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Astoness, you are 100% correct in advising me that I had not got it precisely right. Thank you so much. I started work analysing your response at 9am this morning and I have only just finished. Firstly I had to track down my original hand-written transcript of the St Philip's register from 39...

Hi Astoness, Like you, I am picking up on an interesting (two-year-old) thread on glassmaking. As I think you know I researched glassmaking and published "Glassmakers of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612-2002" in 2002. I discovered significant movement of both proprietors and my own workmen ancestors...

Hello Lyn, Here is the marriage certificate of William Ellis and Mary Ann Harrington. I've also got the birth certificates of their children William Ellis and John Edward Ellis, but everything I know about William Ellis and Mary Ann Harrington is on familysearch.org for free at...

I have also just spotted, looking at it again, that the railway signals of the Stechford stretch of the railway line into Birmingham are clearly visible in the background. If anybody would like to swap memories of Hudson House School, Stechford please fire away. I loved it. I only know of one...

Couldn't resist posting a Hudson House School photograph. From my age on it I would guess it is about 1963 to 1966. I know quite a few of the names on the photo if anybody is interested. Unfortunately I have had to scan it at low resolution to fit the BHF size limit.

Susanna Harrington died 26 July 1835 when she was living at Brewery Street, Aston. All of my tree is on Familysearch.org. Start with Susanna's record at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L1KH-T5Z I would be very interested to know how we are related

William Ellis (1824-1883) is my gt, gt grandfather. He married Mary Ann Harrington 24 July 1841 at Aston Union Register office. The witnesses were Jane Hawksford and George Thomas. William was a glassmaker of Birmingham and Stourbridge from at least 1841 to 1886. Mary Anne Harrington (1824-1899)...

Brilliant photos bringing back so many early childhood memories. My parents Geoff and Audrey Ellis had the Fish and Chip shop at 159 Station Road where I was raised. The bridge over the river Cole was one of my playgrounds. The newsagent next to the railway line was where I bought my comics. The...

Maria, I think they are the same family. I think the four Woodward bookmaker brothers are grandsons of "your" William Woodward b 1843. "Your" William had Charles George Woodward (1871-1945) and he is the father of the four Woodward bookmakers.

One of my family members, the late Charles Woodward (1913-1988) has several bookmakers shops in the Witton and Aston are which traded as "Chas Woodward". Does anybody have any info The four brothers ran a small chain of bookies shops in the Witton and Aston area, trading as "Chas Woodward" and...

This is the MEM Works Council in 1940. My Grandmother Louise Burton (1906-2002) is bottom left.

I need help please. My great-great grandmother Mary Ann Jones (nee Shepherd) worked as a midwife from at least 1883 to 1901 and was connected with the Hockley Provident Dispensary, 360 Farm Street, Hockley. It later became known as the Birmingham Provident Dispensary. Mary Ann lived right next...

My Grandmother lived at 11 Medina Road Tyseley (just round the corner from MEM) and used to work there.