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Hi all, my great grandma and grandad used to live at 235 burbury street for a long period of time. I'm under the impression they had a shop there. Fanny, my great grandma is listed as a grocer/shop keeper on her census and my great grandad Henry blewer was a welder turned shop keeper. Id love...

Hi Ray, I've just seen this. My great grand-mother Fanny used to live at 235 burbury street with her partner henry blewer, I'm under the impression they had a shop there! This was from around 1938-1963. Fanny is listed as a grocer on the census records and Henry a shop keeper on the later...

That would be William John Stanley Dalton, My grandfather :) I'm hoping this timeline below makes sense! It's unbelievable how confusing this has been, albeit a lot of fun. September 1889: William is born illegitimate to Minnie Dalton and takes her maiden name. Minnie subsequently lives with...

Thank you for this! I'm planning on visiting at the weekend to go look for their graves, it's wonderful to know they're together

I absolutely will! Birth cert for Fanny uploaded below! :)

Fantastic, thank you!

That's her! Buried in Witton Cemetery

Great thinking! I just had a look also - Nothing for Fanny Blewer though....

Thank you all again for your helpful input and interest!

Me neither! Nothing on BMG, Ancestry, findmypast etc. So possibly just used the Blewer name on paperwork?

Thats an excellent find, the closest I've been able to get an actual birth date for her as all the census records I looked at were stating "est. 1892/1893/1894" depending on when the census was taken in the early 1900s

The plot thickens.... Theres a death registered for both a Fanny Dalton AND Fanny Blewer... for 1964. On our ancestry family tree she's listed Fanny Roberts B:1894 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England D:Mar 1964 Birmingham Warwickshire England

Another great spot - Just spoke to my mother and she said Fanny died as Dalton, she seems certain they never married. I'm currently looking for a 1959 marriage certificate as we speak though. She also mentioned divorce was a huge social no no. So everyone tended to lie, and it was also very...

Thank you Janice, I appreciate your replies! We've managed track down the Dalton name as far back as 1772 then a dead end.

Thank you both! Thats correct - Your spot on the 1913 marriage cert regarding "Mary Eliza Hadley" is brilliant. I strongly suspect the registrar simply misheard the Brummie accent and wrote "Hadley" instead of "Handley," - Minnie Dalton, had William illegitimately in 1889 (hence him keeping the...

Hi all, I’m having a good go at tracking my great grandfather William John Dalton down (born 1889 in Birmingham) and I'm really hoping someone here might have some family lore, police ancestors, or local knowledge that could help me break down a brick wall. He was a tinplate worker by trade...