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So definite proof that Rose did live on Harborne Road for a time. Shame about the number. I'd favour 413, partly because if it was supposed to be a 0 you would have thought they'd done a better job with the correction to show it and partly because of the name of the lady living there makes me...

I just can't see Rose on any record living on Harborne Road. From 1921 onwards she is at 10 Wheeleys Road and then at 18 Pereira Road. She is not there on the 1940 ER and the people who are, are also listed there on the 1939 Register. Unfortunately, there are no electoral rolls then until...

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 something interesting (which is more often than not) I look deeper and the tree grows. Your tree is interesting, Chris, made more so by yours and your brother's...

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 is single. Rose (Sarah Rose) and all her sister are mostly listed under their second name.

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 somewhere.

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...

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 subsequently (1925 & 1930) also.

I've had a look but all I've done is eliminate possibilities. Is Birmingham, England a place of birth or a residence because if it's the latter then he could have been born anywhere in England, or beyond. Engineer is also not very helpful as it can be used for a number of, unrelated...

On the 1939 register (findmypast) Rose appears to be listed at 183 Loyells (Lozells?) Road.

Slightly on a tangent and with reference to the photo of Mary Parkes (post #35). There is a tree on familysearch (not sure if I've mentioned it before) which has photos of Mary Bannister & George Walter Wilson and is possibly by a descendant of Annie Bannister. This tree has Mary Parkes'...

It appears that 29 - 37 High St are still there. Map from 1957 followed by link to modern street view...

The house on Upper Sutton St, think it has to be no. 86, appears to be a shop of some kind. Not sure if those are a couple of bananas hanging in the window.

Elsie is also listed with George & Elizabeth Snook on the 1911 census. The transcript at least has her name incorrectly as Elise. Listed as a visitor rather than a grand daughter, a little surprising. So possibly Rebecca misunderstood the question in 1911 and listed both her living daughters...