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    Reeves relatives

    :cry: Thanks for everyone that gave me this information, but please please someone out there must be related to the following people. 1881 census 67 Clark(e) Street, Ladywood Alexander Reeves, head, 40, Wire Drawer, b. Worcs. Kings Heath. Matilda Reeves, wife, 36, b. Worcester. Thomas A...
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Thanks for the help. So do you mean that Trevor and Ann were Reeves or step children? Will try and find them. chrisy
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Thanks guys - well it was late :( when I posted it Ok can anyone find out for me, I would be so grateful what happened to him after the 1911 as we cant find a death for him. I note that there is a big age gap between him and his siblings, I wonder if it was possible that one of the...
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Hi Judy, thanks for all the above information, in an earlier reply you had a child called Ernest who was 6 in a previous census but not in the above, any ideas what happened to him? chrisy
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    thanks for the wire drawer info
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Do you know where your Sharratts came from? Sarah Sharratt came from Droitwich Sheila says. Herbert Hallard married 4 times I think half of britain is now related
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Hi Alberta, I wonder what a brass and copper wire drawer did back then. In the early 1900s my grandfather, his father in law and my mother and uncles all worked at the Lucas factory.
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Pom this is what my cousin Sheila has just said "I don't think Herbert did marry Amelia (who said the Victorians were virtuous!) but he did marry Sarah Sharratt (from Droitwich I think)" chrisy
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Hi all Matilda was from Bridgwater Somerset, so yes that is them, Thomas I had as being born in Kings Norton, but Judy is most likely correct with Birmingham. Hi Pom as yet nothing in my Reeves tree ref a Sharratt but you never know, do you have any Reeves? chrisy
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Wow Judy thats amazing. Herbert was a bit of a mistery because it is very possible that he was the illigitimate son of Robert Claridge of Dean, and so was his sister Matilda Hallard who married Alexander Reeves. Their mother Eliza Hallard was a house keeper to Robert Claridge. So Herbert and...
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Hi Judy thank you for the information, I have only just realised how important it is. re: "Herbert Ballard, Visitor, Married, 33, Butcher, Worcester Amelia Ballard, visitor, married, 28, Butcher's Wife, Gloucestershire Fanny W Ballard, visitor, 9, Scholar, Birmingham" Could the surname...
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    thanks Judy, any info would be great
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    Reeves family Birmingham

    Hi there must be lots of Reeves about in Birmingham but I am not having much luck in finding them. If anyone has information about Thomas Reeves and Matilda Reeves (nee Dawe) they had 12 children who all lived. We have them as coming form either Kings Norton or Kings Heath in worcestershire...
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    Reeves and Evans family

    Re: Reeves Marleen forgot to say Edward Reeves married in 1847
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    Reeves and Evans family

    Re: Reeves Hi Marlene I have an Edward Reeves born 1811 in Kings Norton worcestershire, father was Thomas Reeves and Mary Aston, is this the Edward Reeves you have in your tree? chrisy
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    Lucas employees

    My family worked at the Lucas factory for many years. Thomas Alfred Reeves born 1889 spent all his working life there His brother in law Harry Baker also worked there. My mother Margaret Ann Reeves and I think during the war my father James Brown and Ernest Edwin Brown (his father) also worked...
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    Reeves family Kings Norton

    I am trying to find a possible connection between a Thomas Reeves born 1781 in Kings Norton and an Enoch Reeves married at St. Martins church in 1780 to a Mary Thorn. All my Reeves family were called Thomas down the line, and I am hoping to find a connection ie. that Enoch was an uncle to my...
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    Reeves Family

    Hi Barbara What year was your father born? We have a William born 1876. Can you get in touch with me [email protected] so we can compare notes. chris
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    St. Martins Church Birmingham

    Thats pretty close, any info on Thomas' parents? chrisy
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    St. Martins Church Birmingham

    Hi Alf thank you for trying to help. chrisy
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