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    Bromsgrove Street 1901 Census

    No, I am not aware of the Hadley site. I have just turned my attention to the Hadley name after spending many years researching another side of the family. Perhaps I need a visit to the area - one day. I know that Hadley is a common surname in the Oldbury area. Very interested in the back to...
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    Bromsgrove Street 1901 Census

    Thank you both for all of your help. That is wonderful and I know a heap more now than I did two days ago. I have gone back to the census and figured out that there was a row of detached ? cottages ? behind 105 and a row behind 104. I guess they faced each other. I am also guessing each had a...
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    Bromsgrove Street 1901 Census

    Oh thank you so much. I was imagining something like those large blocks which we call housing commission. So it would have been a small dwelling behind a larger house I guess. Do you know much about the area in 1901?
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    Bromsgrove Street 1901 Census

    I am currently researching William Hadley who was 45 in the 1901 census. He migrated to Australia in about 1881 and returned to England, abandoning his family, sometime in the mid to late 1890s I think. The family story is that he returned to England chasing an inheritance. He came back to...
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