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Thank you everyone, we have just been to Barston Lake Golf club to have lunch, too calorific but hey you're only 82 once. :)

A bit more of Walters ancestry, he was the son of Walter Harrison and Elizabeth Holland who married in Stafford in 1892, Elizabeth died in Birmingham in 1897. Marriage Stafford 1892, Walter Harrison age 24 , father Robert , address Aston Elizabeth Holland age 22 father Henry address Grey...

Tancy does this help John James Lindegren born 1909 to James miles Lindegren and Catherine Alder. john James and parents living at 1 Franklin terrace, Edwards road Balsall Heath in 1911, he has older sister Eleanor Elsie. John James Lindegren married Helena Payne in 1936 they had 2 children...

Happy birthday Richard.

A very Happy Birthday to you Oldbrit. Alberta.

I find Charles birth in Birmingham a bit of a mystery because his parents are given a John Emanuel Williams and Florence Susannah Wells who married in Aston 1881. In 1901 they are in Islington with following children the first bernard h b Birmingham 1889 the others born islington Florence E 1890...

This family used Rea, Rae and Ray for some of the births etc. However I can't find her birth registration but a death in Birmingham recorded as January 1955 Phoebe Morris birth abt 1888.

Phoebe Rae was born 25th June 1882 and baptised 29th july, Catshill parish, parents Thomas and Sarah I think she made a couple of errors on her marriage to Harry Morris she says age 39 when she would have been 45, and says she is a widow , why then does her father have the same surname , Thomas...

Could it have been the Chad Valley doll factory in Harborne

William Bosward married Dora K P Palmer , Dora was born Dora Kate Peters Bartlett and married Frederick Palmer in 1911. as both her surnames were used at her marriage it may mean she was divorced. Frederick and Dora had a son Neville Hazel Peters Palmer on 28th Dec 1912 in Poole and he died on...

Working back from Laura she says in another thread that her father is Barry Collett I have worked back and her grand parents were Stanley Collett and Doris Jones married 1948 and Barry was born 1951mother Jones Doris Jones mother Rose field. who married john Jones living at 13 Walter street in...

Natasha, I have messaged Sue wonder, she may get a prompt to this on her emails and hopefully will log in here again.

So he had stopped calling himself Mills in civvy life.

John mills b 1876 married Ellen Belcher in May 1897 at St Edmunds , Dudley, her father given as Isaac Belcher no father for John.They moved to Nottingham where John worked as a miner. I think you are correct Janice to say than John Wellings was underage he signed up on May 5th 1903 as John...

I have just viewed records on a Gen site for Beatrice Wellings , it states she had a brother John Mills in 1876 but also a brother John Thomas Wellings in 1886 Dudley and gives his address in Rowley Regis in 1939. This record from 1939 shows him at the home of a Joseph Mole, John was born 5th...

There is only one birth of a William Blackham in Birmingham in 1842,(no others for 5years either side) In 1851 age 8 living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and brother alfred age 3. The head of the house, in Dale end, is Elizabeth Rowley, his grandmother , a fishmonger Birth 30th oct 1842...

My Dad died in 1995 on holiday in Lanzerote, the Birmingham coroner Richard Whittington wasn't happy with the paperwork ,from the Spanish authorities, sent with his body and ordered a post mortem . He was so kind to me on the telephone I will never forget it.

The Sabina Snell in Cornwall became Sabina Grills at marriage and went to Canada. Do we know Sabinas age as she was a Minor on her marriage at St Martins in 1860.

re; your finding Matilda in the industrial school in 1871, Industrial schools were for children who were likely to have turned to crime or were neglected. For children of matildas age to be there was often because the Mother had died or 'vanished' and the father was unable to cope or the...

Have a good one, enjoy. Alberta