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I lived in one in Lozells until I was 10. Shared outside toilet with next door neighbours and the two houses facing the street shared the other. Didn't know the building where washing was done was brew house until researching family history. Remember the large "cauldron" which was used and a...
Thank you Janice. That has answered some questions for me. It looks like the "cousins once or twice removed" from two separate brothers'
families are, as you say, just distant cousins. The only true connection is where the family share Grandparents from several generations before.
Thank you for your response. I'd also like to know what is the relationship between the "second cousins" from separate families called.
This where it gets really tricky. What does it mean when a relationship is "once removed"?
I apologise if this question doesn't belong on The Birmingham History Forum but am hoping someone can help me sort out the relationship
between members of my family. My mother Muriel Flower had an uncle George (her father Edward Flower's brother) which I know means that she and
George's...
The one I'm talking about was obviously like you describe. We lived in a back to back (about 100 years old) with three storeys. Like yours Lyn the kickdown led to a bedroom in the house facing the street. Do you know anything about a house fire happening in the area?
I am new to this Forum and apologise if I am posting this incorrectly. I have replied to other posts about Wilton Street previously, and this time I'm asking if there was a fire between 1959 and 1965 when people died (children?) I left 1/17 Wilton Street in 1958, where I lived as child, but my...
Thanks for the info. The father must have been present because on each of the 4 birth certificates the mother (Maria PARKES) was the informant and marked with her cross. Name of the father and occupation columns are blank. Births were registered between 1869 and 1886 in Oldbury...
Yes, it's so frustrating! Mum's Grandmother (my G-Grandmother) was illigitimate. Her mother never married and had 3 other children. None of the 4 birth certificates show the father's name. Don't know if it's true but I was told the father could request that this information not to be...
My mother was born in 1925 (still living) and moved to 1 back of 17 Wilton Street as a young child. She would definitely have been there in 1939 because I was born in 1948 and also lived in that house until my mother, stepfather and I moved to Great Barr when I was 10. Mum has some health...
That's jogged my memory. I remember Lozells Road and Burbury Street Park. My mother would take me with her to the laundromat on Lozells Rd to wash the sheets and put them in the large tumble dryer. Later on she bought a small Hoover washing machine with electric wringer. Must have still been...
It's a long time ago but I went to the Farm Street school and am sure I spent a year at one which was connected to St Paul's Church (?) We moved from Wilton Street in 1958 and came to Australia in 1965