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My pleasure. Just for another bit of trans-Atlantic interest, the Jackson glassmaking family of Tutbury, Staffordshire are related to General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863) of American civil war fame. Nothing to do with Birmingham I know, but I couldn't help throwing it into the...

Hi Mike, That is definitely the Stafford knot (more commonly known as the Staffordshire knot), so my guess would be the glassworks in Ludgate Street, Tutbury, Staffordshire. It had been run since 1720 by the Jackson family making bottles for the Burton-on-Trent brewery trade. It was rebuilt and...

Hi Paul, I know this is a bit further up the road in Tyseley, but in my memory that stretch of the Warwick Road from Tyseley to Greet is merged in one. I love this photo: horse-drawn vehicles and manure in the road, gas lamps, the tram lines and overhead cables. My grandfather lived at 519...

Mike, That is fantastically helpful, thank you, just what I was looking for.

I am looking for help please. One of my ancestors Carey Burton (1802-1878) was a shopkeeper at 45 Barn Street, Birmingham from at least 1841 until her death in 1878. She never married, nor did her sister Jemima Burton (b1808) who lived with her and presumably worked in the shop with her. This is...

Sospiri, I have ordered a dozen certificates attacking the challenge from every angle. I hope it turns out to be a worthwhile investment. Thank you for informing me that the facility existed, I wouldn't have known otherwise. BTW, I am making hay while the sun shines and downloads from National...

Janice, thank you, this is a very sound and plausible suggestion. It coincides nicely with my next line of research that I am commencing today. I now testing out a hypothesis that Mary Ann Lees was not born as Mary Ann Lees but became Mary Anne Lees. There are two ways this could come about...

Sospiri, Thank you for that suggestion. I have just listed out all the certificates I need to obtain and will order them all today.

Hi MWS, You have latched onto one of my mysteries very quickly. The original marriage cert that I shared earlier was given to me my my late uncle, so I have no doubt whatsoever that it is my family. As far as I can make out William Burton and his wife Mary Ann, nee Lees had the following...

MWS, Alberta, Thank you for the possible Stafford connection. The death registration at Stafford is definitely not Mary Ann's. She died in childbirth (giving birth to my great grandfather Joseph Alexander Burton), 27 February 1879 at 8 Court, St George Street, Birmingham. There was a Coroner's...

Hi Mws, Thank you for offering to help. I have attached a scan of the original 150-year-old marriage certificate which I am privileged to possess. Marriage at St. Jude's, Birmingham, 6 November 1871: William Burton age 22, batchelor, upholsterer, Smallbrook Street, father John Burton, Bill...

Please could I call upon assistance on a roadblock in my family history. I know a lot about my great-great-grandfather William Burton born 23 Nov 1849, Cheapside, Birmingham. I know that his wife Mary Ann, nee Lees died in childbirth 27 Feb 1879 giving birth to my great-grandfather Joseph...

This thread began in 2004 but still appears to be going strong, so here's my contribution. My father bought the Alpine Restaurant, 49 Great Hampton Street on 23 September 1968 and ran it until about 1973. It was a typical cafe on the ground floor with a big takeaway sandwich trade and had a...

Hi Steve, Reply is ten years late, but if you are still interested - Birmingham trade directories over many years show the Dugmore family to be working as manufacturers of glass, sand & emery paper, lapidiaries, glass cutters and dealers in foreign stones. I am still researching because...

Hi Pemby, I also have Birmingham Pembertons in my family tree. It's a fascinating family to study. The best known part of the family is the famous family of brassfounders, but their branch was originally from Leicester. There were other earlier Pembertons in Birmingham: The goldsmiths who were...

Janice, dinner can wait, I have started looking now. The marriage cert provided by Astoness definitely appears to name Ellen Faulkner and all the research I did this morning names Ellen. But what you have just kindly provided is Emma Faulkner, not Ellen Faulkner. As you say, the 1861 census...

Janice, that is just so kind of you to look this up and reply. Dinner is now in the oven, but I can't wait to investigate. Thank you Jason

Hi Astoness, Thank you for that marriage cert. What a piece of Birmingham history it is with the two addresses quoted. Warstone lane is the home of the famous Pemberton brassmaking family and Ryland Street was almost certainly named after the equally famous Ryland family involved in...

Iv'e got vague recollections of it from my childhood in Streetly c1967-1977. It was in a small parade of 1960s-1970s shops in an otherwise entirely residential area. I haven't been back since my youth, but I doubt that it has changed much. It certainly wasn't a pub, I seem to recall it was just...