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Dear Mike The map you have posted of Gooch street is great as it includes Bishop Street where my ancestors lived and had a factory. Trouble is the bit of the street where they lived is missing. (The top bit) They lived and worked at nos 25+27. Maybe that bit of Bishop Street is missing from...

Gosh Newborn, he does sound more interesting than my lot! Chris, you would have been really proud of me today! We had a wonder round a "Antiques" shop this afternoon. Big case of medals and thanks to all the research I have been doing since I get enthralled with my WW1 ancestors, mainly...

Re: Rose Harrison born 1899 (Fletcher?) Well I've had a quick look through the telephone directories on Ancestry. Couldn't find a publican called Fletcher listed in the Birmingham directory for 1960. Found a W Fletcher, Publican at Castle Hotel, Alfreton in 1923 and a L Fletcher at the Jolly...

Re: Rose Harrison born 1899 (Fletcher?) Well you could try the historical directories for Birmingham. if you click on "today's posts" on the tool bar above and scroll down todays posts you will find a thread titled historical directories and there is a link there. My lot were all Ag labs...

Re: Rose Harrison born 1899 (Fletcher?) Hi Paul Found Rose (I think) on 1901 census (Ancestry). Living with her parents, George and rose, both aged 26 at house 3, Court 52 Darwin Street, Aston. His occupation given as Art metal work (jardiner stands) If this is the right one, she had a...

Paul, what did he do to get mentioned in the House of Commons? My lot were very nondiscript except perhaps Great Uncle Jack who you can read about above. I think my lot just probably did their best/bit and kept their heads down. Hence, so far they all seem to have made it back. I was never...

Chris, one last thought. Great Uncle Jack had at least one son, according to the 1911 census. I have no family member to tell me more. Will the MOD accept me as next of kin if I try to find out more given that there might be someone closer somewhere in the ether? Helen

I knew you would be able to decipher it all Chris, you are a wonder and your site is too!! I admit this is not the first time you have responded to a query/thread of mine. Having you to explain it all means I can learn from the master! As a girly, well an old girly, I was never interested...

Spent a very fruitful hour or 2 in the Worcester Record Office on Saturday. Amongst other things found Great Uncle JacK and Great Uncle Edgar listed on the Absent Voters list for Redditch. Our modem stopped working on Thursday night, they fixed it this afternoon so have just been looking them...

Thomas Woodyatt's entry was really interesting, I hadn't realised just how many types of light wooden boxes there were!! Unfortunately, don't recognise any of the names on the prince albert street entries as yet. Susan's maiden name was Lawson and they both came from Gloucester so I wouldn't...

Just discovered via another thred how to open your images so I can read them. Thanks for taking the trouble. The Bishop Street info shows that my Woodyatt branch were there but the Prince Albert street info gives me no clues as to why one of them was born there. Will just have to get the birth...

Thanks Mike and Rod, it works just like you say now if i can just work out where 25/27 were. Visted Bishop Street last August, virtually all the victoria buildings now gone and just waste land. Helen

Re: Does anyone have a detailed map of Gooch St? Hey! turns out if I print off the enlarged thumbnail I can read it. Fantastic, only problem the map that includes Bishop Street misses off the top end of it, any chance I could see all of it? Sorry to be a nuisance Helen

Re: Does anyone have a detailed map of Gooch St? I am not very good with the picture bit on this site. I can't seem to get any photo I want to add to my postings to attatch. However, even more annoying is that I too have family in Bishop Street, no 25/27, and would love to be able to look at...

According to the 1911 census, Elsie May Woodyatt had been born in Prince Albert Street Birmingahm in 1893. At the time her parents were living at 25/27 Bishop Street and indeed all her siblings were born at 27 Bishop Street. Can anyone tell me what was going on in Prince Albert Street in 1893...

Thank you all for that. I am off to Kew in April and although I know a lot of info is already on the net I plan to spend a day trawling through the military records. So, I have made a list of all my lot that I think may have served and next week plan to check the absent voters list to see if...

I want to make a list of all my male ancestors who may have served in WW1. I know many lied about their age when they enlisted but there must have been official age ranges i.e youngest and oldest ages accepted? Would I be right in thinking that any men born before say 1870 would have been...

Thanks so much Shera, you are a star and my husband's favourite person of the day! Thanks too for the instant tip, i'll use it in future Helen

I have been trying to help my husband find a birth date for one of his relatives but Ancestry appears to be missing the information we are looking for. We think a Brenda Barrans was born in February in 1933, probably "somewhere up north" maybe Salford. Very little to go on I know and...

Thanks so much, yep thats the same link I was given before but somehow lost. Have saved it and printed it off so hope not to loose it again. As to not thinking of doing just what you did to find it, I put it down to a very very hard day at work! Still got the week off next week so maybe I'll...