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Wow .... amazing piece of engineering! I wonder how much was spent on that though? I really hope the whole HS2 construction is going to...

I'm really grateful to you, MWS and Janice, for picking up the baton and providing all that information about my great-aunt, Mary...

Here's a youtube video about the viaduct over the Lawley Middleway but also gives some good info/views of the surrounding works...

we all started out at novices..i have only been researching for myself and helping others for about 17 years and have at least 5...

Sometimes it was fairly straight forward and sometimes it took years to work something out and then only when new records came online...

so you've managed to crack your family tree then, although you've had stumbling blocks. I guess no one knew we would be looking them up...

Lies and mistakes can lead you on wild goose chases. Just one instance of a name, a place or a date can be a nightmare. Corroboration is...

One of those things we'll probably never know. Would there be any benefit for them to marry in the US rather than in England?

There seem to be quite a few trips for him prior to that date (On Familysearch).

hi suzanne yes in those days we certainly could not believe all that was written on any documents/census papers... sometime during the...

That must be her future husband bringing her over, he is listed as Walter rather than George on the 1891 & 1901 censuses.

Some years later but the husband of my great aunt left her and when she wanted to re-marry she put a notice in the newspapers in the...

Looks as if it might be her as I have an immigration list which puts her last City of residence as Birmingham. Headed for Cleveland...

There is a Mary Bannister listed as a dressmaker b abt 1883 who sailed on 25 May 1904 on board the Teutonic bound for New York. Sadly...

Not a parade, but a line of recruits in front of the Town Hall in 1914