Recent content by Breezy

I think Dear was just an affectionate name they used. Maybe a sign of the times.

Yes that's Ann Walton I expect. It was Ann that sourced the police report.

There is one other interesting element to this story.... Alice died on 26th Feb 1915. My daughter was born 26th Feb 2014. 99 years to the day...

https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/10491694?h=afbeb5 This is the Civil Register of the death

It would. Strangely I've never been able to find it!

Thank you Mike. I appreciate you looking too.

Thanks Lyn. Can't see anything on there but I'll keep looking. I'll upload those documents tomorrow

Hi Lyn I obtained the police report from a relative who had transcribed most of it. I have a photo of Alfred and Florence along with the Census and also a trade directory but I'm struggling to upload them from my phone onto here. Might try on the laptop tomorrow. I'd be really interested to know...

Hi Lyn. Yes it's the Blakeland Street in Bordesley. I've been researching my family for a couple of years now and have a few ancestors for this area in the early 1900s. I can't find any other reference to the shop they ran apart from in this police report. It's a terribly sad story really and it...

My great grandparents Alfred David Breeze and his wife Florence lived at 74 Blakeland St in the early 1900's. They ran a small grocers from the house. I wanted to know if anyone knew anything about them. I have some photos of them but I don't know an awful lot. I do know that there was a...