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My grandfather, John Joseph Cotter died in the Old City Hospital, Dudley Road on 19th April 1922. Was this the same place as the Dudley Road Workhouse?

Think that I agree with you that this Alice was not the child of my William. I have just found the 1861 census for St Bride Middlesex when my William lived with his parents William ( a tin plate worker) and Anne ( Bridget). It shows he was 7, so born in 1854. His brother Joseph aged 2 was...

I have William's birth date as 25th December 1852 which would have made him 28 at the time of the 1881 census not 26. He would have been 16 when Alice was born in Dudley Road Workhouse. When Alice Jennings ( Not Jennens but that happened a lot as they could not spell) was baptised in St...

Thanks Shera for finding the family on the 1881 Census. William 26, Sarah 36 and Joseph 2. That is correct my grandmother was born that year. Interesting no Alice. If she was still alive she would have been 12. Did she die? Or was she adopted? Does anyone have access to Birmingham...

Thank you all very much. Yes sometimes the family is Jennens and sometimes Jennings. I had looked at that marriage earlier, but have come to a deadend on Alice. Did she die at an early age? Is anyone able to lookup burials in Birmingham for me. It is very difficult to get information...

Alice Jennens was born on 24th August 1868 in the Workhose, Dudley Road Birmingham and baptised on 28th August 1868 in St Martins. She was the daughter of William Jennens and Sarah Shelley. William was 16 at the time and the son of William Jennens and Elizabeth Lock. Sarah would have been...

The Thomas who married Hannah Tonkinson was the son of John & Sarah and was Baptised on 30th December, 1800 at Saint Phillips, Birmingham. They came to Australia with the 4 surviving children, John, Thomas, Caroline and Amelia, on board the "Alfred" arriving in Sydney on 19th January 1841...

Stuart, Who did Thomas (son of Samuel and Ann) marry? What other children did they have? Are you able to give me the descendants of Thomas. My gggrandfather was William last born child of Samuel and Ann. My father Peter Joseph Cotter, son of Sarah Annie Jennens was born in Birmingham...

Thank you Wendy for your prompt reply. It may be possible that the Sarah mentioned as her mother was Sarah Ann Shelley, who married William in 1873. She was 11 years older than him and would have been 27 when Alice was born, although he was only 16. I will have to search further to try and...

Can anyone tell me about Alice Jennens born in the Dudley Road Workhouse on 24th August, 1868. I understant her father was William Jennens, my GGrandfather, who would have been 16 at the time. Can anyone tell me who her mother was? When and if she married and when she died?

I, too, am descendent from Samuel Jennens and Ann Tonkinson. From Samuel to William, William and then to my grandmother Sarah Annie who married John Joseph Cotter. My father Peter Joseph Cotter was born in Birmingham in 1911 and came to Australia with the family after his father died in 1922...