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Yes sorry, getting my names mixed up again. Yes, coal hewers are usually down the mines. My nan's family were coal hewers in Chesterfield. So, wasn't sure.

The Octagon has been completed, so not long before I move into my £5000 a month penthouse apartment ;) https://www.paradisebirmingham.co.uk/2025/09/03/construction-of-the-octagon-birminghams-tallest-building-completes/

Re : Thomas Smith's occupation given on Elizabeth's marriage (post #493) and the 1901 census (post #515). First word is coal but can't make out the second word. It looks to be the same word but doesn't seem to be hewer or haulier. Probably something obvious but just can't get it.

My 2 x great grandfather lived in Adams St, though 40 years before that photo.

Mentioned a couple of times on this thread and just come across it on the 1881 census. Surprising that Norfolk St was so much smaller than Suffolk St. To my mind if you were going to name 2 streets Suffolk and Norfolk they'd be of a similar length/importance. Map from 1839, some years before it...

Guests can't change things.

I think you may have a couple of errors. The one quite far back - Mary Baker who I think was born 1794 in Aymestrey, Herefordshire the daughter of a William and Mary Baker and who died 1851 in Ludlow. Also I think her husband, William Russell, probably died 1865 in Ludlow. The other was the...

I think Elizabeth may have died 1941/42 and Frank in 1946.

Alfred is incorrectly listed as William Alfred and Violet died young.

Violet was Luciano and Elizabeth's other daughter, who did young.

The Arpini name appears on both the baptisms above.

And Luciano was in Bham from at least 1891. This is from the Preston Chronicle 22 Aug 1891. It's in more local papers also but this one was free to view...

And Alexandra's and Violet's baptism at the same place...

Here is Elizabeth's and Luciano's marriage at St Michael's, Moor St...

Worcestershire Regiment, service number 9153.

I'd list him as Pechio (he may still be Luciano's son) or whatever you've listed his sisters as but when I enter his death, in the description section I'd put 'listed as Foster'. Though it's whatever you find easiest to understand, there is no right away.

As I said the most likely explanation is that he wasn't really a Pechio but that's just surmising. I'm not sure if when he enlisted his mother was still a Foster and not yet a Barker.

No, he is definitely the right person. The details on his page on the CWGC all match except his name. For some reason he enlisted as Alfred Henry Foster. It may be he wasn't the son of Luciano (or Alfred Foster for that matter) and thought it easier to enlist under Foster rather than Pechio...

No, George and Rose are not her children, they are the children of a Richard Foster and an Elizabeth Fenton. They also had a son, Alfred Henry Foster of a very similar age to Alfred Henry Pechio which is where the confusion may arise.

I wouldn't say it was deliberately changed, just probably how they said it and how it was recorded. Depending how long Luciano was around for Alexandra may not have known him. I am assuming that she was his daughter and giving her father's name as John was just a mistake.