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Hi Janice, Thanks for that bit of detail. I think "Ravensthorpe" was sold after Thomas and Louisa died in 1919. Jane was the eldest daughter who lived in the house with her parents with her son after her own husband had died some years earlier. I am trying to contact Jane's son's family who now...

Hi Phil, Mikejee & Janice, Thanks for your efforts in finding these snippets of information to piece together some of the missing information of Bessie's life before she moved away from the U.K. and lived out her life in Australia, never returning to visit Birmingham. My understanding that her...

Hi Phil, Thanks for your research and quick reply! Your mention of Thomas Priest as a rate collector seems to confirm some other notes my Grandmother (Winifred "Bessie" Priest) left mentioning that her father's factory closed when the industrial age meant hand made spectacles were no longer...

Hi, My grandmother who was born in 1891, emigrated from Birmingham to Australia in 1919. Her father, Thomas Priest at one time owned a spectacle making factory in Birmingham and one of her older brothers- Alfred Priest (1874-1929) was a well known artist and portrait painter. Her diary...