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  1. Mike Fisher

    Cromwell Lane, Bartley Green

    My Walker & Lees families lived in the area but I have thought about where all the strange names in the area came from.
  2. Mike Fisher

    Ridley Iris / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area

    Re: Iris Ridley (maiden name) / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area Glad it worked out well
  3. Mike Fisher

    meadway tavern

    Played there a couple of times in the first half of the 60's
  4. Mike Fisher

    If they lived in Edgbaston where would they be buried?

    Re: If they lived in Edgebaston where would they be buried? The cemeteries burial indexes are on microfilm at Birmingham Central Library
  5. Mike Fisher

    If they lived in Edgbaston where would they be buried?

    Re: If they lived in Edgebaston where would they be buried? on the page before it's Frances Road,
  6. Mike Fisher

    If they lived in Edgbaston where would they be buried?

    Re: If they lived in Edgebaston where would they be buried? Your too early for Brandwood End or Lodge Hill, so have you tried Warstone Lane opened in 1848.
  7. Mike Fisher

    WW1 Pension query

    He also got the SWB Silver War Badge and is recorded in the rolls at the National Archives which means that he served at home and abroad and was for wounds or infirmity. So this is why he got a pension. But many men would not talk about it.
  8. Mike Fisher

    WW1 Pension query

    found his medal card on ancestry by putting James Gallagher into the search box and then when the results come up scroll down to military and click on medal roll index cards and enter his name and just his regimental number. A thought are you using the old search on Ancestry (much better than...
  9. Mike Fisher

    WW1 Pension query

    What was his name and details? maybe we can give you an explanation. Did he serve in WWII ?
  10. Mike Fisher

    Near Fordhouse lane 1952

    Yes coming up towards the Breedon , as a small boy I remember travelling on the tram from Cotteridge down to the Breedon where my grandmother used to clean, the family lived in Dell Rd.
  11. Mike Fisher

    Ridley Iris / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area

    Re: Iris Ridley (maiden name) / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area A woman uses the last name she was known by not her maiden name on a marriage certificate.
  12. Mike Fisher

    Ridley Iris / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area

    Re: Iris Ridley (maiden name) / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area I wonder if they got divorced in the late 50's as a Gerald J Sadler married in got married in Birmingham in 1958 and an Iris M Sadler to a Raymond F Horton in 1960 . Seems unlikely to me
  13. Mike Fisher

    Ridley Iris / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area

    Re: Iris Ridley (maiden name) / Iris Sadler - Great Russell Street/Summer Lane area Iris M Saddler married to Gerald J Sadler in 1952 in Birmingham and had a son Gerald in 1953 and in 1955 they lived at 2 back 192 Aston Brook Street
  14. Mike Fisher

    old medical records

    this site has the information you want https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/hospitalrecords/default.htm
  15. Mike Fisher

    David j davis who married laura bell third qtr 1915 birmingham

    which way are you trying to trace him, forward or backward ?
  16. Mike Fisher

    Evacuees to Rampton, Nr Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1940

    Strange that in Wythall a mile south of the Birmingham City Boundary we had evacuees from Felixstowe some of them are still living in the Birmingham area.
  17. Mike Fisher

    Hans louis rainbow living at 25 snow hill birmingham 1890-1950?

    from Findmypast index RAINBOW Moss 1877 M 1929 Southampton United Kingdom...
  18. Mike Fisher

    Hans louis rainbow living at 25 snow hill birmingham 1890-1950?

    He travelled about according to Ancestry.co.uk incoming passenger lists. name age birth year arrival date from to Moss Louis Rainbow 46 abt 1875 31 May 1921 New York, New York, United States Southampton, England Moss Rainbow 54...
  19. Mike Fisher

    Casson Oliver- Birmingham 1920

    Re: Oliver Casson - Birmingham 1920 Three Oliver Casson was born in Birmingham 1871,1889 & 1891. No Thomas Casson was born in Birmingham in a similar time period up to 1901.
  20. Mike Fisher

    Poole James

    Re: James Poole If he died in this country maybe his death certificate would be helpful. I can't find a death for him in Warwickshire, but I don't really understand the Screen Wall Memorial explanation on the CWGC site for Witton Cemetery.
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