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Hi, I am an amateur local historian and have been researching the story of a double train crash and double runaway trains in Derbyshire in September 1867. The main runaway train was carrying cattle and eight Birmingham drovers. Five died in that crash. I have written up the story at...
I have done a lot of work on tracing my Irish ancestry but am stuck on tracing James Flynn (b1816) working in Birmingham after emigrating from Galway, Ireland (early 1860's) with spouse Bridget and two children. James had died by 1871 (Bridget shown as a Widow) but prior to that I believe he...