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  1. Mike Fisher

    Artiss Agnes

    Hi All Can anyone shed any light on Miss Agnes Artiss who appears in Kelly's 1913 at 186 Edward Rd Balsall Heath as a dress maker and is still there in 1921 as a furniture dealer but has disappeared by 1933. I can find no birth,marriage,death or census entry for her. My late mother was...
  2. Mike Fisher

    Canal Cottage, (yardley Wood) Stratford -on -avon Canal

    Is it listed, how do you find out?
  3. Mike Fisher

    Reference number for death certificate - lookup please

    get it from Birmingham Register Office you don't need to know the number, see https://tinyurl.com/yzkvhee
  4. Mike Fisher

    Moriss William & Roseanna

    Hi can anyone tell me the address(es) of William Morris buried 1944 Kings Norton and his wife Roseanna Agatha Morris buried 1965 Kings Norton. In 1911 they were in 72 Heathcote Rd Cotteridge , children William Joseph b1905 Nancy L born 1910 and Geoffrey Cornelius born 1920 TIA Mike in sunny...
  5. Mike Fisher

    workhouse records no joy at Central Library

    see https://www.workhouses.org.uk/
  6. Mike Fisher

    workhouse records no joy at Central Library

    Please note that Union Workhouses did not start until 1834 poor law act before that it was the parish workhouse
  7. Mike Fisher

    help with a birth record

    This William is registered in Rawlins William Births Dec 1848 Stratford on A 16 489 I think. So remember all the variations in spelling of surnames. With my Fenemore ancestors the husbands knew how to spell it but the wives who registered birth didn't so it came out with...
  8. Mike Fisher

    St Edburgha Yardley Lookups

    held at Birmingham Central Library St Edburgha, Yardley (was Worcs) C 1539-1929 M 1539-1951 B 1539-1935 ? 1539-1732 CB? 1782-1812
  9. Mike Fisher

    Train at Earlswood Lakes

    Hi All Can anyone tell me when this glass plate negative was taken and what is the "engine ?" :confused2: (or where do you suggest I post the image to find out the information)
  10. Mike Fisher

    Where is this ? 177

    now the 24 came up Hill St turned right into New Street left up Corporation St left into Bull St left into Colmore Row round Galloways corner back into New St and right into Ethel St joined Pinfold St right into Stephenson St and left down Hill St
  11. Mike Fisher

    Where is this ? 177

    notice the Ford Classic poking it's nose into the picture.
  12. Mike Fisher

    Old Age

    now party lines, when there was a spell of dry weather the phone wouldn't work and you ahd to go outside and pour water over the earth spike and the only person you couldn't phone was your neighbour who was your party
  13. Mike Fisher

    Old Age

    My mother refused to have a phone in the house until after my father died in 1995 , it could only be bad news if the phone rang. I remember coming home from school in 1952 to find that the children hour was not on the tele (9" first one in the road") just dull music , mom said the King had died
  14. Mike Fisher

    Pikelets Vs Crumpets

    Alway were and always will be PIKELETS !!!!!!
  15. Mike Fisher

    Woodward Lizzie

    Re: Lizzie Woodward Thanks Shera
  16. Mike Fisher

    Woodward Lizzie

    Going through my late aunt's effects I found an obit cutting for Elizabeth Woodward of Hope St dying in 1989 age 96. Can anyone find where Lizzie lived my aunt lived at 55 Hope St from 1908 to her marriage in 1939
  17. Mike Fisher

    Wilkins Catherine (Kate) /Fenemore/Harley

    I have Catherine Wilkins born 1834 Buckinghamshire she marries John Fenemore in 1852 Buckingham. They had three children John born Rotherham, Thomas born Mexbrough & Charles Henry in Stamford LIN before appearing in Birmingham for the 1871 census. Her husband dies 1887 and she marries as Kate...
  18. Mike Fisher

    WW1 Look up

    did he leave the army before 1922 or did he serve in ww2 ?
  19. Mike Fisher

    Hobro

    form the 1973 to 1980 telephone directory Percy T Hobro 29 Coleshill Rd Curdwrth 70317
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