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From what I can see the Sears don't appear to be a very prolific family with a lot of early deaths. The elder Arthur Albert Sear had 4 brothers (1 died young) but I can see just one male line Sear descendant to carry on the name, though a nephew appears to have emigrated to Canada and don't know...

There was a big bakery on the corner of Granby Avenue/Bannerley Road. Less than a mile away.

There's an Arthur D Glover at 18 Hunters Road on the 1939 Register listed as a Public House Manager, so could it be Burton House? Though the picture doesn't seem to match the map.

On a bit of a tangent, I see that the elder Arthur Albert's brother - Alfred Bright - was also married twice and similarly his first wife died not long after giving birth to a daughter who was named after her mother. She survived though. Also both their parents were married twice, each having 3...

That's probably wrong, he's likely to have been the son of a Joseph & Sarah born Netherton.

No Lyn, he was a George Frederick Plimmer, death reg. Mar 1952 Bham.

Can't see anything for George. He doesn't appear to be listed on the Bham Council's bereavement page either which suggests he wasn't buried/cremated at one of the main Bham cemeteries.

I think you're right, both being illegitimate children of a Sarah Banks maybe, who is with Emma in 1891. And Emma used her brother's details for her father, again not uncommon. So just a coincidence.

Though that can't be her as the daughter of Frederick Banks the jeweller was born in 1874.

Frederick Banks the jeweller had a daughter called Emma of about the same age as Arthur Albert's first wife Emma Moody (nee Banks). Neither marriage appears to be on Ancestry etc so you would have to purchase either marriage certificate to confirm that they are the same person.

She also had a daughter, Louisa Emma Horton reg. the same. She died young and has a burial record which lists her parents as Reuben Henry & Bella Horton.

I think I've found the birth registrations for George Frederick and John, they appear to be listed as Horton with mmn Plimmer. Years match and with those names I think too much to be just coincidence. Which also proves that Reuben and John are not the same person.

Neither William or Sarah Ann's births seem to have been registered and all the Mander/Hodgetts (including a different Sarah Ann) are the children of Edward and Hannah Mander. However, among the baptisms for Mander children with parents John and Maria is a Jane Mander born 2 Nov 1837 and she...

It is possible that Maria was a widow when she married John Mander and she was previously married to a Mr Hemming. However, there is a marriage for a John Mander to a Mary Austins in Edgbaston 27 Jun 1833. Doesn't explain the mmn as being Hodgetts but circumstantially there are a William and...

Can't see that this has been mentioned. In 1939 Reuben is living in Portsmouth and his death appears to be reg. in Winchester 1955 as Reuben Dodwell. There appear to be military records for both a Reuben Plimmer and a John Plimmer. Not sure if the John is the John who was on the 1891 census and...

And Mary Ann herself appears to be the illegitimate daughter of Julia Horton, born before she married John Walters.

Further to the above I think the George Plimmer, that Henry (Reuben) is with in 1871 is his step grandfather. When Bilhah married Thomas Yale in 1886 she listed her father as George Plimmer but she seems to have been the illegitimate daughter of his wife, Mary Ann Horton. Listing your step...

Reuben appears to have been registered as William Henry Reuben Dodwell Plimmer. On the 1871 census he (as Henry) appears to be with a George Plimmer (an uncle ?) listed as his son. Strangely, his mother seems to be living with the Dodwell family - Reuben Dodwell, his wife and their children.

Apologies if this is wrong... As far as I can see William Plimmer, the boxer's only surviving children were 2 daughters (Mabel and Edna), a son (William Henry) died young, and the Arthur William Plimmer mentioned was not his son but his nephew (George's son).

I see there's a photo of him on his findagrave page... https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247351620/william-henry-plimmer