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I don't mind tangents. If requests get a bit more involved I sometimes do a bit of a tree to keep track of people and then if I find...

I'm sorry that it looks as though I have led you off on another tangent by mention of my great aunt, Rose! (I just don't know why so...

I don't know why she was there but I still think it's a possibility. The year is wrong but the month of birth matches the reg. and she...

As promised, a brief note to explain where Sarah Rose Myers "Auntie Rose" fits into my family history picture. A timeline: 1832 -birth...

I'd guess the tannery came later. It says in the articles that a plan of the land may be seen... I wonder if that plan still exists...

Always in favour of reviving old threads Pen. Thanks. Going on your info, I wonder if this was it ? A burial ground not actually on...

No sign of the chapel or the 'pleasant little hamlet' mentioned in Viv's cutting. It couldn't have been very salubrious being next to...

Here's the map from 1839. No doubt a bit more built up but there's a burial ground marked (bottom right) beyond the Mill Pool...

I made the papers too, but in 1967!

Right - I couldn't remember. Thanks

Maurice & Ida of Harborne Road were the parents of Stanley Myers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Myers

That's a different Maurice Myers. Rose's brother, Maurice, never married and died in 1933.

On 1921 census Rose is at the 10 Wheeleys Road address with a brother (Maurice) and a sister (Jullia). She appears to be there...

here is the 39 mentioned by mark...rose myers born 19th jan 1870..odd though as at no 183 we have mr and mrs brown at no 185 we have the...

I think he is a newsagent but his father was an engineer