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https://jephcott.one-name.net/ <link A society for the genealogy of Jephcotts, of all spellings. I have Nuneaton (Stockingford) Jeffcotts on my mom's side, of two different spellings.

I'm trying to solve a mystery - some medals were discovered by my relative hidden at 27 Daniels Road, Bordesley Green. They were awarded to a George Horton for service in the Boer War and WW1, but strangely, he lived at 32, not 27. A couple called Thomas and Minnie Wauman lived at 27. I think...

Ah ok. Thanks. Horton is fairly common but Wauman is not. I'd love to get some idea if the medals were given to Minnie Wauman. I can't see her husband in any service records though.

I believe my grandfather Sydney Tibbatts was an upholsterer for Smiths, before he became the proprieter of a cafe in Hockley and then a betting shop. Does anyone know anything about the fitting-out workshop? The man in the centre of the photo above, with the stylish round glasses, does look like...

I've looked at the tree but sorry i still don't understand: I thought George's mother's name was Clara? Sarah Gibson née Terry: you said she was your 'great grandfather's wife'. By that did you mean your great grandmother, or an earlier / second wife?

Sorry I dont understand. I haven't got a subscription to Ancestry so i can't see any of the trees.

His wife but not your great grandmother?

:) What was his wife's name?

Are they your relatives?

I'm in London, I come to Birmingham about 4 times a year, I'll see if I can fit it in next time. I wonder if there are other records I could look at such as the fire watch? My gut feeling is that there is something inherent to the medals / service that was the reason for giving them, otherwise...

I want to go to those kinds of parties

I think it very likely that the medals were a gift to Minnie, hidden and forgotten at her death. It's much more likely that a widow living alone would hide medals, than a family. Is she on Ancestry? Did she and Thomas have any children?

Ha ha :) I've made a few edits to my long post above, btw. I'm turning into Hercule Poirot...

1879 Record of a Thomas Wauman born Birmingham 1882 George born 1901 - 2 George in Africa 1905 George marries Fanny 1911 George on Birmingham census with wife and 2 children Edith and Gladys 1914 - 1918 George WW1 1939 George, Fanny and Edith at 32 Gladys son Robert born Thomas and Minnie...

My relatives the Bennetts bought 27 some time in the 60s i think. There was definitely another family there before them who had a disabled adult son, but weren't called Horton, or they'd have given the medals back as soon as they found them. 32 isn't opposite 27, it's a bit up the road, so even...

I'm thinking I will keep the medals, with a view to selling them to a collector in the future. I don't feel able to give them to a distant relative who probably isn't interested. I'll make sure whoever has them has a summary of what you've all found out, for which I thank you so much. George...

Thanks so much

My grandparents Sydney and Irene Tibbatts ran a cafe with a dining room upstairs in Icknield Street, Hockley in the 1960s. Does anyone have any info, memories, photos?

Definitely looks more salubrious now. I could swear the ceilings and walls were painted black. It used to scare me lol.

Can anyone remember what the original question was on this thread? Asking because I'm a Tibbatts.