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My Grandfather (Samuel Ward b 1885) was orphaned at the age of 3 and brought up in the Cottage Home of the Birmingham workhouse. He was born at Cregoe St. Birmingham where his father died just after Samuels birth.
His mother (Lavinia) died in the Western Road Workhouse in 1888.
Will the...