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    Wallace Evelyn 1914

    Coleshill is in North Warwickshire and the records for Coleshill Hall are kept at Warwickshire County records office but there is a hundred year rule of production of the documents.
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    Rubery Hill Asylum Hospital

    The Selina Upton who died in Aston 1934 was Selina E Upton age 75 , ( Selina Emma Frazier married George Upton in 1879 at age 20, ) The other Selina who married Frederick would have been abt 95/6 in 1934. She died in 1924 age 85, registered Hawarden which is the registration place for Saltney...
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    Rubery Hill Asylum Hospital

    There are 2 Selina Uptons born around the same timeone married to George but,going back to my post 73 your Selina and Frederick had a daughter Julia who married Arthur Devonport In 1891 they are in Copper street , west Bromwich Arthur Devonport . Julia Devonport May devonport age 3 daughter...
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    Rubery Hill Asylum Hospital

    It appears your Frederick was admitted first before 1881to All Saints asylum in the area where he lived although the census information is sketchy but the age is correct and his 2 youngest children Julia b 1869 and Matilda b 1871 are in Marston Green cottage homes. I have been unable to find...
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    Happy birthday Eric (cookie273uk)

    Happy belated birthday wishes Eric, enjoy being 93 years young:), Alberta
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    joe90 birthday.

    Happy birthday, have a great day. Alberta.
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    Thomas Sheridan Marriage 1899

    He was in the 15th Battalion the Rifle Brigade.
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    Thomas Sheridan Marriage 1899

    Thomas Sheridan b 1898 gave the name Thomas Sheridan when he enlisted on 7th May 1915 and gave mother Mary as next of kin , address Essex street , the address of the Brannons in 1911.
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    IT'S ALBERTA'S BIRTHDAY TODAY

    Thank you all for your messages, I have had a quiet day doing the garden , well not really, I was supervising Steve because I am being treated for long covid and ache all over. The children and grandchildren came at the weekend so as well as having nice pressies, I now know that Gavi is the...
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    Griffiths, Frederick

    The second wife of Alfred was Annie Marie Margareth Gunster whose family lived in Redland Road Malvern link, her father was Prussian, to link her to the Surrey Alfred Griffiths in 1939, she died in Surrey 1981 . Annie maria Margaret Griffiths b 24th july 1893.
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    happy 80th to richard dye

    Hope you had a lovely day Richard and welcome to the 80s club. Alberta
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    Wilton Street Lozells

    Babies could not be registered by unmarried mothers unless the father was present and agreed to it, often mothers gave their children the fathers surname as a second christian name which gave a clue to who he was.
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    winifred ethel harrison b 1915

    The entry on Ancestry says Herrison, mistranscribed. On his tree Dale says she was married to William Walter Harrison but she was single in 1939 and I can find no marriage for her after 1939 but then no death for her with birth 2nd Feb 1915.
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    winifred ethel harrison b 1915

    Winifred was the daughter of Ernest Harrison and his wife Ethel Clara Emery who married in 1908 1911 census back 152 charles henry street Ernest Harrison , age 29, house painter b Birmingham Ethel Clara age 26 b Warwick with Twin daughters Gladys and Hilda age 11 months Laura Emery age 5 Niece
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    IN OUR GARDEN 2023

    Beautiful big purple Allium, mine have not broken open yet, bit much smaller paler ones have.
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    Veraca

    Peter Veraca died in 1936, he married Leah E S Bridges in 1902. 1939 59 Naseby Road Veraca family Leah E , 13 Mar 1882 Peter, 23 Aug 1908 Denis A ,2nd Oct 1917 Josephine j 14th Dec 1920 + 2 closed entries. Electoral roll for 59 Naseby Road in 1950 Denis A Veraca Leah E Veraca Stephen J...
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    Veraca

    If Marie born 1911 the daughter of Peter Veraca and Elizabeth S Bridges is your father Dennis mother she also had a brother Denis born 1917. The family lived in Naseby road , Alum Rock.
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    Adelaide Della James

    Just found baptism record of John Donald James obvious error as he was registered Ronald, born 5th may 1927 baptised 25th May 1927, mother Adelaide Della James no father listed., address 19 Grasmere Drive , Handsworth.
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    Washwood Heath bus garage

    I am sad to post that my exhusband John Altimas has passed away , his funeral was on Thursday 4th May he worked at Washwood heath from 1963 until 1988 and some of his former friends and colleagues attended his funeral including Don Turner, Brian Morrisey, Alan Whalley and John Brown. We chatted...
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    Baron Davis

    Adjustments to your dates Clive, not 1962, Sarah remarried in 1982 , April/May or June and her husband Herbert Windebank died in June 1982, she died Sept 1983. all in Suffolk. Isaac Baron Davis address when he died was Bridge house Debenham which is a beautiful listed dwelling, Addresses for...
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