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Hi Susan, I’m just sending you a holding reply, as I’m very busy and hope to be able to help you - but I can’t look into it now. My Gran‘s sister married someone called Luckman; it might be the same family as yours, so I’ll look into it when I get a minute, and get back to you ASAP. Cheers, Debbie

Hello all, The Kirby branch you're descended from is the branch that's in my family tree. James and John Kirby, and their sisters Eliza, Alice and Emily, lived in Snow Hill in the 1891 census. Their father James was a fishmonger and so was his son James; and James senior's nephew John Hodgkiss...

Hello I think a lot of ship fittings, such as lamps, were made in Birmingham as part of its wider brass manufacturing industry, which was considerable... see link below to this interesting article by Doreen Hopwood (starts on page 6)...

Thank you so much for your input, guys! Yes it's a mystery, and quite frustrating that we've now lost touch with the visitor to this site who was making the enquiries initially. Maybe she could have thrown some light on this (or maybe not, of course...) But it's these mysteries that make family...

Thank you, I will: My granduncle was Alfred Tench, born in 1884 to Jane Tench, seamstress to the famous Mander family of Wolverhampton. I don't know who his father was. Jane had 5 illegitimate children, and only one of them (my grandmother, the youngest) had a known father (Frederick Price...

Thanks Lyn - I shall hope she and I run into each other online one day, then. Stranger things happen all the time ;-)

Alberta, yes indeed we are talking about the same family: those three whose military records you found were the same father and son pair that I mentioned, and the grandfather too. MWS, you are right as well - it is not my own family, but someone my granduncle was close to. I wish I knew what...

Hi there, Copying and pasting from Shera's post: "thomas 31, florence 31, william 11, winnifred 9, florence 7, iris 4 and eadeth 3 at 62 norman st. bham" The William in the above family served in WW1 with my granduncle, in the same regiment. They were both killed in France in 1918 (my...