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My youngest daughter (10) has to do a family history piece of homework and my partner has finally allowed me to do his family history and we have come up with what I believe to be his Great Great Grandad and his brother running/owning the...
I have a copy of a photograph purporting to be of my 3rd great grandmother Charlotte Middleton (nee Dawson) b1779 d 1853.
The photographer's name was WR Thrupp, Birmingham. Can anyone please tell me when this photographer worked and where they were situated? Would like to know if it is...
Hi,
I'm trying to source any information available on a Nicholas Bembridge, who was (I believe) my Nan's uncle but might have been my great great grandfather (?) Apparently he had a photography business somewhere in the centre of Birmingham, around the turn of the 1800 / 1900s. When my Nan (a...
I have found from other sources that Joseph Norris was a photographer at 5 Union Passage between 1862-1885, but I have a photo giving his address as 52 New Street - can anyone tell me the years he was at this address, as I'd like to date the photo.
TIA