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Thank you both for your responses. My interest is about what sort of place Aston was when my Gfather lived there in the late 1800s. I have always assumed it was, for want of a better word, a "Village" near but outside what was then Birmingham and it seems this is the case. Ive also discovered it...

Hi Bethan. My grandfather's family live at 85 in 1881! Fair chance they knew each other. Job and Caroline Whitehouse. Do you know much about what the neighborhood was like back then?

Sorry. My bad- I got Manchester and Birmingham mixed up! I have corrected the original Title.

Hi all. Grandfather was Edgar Howard Whitehouse (B 27 Aug 1870) to Job and Caroline Amelia Atkins. They lived at Herbert Road and later in Cato Street. His younger brother was Silvester Whitehouse who became a missionary and was killed in China during the Boxer Rebellion. I have quite a lot of...

Many thanks. as for its connection to Birmingham, Ive been guided by documentation (BDM etc) that connect Aston with Birmingham. I assume would have been/is the nearest major town/city where such documents would have been registered.

Hello. I am hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I am Australian and know nothing about Aston which is where my grandfather was born. In particular I am looking for an overview of what type of place it was (size, relationship to Manchester and other towns nearby, working...

Hi. I'm delighted to have found this group. I live in Australia and have only recently discovered I have a very strong connection with the Aston area of Birmingham. I am related to a family of Whitehouse which I understand was a very common name back in the 1800s. My particular branch included...