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Thanks, MWS, points noted. All I have to go on, concerning Mary's stay in Birmingham, is my father's 1974 note which states: "Mary/May lived with Mother for several years before emigrating.....". That memory was 70 years old when he wrote it but he was four-an-a-half by the time she left and so...

Thanks, Janice. One theory gone west! I have to assume that both these houses, if they were large enough, had bedsits or even apartments within them. Chris

Another coincidence, MWS ...... the eldest sister of Martha and Mary was Annie (b1871). Annie married, in 1889, one James Priest, who thus became their brother-in-law. I have no further details of those two. The plot thickens! Chris

Thank you for the further invaluable contributions, MWS, Janice and other members who are kind enough to be interested. I now know so much more about Mary's life in the USA, and that of several of those close to her. Her two husbands, both of whom predeceased her, were also immigrants, it seems...

Thanks, Richard. Not sure whether one can do the same thing in the UK ..... Chris

How did you manage to date the Cleveland one so specifically, Richard? Chris

I have been doing a bit of delving, myself, at this end, into family records! How about this, just unearthed? Undoubtedly same day or two in 1935, same area, same family. But wrong car and it doesn't look like the same house, unless it was modified later. The neighbouring house isn't right...

Wonderful, Janice! Don't know enough about US housebuilding styles to judge whether the current house is likely to be a post-1940 replacement. Such a shame that my dad doesn't seem to have photographed it when he was there in 1935. But it's good to try and picture that magnificent old...

Thank you so much, both! Plenty for me to absorb and wonder at.......and later do something with..... I'll comment properly in due course. And in the meantime, push my luck and hope for yet more revelations! Chris

Have started a new thread here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/bannister-mary-and-martha.59443 It is a re-write, including the information generously supplied here by MWS and Janice who have already added so much to my knowledge of what happened. Have left this thread intact...

Mary Bannister (1883-1957, later Wilson and Semon) and Martha Bannister (1874-1918, later Myers) (The following information comes from family notes and records, generously commented upon, supplemented and corrected by MWS and pjmburns recently in the "Brummies who moved to the USA" thread (...

I'm really grateful to you, MWS and Janice, for picking up the baton and providing all that information about my great-aunt, Mary Bannister/Wilson/Semon. Up to now she had just been a name on a family tree and a few family notes and now I know far more. I wonder if my father remembered her from...

Thanks so much, MWS. Your two comments have already told me a lot more. All I had previously was my father's 1974 notes (until then I had had no knowledge at all of my great-aunt's existence) and my brother's pre-online efforts of the 1990s which at least established the date of her death. The...

In addition to three family members (great-grandfather Henry, grandfather Charles and great-uncle Maurice) who had extended stays in the USA from the 1850s onwards but did not linger permanently for different reasons - all mentioned earlier in this thread (#21, 38, 39) - I have remembered a...

Pushing the thread title a bit, but very much prompted by the welcome arrival of in our midst of Dianne Berg. My elder sister wasn't, eventually, a G.I. bride and so DIDN'T move to the USA......although I suppose in different circumstances she might well have done. This is the story if anyone...

That's something which we've never been very good at. Better here perhaps than the rest of social media, especially Fb. But pretty rare nevertheless, despite whatever good intentions and conscientiousness any of us might have. Quite apart from the new dangers arising from the arrival of AI...

Just for interest (?). The response to my complaint: You're absolutely right to call that out, Chris — and thank you for doing so. The enhanced image I provided wasn't a true restoration of your original photo; it was a reimagined version based on the scene, not a pixel-level enhancement. That...

Pedrocut, Here are the comparison images: First the original image, taken from the negative, unadjusted: Second, the original image and only adjusted by me for lighting. Third, the response from Copilot following my request for improvement in sharpness and lighting of the second image...

Going back to Mike's original point ..... I think we are now past the stage where any social media image, and especially the more fascinating ones, can be wholly trusted. Two recent examples for me: 1. Our river bridge in Bewdley has been closed for two years in one direction for the erection...

A WARTIME HOLIDAY: 4th-18th AUGUST 1945 Our holiday, three months after VE Day and in the days leading up to VJ Day and its celebration, seemed rather like what I imagined a peace-time one would be like. But the Japanese remained on the horizon and were still being very much worried about -...