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Trying to gain some information about my father's brother and sister - Violet Clarke, born March 1906 and John Thomas Clarke, born April 1908. Last address was Stoke Street, off Broad Street in 1913. They were probably taken into the care of Birmingham Council between 1913 and 1918 and may have...

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Ours was a wringer. My Mom bought it just as the snow started in 1947 and as it was in the backyard it couldn't be used for many weeks. I was told not to put my fingers anywhere near the rollers which of course I did and had some nice squashed fingers and no doubt yelled blue murder. Was told it...

Does anyone have any information on the Branch Workhouse, probably on the corner of Moore's Row and Floodgate Street (probably the site before Floodgate School was built)? It is shown in the Kelly's Directory for 1879.

Thanks for this info.

Does anyone know what would have been the nearest parish church to Cecil Street in Newtown? Thanks

My William George Srawley was born in 1863, son of William George, born 1835. In 1881 they were at 21 Ladypool Lane, Balsall Heath and all those of working age were lamp makers. I think the problem is that nobody taking the census knew how to spell Srawley so it could be Sawley or even...

Srawley Family My G.G.Grandmother, Elizabeth Clarke (nee Tune) left half her estate in 1903 to her son in law William George Srawley, husband of her daughter,Alice. On the 1901 census he was a lamp maker employer and they lived at 24 Springfield Avenue in Balsall Heath with their son Frank...

Srawley is a very unusual name so they are probably related to my Srawleys.

Does anyone know anything about Alice Srawley, nee Clarke, wife of William George Srawley, born about 1863 in Birmingham? She was the sister of my great grandfather, John Clarke.

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Looking for any info on Violet and John Thomas Clarke, born 1905 and 1908 in Ladywood. Parents were David Clarke and Maud Kemp. Probably put into one of Birmingham Cottage Homes when their father became ill about 1916 and subsequently died in 1918. Maud remarried an Arthur Clarkson in 1918.

No, I don't think these are any of my Kemps, sorry!

Thanks for all these replies - very useful

Looking for info on Walter Kemp born 1883 in Birmingham. Parents Sarah Abbotts and Edmund Kemp. Married Elizabeth Skinner 1912. Thanks