listed as a "DIE SINKER" (like...
THANK YOU (in advance) for your help.... we even CAME OVER to the U.K. last year to visit Birmingham Library (and a few cemeteries) to look for clues!! Lol
No luck though.... :-(
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH (in advance) for taking the time to help solve my puzzles!
The HUMPHREYS family were from Aston in Birmingham (we even had a relative play for ASTON VILLA!!)
They moved around a bit (Up to HULL, down to Grantham THEN BACK to Birmingham) and the problems started when my Great...