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Many thanks both of you. Yes, the marriage certificate for Charles and Florence is they key. Hope I have more luck than last time. They wouldn't let me do it on the phone, did it online and it never arrived....

Many thanks, Shera. Yes, this is the same family - Charles and Florence had three children: Stanley, Benjamin and Edna. I was hoping to get really lucky and find someone had already done the family tree but it looks like I'm going to need to build it for myself. :)

Looking for family of Charles H Warr, married Florence Perry in Birmingham in 1916. Is anyone else researching this branch?

just to let you know, Millie, I got a message through genes reunited yesterday, out of the blue. Someone had been sent a name match to my tree and contacted me. I had no knowledge of the link. and she thought it was a long shot that would probably lead nowhere. Turns out our GGrandfathers were...

Hi, Millie I subscribe to Ancestry and to Genes Reunited. I have occasionally signed up with others but haven't found it worth the cost. I use Ancestry for all my searches, as I can search as many records as I like, my sub is not on a pay per view basis. I use Genes Reunited to build the...

Many thanks for that. However, I'm most interested in the perceptions and opinions of normal Birmingham people of Tolkien and his references to places which many 'experts' have commented on in articles etc in the past. I seem to remember that Tolkien denied quite a few of th Birmingham...

Don't worry, as you say, he may have been Alfred Arthur anyway. I've spoken to Birmingham Registry Office and ordered the certificate online. I prefer to order over the phone but they don't have the payment facilities over the phone and it's not practical for me to drive over to get it. I'm...

Thanks for all the help, Alberta. Really don't know how I'd have traced this one without you. I found the 1901 census entry and agree with you about the Reading / Redding spellings. As for the marriage in 1918 of Marion Biddulph and Arthur Reading, the searches have been less than helpful...

I would agree in part, though I think commercial considerations and modern audience demands for romance and comedy have a lot to do with it. Interestingly, though, Dickens has always successfully translated into film / tv in my view. The film does not need to slavishly follow the book to work...

The Silmarillion is hard going, tried it myself a few years ago and gave up, I'm embarrassed to say. As I'm sure you're aware, Tolkien's specialist area was medieval studies. His style, language (especially names and words he invented) and many other aspects of his writing have medieval...

Can't say I have read LOTR every year but certainly have read it a number of times. My first reading of it was in 1979, when I left school after my A levels. I used the book token I was given as a school prize to buy it - not what my headmistress had in mind, I'm certain! I was so looking...

Many thanks for that tip, I'll try that. Often I have an odd number of brides and grooms on the record page and, as you say, it's so frustratin, especially if you don't know what the 'other half' was called.

Does anyone recall the Kingston Cinema on Coventry Rd and their Saturday morning matinees in the 60s?

Just watched it and yes, you're right, I enjoyed it very much. Would still like to hear more from all true brummies regarding views of Tolkien, his writing and the places he describes.

I joined this site - only a few days ago - to pursue research in family history and found, as I suspect many others have done, that I was drawn in by all the other fascinating aspects of the site and the history of Birmingham and the area. However, I'm a little surprised not to have seen...

I feel privileged to have read the comments and personal remembrances on this thread. My great grandfather died at Ypres in 1915 and is buried at Chesters Farm cemetery. I teach English, with History as a second subject, and I hope you will be heartened to know, if you don't already, that the...

We had a real problem with this in Lincoln last year and the year before. The shops took to chaining the collection box to the till. These people - if you could catch them - should have to face families who have lost loved ones serving their country and explain their despicable actions.

Many thanks to Alberta, I now have the name John Biddulph (b1845/6) in the tree and am on his trail. I already had Pountney name and was delighted when I found John Biddulph staying with the Pountneys in 1861 census, as a boarder. Address looks like 36 Fordrough (?) St, St Thomas dist...

Many thanks to Alberta, I now have the name John Biddulph (b1845/6) in the tree and am on his trail. I already had Pountney name and was delighted when I found John Biddulph staying with the Pountneys in 1861 census, as a boarder. Address looks like 36 Fordrough (?) St, St Thomas dist...

I think you may well end up on my Christmas card list! I have already found more relatives of Reading / Redding and Biddulph since your earlier message. This has made such a difference to my progress on this trail. And I didn't know about the adoption legislation and dates, as no adoptions in my...