Recent content by Brumbirder

I have researched the service personnel who died in WW2 and are buried in Sutton Coldfield cemetery. Included is a 20 year old Wren and the grandson of Colonel Joseph Henry Wilkinson who owned Ashfurlong Hall. I am happy to share the document as PDF. It is too large to attach to the server it seems.

The Royal Sutton Coldfield Great War Project website went live today https://www.royalsuttoncoldfieldgreatwarproject.co.uk If anyone has any information to add to this project we will be collating a new document to be added in the future

I have been updating my original project from 2013 - 2018. I am adding the many more records now available, plus looking at the effects the war had on families who lost loved ones. I have almost finished this huge task and have employed a web designer to put it all onto a website - which should...

I am currently updating the RSCGWP I am expanding it to look at what happened to loved ones after the deaths and also adding the many new documents not available when the project started I aim to get it put on a website but due to health issues this is slow progress As of 29.12.24 I have got to...

I trained and worked there as a registered nurse. Much was already derelict when I was there in the 1980's - 1990's. I knew they had turned part into apartments but had no idea about all those houses. If ghosts could talk!!!

Frederick Charles Wiseman was a distant cousin of mine. He was born in Handsworth in1862. He did OK as he left £6432 in his estate! Never married or had kids!

Many thanks Stokkie I am in touch with Samantha now on ancestry and have filled her in on what I could and come up with ideas for her to try, such as a newspaper request- slim chance but the Brum Mail might do it. Plus buying the Highcroft book. She did private dna but I have suggested sending...

I saw a post today on the Ex Highcroft facebook group asking if anyone might have had a photo of Elen (Nellie) Cowan who worked there as a daily domestic 1945 - 1951. She was born in Ireland in 1917 and died in Brum in 1951. It is her granddaughter who has never seen a photo of her grandmother...

That is brilliant thank you. My mom, my aunt, my mom's two best friends all worked here after leaving school The skills they learned were taken forward into their married lives My aunt, after her children arrived, made wedding dresses at home My mom, when we were in Port Elizabeth South Africa...

I have just had this conversation with my aunt on my mom's side I was at my dad's brother's funeral last week whom I had lost touch with The celebrant said my uncle had met his wife at my parents office I rang my aunt as she was at the wedding Mom and my aunt in law met working at Lingards and...

I am currently writing a short article about James Cook and the Pitman Health Foods history. I used to walk past the factory (by then no longer Pitman, from 1957 for five years on my way to Hill infant school. Later my mom worked at Lucas at Mere Green. I started my research in 2009 but it got...

No idea it was what someone else in the thread posted! I was researching some old Sutton pubs for someone who is writing a book will email you

Brumbirder is me Yvonne Moore!

I did a history of all the people who lived at the Duke Inn, Duke Street Sutton Coldfield if you are interested

Hi Janice Many thanks for your reply. I have checked both men again and agree about the Atherstone death. So far it is hard to link the other man to a regiment. I have played around with just putting T Mercer in but nothing jumps out as obvious! I hope you have some luck or bright ideas! We have...