Recent content by Victor Romeiro

Thanks for all the information! The 1882 advertisement settles it — and settles it against what I said in post 11. You and mikejee were right that absence from a street section proves nothing, and I was wrong. A firm paying to print “Apply, Henry Allday, 130, Warstone Lane” in the Birmingham...

I forgot 1 picture. Sorry. 1867_PostOffice_Watch_Key_Mnfrs_Gilt_158

@pjmburns — that’s the answer, and thank you for going to the street section. It hadn’t occurred to me to look there. It also matches something I’d seen and wrongly dismissed. I had swept the whole of Warstone Lane in the 1879 Post Office Directory and listed every number that appears: 1–48...

Thank you all — this has moved things on a great deal in one evening. @Astoness , the 1841 and 1861 households were exactly what I needed. The 1841 entry settles that John of 8–9 Warstone Lane was Henry’s older brother, which I had seen asserted but never documented, and 1861 puts Harry A in...

Hello — I’m trying to work out the Allday family of the Jewellery Quarter, and I’d be grateful for help. My interest is in Henry Allday (1833–1891), of Stanley Villa, Livingstone Road, Handsworth, a gold and silver chain manufacturer in Warstone Lane, and in Harry Albert Allday (1858–1909), of...