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Does anybody know if some Chad Valley toys cars had a bonnet mascot of ZEZ inside a circle.

Hi Lyn, I ordered every available certificate. They were of course informative, but they have not solved my riddle. It remains as follows. It all starts with a 151-year-old family heirloom, the original 1871 marriage certificate of William Burton and Mary Ann Lees which I possess. It names...

Hi Judy, I regret to say that I do not believe that "your" Francis Silvers is related to the Silvers family, glassmakers of Moor Lane Glassworks, Brierley Hill. I have carefully reviewed both families and updated everything in www.familysearch. org. Both family trees appear reliable, but they...

Hi Judy, please send me some key dates for Francis Silvers or even better a pointer to a census record which I presume is how you have located him. I should then be easily able to map him into the rest of the Silvers family which I already have comprehensively documented. This of course assumes...

Hi Judy, I managed to do this before going on holiday by merging my earlier notes with the articles kindly provided by MikeJee. Park Glass Works, Spring Hill Birmingham The Park Glass Works was possibly the first full-scale glassworks to be built in Birmingham and is therefore of great...

Hello Judy, I will reply in two halves. This half concern the Silvers family. The Silvers family was immensely important in the glassmaking firm of Stevens and Williams, later Royal Brierley Crystal of Brierley Hill. But as I am sure you are aware, Brierley Hill certainly isn't Birmingham. If...

Mikejee, That is so kind of you to do that and so promptly as well. Your effort is truly appreciated. Jason

Could somebody please oblige me with some further trade directory look-ups: John Burton between about 1828 and 1890, Bill Poster and Periodical Dealer, Locksmith and Bill Poster. Of Temple Street, Hill Street, Cheapside, Pinfold Street, Church Street, Northwood Street and Newhall Street...

Totally understand about the defenrential syle of the perdiod. I joined a black country firm as IT manager in about 1980. My newly acquired team insisted upon calling me "Mr Ellis'. I said, "oh no, please call me Jason". The head of my newly acquired departnent replied, "of course Mr Jason"

Hello again, I am still trying to decipher this family history conundrum and I am now attacking it from the angle of trades. On the 1881 census for William Burton is shown at 42 Hanley Street, Birmingham with a trade of "Packer FL". Any idea what FL may signify? His trade at other times are...

Thank you again

Mikejee, Thank you very much. Sorry to be pedantic, but what year is the Piggot's directory entry for Joseph Burton? Jason

Hi Mikjee (or anybody else who may be able to help). From the excellent information you provided I can now speculate that the "provision shop" at 45 Barn Street, Deritend was probably started by Carey Burton's father, Joseph Burton in about 1835 (based upon the "carried on for 43 years"). He...

All sorts of factors apply: *1841 census only gives DOB to nearest five years. *Illiteracy means that some 19th C people wouldn't even know their birth date with certainty, particularly if they were orphaned. *The officiant at a baptism would do his best but could only work with what he was...

Hello, The family is well documented at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LD2Z-YHX (although you probably already know that). I have tidied up some of the place names, but generally the documentation of the family is good. Jason

Thank you Janice, that is clearly it. A bit of social history emerges, probably solely due to the male/female hegemony of the era. The 1911 census clearly shows her husband as shopkeeper (grocer) and ascribes no trade to Jemima Sarah. To be the person listed in the 1912 trade directory proves...

Fantastic. Thank you brummy-lad for the almost instantaneous response. Contrasting that with Google maps makes it clear that the original building has gone (although the plot remains same size and shape). But the remaining building on the corner of Cattels Grove is obviously of the era. It's...

Hello, You wonderful people recently helped me with a Burton ancestor of mine who was a grocer. Now I have another similar request. Jemima Sarah Burton (1846-1927) was twice married. First to Frederick Thomas Walthew then, after he died, to Joseph Luke Reddell (1847-1912) in 1885. From at least...

What a phenomenal piece of work. Thank you very much

And here is Oslers' glass fountain at the 1851 Great Exhibition (with the "crystal" of the Crystal Palace made by Chances.