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for those interested here are a few photo i have...also a map to go with them.looking at some of them they are of the terraces that were...

Well it definitely looks old and, to me at least, quite a haunting picture.

Suzanne - as far as I can see your tree is private so we can't see anything on it.

Most likely candidate is the daughter of Clara's brother Edward. She was born in 1895. And she appears to have married a Thomas F...

Sorry for being a bit of a doubting Thomas but a pre 1879 photo of the wife of a bricklayer?

Anything is possible. She could be a relative of another Italian family and came with them to Bham or one that was already here and came...

George's grandmother, Lydia Lewis (nee Russell) died in 1879.

Still can't see any other record (census or birth) for her. Or any other Perca. Maybe she was born in Italy (or wherever), family came...

in case you are interested the addresses given on marriage cert say 15 and 17 cooksey avenue cooksey road...all gone now of course but...

Have you seen this record of Alexandra's RC Confirmation at St. Chad's in 1906 from FindMyPast? She then married in a CofE church.

? Didn't think you were completely certain where she or her parents were from.

Obviously can't be certain but the witness Lydia Lewis was possibly George's cousin, the daughter of his mother's brother.

On the marriage cert it is signed as Perca

Sadly I can't see anything for John (I assume Giovanni) Perca. It may be that the records just aren't online yet but it could also be...