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Hi everyone, I wanted to tell the story of my parents who left Birmingham for a better life in 1958. Mum was born in 1932 in Aston, dad was born in 1930 in Dudley. Both from working class families. Both went through WWII as children. Mum often recalls going to the air raid shelters as a...

Thanks so much Janice. Yes I might do that. When dad passed away 19 years ago, we found all of his navy pictures and records. He didn't ever talk about it. I'll keep hunting for the missing Palmers and hopefully one day we may find them.

Thanks for that. Yes it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. I have more and more DNA matches, so perhaps one day her family may turn up! She may have not even married and not had children. By the way do you know if there are any forums which talk about the Korean war and people from...

Yes with Doris M Palmer, we are thinking she might have been married in perhaps the early 1940s. We have found one Doris M Palmer marrying a Frank Morris in 1944. She was born in 1917 and left home when my mother (her sister) was young. My mother was born in 1932. So she might have been...

Hi Jean, I've also attached more pictures of them - one is a group photo outside the church and also mum's bridesmaids. It seems it was mum's parents' house (before mum and dad were married in 1955). Mum lived there with her parents May and Charles probably from the mid-1930s until they left in...

Hi everyone. Mum (Pauline Palmer) told me today that she too worked at Wolseley Sheep Shearing in the 1940s. My parents are from Aston and migrated to Australia in 1958. She's 89 now, but remembers. She told me how she used to make shears.

Thanks Lyn. I must admit I do get a bit lost reading some of the posts. I also notice there is a separate thread for Dents, so I will look into that too. Dents on Lichfield Road Thanks for the link for Wolsely too. It's great to be able to see where my parents (and other ancestors) lived...

Hi all. Still trying to trace my mother's two sisters' families that have never been heard of since my parents came to Australia. One sister Doris May Palmer (1917-?) born in Kent we think and the other Olive Joyce Palmer (1926-?) born in Birmingham. Doris left home at an early age, never to...

I've just come across this forum. The pictures are lovely and I think my mother's house might be there. Before mum moved to Holte Road, they were at 44 Allesley Street. She moved with her family as a young child in the 1930s. Mum was born in 1932.

Thanks to everyone for your help. I've just spoken to mum and she can't recall the name of a garage or where it might have been. Also mum said she did have the reception at a school. She can't recall which one but she did say she went to a high school in Deykin Avenue and a primary school...

Thanks Janice. Unfortunately my father is no longer alive and mum is 89. I can ask her, but I don't know if she will remember. I have all of mum's wedding pictures with lots of pictures outside the church too. I've actually found a picture in the reception place. You can see the windows but...

Thanks for that map. Yes looking at it the photo also has a sign "bend" so the bend is behind them.

Thanks so much for everyone for their help. My parents were married on 1 January 1955 so that gives a date for the photo. Checking on Google Maps I can see the area has changed so much since that date!

This is a picture of my parents in Aston, Birmingham in 1955 when they married. Don't know the street though. They were married at the Aston Parish Church, not far from Aston Hall. Mum still living here in Australia.

My parents Douglas Brownley and Pauline Brownley (nee Palmer) lived at 30 Holte Road, until they moved here to Australia in 1958. Boy the area has sure changed when I look at Google Maps!

Thanks for that. I'll have a look. I also just got my DNA results back from Ancestry. Can't wait to see what they show. As well as the Midlands, I seem to have cousins in the US and Canada.

Hi. Yes I have dob for Olive Joyce Palmer as approx April 1926 (Birmingham North) and for Doris M Palmer as January 1917 (Medway, Kent). We believe that as my grandfather Charles R Palmer was in the military, he moved around and that it why Doris I think was born in Kent. Charles Palmer and...

Thanks so much for your message. Yes we found her on the electoral roll for 1950 but don't know what happened after that. I think she was the sister that had two children unmarried. As Joyce was her middle name, this is likely her. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. I would love...

Hello, thanks for your reply. Yes I would love some further information if you have. Are you on Ancestry.com? We have our tree on there. I note your husband is descended from Emily Budd and we are descended from her brother George 1837-1907) (then another Richard Budd, then May Budd (my...

We are in Victoria too Maurice. We live in Melbourne and felt it too. Never felt anything like that before. Really scary though.