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    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    bit busy at the min but just taken a quick look at his service records...recorded is a hand written letter from his mom mrs barker of...
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    MWS reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Rivers: River Tame with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Photographed in 1897. View of River Tame in grounds of Hamstead Hall between Hamstead Road and Forge Lane. (Birmingham Archives and...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    The Arpini name appears on both the baptisms above.
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I've just downloaded them
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    And Luciano was in Bham from at least 1891. This is from the Preston Chronicle 22 Aug 1891. It's in more local papers also but this one...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    As it isn't very clear this is the transcript
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I saw that and wondered.
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    And Alexandra's and Violet's baptism at the same place...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Here is Elizabeth's and Luciano's marriage at St Michael's, Moor St...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Worcestershire Regiment, service number 9153.
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    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    i could take a look at his records if that would help...have i got the correct year of his birth of 1878 ? lyn
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    I'd list him as Pechio (he may still be Luciano's son) or whatever you've listed his sisters as but when I enter his death, in the...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    As I said the most likely explanation is that he wasn't really a Pechio but that's just surmising. I'm not sure if when he enlisted his...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    No, he is definitely the right person. The details on his page on the CWGC all match except his name. For some reason he enlisted as...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    No, George and Rose are not her children, they are the children of a Richard Foster and an Elizabeth Fenton. They also had a son, Alfred...
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