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Cateswell Cottage(s) Green Lane & Cateswell Road, Hall Green

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Good Evening All.

A friend and I are trying to find out more about Harry Longfield who on his marriage cert to my friend's Great Aunt Mary Kathleen Powell in Aston in 1916 was shown as living at Cateswell Cottage in Green Lane Hall Green. We have no idea if this was a family home or if he was a lodger. At the moment we are trying to build a tree for him to see if he connects to Alexander Brown and his wife Henretta who are there on the 1911.

As far as we know he was from Leeds - this is what his family believe, and indeed he & Mary moved there at some point, and there they remained. None of his grandchildren recall him having any relatives. The best they can come up with is that his mother was a single Irish girl, or so they believe. They do not know when & where he died as the marriage eventually failed and Mary found a new partner, but did not re-marry until 1953.

This has led us to question how the cottage or cottages if there were more, got their name. Close by is Cateswell Road so why weren't the Cateswell Cottages in Cateswell Road for instance? There is still a cottage in Green Lane which could even be it but at the moment nothing to confirm that. We've Googled and anything else we can think of to find where the Cateswell name came from. We are both Brummies and we've always believed that most Birmingham names had some significance; we just can't find this with Cateswell.

Any knowledge or thoughts would be very welcome. Many thanks. Jill
 
Cateswell was a large house on the Stratford Road, almost opposite which Cateswell Lane was later built and developed. Green Road ran to the north of the estate, and so any cottages on the north side would , probably, have an address in Green Road. The maps below show the area in c 1905, c1915 and c 1937, I think therefore that cateswell cottage(s) would have been the attached pair of cottages on green road in all three maps. They do not seem to be there now on google

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Cateswell Road was first cut in 1922, named after Cateswell House which stood on Stratford Road opposite the new road. Extended to its present length by the 1940s, the origins of its name are uncertain but could be from an old spring known as "Cate's waella".
Before the Territorial Army moved in around 1931, the place had been used as a School for Girls (run by a Miss Hunt), this later becoming a mixed school.
Three generations of the Nossiter family lived there, beginning with Charles Nossiter and his wife Ann who are listed here on the 1861 census when the property is said to have been in Yardley, Worcestershire. I don't believe the house was built much earlier than that as the name Cateswell does not appear on any earlier census.
 
January 1817
E Swinburn and Son say their school at Cateswell House, situated 3 miles from Birmingham and on the Oxford Road, used as a school with sleeping rooms having been recently built as a Boarding school will reopen.
 
Pedrocut said:
E Swinburn and Son say their school at Cateswell House, situated 3 miles from Birmingham and on the Oxford Road, used as a school with sleeping rooms having been recently built as a Boarding school will reopen.
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Many thanks, just found that advert as well after your tip. That's a great help to me
 
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