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  1. Keith R

    Bayley Charles William

    Does anyone know how to access who lived in a street either in a census or voting.In Ancestry I put a street in Birmingham in 1901 census and no records showing.
  2. Keith R

    Bayley Charles William

    Well not really....he is the one named by Gertrude as Charles Williams father...but says he is a Pro Cricketer. he had a son with same name and its through this son that my wife is getting DNA matches.....these people are also getting the Dunhill connections but no one can pin anyone down.The...
  3. Keith R

    Bayley Charles William

    Well thanks for all that. Back to my drawing board again.I cant remember where or who but I have come upon Farm St before when searching but this family is a real hard one to pin down and are not that reliable with their information. Thanks.
  4. Keith R

    Bayley Charles William

    I have spent ages looking at the Evans connection and cannot find a thing.........I am sure this is all deception from Gertrude to go alongside the Bayley thing.
  5. Keith R

    Bayley Charles William

    Thanks everyone. I have recently been contacted by a Paul Weston whose GMother was Rose Baldwin who was Gertrudes youngest sister.She too had a checkered early life. Put into service at 14 and she got pregnant and fled to Derby to have a child and later joined by her boyfriend and they lived...
  6. Keith R

    Bayley Charles William

    UPDATE......RE; 1901 Census.....still trying to place Gertrude Dunhill ( Mom) and Gertrude Dunhill ( Daughter) and Charles William Bayley in 1901 and have found one document for a Mary Ann Baldwin and a Gertrude Baldwin looks like lodging with a family in Farm St and they have the ages of the...
  7. Keith R

    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    Lived all my life in Kings Norton/West Heath and never heard BAB until I started working in West Brom/Oldbury.........
  8. Keith R

    Digbeth

    Fantastic aerial view and really interesting...for me......the dog legged road through the centre is Oxford St and can see Coventry St running across it near the top.On one corner is Thomas Walkers and the other The Old Warfe pub with the Back to backs running to the right....looks like a Monday...
  9. Keith R

    Berry Mound hill fort Solihull

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Mound
  10. Keith R

    Halfords Fire

    Remember a fire not far from this one around 1972.......it was next to the Expressway out of town and next to the canal (see modern image). We were in the Mathew Boulton college - School of Printing and all came out to watch.......we were told that it was a Lewis's warehouse that went up but...
  11. Keith R

    Workhouse

    Saw the 1923 record in the workhouse records book at the Library of Brum.
  12. Keith R

    Birmingham Collections Website

    Oh wow ...all them Caravans that people lived in. Gives me a new perspective of where Wifes Gran lived when she split from Husband in Ladywood and turned up in Newcastle Under Lyme living in a caravan...Her and partner with up to 7 children....but one died aged 8 and another in 1st year - both...
  13. Keith R

    Workhouse

    Sorry for a confusing reply...........will try and word it better........ 2 separate things.....the cert says workhouse which means not only in the infirmery but living in the workhouse......BUT..... In 1923 my M in Laws Cert said 77 Dudley Road which was the infirmary and we have seen the...
  14. Keith R

    Workhouse

    Joining this late but just got the Birth Cert in the workhouse as against the Infirmary....my Mother in law born in Infirmary and the cert just says the address...not the workhouse....
  15. Keith R

    Prisoners Site.

    Thanks everyone...I was hoping it was May Bayley but can see now the birth is a few months out....mind you people were a bit loose with the facts...lol. Cant make out the offence yet. Can remember I found it on a search online but it could have been an Ancestry one originally.I wasnt on Ancestry...
  16. Keith R

    Prisoners Site.

    About 4/5 years ago I was trying to find info on a relative that had a few spells in prison and found a site that showed pictures as well. I picked out this one and had no idea how to copy and it came out like this. Since then I have tried finding the site again but cannot. From this picture...
  17. Keith R

    St Chads Cathedral

    St Chad...outside Lichfield Cathedral yesterday (coincidence)....
  18. Keith R

    Willes Road, Winson Green

    In 1900 my Wifes GDad was born and the address given was 96 Willes Road but this is by no means a reliable record and like a lot more could have been made up.The Father is stated as Charles Stephen Bayley but this might not be the case at all....lol.
  19. Keith R

    free war time records from 5th to 11th may

    Thanks everyone.....I now know that they dont have all records...and certainly not any of my family branches. Mine are all dead so I presume wont be covered by the 100 year rule and I hope that theirs are loaded up soon.
  20. Keith R

    free war time records from 5th to 11th may

    Still going to normal searches......but I tried from my Ancestry page and scrolled down to military and all I had for 2 people was that card and it could be anyone as nothing to connect them to who you are after and another 2 nothing at all comes up.......I have yet to identify a relation on...
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