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Jane, If your father was a fireman at the time you left England, I can send you a copy of the Passenger List of your parents' outgoing journey to NZ if you haven't already got it.. If you don't want me to upload it to the open forum, send me an email address via the private messenging system -...

nzjrc, I spent an hour or so scouring the newspaper archives, FMP and a few other sources, but George seems to have kept a fairly low profile and not resorted to criminal activities! In other words I found nothing and he was a good boyt. :) Maurice :cool:

Sorry, but I'm one of those who doesn't believe in putting my tree on such sites. For years I have used Brother's Keeper, here:- https://www.bkwin.org/ but this is Windows only software and is shareware with very few limitiations (just a couple of reports) should you choose not to register and...

nzjrc, That's who I thought it probably was, but I can confirm no service records. Four silver war medals for persons of that name but no places of dates or places of birth, so impossible to say whether any one might be him without a service number. I'll have another dig around tomorrow, but I...

nzjrc, Ironical as my own father was carter for the railway at Curzon Street delivering parcels with his horse & cart. He said that he loved that job and he knew the streets of Birmingham like the back of his hand. Only around 40% of the servicemen's records for WW1 have survived due to a WW2...

In the case of the dead two day old we are talking about a bare 18 months after the end of WW1. What was the financial situation of the parents at that time? My own father came out of the Army at the age of 36 to find that his job had been given to a young father with two young children. He was...

I had a drink in there with my wife's brother-in-law and his son in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I think it must have been when we went up there for family funeral, and alas all have now passed away. Maurice :cool:

Unlikely to have been cremated at that age. Perry Barr, possibly, but it's private and not online. EDIT: Otherwise a local churchyard, but the records are not online that recent & Birmingham Archives are still closed as far as I am aware. My cousin's grandparents were born in Aston and went out...

Hi nxjrc, You're welcome, and I have a cousin living in Otorohanga, so happy to help out. Maurice :cool:

Birmingham burial records says Yardley Cemetery in April 1937. Maurice :cool:

Is this a connection? https://35squadron.wordpress.com/author/petetresadern/page/6/ An observer called J T Thursfield (unusual name) received gunshot wounds - almost at the bottom of the page. EDIT: And this:- http://www.airhistory.org.uk/rfc/files/_casbook.txt Maurice :cool:

Songbird, Welcome to the Forum and thanks for your input. Maurice :cool:

Happy to be of help, Alison. Yes, the pandemic may prove a bit of a problem as the Centre is staffed by volunteers, though generally retired people who should have had their jabs by now. Good hunting! EDIT: Currently there are 2,692 different record collections on FMP. Even without a...

AMW, Fold 3 is ONLY military records. I subscribe to both FindMyPast & Ancestry at World level and find myself using FMP rather more than Ancestry. I frequently go to Ancestry for images of parish records, because FMP quite often has only the transcription, but it is really a matter of horses...

Judith, Welcome to the Forum. I'm sure that you mean Cox Street West, Balsall Heath, but please use the Search facility (top right of every page and enter the name of the street or road in quotes. That will throw up some photographs to start you off, though whether they will include the exact...

PoJo, Many thanks for your reminiscenses about my late brother, Roy. From what I remember, the accountant came around once a week towards the end and the salesman retired about six months before it folded leaving just Roy and the secretary. It gave Roy an interest and when it folded he used to...

There's a few pics of Ledsam Street here http://www.oldladywood.co.uk/ledsam%20street.htm but 181 is as close as we can get I think. Maurice :cool:

MWS, I didn't go as far out as Meriden and only checked the 1950s on e-rolls. Until the OP provides a little more detail from Michael's birth cert., we're probably stuck there. Maurice :cool:

Neither does she appear on the Birmingham Electoral Rolls on Ancestry as Rose Marie Sheward, nor could I find the birth of a Michael Thompson in Birmingham in 1953, though if he was adopted if could well have been withdrawn from the public domain or have been registered with the surname of the...

Sue, I think that your first sentence in post #13 is most probably correct. There is very little wood in old cameras, apart from tripods, and that leaves bellows, the mechanism and lenses, all of which are likely to be beyond the capacity of Lorenzo to supply. Looking through all the images of...