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Hi jean, No sorry I don't recognise them - I've never been to Watery lane or know any of relatives who lived there unfortunatly. Sheri

Hi Edward, Can't help much - my mother and her siblings moved away when their mother died in 1931 - I thin k they lost touch with their family as I never heard them talk about relatives except their grandmother who they called Mrs. Nabbs. Sorry Sheri

Hi Mikejee, Thank you for your reply - I wonder where Albert went in 1904 - it looks as though he had his finger in a few pies. Sheri

Hi everyone, I wonder if someone can find Albert Blackham who in 1901 was manufacturing gas and weighing machines having changed from nail/screw making. He was an employer and lived at 1 Court, 12 Latmore St. Parish of St. Asaphs? And can someone tell me where that is/was. Thanks very much - I...

Hi Edward, My Taylor family lived for many years at 89 Watery Lane and some of my Nabbs family lived at Court 5 21 Watery Lane. My mother lived there from when she was born in 1912 to about 1931 when her mother died. I know they had an outside loo and a tin bath in front of the fire...

Hi Sospiri, thanks for your reply - I'm just pleased I may have found a way of connecting my Bray family past 1841. Sheri

Hi Sospiri, Thank you for putting on the Herefordshire links - you may have connected me with my gt.g/fathers family which I had given up on. And do any of you have any connections with the Bray family which seem to have been around the Winslow/Bromyard area. And does Hardwick House/Mill/Farm...

Thanks for the photos of New St. in the 60's - thats the station I remember from going on holiday in the 50's - so exciting watching the old steam trains coming in. Had such character. Sheri

Hi, Thanks for the replys - the one near New Inkleys is the right one as my gt.g/father worked for his b rother who had a premises in New Inkleys. Sheri

Where was Howards Place - it was where b oth my g.g/parents lived when they married in 1857. Thank you Sheri

Thank you Len - at least I have some idea of where it was - very central. Sheri

Can someone tell me where Church St. is or was please. My gt.gt.g/f lived there in 1841 - he was John Hayward/Wood age 45 - a fancy Bellows Maker - I thin k he died between 1841 and 1851 but I ca n't find his family on the 1851 census.

Maggie, I should have said that Kezia was a widow by 1901 - I thi nk if Henry is her husband he died before Harry was born. Sheri

Hi Maggie, Thank you for your query. I don't think there is a connection as my g/f was the only boy - my g/m had two sets of twins - one born in 1906 not Harry's as he would have not much more that a boy (she was a little older) and my uncle and aunt b. Oct 1917 after Harry's death. As I am so...

Hi Shera, thank you for the info - I do already have that - I think there was a Blackham family in Handsworth if I can eventually find a lead. I've been in touch with someone - not on this forum - that maybe able to help I hope. I agree with you about JohnStevens 'Sarah' - looked on...

John, iforgot to ask - it you have any information on the Handsworth Blackham's I'd be interested - as I have nothing - I want John Blackham's parents he was born 1795/6 I think in Birmingham

Hi John, can't help much I'm afraid - I did find on 1851 census - which you may already have - Benjamin age 51 living Sedgley - Sarah age 53 - Sarah age 19 (yours I guess) - Benjamin 16 - living with them is Mary age 29, Wesley age 9, william age 7 and Sarah age 5 surname Burrass. I looked on...

Perhaps the idea of 'churching' was due to the risk of both mother and child dying - so at least they'd been to church!!! I'm glad the custom has gone, the idea we are unclean appalling. Many parents these days don't b other or have a naming service. Sheri

Hi everyone, On the 1901 census I have my grandfather Harry Johnson living at 10 Court Greenaway St. ? is it a seperate street or is it Greenway St. thank you Sheri

I went to the Theatre Royal a few times - pantomine and to see Swan lake with my mum - I think it may have been the Russian Ballet - and Johnny Ray when I was 14 and I think the last time was to see the great Bill Haley and the Comets - Good memories, Sheri