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Also the Bacciochi (various spellings) family had been in Bham for 3 generations before Maria. Her father and grandfather were born in Bham and it was her great grandfather who came from Italy and married an English woman.

They have Tony Iommi's mother mixed up with his grandmother. Maria Sylvia Baciocchi was born in Aston. Her mother was Beatrice Volante and she was born in Italy, I don't know if it was Sicily.

What you need is for Tony Iommi to appear on one of ancestry tv programmes. Looking at his Wikipedia page though I would say that they have his parents' details wrong.

I did mean the marriage certificate for Francesco Iommi and Maria Musticone to see who his father was. I think we assumed that Felice and Angelina probably married some years previously in Italy and for whatever reason decided to marry again in England. That was just speculation, his father...

As you mentioned previously Giuseppe's death was registered by N Musticone, niece. Assuming this to be true then that would make one of her parents a sibling of Giuseppe. Maria was an Iommi so I would say it was very likely. It would be nice to see a marriage for her and Luigi to confirm this...

I've got 5 children for Felice and Angelina but I wouldn't be completely certain for all of them - Anna, Maria, Giuseppe, Eleuterio and Giovanni.

That line might be a brick wall then unfortunately, unless family knowledge can she light on things. That wrong birthplace (if it is wrong) is a bit of a killer, even a correct birthplace may not have helped, depending where it was.

There doesn't appear to be birth reg. for her under her name or anything similar and she seems to be the only person with the surname Perca in the Bham area. Her marriage is possibly the only example of her surname in all the bmd registrations. So I'd say her birthplace is wrong in 1921 or she...

Assuming I've got the right people. I have your nan was Violet Miles and she was very young (just 16?) when she married your grandad? I have her mother as Alexandra Perca and though on the 1921 census her birthplace appears to be listed as Bham I'm fairly certain that's not correct.

A bit of a random question. Where did your dad's maternal grandmother come from? Was she Italian as well?

Answered on the Anderton Street thread.

That part of Anderton Road was on the west side of King Edward's Road and has all gone (as has part of King Edward's Road) replaced by modern housing, Kelsall and Sherborne Groves etc. Modern map...

Here's a map (1954) of Exteter Place, on Anderton Road....

It may be that when the map was made there was a stone but it has since disappeared unfortunately. If you are sure of your location then that may be as good as you can do but some more careful digging can't do any harm.

The building marked below is listed as no. 214 on the 1954 map so assuming the numbers hadn't changed then this is it from 1889, almost opposite Sheepcote St...

This is from the Warwickshire Herald July 1891...

There are number of ads for workers wanted in the 1940 newspapers. One says wanted urgently for government work - apply Whitffield's Bedsteads Ltd, Watery Lane. I'd guess that like many businesses they adapted for the war.

They lived at 6/6 West Holme. Garrison Lane runs off Watery Lane.

Mother, Hannah Tovey, possibly buried there also - Dec 1940.

Hannah is listed on the CWGC, died 22 Nov 1940. Place of death is listed as Whitfields, Watery Lane. Would this be the factory?