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Trying to gain some information about my father's brother and sister - Violet Clarke, born March 1906 and John Thomas Clarke, born April 1908. Last address was Stoke Street, off Broad Street in 1913. They were probably taken into the care of Birmingham Council between 1913 and 1918 and may have...

Does anyone have any information on the Branch Workhouse, probably on the corner of Moore's Row and Floodgate Street (probably the site before Floodgate School was built)? It is shown in the Kelly's Directory for 1879.

Does anyone know what would have been the nearest parish church to Cecil Street in Newtown? Thanks

Does anyone know anything about Alice Srawley, nee Clarke, wife of William George Srawley, born about 1863 in Birmingham? She was the sister of my great grandfather, John Clarke.

Looking for any info on Violet and John Thomas Clarke, born 1905 and 1908 in Ladywood. Parents were David Clarke and Maud Kemp. Probably put into one of Birmingham Cottage Homes when their father became ill about 1916 and subsequently died in 1918. Maud remarried an Arthur Clarkson in 1918.

Looking for info on Walter Kemp born 1883 in Birmingham. Parents Sarah Abbotts and Edmund Kemp. Married Elizabeth Skinner 1912. Thanks

Does anyone know why a child in Walsall Workhouse in 1881 would be at a Girls' Industrial School in Bath in 1891? I understand that Industrial Schools were for children brought before the courts because of destitution rather than crime but why would they send them so far away from their home...

Does anyone have any info on Treadwells? My father was apprenticed there after leaving Marston Green Cottage Homes in 1928. Are there any apprenticeship records in any of the archives? Thanks

I am researching the Clarke Family from the Broad Street, Ladywood Area. Last member known about was Samuel Clarke who in 1926 was the informant on his mother, Elizabeth's death certificate, and was living in Bridge Street West at the time.

Does anyone know anything about Birmingham Working Boys Homes around 1928? My father was sent to the one in Ryland St after leaving Marston Green Cottage Home - at least they tried to get them into safe accommodation and not just be left to find their own way at the age of 15. Thanks

Has anyone any information on Birmingham Children's Homes for babies around 1915? My father was at Marston Green Cottage Home from about the age of 5 but doesn't know where he was before that. Thanks

Does anyone know of a cholera epidemic in Birmingham around 1854?

I've just been reading `The Last Tommy' about Harry Patch who died recently. In it he describes being wounded in the 1st WW and being sent to Handsworth Hospital, in Birmingham, to recover. Does anyone know anything about this?

Does anyone know where the inmates of this workhouse would have been buried after dying there? I have great, great grandparents who died there in 1888 and 1889. Thanks

Searching for descendants of David Clarke and Maud Kemp. Married at St Gabriels church, Birmingham, 1903. David died in 1918 and Maud remarried.