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Here's a youtube video about the viaduct over the Lawley Middleway but also gives some good info/views of the surrounding works...

Sometimes it was fairly straight forward and sometimes it took years to work something out and then only when new records came online. Here is a thread I started about my 2 x great grandmother and you can see a message almost 10 years later when I worked it out...

Lies and mistakes can lead you on wild goose chases. Just one instance of a name, a place or a date can be a nightmare. Corroboration is everything. On one census a 2 x g grandfather was listed as John Moore born Dorking in Surrey, he turned out to be an Adam Moore born Docking in Norfolk...

One of those things we'll probably never know. Would there be any benefit for them to marry in the US rather than in England?

That must be her future husband bringing her over, he is listed as Walter rather than George on the 1891 & 1901 censuses.

Some years later but the husband of my great aunt left her and when she wanted to re-marry she put a notice in the newspapers in the area where she thought he was to make him appear in court so she could divorce him. It's not easy to understand what people thought in the past and what they...

Yes, there are lots of them born around the same time. It wouldn't surprise me that she listed herself as a widow without knowing if Luciano was alive or not or even she knew he was alive. It wasn't an infrequent occurrence and who was going to check in those days. The chances of someone...

Mary Bannister's cousin Wilfred, the son of Matthew Bannister, married George Walter Wilson's sister Florence and emigrated to Utah. George and Florence's mother Ruth Wilson became a Mormon and they lived in Utah. Other Wilson siblings also emigrated.

True but we (strongly) suspect that that was a lie with Luciano being alive and in Shropshire in 1911.

What would you like to know? The 1910 US census gives her year of emigration as 1904 but I can't see anything else. Her first husband George Walter Wilson was also born in Old Hill, so perhaps their relationship began before they emigrated. He went before her, arriving in 1902.

I think without further records becoming available online then your Italian ancestry is probably at a bit of a dead end atm. It would be interesting to see what Luciano recorded on his marriage to both Elizabeths to see if it the info matches and what he put as his marital status on the second...

I can see her in the 1930 & 1940 census with Peter and in 1950, a widow, with Nancy and a lodger. She married Peter Semon 21 Nov 1911 but she didn't appear to marry a Jeffries before that but a George Walter Wilson 6 Mar 1904. There are a few photos of her on familysearch.

A quick search found this. I can look for more if you want. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204009588/mary-semon

I find DNA fascinating, I am bit sceptical about some of the results at times though. Frosinone is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. As I mentioned in the Italians in Bham thread it seems to be the origin of a fair number of the Italians that came to Bham. I can't see the tree but it...

There appears to be a small family tree on Ancestry that a descendant of Luciano's Cheshire family has done, possibly a great grand daughter or 2 x great grandchild. It does have only 18 people though, so may have started and then just gave up like lots of people do.