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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Alfred (1875) and Harry (1879) Buckingham were half brothers and Martha Hannah (1868) Buckingham was a half sister (not a full sister)...
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Yes. that's right. He also had at least one brother and one sister and another half brother.
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    MWS reacted to Smash's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There's so many Alfreds so Edwin George Hicken had a half brother called Alfred and then went on to have a son called Alfred
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    MWS replied to the thread Great Russell Street.
    It look like court 36 was behind 208 (entrance between 206 & 207) and court 35 was behind 203/204. Is the address place of birth or...
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Edwin George's father George died when Edwin was young and his mother Hannah (nee Curtis) married a Thomas Buckingham and they had a son...
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Alfred's father was called Edwin George.
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    MWS reacted to Smash's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oh wow, he married 2 Elsie's and lost a son! I don't know how many other Alfreds there were previous but my grandad was at the 3rd. I...
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Alfred Morris Hicken was born in Budbroke, Warwickshire in 1898, died 1965. He was married previously to Elsie Laura Pignutt and had a...
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Alfred and Elsie were living at 6 bk 116 Bissell St in 1939 so might be where the young Alfred was born.
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Appears to have been the youngest son of Alfred M Hicken and Elsie Audley. Had 2 older sisters - Iris and Violet - and w older brothers...
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    MWS reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The next picture is taken from on of the back accessways off Legge Lane and shows the rear of these premises.
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    MWS reacted to RichSmith's post in the thread Anyone fancy sharpening their search skills? with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Found it, Aston was the district because he died in the city hospital at West Bromwich…. Scarlet fever and pneumonia
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    Not sure why because this is it...
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    See post #27, post #47 and post #49 for my thoughts on that.
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    Walter Ernest Thomas death probably registered Mar 1907 Aston, aged 2. You can see it as a digital image on the GRO.
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