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    MWS replied to the thread Phillips Olwyn Mary.
    The Olwen in the above census married in Pembroke in 1950. In 1939 she is still with her family in Smethwick, so not particularly local.
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    MWS replied to the thread Phillips Olwyn Mary.
    I don't think the Olwen M H Phillips who married in 1939 is not the same as the one on Lyn's census post. Her birth was reg. in Barnet...
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    MWS replied to the thread Paradise Development 2022.
    The 360 degree views have been updated and as well as seeing the latest progress on 3 Chamberlain Square there are some good close up...
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    MWS reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Old building Query with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Milward building - that Dennis posted to start this thread - is shown on the right hand side of this painting by Warren Blackham. It...
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    MWS replied to the thread CCSM ? Meaning.
    Something Sergeant Major? One of the Cs being Company maybe.
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    MWS replied to the thread Anyone good at reading handwriting.
    Until I saw this, I would have said Munich.
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    MWS reacted to Radiorails's post in the thread Anyone good at reading handwriting with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The last word is Limerick.
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    MWS replied to the thread New Thomas Street.
    No problem. Below is a larger section, though both roads end at the point they meet, The map is quite a small scale so I see no real...
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    MWS replied to the thread Zipfell Martin.
    One of those lovely little family tree coincidences, Jane's (double) cousin Catherine Ann Yates also married a man named William Lane...
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    MWS reacted to Sorrentine's post in the thread Zipfell Martin with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Thank you pjmburns and mws. Most of what you wrote is news to me. I only knew that Frederick Walters was a carpenter because I inherited...
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    MWS reacted to jukebox's post in the thread Zipfell Martin with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Richard Thomas Yates and Agatha Zipfell were my Aunt's (by marriage) Gt Gt Grandparents. I did some research on them some years ago but...
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    MWS replied to the thread Zipfell Martin.
    And looking at Leonard Road and Carlyle Road where your relatives were living in the later half of the century, they weren't part of the...
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    MWS replied to the thread Zipfell Martin.
    It's usually just guess work when trying to decide why an ancestor moved to different city/country. For most I suspect it would have...
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    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread 'Billy Richards' Death - Snow Hill Tunnel - 1939? with Appreciate Appreciate.
    thanks pedro so the william henry williams i mentioned in post 4 is the one...here is the 39 reg for him at 187 camp hill lyn
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    A dangerous occupation. My great grandad's brother was killed in a shunting accident in 1883.
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