St Asaph’s Church

[angelab]

Wow, thanks for the fast reply, mikejee!
I suspected the renumbering was the reason, and could indeed see that a double shopfront that had been consecutive adjacent numbers (196/197) had become "even" adjacent numbers, so thank you very much for confirming it!

Angela

 

[Bennett210985]

Hi Carol

Our Bennetts could be related, another branch of the family. The family did live in Bilston at some stage before moving to Irving and Latimer Street. There are also links to Tipton. Do you know if any of your Bennett's were Butchers or Grocers?

Thanks
Vanessa

Hi, I realise this is a very old thread but my Grandad William Bennett was a butcher and he used to have a grocer shop that was the family’s in bottom latimer.

 

[irishbrummie2]

Great to hear about Latimer Street. My mother and her family lived there in 1918. My parents were married in St Catherines, the Horse fair.


Names I am researching Fitzharris, Pigott, Moore and Thorpe

I am related to the Fitzharris Family and Pigott, when my Grandmother Mary Fitzharris married my Grandfather Thomas Keane there was a Clifford Pigott on the marriage certificate as a Witness.

 

[BrummieGeoff]

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread (EDIT: Oooh, not as old as I thought; I hadn't noticed page 2!), but I was searching for information on St Asaph's church, where my husband's grandmother was baptised. Post No 10, above, mentions attaching a photograph of the church, but it doesn't seem to open - maybe because too long has elapsed since it was posted. Any chance of you posting it again, mikeflan?

The father, in this case, had a draper's shop at 196/197 Bristol Street in the 1871 census. His name was Tudor Davis. I suspect he may have been in partnership with his brother Matthew at some point; I have found a record of their partnership being dissolved in 1874. (Tudor Davis then seems to have run a series of Birmingham pubs.)
Matthew Davis appears in Kelly's 1876 as a "linen draper" at the same address, and is still at 196/197 Bristol Street in the 1881 census.
However, the 1891 census gives Matthew, still a draper, at 100/102 Bristol Street.
Now, I wonder if he physically moved his business closer into town, or whether the properties on Bristol Street might have been renumbered - so he stayed at the same premises but the numbers changed?

If anyone had a photograph showing Davis's drapers, wouldn't that be wonderful!! Wishful thinking )

A very late reply to your photo request ....
I believe the Davis Brothers' shop was on the corner of Bristol Street and Wrentham Street. This photo shows that corner, shortly after the Davis Brothers had vacated the site .... when it was occupied by "Williams Francis Oil Co Ltd". It may well be the same building.
Coincidentally for this thread, the 1896 directory lists the occupant of that corner (100&102 Bristol Street) as "St Asaph's Church Labour Home".

 

[BrummieGeoff]

A photo and 1950s map showing St Asaph's Church on the corner of Great Colmore Street and Latimer Street.
It was built in 1869, and demolished in the 1960s during the redevelopment of the Lee Bank area.
The last baptisms took place in 1949, and the last weddings in 1958.
The location is now at the junction of Great Colmore Street and Lytham Croft.