Recent content by MWS

I'm sorry to hear that Simon, you have my deepest sympathy.

I think it can benefit people other than those in Bham & London. For the people in between it would be like a big railway bypass that will free up rail capacity on the existing lines for them - for both local journeys and to London, just as a town bypass frees up roads for residents of the town...

Sorry to hear that, sad news indeed.

Not sure if this belongs here but the sad plight of children sent to Canada... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmz6z2831qgeo

Another drone flight from Bromford to Curzon St. It seems almost unbelievable that they will be sliding that enormous curved viaduct forward over the railway tracks...

I couldn't either.

Either/both.

Their marriage is on Ancestry. Ruth Bracey's father was Thomas and she is likely to have been born 18 Nov 1818 parents Thomas & Sarah. Elijah Parry's father was Joseph. Not sure about him.

I'm not sure what you're saying to me. On your search result from freeBMD next to Kings Norton there are 2 numbers 18 (volume number) and 392 (page number). If you click on 392 it will give you a list of people one of which will be Edward Parry and one of the others will be his spouse. As you...

Her name was Ruth Bracey. If you click on the number '392' it will bring up all the people in that registration. Elijah's (son) birth is reg. with mmn Bracey.

Less than a month then. Always difficult to get a complete picture but Maud's later life seems a little sad. Hopefully she found some joy in her daughter.

It would appear that Walter Hancock quickly learnt of Maud's death because his marriage to the woman he had been seeing for some years (son born 1916) was reg. the same year and qtr. Either that or big coincidence.

After the divorce talk, I didn't think to look for Hancock. Great find.

Just checked the ERs and Charlotte's sister Harriet (Adams) lived at 14 Vernon Road from at least 1912 until 1939.

On the 1889 map the house that is now no. 14 is the only one then on Vernon Road.