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Looks a very picturesque, a lovely waterfall. Accompanied by the music of Agnes Obel I think.

I've never watched The Sopranos. Not a fan of gangster films/shows, haven't seen any of The Godfather films either.

In 1911 (51) & 1921 (61) almost a third of the Italians in Bham lived on Bartholomew St or New Bartholomew St. For people born in Sora it's almost a half.

Assuming Joseph Yafrati was indeed the son of Antony then his grandfather, Vincenzo, appears to been convicted of attacking and seriously injuring another Italian, a Giovanni Farina, with a chopper for supposedly making suggestive comments to his wife. This occurred in Jan 1908 but if he was...

A third of them appear to be ice cream sellers. Names include - D'Ambrosio, Castellucci, Cerrone, Faccini, Lombardi, Musticone, Petricca, Recchia, Sperdute, Valente, Yafrati

Having recently been looking into 3 family trees with Italian ancestry, I noticed that, interestingly, the town of Sora cropped in all 3 of them. A coincidence, I'm not sure. They all seemed to have come to Bham around the same time, late 1890s, early 1900s. Searching the 1921 census for...

I think Jervis Terrace might still be there...

Could she not still be buried at St Joseph's and not listed or not listed correctly as was mentioned previously I think? Nicola Iommi lived on Booth St, though the other end. Here's a map from 1955 showing Jervis Terrace...

A few things. Firstly and simplest, the name of your great aunt who moved to Alaska was Georgina Kathleen Yafrati, one of Joseph's 5 sisters. Secondly, Samuel James and Polly Prince were half cousin. Pollie's mother appears to have been an elder illegitimate half sister of his before her...

The only other places I can think off would be the Library of Bham or the Catholic Archives at St Chad's but I'd doubt even those.

A lot of circumstantial evidence suggest it could be. As she has passed away, the op could request to have the entry unblanked. I don't think it costs anything to request this, so no loss if it isn't her.

On findmypast, Marjorie and Edna are unblanked.

And one last thing for tonight. It is possible that Thomas Bowen had a sister, Annie, who married an Arthur Clifford. Which would be the Clifford connection.

No, there's no inaccuracy of Bowen and Boden they are separate. Ethel Jane Bowen's father was Thomas Bowen and her mother was Ethel Jane Boden. The Iafrati/Yafrati error is a common type of error. Many people couldn't read or write so they would say there name and whoever was writing it down...

The family trees could be mostly correct. There is a birth for an Ethel Jane Bowen Jun qtr 1928 and a death for an Ethel Jane Bowen also Jun qtr 1928. The details for the older Ethel Jane are incorrect though. She was Ethel Jane Boden, born 1892. So a possibility but would need a little...