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Thank you Ted, Len, and Chocks2 -- your responses answer a question and gives me some places to check for any records or information. Best, Ann

I've found an ancestor whose occupation is listed as a "sailor -- Merchants Service" in 1872. Does anyone know where I might find records pertaining to this line of work? I know it wouldn't be the same as a military type sailor enlisted in the Navy, but are there perhaps lists of rosters...

Bernard and Suzanne -- thank you for identifying the hospital in question. I had gone back and looked at the census page much enlarged, and it definitely said Yardley Road, no mention of Green in there, so it didn't seem that the first hospital name suggested would be the right one. Little...

Thank you Colin and Bernard. Given that the person in question died very soon after the census was taken, it sounds like the hospital was probably on Yardley Green Road, and perhaps he was in the sanitarium type section. I think I'll go back for another look at the census page, and enlarge it...

I finally found someone I've been looking for, in the 1901 census. They were in hospital at the time of the survey, and died just two or three months following. The writing on the census register is difficult to read, but I believe it says "Yardley Rd. City Hospital". It's in the civil...

Thank you for your help again, Shera. I can see there are other sources where this type of information would be found, that if you don't have access to it, then you miss things! At some point Edwin did find work again, as he is listed as employed in the 1881 census. Kathleen's books are...

Recently members were kind enough to help me in looking up info on my gr-gr-grandfather Edwin, along with his mother and younger brother John in the 1871 census. Their mother was a widow, and Edwin was unemployed. Two forum members wrote that "they were in the workhouse". I've been trying...

Thank you Trebor, for the saddler explanation. That was the first I'd seen a distinction made in the type of saddlers in my census searches. Knowing what the terms mean now is most helpful! Thanks again! Ann

My gr-gr-grandfather is listed as a "brown saddler" in the 1881 census. I understand what a saddler is, but have never heard the term "brown" used with it before. I looked it up on a couple different occupation sites, but all they listed were plain saddlers. Does anyone have a clue as to what...

Thanks for taking the time to look for me, Shera. I'm glad I found a registration for a marriage at least. It had been passed down in the family that there had been no marriage and there was an illegitimate daughter as a result. The register cleans up my great-gran's name! Thanks again...

I'm hoping someone might have access to records, or the ability to find more marriage information for me. I was able to find out this much thus far: my great-grandmother Martha Jane Harrison married Thomas Brinkworth in 1894. They are recorded in the Birmingham register, for...

There has been a thread over on Roots Chat pertaining to Witton Cemetery. One of the posts mentioned that they were told by the ladies in the office there that the fresh dirt was brought in during the 1940s's. There was something like 9 feet of new earth spread over many areas that contained...

You're a peach, Ladylinda! With your help you took me back three decades with my Harrison branch, and I now have names for at least one set of my gr-gr-gr- grandparents. Thank you so much for taking the time to do those look-ups and for helping me along. Family research is not only...

Alberta and Shera, Thank you for looking through the records for me! I hadn't known about Edwin's mother Martha (or his brother). That gives me a little more to go on, and explains his and Jane's first daughter's name Martha Jane -- she was named after his mother and his wife. If I...

I wonder if someone could please check on a christening that Di told me about -- 2nd January, 1873 for a Martha Jane Harrison? If this is the correct name for that date, were the parents' names Edwin and Jane Harrison? Any other pertinent information provided as well? Thank you. Ann

Re: Jane Harrison Di, I’m not sure if the Edwin and Jane marriage in Worcestershire would be my line – if the marriage took place in June quarter 1873, and their first daughter Martha Jane was born in 1873….??? She either came along before expected (ahem), or it’s not the right Edwin and...

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to find the maiden name (and hopefully her parents’ names) of my Gr-great grandmother. What I know about her to this point is: First name: Jane Born: about 1852 in Birmingham/Warwickshire Married: Edwin Harrison (born 1849) (Died possibly...

Gosh Mike, thanks so much! Not only did you find that Richmond did indeed have a business enterprise in the area, but you also furnished information on additional addresses where the family lived, and pointed out why he would have wanted to move his business to the Vyse street locations...

According to earlier family research, my paternal great-grandfather was a businessman, in the Birmingham area during the 1890’s and turn-of-the-century. He was said to be a wholesale jeweler, and “had a manufacturing business in Birmingham, making and marketing silver plate, and brass and...