Recent content by Carol Smith-Tavinor

Hi Stitcher, I know it was forever ago that this came up but I have just got some newspaper cuttings about my Great Grandmother Emma E Williams whose father had The Boar's Head in Perry Barr and she went on to own/license The Parson & Clark and then back to The Boar's Head with her second...

Thank you, could not find it and am awaiting Emma's Birth Cert. so can add this to the tree. Greatly appreciated.

Me again, please can you tell me where William William's first wife Sarah comes to be Sarah Morris, only I can not find a marriage date for William with anyone other than a Sarah Dipple and she lived in Herefordshire all her life. Subsequent records seem to only put Sarah / Williams? Please can...

I have a copy of Shenstone's history which shows John Barnes as being the licencee of The Bull's Head, Shenstone, and was a farmer from East Anglia (?) which says he distributed for sale a new fangled type of plough, saving farmers hours and back breaking work, and made a considerable sum. He...

Her name (s) was Emma Elizabeth nee William's when her father ran the old Boar's Head at Perry Barr then she married and her surnames were Spencer, then Foden, then Barnes (Shenstone) when married to ex Mayor/Sheriffe George Barnes. SHE was quite a woman, abandoned, thrice married, publican...

WOW, totally brilliant, thanks so much the photos will add so much to the book on my Mum's family. Emma Elizabeth, daughter of William Williams, owner of The Boar's Head for many years, went on to marry two publicans and lived with her last husband, High Sheriff of Lichfield (at one point)...

Thanks Rob, I'll give it a try. Also looking for history of The George IV in Lichfield as my GGGranny's THIRD husband, George Barnes, owned it, or at least his family's brewery did (I think!)

Thanks for those and The Royal Oak was what the Foden family (I think) renamed the Parson & Clark..it's a while since I did my Spencer family research, but think that is right. Emma & John Foden were still at the pub until 1904 when John died much too young, only 40 yrs old.

OOK thank you.

Yes this is the view I have already of my GGGrandfather's pub, would love to see anything of the original Parson & Clerk (aka The Royal Oak) which my GGrannie took over on the death of her second husband John Foden...any help????

Please can you tell me how you know the date of the photos, and where they came from? Thanks, carol

WOW, sorry it has taken so long to see these photos as the pub belonged to my Great Great Grandfather William Williams, and his daughter Emma Elizabeth married three times, and owned The Royal Oak (from John Foden her 2nd husband) aka The Parson & Clerk. Has anyone any photos of The P&C by any...