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    St Mary's Chapel Whittall Street

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    St Mary's Chapel Whittall Street

    Hi all, this church was deconsecreted and the land became Birmingham Councils. They sold it to the hospital who removed as many bodies as they could find. Most went into a mass grave at Witton Cemetery except those with preserved gravestones who got new graves. Body snatchers were rife in the...
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    Tibbitts Birmingham pre 1790 origins?

    Thank you both. I have found out that he was buried in St Mary's Chapelry which was deconsecrated and the hospital was extended over the land. Not sure what happened to the bodies but supposedly the inscriptions are in the Birmingham Library. Does any of that make sense?
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    St Mary's Chapel Whittall Street

    Something that may help. Not sure what happened to the bodies but supposedly the inscriptions from the graves are in Birmingham Library.
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    Tibbitts Birmingham pre 1790 origins?

    Good morning, Just trying to track down information in regards to a Moses Tibbitts (-1816) (my 4th great grandfather) who was father to John Henry Tibbitts in 1790 in Birmingham but I cannot find any earlier records of Moses Tibbitts (he was a steel stud maker) and where he came from? It is...
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