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I had a look for someone called Boisell which seemed an unusual name but only found a few and they were likely misspelt Bissells. So maybe Boisell was the overseas partner.

The write up suggests that the instruments were made in Bham but sold in London. Therefore would there be a more varied clientele, including visitors and immigrants from all over the world? Maybe there is a series of postcards with different 'peoples' and their instruments.

A happy dna story... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6z72z9lno Maybe not as extreme but as anyone found else out (not necessarily through dna) that a friend was actually a relative?

The days when families lived close to each other. On the 1957 Cecilia is listed at 62 with your mom and dad. Your one uncle, John, is listed at 4 bk 61 and another, James, is listed at 2 bk 63. All 3 houses shown on the map. Your grandparents were at no. 62 from at least 1921.

Ellen died in 1945, reg. Mar qtr Rowley Regis. In 1939 she is with her daughter in Pedmore (Rutherford Ham Lane). Louisa has re-married to a Benjamin Turner, reg. Stourbridge Jun 1918. First husband possibly died in 1917.

People did get confused make errors or even lie. Accents also didn't help. Before Lyn said George's father was listed as an accountant I thought I'd found him in 1871 as a Station Master and I'm still not convinced that it isn't him. As I said in 1891 Ellen and Louisa are in Llanguick...

And as Ellen was living at Parker's Buildings in 1881 which I think were on Duddeston Mill Road very close to Vauxhall Station, I wonder if that's where/how they met.

Probably stove manufacturer as he is listed as a Gas Fitter in 1871. In 1881 George is listed as a Railway Clerk, living at 103 Little Green Lane.

I'll go out on a limb and say that the address must have come from a baptism, marriage or death. So... A George Williams married an Ellen Jane Price 31 Jul 1881 and they had a son Frederick George Williams baptised 18 Feb 1883 at St James the Less, Ashted. So correct year and area. He appear to...

Thank you for the offer but I know everything from his marriage onwards and his baptism/birth. I was hoping it would mention Mary's father. I'm fairly certain he was a George Jones of Cradley but confirmation would have been nice.

It was Lyn, he was born in 1812. Sorry about that. :oops:

They are, thank you very much for that. Sadly, no new information.

No problems Janice, thanks for trying.

The problem with the 1921 census is that it was filled in by the resident so can lead to oddities.

On the 1954 map most of the court ha gone but the four houses that back onto the 'street' houses are still there. They are list no. 1 behind 359 to no. 4 behind 356. Assuming there numbers remained the same I would have first said that no. 9 would have been the last house but one of the left...