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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Yes, there are lots of them born around the same time. It wouldn't surprise me that she listed herself as a widow without knowing if...
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    MWS replied to the thread Brummies who moved to the USA.
    Mary Bannister's cousin Wilfred, the son of Matthew Bannister, married George Walter Wilson's sister Florence and emigrated to Utah...
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    MWS reacted to mikejee's post in the thread First Castle Bromwich Methodist Church with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I have recently acquired a booklet produced by the church in 1995 and written by Bill Sanders, describing it's history, and this is...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sorry - yes I should have put that. It just goes to show that we can't always believe what certificates say.
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    True but we (strongly) suspect that that was a lie with Luciano being alive and in Shropshire in 1911.
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    MWS replied to the thread Brummies who moved to the USA.
    What would you like to know? The 1910 US census gives her year of emigration as 1904 but I can't see anything else. Her first husband...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    I think without further records becoming available online then your Italian ancestry is probably at a bit of a dead end atm. It would...
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    MWS replied to the thread Brummies who moved to the USA.
    I can see her in the 1930 & 1940 census with Peter and in 1950, a widow, with Nancy and a lodger. She married Peter Semon 21 Nov 1911...
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    MWS replied to the thread Brummies who moved to the USA.
    A quick search found this. I can look for more if you want. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204009588/mary-semon
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    MWS reacted to Key Hill Brian's post in the thread Public graves at Warstone Lane with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Many of the Public Graves were reopened and reused - some 3 times! Often in the 1930@s and again in the 1950's. Many of the Public...
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    MWS reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Ann Street City Centre with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Ann Street at the corner with Newhall Street. The photo claims to be 1878, but, although charles lowe is listed there as a bookseller in...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There are 3 trees with Violet Mary Peck listed. (He is listed as Louchiano). One only has 18 people and doesn't help much. Another is...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    I find DNA fascinating, I am bit sceptical about some of the results at times though. Frosinone is a province in the Lazio region of...
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    MWS reacted to Suzanneiom's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Also The bone has been retrieved and is behind the altar and will be buried this week by a parishioner who is an undertaker :)
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    There appears to be a small family tree on Ancestry that a descendant of Luciano's Cheshire family has done, possibly a great grand...
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