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MWS, Alberta, Thank you for the possible Stafford connection. The death registration at Stafford is definitely not Mary Ann's. She died in childbirth (giving birth to my great grandfather Joseph Alexander Burton), 27 February 1879 at 8 Court, St George Street, Birmingham. There was a Coroner's...

Hi Mws, Thank you for offering to help. I have attached a scan of the original 150-year-old marriage certificate which I am privileged to possess. Marriage at St. Jude's, Birmingham, 6 November 1871: William Burton age 22, batchelor, upholsterer, Smallbrook Street, father John Burton, Bill...

Please could I call upon assistance on a roadblock in my family history. I know a lot about my great-great-grandfather William Burton born 23 Nov 1849, Cheapside, Birmingham. I know that his wife Mary Ann, nee Lees died in childbirth 27 Feb 1879 giving birth to my great-grandfather Joseph...

This thread began in 2004 but still appears to be going strong, so here's my contribution. My father bought the Alpine Restaurant, 49 Great Hampton Street on 23 September 1968 and ran it until about 1973. It was a typical cafe on the ground floor with a big takeaway sandwich trade and had a...

Hi Steve, Reply is ten years late, but if you are still interested - Birmingham trade directories over many years show the Dugmore family to be working as manufacturers of glass, sand & emery paper, lapidiaries, glass cutters and dealers in foreign stones. I am still researching because...

Hi Pemby, I also have Birmingham Pembertons in my family tree. It's a fascinating family to study. The best known part of the family is the famous family of brassfounders, but their branch was originally from Leicester. There were other earlier Pembertons in Birmingham: The goldsmiths who were...

Janice, dinner can wait, I have started looking now. The marriage cert provided by Astoness definitely appears to name Ellen Faulkner and all the research I did this morning names Ellen. But what you have just kindly provided is Emma Faulkner, not Ellen Faulkner. As you say, the 1861 census...

Janice, that is just so kind of you to look this up and reply. Dinner is now in the oven, but I can't wait to investigate. Thank you Jason

Hi Astoness, Thank you for that marriage cert. What a piece of Birmingham history it is with the two addresses quoted. Warstone lane is the home of the famous Pemberton brassmaking family and Ryland Street was almost certainly named after the equally famous Ryland family involved in...

Iv'e got vague recollections of it from my childhood in Streetly c1967-1977. It was in a small parade of 1960s-1970s shops in an otherwise entirely residential area. I haven't been back since my youth, but I doubt that it has changed much. It certainly wasn't a pub, I seem to recall it was just...

Astoness, you are 100% correct in advising me that I had not got it precisely right. Thank you so much. I started work analysing your response at 9am this morning and I have only just finished. Firstly I had to track down my original hand-written transcript of the St Philip's register from 39...

Hi Astoness, Like you, I am picking up on an interesting (two-year-old) thread on glassmaking. As I think you know I researched glassmaking and published "Glassmakers of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612-2002" in 2002. I discovered significant movement of both proprietors and my own workmen ancestors...

Hello Lyn, Here is the marriage certificate of William Ellis and Mary Ann Harrington. I've also got the birth certificates of their children William Ellis and John Edward Ellis, but everything I know about William Ellis and Mary Ann Harrington is on familysearch.org for free at...

I have also just spotted, looking at it again, that the railway signals of the Stechford stretch of the railway line into Birmingham are clearly visible in the background. If anybody would like to swap memories of Hudson House School, Stechford please fire away. I loved it. I only know of one...

Couldn't resist posting a Hudson House School photograph. From my age on it I would guess it is about 1963 to 1966. I know quite a few of the names on the photo if anybody is interested. Unfortunately I have had to scan it at low resolution to fit the BHF size limit.

Susanna Harrington died 26 July 1835 when she was living at Brewery Street, Aston. All of my tree is on Familysearch.org. Start with Susanna's record at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L1KH-T5Z I would be very interested to know how we are related

William Ellis (1824-1883) is my gt, gt grandfather. He married Mary Ann Harrington 24 July 1841 at Aston Union Register office. The witnesses were Jane Hawksford and George Thomas. William was a glassmaker of Birmingham and Stourbridge from at least 1841 to 1886. Mary Anne Harrington (1824-1899)...

Brilliant photos bringing back so many early childhood memories. My parents Geoff and Audrey Ellis had the Fish and Chip shop at 159 Station Road where I was raised. The bridge over the river Cole was one of my playgrounds. The newsagent next to the railway line was where I bought my comics. The...

Maria, I think they are the same family. I think the four Woodward bookmaker brothers are grandsons of "your" William Woodward b 1843. "Your" William had Charles George Woodward (1871-1945) and he is the father of the four Woodward bookmakers.