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Hi Marzipan, I don't know why but I never received your reply to my thread - so sorry but I just picked it up today. My families were Nabbs an d Taylor and Johnson all lived in Watery Lane. The Taylors were at No 89 at least until 1911. The Johnsons (my grandparents) lived at 13 House, Court...

Hi Shera, Thank you very much - I don't know who John's parents are - been looking for years - it is possible that it could be Benjamin and Mary - there are a few names I've come across that might fit - William, Benjamin, James who could be John's brother's. I've almost given up on the parents...

Sorry - thank you in advance. Sheri

I wonder if someone could look for a baptism for Richard Blackham born ? 1806. It is possible he is the brother of my gt. grandfather John B. whose parents I have been looking for years. I found him on the 1841 census (Blockham) living in Vale St. where John also lived - my thi nking was that...

I am also reading 'gangs of birmin gham' - many of my families lived in the Cheapside and Watery Lane areas - I think now that in those Victorian days they were probably quite rough - how could boys living in those places not be caught up in slogging? Sheri

Great picture of Thorpe St. - my Gt.Grandparents lived there in the 1860's and 70's - then moved to Bread St. Are there any photos of Bread St. please. Sheri

I had a terrible experience of the Dental Hospital when I was 9 and had to have 4 teeth out - had to wait for more than 20 people to go first - the smell and the gas mask over my face!!!! - I had to be taken home to Quinton in a taxi I was so sick and off school for a week. It was a long time...

I thought Mcgaw too, Sheri

What a wonderful poem - an epic - as you say Dennis very Kirk Douglas. How do you know they came in the time of King Canute - he must have beeen a Viking??? Sheri

What an interesting thread - thank you Dennis and jennyann - In my book 'The Building of a City' it says that William Jennens settled in B'ham in the middle of the 16thC and founded the Jennens dynasty -he died in 1602 leaving his wealth to sons John and Ambrose - by 1700 John's son Humphrey was...

Hi smtr, that would be wonderful if you could email the newspaper reports - what a terrrible crime - its possible this the right man as I've seen Nabbs spelt with a K before - would he have been sent to Portsea for a crime like this do you think - he would have been about 22. Many thanks, Sheri

Mikejee and Lloyd, Thank you so much for looking - it is possible that this Robert could be the one as I have seen Nabbs spelt with a K before - could he have been sent to Portsea prison for this awful crime - he would have been 22. Your very kind, Sheri

Thank you Maurice - unfortunatly I don't have access to Ancestry either - it does seem that the archieves do go to 1882 which would cover the period.Sheri

Thank you Alf and Lloyd - I had googled the prison and found the same - Robert was in Birmingham in 1871 - he was 19 then - and just out of curisity I will get in touch with the central library if noone else finds anything, Sheri

By chance I found on the 1881 census a relative who was in Haibonoit Prison, Portsea Hampshire - he may have been on a convict ship/hulk - I don't know if there was a question of him being transported to Australia. His n ame was Robert Nabbs age 28 - in 1891 he is back in Birmingham. Is there...

Thank you horsecart - probabl;y wasn't a business. Sheri

My gt.gt. uncle Charles Taylor was a House Painter and Decorator so were his sons - Ephraim James, Samuel, Albert and Ephraim James son, Ephraim - they were still employed as such in 1911. I was wondering if they had a business and if they were still going after 1911. They all lived around...

I looked on amazon for the book about the peaky blinders - can someone tell me please the correct title. Many thanks, Sheri

from the 'Building of Birmingham' - when the Warley Abbey Estate former home of the Galton family was sold in 1901, the Freehold Land Society bought a large plot bounded by Lightswood Rd and Three Shires Oak Rd. Interesting histories by Dennis - many thanks, Sheri

My mum mentioned several times how she had stood at the bedroom window in Quinton, crying as she watched Coventry being bombed and burning. Sheri