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Doreen Aspley (Campbell) was my aunt, one of my mother's younger sisters.

Clarkie, The information is available in our library in Margaret Street. As a member of the Society (£14.50 per year) you can view the info for free.

BMSGH have scanned the burial records for Key Hill, Warstone Lane, Handsworth and Witton. Indexes to all these are available on Findmypast. If you want a copy of the burial record you can order it through the BMSGH shop, www.bmsgh-shop.org.uk In some instances photographs of the gravestones...

Does anybody know of a Catholic Children's home run by Nunns in the early 1920s somewhere in the Longbridge or Rednal area. A gentleman I met at Oxford FHS fair last week is enquiring as his mother was sent to such a home with her two sisters.

Although all 79 registers for Witton have been photographed, with nearly 500,000 burials, full indexing could take another twelve months. If the person you are looking for is not on Findmypast, it is possible to have a search carried out on the unindexed registers, but you would need to be able...

The index records on Find My Past have been put on the site by Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry who have transcribed and indexed the records for Key Hill (in some cases there are monument photographs). A search service is offered via the Society's online bookshop...

I have been helping a writer in America who is interested in the house that J. R. R. Tolkien lived in in Wake Green Road (5 Gracewell, now 264 Wake Green Road). She wanted to know who actually owned the property. The only records that I could find in Birmingham Library was the Poor and General...

Yes Ron. How are you?

Thanks to everybody who took the time to look at the picture. When I moved to Great Barr in the late 60s Queslett Road was already a dual carriageway, and there were very few 'older' type houses left. I will contact the lady and tell her I have exhausted all enquiries via a very knowledgeable...

I have received a letter from a lady in New Zealand enclosing the attached picture. It is not very good as it is a photocopy. She would like to know if I can identify where the photo was taken!! She assumes because the name on the side of the house was Queslett it was taken in Queslett Road...

79 Internment registers have been photographed which contain over 500,000 names. These are being indexed at present. I would think that the index won't be available until nearer the end of the year.

BMSGH have photographed and transcribed the Interment registers to Handsworth cemetery 1909-2010 , Key Hill cemetery 1836-1999, Warstone Lane cemetery 1848-2007. The interment register indexes are hosted by FindMyPast. In the FindMyPast Burials search box, enter the Place as "Birmingham"...

Thank you to everybod who contacted me about the chip shop. My aunt is thrilled that against all odds she still has her marbles !:unconscious:

That's brilliant, thank you so much. It will save me a trip into town. Tom Heeley was a well known athlete, belonging to Sparkhill Harriers. He was also a coach for 1964 olympics.

Talking to my 80+ aunt the other day she told me that her grandmother, Annie Parks nee Heeley nee Hawkins (not sure if she married any of them!) lived in Rae/Bradford Street around the 1920/30s and used to supply factory workers with a cooked dinner each day. The workers would bring their...