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Birks/ Reeves

jackytrow

proper brummie kid
Can anyone help, my grandad William Rees (otherwise Reeves) 52 married Lucy Birks 42 8/7/22 they lived at 29 Osler Street,
Fathers Phillip Birks deceased tailor, David Rees deceased Carpenter.I can't find anything before this marriage.
 
1861 census - at house 8 court 2 dale End Birmingham:
David Rees age 35, tailor, b. Brinmaur(sic) Scotland
Sarah Rees age 29 b. Stafford
William Rees age 4
Elizabeth Rees age 2

(there are 2 'Brinmawr' places in Scotland - Crieff, postcode PH7 3JE and Caithness, KW7 6HA. put the postcodes into Google maps)

wait - it is South Wales! Even though it definitely said 'Scotland' on the census.
See below.
 
1871 census - 10 house 1 court "Leave Lane"(difficult to read) Birmingham
David Rees 46 widower - no trade - 'Lost both legs' b Brynmawr S Wales.
William Rees 14 servant
Elizabeth Rees 11 (ditto)
Clara Rees 8 scholar
Sarah Ann Rees 6 (ditto)
 
Hi,In 1901,there is a Lucy Birks aged 20,(born in Birmingham) an inmate in the Aston Union Workhouse.Her occupation was Domestic Servant
 
Thanks for your efforts Lloyd, I was under the impression that I was a Reeves and thought I had it all worked out until I received the Mcert for William and Lucy, now I have to start again, I am intouch with Lucy Birks ggrandaughter and she seems to believe that Willam was from Wales and changed his name to Reeves,I can find anything about Phillip Birks, William Rees was 52 when he married in 1922 he went on to father another at least 3 children.
10 in total.
 
Thanks for that Ladylinda, yes I have that, it seems she was there with her baby, who became my dads eldest half/sister.
 
I'm having no luck with this at all, The Mcert state he was a rubber worker, I wondered about the Leyland and Birmingham rubber company.
 
There were also a number of rubber stamp manufacturers in birmingham. the 1921 directory gives:
Aresco Limited, 320 Broad street​
ASH RUBBER STAMP GO.LIMITED (rubber, metal &flexible stamps, steel punches, brands,stencils, inks, labels, checks & all marking materials), 19 Constitution hill. T N 7,160 Central
Berkley John, 8 Livery st. & 21 Albert st
Bonehill Richard B. (dealer),18o Witton road, Aston
Brassington W. T. 29 Hockley street
Chamberlain Wm. (&; dealer),93 Aston st
Jackson J. & Co. (manufacturers of india rubber & flexible stamps ; orders executed same day as received), 7 Suffolk street
Playforth George E.378 Victoria rd.Aston
Mike
 
Jacky, there was also the Dunlop Rubber Company, at Aston Cross, my dad worked there from about 1919/20 when he came out of the army, he then moved with them to Fort Dunlop until he retired.
 
Thanks for that Sylvia, is there any way I can get info about the workers?, I am having no luck with finding anything about William or David Rees, because Rees is such a common name in Wales I,m finding it very difficult.
 
Jacky, unless any records are lodged with Birmingham Central Library I would think it unlikely you would be able to get any information about the workers. There is virtually nothing left of Dunlop apart from a specialised section which I think is for aircraft tyres.
 
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