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Butchers at 144-146 Bristol St

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I have found my Great Grandfather on the 1891 census working as a Slaughterman at a Butchers 144-146 Bristol Street Birmingham. Does anyone know anything about this address and what happened to it? I know my Great Grandfather went back to Netherton shortly after 1891. :)
 
144-6 Bristol St was John Hadley Rodway, butchers in Kellys from the 1883 till the 1900 editions. He is not there in 1880. By the 1904 edition the shop had been split into a Grocers and a Surgical belt maker , but there was a John Rodway , butcher at 64 Benacre St, just round the corner, who by 1908 had moved to 233 Edward Road.

mike
 
Thanks Mike,
My Great Grandfather went back to Halesowen in Oct 1891 where he married and on the marriage certificate he was a butcher. It was strange because in 1901 he was no longer a butcher / slaughterman. The story goes that because of an epidemic of some sort he gave it up? I am also wondering if he met my Great Grandmother in Birmingham as she was born in Cradley. In 1891 though she was also in Birmingham at 101 New Street as a general servant. I think 101 New Street was a coffee shop / restaurant.
Thank you once again
 
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