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  1. bewdley

    BARNES Electoral Roll request please:

    Re: Electoral Roll request please: BARNES Hi Margaret I’m unable to find anything on the Electoral rolls but did find a death for Richard Barnes aged 32 Birmingham September 1912 6d 67, if this is your Richard and Elizabeth remarried it may explain their disappearance. bewdley
  2. bewdley

    HANCOCK Electoral roll look up

    Re: Electoral roll look up HANCOCK Hi Les Kellys Commercial - E-K Directory of Birmingham & Suburbs (1904) pages 572 and 573 shows Hancox William Henry, jun. insurance agent, 23 Grosvenor street, west And also Harding&Hancox, coach furniture mfrs.23 Grosvenor st.west Spelt differently, but at...
  3. bewdley

    Bridge Street West

    I have recently received a birth certificate of one of my ancestors, Alfred Philip Green, born at 234 Bridge Street West in 1891 sub-district of St George Birmingham. Bewdley
  4. bewdley

    Allport Family

    On the 1930/31 Electoral roll Herbert Joseph, Elizabeth Mary Kinman and Enoch Sparkes are living at 12 Douglas Terrace, Farm Street, All Saints Ward, West Birmingham Division. Herbert and Elizabeth have moved to 20 Sunningdale Road by 1935/6. In 1945/6 Dorothy Cook was also living with them...
  5. bewdley

    Allport Family

    Unfortunately not, Gladys' parents were Elizabeth M Sparkes and Herbert J Kinman, they married in July quarter 1924 Registration district: Birmingham North, County:Warwickshire Volume no: 6D Page no: 1002 so perhaps they were living with Gladys' mother or a sister. Suggest purchasing marriage...
  6. bewdley

    Allport Family

    Leonard G and Gladys E Allport are living with Elizabeth M Kinman on 1955 Electoral roll address 20 Sunningdale Road, Fox Hollies Ward, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. I too am unable to find any children, yet! bewdley
  7. bewdley

    Allport Albert James & Fanny Loisa Arrowsmith children/grandchildren?

    Re: Did Albert James Allport and Fanny Loisa Arrowsmith have any children/grandchild Hi Judith I can’t find any children, but have the transcription of marriage record- Albert James William Allport, rank or profession Hall Porter, Bachelor aged 30, Church of England, usual residence Toronto...
  8. bewdley

    314004, William George Eaton, 1/1 Warickshire Heavy Battery, RGA

    Hi I have found the following so far, but will keep looking for you. Absent voters list 1918 – William George Eaton 77 Kensington Place, Wright Road, Washwood Heath Ward, 314004, Cpl., 1/1 War. Hvy. Bty., R.G.A. Absent Voters list 1919 – William George Eaton, 77 Wright Road, Washwood Heath Ward...
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    Birmingham baptism 1848

    Hi Jane K I have found a marriage in Dec Q 1847 between William Hall and Matilda Simmons West Bromwich - 18 756 And the following Deaths Dec 1858 Matilda Hall Birmingham 6d 21, Matilda Hall Birmingham 6d 97 Have also found this death, don’t think it’s your Matilda, but you never know. Deaths...
  10. bewdley

    The Queens Arms Newhall Street Jewellery Quarter

    Dear Paul – Do you have any census print outs for the Queens Arms, if not I will print them off and email them to you in the next few days. I would send them in with my son, Steve (Guinness) Diageo, but he is on paternity leave at the mo. I remember going for an after work drink in your pub...
  11. bewdley

    Parkes

    Hello Carolina on Free BMD there is Births, Sep 1919, Job F Parkes, mother Danks, Dudley 6b 1669. Regards Bewdley
  12. bewdley

    Chip Shop In Front Room Alcester Street

    Hi Gensec I have found Annie and George Parkes (with an e) and Thomas Heeley living at 53 Alcester Street, on 1925 and 1927 Deritend Electoral Roll and on 1930/1 there was also Florence Mabel Heeley. Alcester Street crosses Bradford Street and is very close to Rae Street - could these be yours?
  13. bewdley

    Dance halls

    Oh happy days, I too used to dance there in my lunch hour, but I wasn't as fortunate as Wendy as I worked along the Hagley Road at the then Midland Assurance I used to catch a bus up Broad Street, dance for almost the hour and catch a bus back, I was always late and out of breath when I got back...
  14. bewdley

    Edward Smith , High Street, Erdington

    Hi me again, just had another thought - do you know for certain that Edward remarried - his mother is Sarah A on 1911 census so it may be his mother who appears with him on the Electoral rolls etc. bewdley
  15. bewdley

    Edward Smith , High Street, Erdington

    Hi I have checked the deaths for Hannah Smith aged 49 on 1911 census Birmingham/Aston wife of Edward (builder not carpenter on census) and have the following possibilities - Deaths Hannah Smith March quarter 1914 Aston 6d 683 aged 57 June quarter 1914 Birmingham 6d 192 aged 57 March quarter 1915...
  16. bewdley

    Edward Smith , High Street, Erdington

    Hello KINS 1915 isn’t on the Electoral Roll that I have access to, but have found the following - 1912/13 Electoral Roll Edward Smith 154 High Street, Erdington South Ward 1920 (Spring) ERDINGTON SOUTH WARD-. POLLING DISTRICT GS (No. 201). Franchise. Residence or Property occupied - CHURCH...
  17. bewdley

    School for Domestic Service Training

    Hi, I have to agree with ladylinda - can I ask whether you are searching for your ancestor on Ancestry or Find My Past? I ask because if you are using FMP and click on address in the square box above the previous box you will see the front of the census form. In this case it was completed by...
  18. bewdley

    HANDS in Aston, Handsworth, Ladywood and ???

    Just wondering whether you have my gggrandmother Elizabeth Hands in your tree, Elizabeth was born Bromsgrove 1833. Elizabeth’s father was Joseph Hands born 5.11.1804 Hanbury, Worcestershire, died 1875 Birmingham. Joseph Hands married Mary Freeman in 1826. Mary died of TB on 10 January 1854...
  19. bewdley

    Lower Tower Street

    Love this photograph (# 33) even though it saddens me to see the conditions our ancestors lived in back in the day. St Nicholas School is in Kellys 1896 under Church of England Mission Rooms between 96 and 97 Lower Tower Street In Kellys 1903 96 Lower Tower Street is occupied by Joseph Dukes...
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