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Hi, mystery solved! It wasn't Annie's dad who married twice - it was her husband's father Gregory Perkins senior, also a carpenter...

Thanks, the Howell family who rented No 58 came from.Arundel. John Henry Howell was a military tailor there during the late 19th...

Does anybody know when the terraced houses in Harman Road, Erdington, were built? I seem to remember that the addresses were split down...

There is a Frederick Watkins, herbalist who lives in Moat Row, very close to markets in 1901 with a son Frederick, aged 12. Not sure I'd...

As the same listing appears in 1888 it won't be her brother (he would only have been 11) but may well be a relative Annie worked for.

Frederick Watkins had a fruit /vegetable stall in Smithfield Market in the 1890s up till at least 1921, but there was no Watkins stall...

I will double check the census entries but if she worked or "helped out" between census years it might be hard to check.

One more mystery. If Annie Elizabeth married in 1897, she would have been around 27, and a mother three years later. She didn't work...

Thanks for this! A Jim Perkins - some distant cousin, probably- contacted my dad Leslie back in the 1980s for information about a...

I can't find any baptism records, but have a wedding of Edward Watkins, brush maker, and Jane Rhoda Fullett on 22nd May 1864. Edward's...

They certainly moved out of Aston and rarely referred to having lived there. I imagine they initially rented No 40 and bought No 90 -...

Thanks for this - I didnt realise they'd lived in another part of Hunton Road before buying and living at 90. They.must have bought 92...

Really interesting information, thanks. Annie sometimes referred to a sister - possibly a half sister. I think her father Edward was...

Thanks for letting me know- yes, 1890s - edited it now!

Sorry, yes, Annie Elizabeth Watkins