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ASSINDER — the Tripe dealers in Digbeth
In the British Newspaper Archive, I found relevant items in 1845 editions of Aris's Birmingham Gazette. In April of that year, auctioneers placed notices regarding the forthcoming sale of properties in the estate of a Samuel Bodell, deceased. Among them as Lot IV was a freehold sale of the... -
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ASSINDER — the Tripe dealers in Digbeth
Hello MWS - can you give a steer on how to access those newspaper snippets? Thank you -
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ASSINDER — the Tripe dealers in Digbeth
On origins, Joseph Assinder, father of the John who started the tripe business in the 1830s, was baptised at Hampton in Arden in 1761. He married Mary Minshall at St Martin's, Birmingham, in 1787. John (born in 1802) was baptised there in 1806. Previous generations were from the Balsall area. -
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ASSINDER — the Tripe dealers in Digbeth
I would like to add that there were (at least) TWO tripe businesses in nineteenth century Digbeth. The Assinders business appears at "15 Digbeth" through all censuses from 1841 to 1901, run by two generations. The other at 23 and 24 Digbeth was run by a George Mountford. He appears at that...