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Wow, quick work! Thanks for that. Confirms he was down South by then. Quick edit. Quick check of 1911 census shows he was already in London by then, as a Ropeworks manager. He mentions this later in his notes but without any details or dates. Anyway, it was shortly after his marriage in 1910...

Hi all. His name was John Shailer. Originally from near Alcester. I haven't looked at any census yet. I know he moved South & ended up in Essex but have no timescale for when that happened, other than most likely post 1920, since he did quite well for himself until the wall street crash &...

Keeping the old threads going! :-) I recently posted on the Saltley College pages, having reread some of my grandad's papers & discovered his school was Saltley College school & that the building still exists. He then left school in 1894 aged 14 & went to work at an "old Axletree & Cast...

Ok, thanks for that. My grandad only says "Saltley College" so I doubt its anywhere else. His dad had lost his savings from farming in a business scam, when they arrived in Birmingham. It seems they were on their uppers for a while before he started up as a coal seller / merchant. On that basis...

Hi all, I just registered on the forum. I've been doing some family research - quite a few relatives come from the midlands. I found some of my Grandfather's notes. He was born on a farm in Rous Lench in 1880 before moving to Salford Priors, then Birmingham (this was the time of the great late...