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Hi Lesley, I am really pleased that these areas are at last being tackled. Don't the local Family History Societies hold copies of these registers? I was also told B'ham Library did also. Would it be worth getting some sort of editorial in the Birmingham Mail about this? Hopefully it might...

Hi, Does the Staffordshire site cover info you want transcribed for places like West Bromwich, Smethwick and Handsworth? If so, I might be able to help you. I have found that information I require for these areas is very difficult to find on both the Staffordshire site and the West Midlands...

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Leonard, Great, I just knew that we were all linked somewhere along the line. Just a case of ploughing through the paperwork and double checking to sort out the family tree. Please let me have any other info. you may have which may help. Lynne

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Shera, Brilliant. Lynne

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Shera, The information you give is so helpful. Yet more pieces to fit into the jigsaw. Please keep it coming. I am extremely grateful. So many Fowkes brothers and sisters to check out. Any help gratefully accepted. :)Lynne

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Leonard, My Father just phoned. His Mother was Florence Fowkes. Although he can't remember names, (he was born in 1927), he has remembered that all of the Fowkes family lived in or around Don Street and seems to remember something about the pearl trade...

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Jean, The following is information from the Census before Florence married my Grandfather: 1911 Census Edwin Fowkes (33), Alfred Fowkes (11), Florence Fowkes (22) living with their married sister Elizabeth Downing and her husband Arthur Henry Downing...

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Leonard, I can't quite place it, but I know that I have come across Summer Lane somewhere in my research, some time back. Aston is very relevant. I feel sure that there might be a connection with my side through either GGdad Joseph or GGGdad Moses. It...

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Jean, :wave:Florence Fowkes, Edwin's Sister, was definitely my Grandmother.:) She married George Loveridge and had several children, including my Father, Alfred Loveridge. He does not remember, unfortunately, any members of the Fowkes family. What was...

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi Leonard, I am really pleased to have found you. Which branch of our family tree do you come from in relation to what I wrote in my reply earlier? Lynne:)

Re: Edwin Thomas FOWKES - Smethwick Hi, not sure where to begin, but here goes. I think we are related. Always bear in mind that there was so much bad spelling around. My Grandmother was Florence Fowkes, Born 1889. She had the following siblings (different spelling of Fowkes on half of...

My goodness. What fabulous information you have given me. George/Gilderoy Loveridge was born about 1866 but can find no records other than one Census to confirm this. My Grandfather, George was born about 1886, his sister Lily Lumley (could this be Polly's maiden name) about 1892, Gildroy...

Hi, I am also a Loveridge descended from the gypsies of Black Patch. Any descendants should read the booklets published in the RTFHS Famous Families Series, especially The Family Tree of William and Margaret Loveridge by Pat Loveridge and The Family Tree of Woodfine Smith by Josephone Tombs...

Hi, Mom asks if anyone can put names to all of the teachers in this photograph. Thank you.

Hi, My Mother does not have e-mail, but when I visit, I will show her a copy of this great photo. Thank you.

Hi, Thank you, I will check this out with my mother to see if she remembers anybody. Foundry Road Infant & Junior School definitely rings a bell.

Hi, Does anyone remember the Jenkins Family of 10 Perrott Street. My Mother, Barbara Jenkins (born 1929) lived there with her Grandmother Eliza Jenkins and Eliza's children, Jim, Bill, May, George and Len until she married in my father in the late '40s. If I remember correctly, the house was...

Hi, Have just found this fabulous site. My Gt. Grandmother, Eliza Williams lived at 44 Brearley Street in 1898 and her husband to be, my Gt. Grandfather, James Jenkins lived next door in 46 Brearley Street. Do you know if these two houses still stand, and/or have you any old photos of these...

Cromwell, I have sat for the past three quarters of an hour looking at your posters and your comments. I have cried.:cry: You are brilliant. I wish I'd had a history teacher who could put things over like you. My Grandfather enlisted in the First World War at 14 years of age, and did...