Recent content by JCLukin

Dear All, I just wanted to say how much I have appreciated your assistance. Since joining your Forum a short time ago, I have picked up some great research skills from you which I am sure will serve me well in the future. I have learned from different members of the Forum how to access a...

I wonder if Michael Jennings had a shop front for his boot making at 8 Grosvenor Street West and by 1890 it was renumbered to 20 Grosvenor Street West with William Green as the boot maker? I think No.8 in the old street numbering and No.20 in the new numbering would be opposite the entrance to...

Thank you again. I agree with you that it seems unlikely that No.1 Grosvenor Street West (address of the Grosvenor Arms) would be in the middle of the block and not at one end or the other of the street - especially given the format of the postal directory. Unfortunately the writing on the image...

I've found a Google street view of 8 Grosvenor Street W which seems to be opposite the entrance to the Old Union Mill. The brickwork on the front of No. 8 is Flemish Bond, a pattern which was common on Georgian architecture and used here in Western Australia up to about 1900. However, the...

Hello again Janice, With some help I have come up with a baptism record for William Henry Jennings on February 2, 1862 at St Thomas’ Church. The address of the parents is the same - Grosvenor Street - and on this record it names William and Elizabeth Jennings as parents. I have no idea who...

Hello Janice, Here are the results of my first successful request for a GRO digital image of birth registration records! I've learned something new thanks to you. As you can see, Elizabeth Jennings did not name William Henry's father for the birth registration. The day and month of birth...

Thank you again Janice. Back in the 1960s when my sister was working in London, she was asked by my Grandmother to go into Somerset House and try to get a birth certificate for her father William Henry Benbow. Now I hope we have the reason why my sister could not get the birth certificate. I...

Hello again, With some additional research, I think I need to correct the family story I was told about George Benbow and his wife Sarah Jennings being the parents of William Henry Benbow. With some assistance, I have found a Census record from 1861 which I think I have successfully attached to...

It would not surprise me if the boy known as William Benbow had been born ( perhaps out of wedlock) to a relative in the Jennings family and raised by Charles and Elizabeth Benbow.

Thank you so much Janice. That has been most helpful. I located an old photo of the Horseshoe Pub for comparative purposes and I am very confident that the building on the right of the photo of Colebank School, Hall Green which you posted is one and the same Horseshoe Pub. While the School...

Edited post from Hall Green Schools thread Hello Lyn, You were asking for some more information on William Henry Benbow (date of birth, names of parents etc.). This is where my Great Grandfather's story gets a bit mysterious. My grandmother (Doris Elizabeth Lukin nee Benbow), daughter of WH...

Thank you so much Janice. That has been most helpful. I located an old photo of the Horseshoe Pub for comparative purposes and I am very confident that the building on the right of the photo of Colebank School, Hall Green which you posted is one and the same Horseshoe Pub. While the School...