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An extreme example of what a DNA test could reveal...

Janice, lyn & MWS Thank you for your help much appreciated. Peter

In 1921 Clara appears to be listed as a widow and I wonder if she listed George in error. There are possible deaths and burials at...

Clara and Henry appear to be the children of a John and Hannah Blake. Not sure if it's just coincidence or something more but Hannah's...

On the 1921 census there appears to be a Clara Morris listed at 29 Ashted Row with a George Blank. Not sure if Blank is his name or if...

1891 census (apologies the page was on a slope and hard to crop). It is a lodging house This is the address

The service records (attestation 1902) for the possible Samuel Morris appear to be on findmypast, can't see them on Ancestry. He also...

Also reg a sister Clara in 1889 mmn Blake. That fits the names of sisters on effects register.

Samuel is possibly a boarder in Walsall in 1901. Emily is possibly in Kidderminster in 1901, listed as a Tramp and coincidentally she...

There is also possibly an attestation for the militia in the Essex Regiment 1902/3, which would tie in with his enlistment date on the...

There is a Samuel Morris reg. Walsall Jun qtr 1882, son of a George Morris and a Clara Blake (?). He had a sister, Emily b1891. They...

not seen this one before..caption says taken while still under construction

A 1922 photo of the same Easy Row/Broad Street location .... before construction of the Hall of Memory.

Easy Row/Broad Street painting by James Billingsley, 1913

heads up folks..all records on find my past including the 1921 census is now free until the 11th all you have to do is register with...