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    MWS replied to the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha.
    Martha does appear on the 1891 census as a servant of a Thomas Priest, a chain manufacturer, in Rowley Regis. There is a danger in...
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    MWS reacted to ChrisM's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Thank you for the further invaluable contributions, MWS, Janice and other members who are kind enough to be interested. I now know so...
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    MWS reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Went to the address and listing by various brokerage firms who are required to post the “built date”. I have friend whose business is...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Re photo on post 27. Vernis would have been 33 in 1935. She married in 1930 and it looks as if she died in 1942. Her daughter Nancy was...
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    MWS reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is our old house. built in 1929. They still build like that and the one in Ohio today. Most changes are internal.
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    MWS reacted to ChrisM's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I have been doing a bit of delving, myself, at this end, into family records! How about this, just unearthed? Undoubtedly same day or...
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    MWS replied to the thread Dowdall Christopher John.
    A different one I suspect, the one of King Edward's Road appears to have been born 1944.
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    MWS reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Dowdall Christopher John with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There was a Christopher John Dowdall of Ladywood, but not of King Edward's Road, mentioned in 1974 for a crime at the age of 20.
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    MWS replied to the thread Dowdall Christopher John.
    I assume you mean the son and not the father? He appears to be up until 2023, there doesn't seem to be a death reg. for him up until then.
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    MWS reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    That house was built in 1924, hope that helps.
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    MWS replied to the thread Davis.
    In 1939 they were living at The Vineries in Solihull. Ernest died in 1975 and Diana in 2011. Not sure about Mary, possibly in 2008.
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    1920 - thanks to MWS Address is 4615 Egan Avenue
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    MWS replied to the thread Davis.
    Families are strange and sometimes we just don't know what went on. With the name variations you have to remember that most records -...
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    MWS reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Smallbrook Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    'Emporium' - a word rarely in use today. The equivalent modern term might be departmental store, although few of these exist today.
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    MWS replied to the thread Davis.
    Another guess then, if you don't mind. It appears that the Raymond Charles Davis I mentioned was the nephew of your Raymond Charles...
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