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Thanks Ladies. G

Thank you Ladies. Excellent investigation, something beyond me I'm afraid. G x

Wow! You got me, and that is Nan, Mom & Dad. Sadly Dad went ( along with thousands of others) off to war. Now....I'm not sure how long after this, but "Chick" ( Violet came to live with us while the war was on, joined later by Hilda for a while, and then if my memory serves me right..Irene...

YES ! My mistake, it WAS 1976. Sorry...old age memory.

Hi Lyn, just googled Wainwright Street, Aston, and it is all factory units. I imagine back in Bertha's day it was more like this. Thanks. G x

Hi Lyn, thank you for this, it throws a whole different light on dear Bertha. Forgive me, but you didn't send me the 1939 Eve of War register...did you?? As you said "if I look in the column that gives years of birth, it just gives 2 digits"; you sent me two print outs The 1901 Census and the...

Trivia: Lilly ( maybe one "L") was my mother IVY's auntie, ie Jacks sister, and she was the one that looked after my Mom when she was young. Mom always looked up to Aunt Lil, because she loved theatre, and used to take young Ivy to the Hippodrome or the Alex, and the Aston Hipp, when she was a...

Again...Thank you ladies. Are you sure I haven't become a nuisance for you? I seem to have taken so much of your time with my family. I am so grateful ladies. I am learning every bloomin day Thanks to you. x

Another Wow!. I will talk to you tomorrow, you guys are The Tops! G x

Wow! You are putting my family tree research to shame Ha,ha. Yes, Lucy had: in age order; John,Hilda,Violet,Ronnie, Billy and Irene. I know that Violet ( known as CHICK) married my Dads brother John Taylor, and she lived with us, while John Taylor was away at war with my Dad, Charles Harry...

Fantastic; I don't think you realize how helpful this is to me at my age, I am so grateful to you both. This information may well prove invaluable to my own children. This is like "Who do you think you are" on TV Now, it did make me wonder ladies.....Simple Minded? ..... a tick next almost all...

You ladies are Marvelous, I wouldn't have known where to start...I shall certainly look further into this. Bless you guys. Gerry

Interesting fact. Grandad died in I think 1988. in Tamworth, Irwell close? His full name was John Joseph Hill. His father was JJ Hill a Tamer of Beasts, also with Pat Collins Fairs & Menagerie. Grandad was well known round the rag market and sharpened scissors and blades on a converted bike...

Yes.....oops! She said she will send it to you., Soz. Gerry

Lyn. I have DM'd you Thanks. Gerry

Sorry not sure about that. G.

Gerry here. Yes Grandads "Bungalow", was well down Gelenavon Road, I was only seven or eight, and traveled on my own from Great Barr, into town on the Midland Red 119, then walked into either Carrs Lane or Alberts Street, or sometimes down into Bradford Street and caught the number 50. As I...

Thank you. G.

Wow! That is a wonderful find. Thank you so much, as this was the ONLY building of its type, it has to be THE wooden house I remember as a child. Just wanted to Thank you so much ladies, great research where I would not have been able to to look. Kind regards, Gerry ps was there another part to...

That is kind of you Lyn. He was Jack Hill (John Joseph Hill) and my Nan was Kate Elizabeth Hill (nee Smith); its worth a try I suppose. If anything cops up, let me know. Kind regards, Gerry