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The 1921 Knowle address, please, if available. (Will come back to Mrs Steadman later). Chris

MWS - thanks and no, I didn't know that and my brother didn't pick it up. The long awaited son and brother, no doubt doted on by parents and sisters during his short life and then lost. He had appeared five years after the youngest daughter, Louisa/Lou. You can imagine the grief. Janice -...

Thanks, Janice, again, great! They were only married in the January and so just crept into the 1921. On Charles and Leamington, also 1921. Would you be kind enough to see whether there was a Mrs. Steadman, also in Leamington at the same time, please? There was quiet talk of an "association"...

The more you think about it, the more possible it becomes, provided there was an early docking on the 2nd. Or an overnight train. Whatever happened, poor old George Walter would have been a right old state before the formalities, trying desperately to meet his, probably self-inflicted...

I think there was some confusion over home addresses, business addresses and dual addresses, Janice. It appears that my brother was able to access hard copies of various local directories and did his best to interpret them. The moves are bewildering, over just a decade. My father's 1974 notes...

Thank you for further invaluable contributions. Various points arising: MARY: Mystery of her marriage date versus date of arrival New York. A very good point! The juxtaposition of these two dates is so near inexplicable as to make them virtually an impossibility. But, presumably, the documents...

The problem with that is that, as far as we can tell or so it seems, Mary died childless. This doesn't mean of course that a child never existed or that she might have not gone to full term ......... Or perhaps the question of respectability? They were at the same address from the moment of...

Well, here's to nosiness and Cheers, Janice!! No, I have no originals other than what the two of you have kindly posted. My brother had access to Census records only up to 1891 and didn't reproduce them anywhere. Chris PS And thanks for 1901 and 1911. Haven't examined yet.

I'm still pinching myself to realise just how much information has been so generously provided to me about my grandmother's siblings - there were five daughters of Joseph and Elizabeth (Parkes): Ann/Annie, my mother Martha, Selina Elizabeth, Mary/May, and Louisa/Lou. This thread was all started...

I feel that there has to be something further in her motivation than job-seeking, important as that would have been to her - something more personal, perhaps. Why swap one heavily industrialised area for another, so far away from her roots and where her children remained? Perhaps Albert, for...

I had assumed (and probably without good reason) that the whole family, including Solomon, had moved up there. Possibly she disappeared after establishing the children comfortably with her mother and thus ensuring their well-being. But again, why? Chris

Wonderful! That explains a lot. I wonder if she ever saw any 15 shillings; I doubt it and the emigration would certainly have put an end to it, anyway. Poor Elizabeth, I wonder how she survived, with four young children. Grannie Bannister to the rescue, by the sound of it. But she never came...

A very happy birthday, Janice. Have a lovely day and celebrate wildly (but only so far as it doesn't curtail the time spent thinking about my Bannister family!!!.........) Chris x

Whilst Selina Elizabeth is a bit of a side issue to the life of her sisters, Martha and Mary, nevertheless her story is fascinating! And reinforces the remarkable links which this Black Country family had, and the Birmingham families to which they were connected, with the USA. I have been...

This would explain the four children being brought up by "Grannie" Mary (Parkes) Bannister. Perhaps the declaration in the USA was a white lie, to circumvent the problem of obtaining a death certificate for Selina, or some other documentation, from the U.K. Assuming that he WAS a widower and...

This was my brothers take on Selina Elizabeth: "The third arrival was Selina Elizabeth, born on 14 May 1876 at 58 Garrett's Lane. In the 1891 Census, she is shown as living with the family, aged 14, and employed as a Chain Maker. Subsequently she married, on 23 October 1892, at the Parish...

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...