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Fantastic! Thank you so much, Brummy Lad!

Thank you so much for this, MWS. It's genuinely amazing to be able to see the location where my great-grandmother worked as a young, single woman just prior to her marriage. It puts a map pin in what have been an exciting time in her life. From what I've learned, Emily was born in Ilkeston...

Hi all. It's a long shot, I know, but does anyone have information about a family bakery that ran at 67 Gerrard Street at the start of the 20th Century? My great-grandmother Emily Jane Roper worked there as a shop assistant in 1911 and I'd love to know more - even if they're just scraps. Emily...

Hi MWS. Wow, that was quick and really helpful too. Thank you. I'm really keen to understand that part of the family better. Interestingly, some of Catherine's children go out to Canada in the early 1900s but name their uncle Peter McKenna as their next of kin rather than their father John...

No info to offer on Mary :neutral:. I'm trying to find out more about a Catherine Mary McKenna who was married in Birmingham in 1886 to John Charles Nevitt. Catherine had a brother, Peter McKenna, who ran an 'antique' shop out of 176 Bromsgrove Street for decades. If anyone has info on either...