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Really dont know where to start - after 4 years of searching for my grandmother (died but not born - an earlier thread) There is no family alive to help with any ideas - Adelaide Veronica Mary Osborne died of TB aged 25 in May 1922. She married in St. Vincents Catholic Chapel, Ashted Row in...

Whilst researching past family (Osborne) born in Kidderminster I came across census for 1861 - 1891 showing a Mr Joseph Osborne trading as a confectioner at Court 24 Inge Street and 79 Hurst Street, so surprised to note that this was the area of the newly re-formed back-to-bacs which I visited...

Hello carolina - have just found this thread and wondered if you could also help me in my search (for what is probably the impossible) photos and map of the area of 34 Forster Street, My gt Grandmother ran a sweet shop! Matilda Osborne - there from possibly 1917 through to 1930's when her...

Dek - yes you could be right, its only just finding out about this shop that made me think of all the goodies I missed out on! regards Val

Hi lyn - I have an address of Albion Works, Cover/Carver Street, B'Ham - Val

Help - I am looking for a picture/booklet/photo of Camelinat & Co, Sheet Metal Pressings, to add to my Family Tree History - my father having worked there in the late 1940's early 50's. Val

Hello Dek and thanks for quick reply - I must admit I haven't lived in Birmingham since 1955 and being a child at that time have no memories of streets in other areas. Looking at the paperwork I have in front of me which I retrieved from the Electoral Roll on the Midland Historical Data it...

Hope I'm in correct place - My family - Osborne's/Hemmings - had a sweet shop in Forster Street - 1917 - 1949 - and wondered if anyone had a newspaper cutting/photographs of the street or shop - I think this is wishful thinking on my part? I never knew we were business people and into making a...

Hi Harborne - wonderful - have been searching for such records for ages. Just to say that I am an OSBORNE from Birmingham? Are we connected in some way? Val

Hello to you - I also PRESUME as I have no other information whatsoever to go on, have you done any research into tracing any records, if not I will try and delve, the person in your tree what year approx. do you think they were 'possibly' working there. At the beginning of my family tree...

Hello maggieuk - what a quick reply -memories came flooding back - I note your last sentence - it just looks better on the photo but looks can be deceiving? Approx 10 years ago I walked from Gas Street along the canal until reaching Heath Street, clambered up the bank arrived at top to feel...

Edit. Background. MRCW Co was established in 1853. By 1924 it was an associate company of Cammell, Laird and Co. In 1929 Vickers, after acquiring the shares of the Metropolitan Co, came together with Cammell, Laird and Co and each merged their rolling stock interests to form Metro Cammell. Then...

Phil, Lloyd, Lyn and Maggieuk - GOSH did not expect that sort of response, many thanks to you all, I suppose the good thing is that the area today is much cleaner, brighter, better living conditions but with THAT SPECIAL SOMETHING MISSING? Yes we were half way between Dudley Road and Winson...

Probably looking for something impossible? - as former resident of Heath Street - Dudley Rd End I wondered if anyone would have any idea if I could obtain a newspaper cutting, photograph or the like of Heath Street before and then after demolition and also if possible to get a photograph of the...

Re: William hemmings Thanks once more - This 'spanish' connection may be wrong - my father and his brother were only 2 and 3 when Adelaide died, they were looked after by an Aunt and their Gr/mother until their father remarried - which strangely enough I have managed to locate that marriage and...

Re: William hemmings Adelaide Veronica Mary Hemmings - Hello Suzanne - any ideas - my brother has found and sent to me an old letter from my fathers brother and in it it mention's that he thought his mother was Spanish? or of Spanish decent? How would I research this - no dates, no addresses...

Re: William hemmings Hello Joan - yes received email and replied - someone said to me that this Family Tree Research would take me years, I did not believe them - I do now! it becomes obsessive................bye for now - Val Brummie from Way Back

Re: William hemmings Why dont I think of these things? I do know that Charles Hemmings father was also called Charles born 1848 in Birmingham and married a Elizabeth Baker but haven't delved into whether he had any brothers or sisters but will get onto this immediately - OH Charles senior did...

Re: William hemmings Hello Suzanne, your instant reply is amazing. Yes 32 Forster Street correct. A family have contacted me from the Ancestry site with regard to my connection to Matilda Osborne (re Rook of Kidderminster, their relatives) and her daughter Matilda Mary Ann, it would appear...

Re: William hemmings Wish I was this quick when doing my own research? very interesting what you have found. Adelaide (my fathers mother) only survived until the age of 25 when she died of TB. Interestingly the child of Dunleavy/Jones has the name Veronica who was born many years after...