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I just did some checking and it looks as if Barnett Lazarus is the correct name - not Lazarus Barnett...

The Louis I am looking for doesn't have a brother Lazarus, but Annie and Louis had a son Lazarus (but in the 1891 census son Lazarus appears to have changed his name to his father Louis, who died in 1886). Sometimes the marriage certificates are a single page and show the bride and groom plus...

I'm at the point now where I don't have any other options. MC is probably the only way to check it. The register transcript has him as Lewis, not Louis as in census records, and she is Annie, but Hannah in the 1981 census. I've generally found Marriage Certificates to be the most...

Yes, and also shown in 1911 census. Can't find her in 1921, and I have a burial record for Annie Barnett in 1912 at Witton cemetery, where Louis was buried. Must be the right Annie because the inscription on the stone references sons (she had four) and daughter (one) and sister (who lived with...

So I guess the premises would have been in the original back-to-backs opposite Exeter Street...

Many thanks for that. I'm trying to find a match for an ancestor who came to Manchester from Poland in 1856 with his father, mother and siblings. Original family name was Baruch but they changed it to Barnett. The family moved to London in about 1867, but Louis Baruch/Barnett stayed in...

Does anyone have knowledge of Louis Barnett, a Birmingham Furniture Dealer in the 1880s? His address in 1881 was 47 Holloway Head. He was Polish born (c. 1950) and I believe died in about 1886. His widow Hannah (aka Annie) carried on the business until at least 1911. looking at a street view...