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I am lead to understand a relative of mine Francis Horace Nind b 1879 had a shop,possibly in Stirchley 1924
Can anyone supply any more deails
Regards
John Hughes
What a great result too bring our fantastic away support up from the depth of despair to great joy.
What we want now is some decent owners Birmingham based
John Hughes
Blue nose
After following theBlus since 1944 I find the present situation very depressing but I still go home and away.
Lets hope we can say good bye to the Chinese.
Keep on to the end of the road
J Hughes
My Dvd was not playing and I was going to dump it,as a last resort I did a Goolge search looking for tips
A answer came up wash it in plain washing up liquid.2 washes a rinse and drying and it plays as good
as new.I have even made a copy as stand by
I am going to look at some more which do not...
It is not clear if he owned the farm or rented.he was a farmer all his life,in 1881 he was a farmer of 17 acres at Groveley
Farm Coften Hackett.In 1911 he was a widower aged 71 living with 6 relatives on the farm.His son John Grantham was
married to my grand mothers sister but by 1911 he was a...
A relative of mine William Grantham b 1840 d 1928 is on the 1891,1901,1911 census a farmer living at Hole Farm Westheath
The information I have is that it was later called Primrose Hill Farm and was a 15th century timber framed house.
i payed a visit to see it a few years ago and you can not...
Re: posting a image on the forum
What am I doing wrong.I have raised the image and made it 100% passed the cursor over it and clicked on the paper
clip.what is supposed to happen now?what is a photo editor.
Regards
JH
Pollypops
I have used this link and as you said it gives the details of George Faragher(Evans) and the certificate is not of death
but a very nice Certificate in Memory of Private G H Faragher,Remembered with Honour.Birmingham (Handsworth)
Cemetery Commemorated in Perpetuity by
the...
Many thanks for the link.
I have already made a copy of this from the internet.
It says in Memory of George Harold Faragher
Remembered with Honour
Birmingham(Handsworth) Cemetery
Commemorated in Perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Many thanks to all the help given to me in my...
Pollypops
Did you not see my reply to your message about the certificate for George.
Was it a death cert and if so what did he die of?
Cheers
John Hughes
alas Janice
George was buried in a paupers grave and like all those buried in section 8 there is no head stone or any markings
to show were any grave is located.I travelled to Handsworth Cemetery to take a photo and returned empty handed.
there is no monument or any sort of visible record of...
I have been to see section 8,it is all grassed over.I E mailed Handsworth Cemetery
They replied all the graves in section 8 are common graves(paupers),there are no markings at all.
Private George Harold Faragher died 1st March 1919 aged 19
He was buried 10th March
Using a web site Find a Grave.it gives plot:Screen Wall.8 2256
this means plot 8 grave 2256 but what does Screen Wall mean?
Regards
John Hughes
It is indeed that Patrick and Polly Pops has given me a link to Key Hill grave index
There are just 2 Faragher listed
Thomas Harold 1914 L212
Amy Lucy 1959 vault 17
Thank you both for the help
John Hughes
Thank you very much for your reply.To test your ability there is a Patrick Faragher b 1870 said to be buried in
Key Hill cemetery 1907,is there any record and would the grave still be there.
Regards
Jh