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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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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.