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Great point regarding the number of records and the accuracy of any records. Much would depend on social standing, very few would be...

This was my brothers take on Selina Elizabeth: "The third arrival was Selina Elizabeth, born on 14 May 1876 at 58 Garrett's Lane. In...

I don't have a date or name of the artist for this one. You can see the spire of Christ Church in the distance, so the drawing is no...

There's definitely nothing to contradict your father's memory so I'd take that as true. On a bit of a tangent, I notice that with...

10 Highbury Road and the Cedars are not the same. The Cedars in near Grange Road and is still there with the name on the wall. 10 was...

Another coincidence, MWS ...... the eldest sister of Martha and Mary was Annie (b1871). Annie married, in 1889, one James Priest, who...

Unfortunately, there just aren't that many records around that time to know. Even the censuses, which are great, can be misleading...

Another servant of Thomas Priest at the same time as Martha was an Amy Sidaway. The Sidaway name rang a bell, not sure where from but...

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...

Thank you for the further invaluable contributions, MWS, Janice and other members who are kind enough to be interested. I now know so...

Went to the address and listing by various brokerage firms who are required to post the “built date”. I have friend whose business is...

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...

This is our old house. built in 1929. They still build like that and the one in Ohio today. Most changes are internal.

I have been doing a bit of delving, myself, at this end, into family records! How about this, just unearthed? Undoubtedly same day or...

A different one I suspect, the one of King Edward's Road appears to have been born 1944.