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Greenway - Stockfield Road, Yardley - air raid victims

ChrisM

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I am corresponding with a lady living in the south of England who is asking for help in identifying a place of burial and a church where a wedding took place. These are her words. Can any member kindly give her any guidance or further information, please?


My husband's great grandmother was Jane Greenway (nee Maycock) who died with her daughter, Winifred Greenway as a result of a German bombing raid on 31 July 1942. A bomb fell on 366 Stockfield Road where they were living, killing Winifred outright and injuring Jane who died a week later on 6 August at Selly Oak hospital as a result of her injures.

We have found references to them both in the Ancestry Death Index which provides details for Jane (died age 71, Birmingham, Volume 6d, page 473) and Winifred (died age 34, Birmingham, Volume 6d, page 31). We understand from my husband's aunt (Jane Greenway's grandaughter) who attended Jane's funeral, that both Jane & Winifred were buried together in a grave occupied by Jane's husband (William Greenway) who had died the year previously in 1941. She said that the grave was under a tree in a local cemetery but unfortunately can't remember the name of it. We are visiting the area in mid April and wanted to try and see the grave so any help that you an give in that respect would be much appreciated. In addition to the Ancestry reference above, we have also found a reference to Jane and Winifred's death in the Acocks Green History Society web site and of course the Birmingham Air Raids Remembrance Association. Jane and William Greenway were married at The Mission Hall Causeway, Yardley on 16 August 1900 (another place we would like to try and find if it still exists) so it is possible that they may have been buried in the near vacinity.​


(This was the last day on which bombs fell on Birmingham)


So.. any ideas, please, on place of burial for these two unfortunate ladies - and also the husband/father - and whether the Mission Hall still stands?

Thanks.

Chris
 
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I'm sorry to say the Causeway and the mission hall have been swallowed up by a supermarket. Yardley cemertery would be the nearest to Stockfield rd. There is a Church cemertery ST Margaretes i think, on the Warwick road just before the island at Acocks Green Village.
 
Yardley are reaally helpful too, they sorted out where some of moms family were buried for us with very little info, would be well worth contacting them and given where they lived would be the most likely place.
The Mission Hall was in Church Road Yardley, but I don't know if it still stands, will have a closer look at the map and if I get time will look tomorrow when we go to visit my aunt, we usually go cross country through Yardley.
Sue
 
Hi Sue,

The whole of that side of Church Road including the Causeway , up to the
beginning of the dual carriageway is now part of Tesco's Car Park,
built within the last couple of years, so unless you have a new map,
it might still show.

366 would have been within 100 yards of Yardley cemetery, so certainly the nearest.

Kind regards

Dave
 
Had forgotten they used land for the car park too Dave, was only thinking that the store itself may have missed the hall - although Tesco wouldn't have wanted an old hall in their area no doubt!!
Sue
 
The Causeway only had a few non de-script seventies style houses on it for years and i don't remember any hall being there. There's a row of Edwardian houses that are left on Church Road and run along almost into Tescos car park into a dead end, the Causeway was facing those. The edge of Tescos car park would have been the Causeway.
I'm not a great fan of Tescos but it has improved what was a very run down shopping centre.
If the lady's family died in an air raid their names would be inscribed on the memorial in the Bullring which might be interesting for them to see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_of_Life_memorial,_Birmingham.JPG

a
nd there's a thread relating to it here with a map and the mission hall..
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=39231

T
here appears to be some reference to the hall here...

https://www.bmsgh.org/TYAIB/haymills.html
 
Interesting that according to Google street view 366 Stockfield road is a large vacant spot, has it been this way since the war i wonder..
 
366 Stockfield road appears on the electoral roll 1945 to 1965 (thelast year of the online rolls)
 
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Please thank all persons who have responded to your request.
We are very pleased with the response
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And thanks from me too. Of course if anyone has any further thoughts, they will be gratefully received.

Chris
 
We think that 366 Stockfield Road became derelict and was demolished for safety reasons.
Dad thinks he can recall The Causeway, but not the Mission Hall on it, he used to go pastthere on his way from Stechford to the Swan.
Sue
 
I have had a message from my correspondent whose query was the reason for this thread, as follows:


We had a good week in Warwickshire .we found my husband's Grandparents' grave,and three of the roads they lived in, the memorial to the war victims in the Bull Ring Centre and visited the road where they died. When we went to the various churches we found Maycocks, Sheltons, Suttons etc.

I now have the task of putting the names on the Graves to my Family tree. We spent some time looking through records but were not able to find Great Great Grandfather's birth.

We thank you once again for all your and the Forum's help, we could not have done it without your input.

Many, many thanks


Thanks to everyone.

Chris
 
Chris, I am unsure which great grandfathers birth the lady is referring to but on the Greenway side of the family the records are.

William Greenway died in 1941, he says on census entries born 1862 Kenilworth it was in fact 1861
He married Eliza Newey and they had the following children
William 1884
Harry 1886
Ralph 1887
James 1889
Elsie 1893
Hettie 1894
Bernard 1896
after the death of Eliza he married Jane Maycock in 1900
she already had a daughter Jeannie Maycock and then they had the following children
Lawrence 1902
Frances 1905
Winifred 1907
Amy E 1914?

William Greenway was the son of James Greenway born 1822 Ashow Warwickshire, James died in 1905 Kenilworth,
James was the son of Ralph Greenway born 1801 Ashow, buried in Ashow 1876.

Jane Maycock was born 1873 in Southam
her father William Maycock was baptised 5th Sept 1847 Long Itchington parents Thomas and Elizabeth.
Thomas Maycock baptised 1818 Long Itchington parents john /Elizabeth
 
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We lived in the Causeway in fact I THINK? I was born there? House was towards the back on the left side. Then we moved to Moat lane. Do not remember any hall there at all. John Crump Parker. Colorado USA
 
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