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I am researching the Clarke Family from the Broad Street, Ladywood Area. Last member known about was Samuel Clarke who in 1926 was the informant on his mother, Elizabeth's death certificate, and was living in Bridge Street West at the time.
Does anyone know anything about Birmingham Working Boys Homes around 1928? My father was sent to the one in Ryland St after leaving Marston Green Cottage Home - at least they tried to get them into safe accommodation and not just be left to find their own way at the age of 15.
Thanks
Has anyone any information on Birmingham Children's Homes for babies around 1915? My father was at Marston Green Cottage Home from about the age of 5 but doesn't know where he was before that.
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I've just been reading `The Last Tommy' about Harry Patch who died recently. In it he describes being wounded in the 1st WW and being sent to Handsworth Hospital, in Birmingham, to recover. Does anyone know anything about this?
Does anyone know where the inmates of this workhouse would have been buried after dying there? I have great, great grandparents who died there in 1888 and 1889.
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