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Only 18 months since you last posted on this. Sorry its taken me a while to respond. To answer your questions: Edwin was a shoemaker as per the 1841 census. The later child (children) are the siblings of William - Edwin (1841), Elizabeth (1850) - no father on that one. William was christened at...

Hello, I think I have replied to your other thread about Charlotte. I think her husband Edwin was Edwin Coombes. The William (born 1840) is actually William Coombes - christened in Chelsea in 1839. He is my direct ancestor and I spent a long time looking for him in 1840 without success, quite...

I'm sure that this will not help but here goes... My gggrandfather was William Coombes, christened in London in 1838 with a father of Edwin Coombes (sometimes Edward and from Birmingham) and mother Charlotte (possibly born in Birmingham in 1815). I know that Charlotte's maiden name was Gumbley...

Thanks but my Coombes family branch were in Birmingham from 1851 latest as shown by census data.

I am trying to find out more about William Coombes supposedly born in Birmingham around 1840 - according to the 1881 census - but I suspect born in London a couple of years earlier. Father Edward. Anybody doing family history and come across him?

Does anybody know of any on-line information regarding Witton cemetery? I do not get to Birmingham that often and would appreciate learning of anything that can help my searches for burial records. Many thanks Richard Coombes rccoombes@btinternet.com