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Thanks Lyn for a wonderful afternoon. Good food/great company. Lovely to at last put names to faces. Winning that lovely painting was just the icing on the cake:adoration:!!!! Lou

Re: William Taylor B: abt 1820 I've had a look for you. Occupation is a Scale Beam Maker - a skilled craft making the beams for weighing. In the 1851 Census it states Money Beam Maker. As for the dates in the 1841 Census often the age dates were rounded up to the nearest 5 or 0. The dates given...

Wow! Many thanks everyone. I've got the probated Will dated 28th January, 1853 so I know it's 1852 not the 1856 William Henry Cooper. Find My Past gave the reference number. I rang Handsworth with the reference number 9324 and they gave me D111. I'm just going round in circles. Think I shall...

Polly - no he never married. He lived with his Sister. He died June 1852 in Chad Road, Edgbaston. I've tried all graveyards, but all enquires come to nothing.Find My Past gave the grave plot D111. But it cannot be right. My family (before they moved out to Edgbaston - 1841 - 1852) lived at...

Many, many thanks for that Brian. I think we may have the wrong person here. We have his Will and it's unlikely he would be buried in a public grave. He left his house to his sister Charlotte and his wine cellar and his collection of contempory paintings to his brother! Oh well back to the...

I wonder if anyone can please help me. I've just found that my Greatgreat Uncle William Henry Cooper is buried at Key Hill in Section D grave 111. Is there any way I can find the exact location of his grave as I know most of the headstones have been removed/flattened. I would love to find...

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Have you got a picture of Scotcher & Sons. They sold musical instruments/sheet paper Corportation Street - taken before it was bulldozed. It stood roughly where Rackhams/House of Fraser is today?

Going back a bit further, my Mother was Eileen Perry who worked as secretary for Graham Goodman up until her marriage in 1954.