Search results

Dear Brummies: My ancestor, John Homer, a glass blower, lived with his family in Nechelles in 1851 in Osbornes Buildings. The occupants of Osborne's Buildings go on for pages and pages in the census. No address is given for them, other than Aston Parish, Ste Matthews Ecclesiastical District. Can...

Thanks, Carolina. I usually have ancestry.ca, findmypast.com and familysearch.org open at the same time and flip back and forth constantly to see if each site will give another piece of the pie. Often it works, sometimes, not so much! Cliff, the Ontarian

Janice: When you cannot find a record you never know if you have not looked in the right place, or if the record simply does not exist! The absence of a record is the black thought that gets louder and louder in the back of your mind, the longer you search with no result. Anyway, thanks for...

Dear Brummies: Thank you all for your advice and information. I have spent the day working your ideas. I pursued Carolina's idea of the Sarah France in Leebotwood. I have a subscription to findmypast.com, so I checked the details. There is a whole family of Frances, parents Isaac and Hannah. The...

My ancestor, Sarah Appleby nee France, lived in Birmingham (Deritend and Bordesley) from 1827 to 1852. in the 1851 England Census it records her 1811 birthplace as Coal Pit Bank, Shropshire, now known as Ketley Bank. I cannot find a parish church that might hold baptismal records for Coal Pit...