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midland street
- Thread starter Astoness
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MWS
from Bham
There's a Midland St that runs between Landor St and Garrison St, it's not very long though and there weren't many houses on it. Righthand side of this map...
MWS
from Bham
Might be a little late but on the 1935 ER Harold & Ada Todd are at 1 back 54 Midland St and Ada's parents, Benjamin & Florence Goode are at 2 back 54. 1911 census gives Ada's birthplace as what appears to be 1 back 48 Midland St.
I wonder if the child in the doorway realised that there was a headless woman behind them.
I wonder if the child in the doorway realised that there was a headless woman behind them.
My 3xgreat-grandfather Sias Parsons was listed as the publican for a pub in Midland Street in the 1841 Census, probably this one, from looking at the map above, living there along with his wife and at least three children - his son Joseph, aged 15, was listed as a brewer! They then moved back to his home area of Rowley Regis. Two points of interest about that - one is the mention of the rifle range in 1901. In the 1841 Census (albeit , sixty years earlier than the reference to the rifle range but such skills tended to persist in very localised areas) a lot of the local men listed in that immediate area were working in the gun making trade - gun makers, gun finishers, gun barrel makers and filers, burnishers, one percussion cap maker. Might the rifle range have been where they tested the guns when they were finished? I haven't heard of such a thing before but it would seem quite possible.
The second matter which is of great personal interest to me is that this 3xg-grandmother Elizabeth has been a family history brick wall for me for more than forty years. The couple were married in Harborne in 1809, both 'of this parish' and Elizabeth is noted in the 1841 Census as having been born in the County of Warwickshire, whereas her husband and children were not, they were actually born in Staffordshire. She was also alive in 1851 and gives her place of birth as Birmingham. But I have never been able to trace any other information about her. Her maiden name was Goode! And now here I find a Goode family living, and yes, it's a century later but even so - living in almost exactly the same place as Elizabeth in 1841. I have a lot of checking through local records to do, suddenly. The odd brick can fall out of a wall, even after forty years of research!
The second matter which is of great personal interest to me is that this 3xg-grandmother Elizabeth has been a family history brick wall for me for more than forty years. The couple were married in Harborne in 1809, both 'of this parish' and Elizabeth is noted in the 1841 Census as having been born in the County of Warwickshire, whereas her husband and children were not, they were actually born in Staffordshire. She was also alive in 1851 and gives her place of birth as Birmingham. But I have never been able to trace any other information about her. Her maiden name was Goode! And now here I find a Goode family living, and yes, it's a century later but even so - living in almost exactly the same place as Elizabeth in 1841. I have a lot of checking through local records to do, suddenly. The odd brick can fall out of a wall, even after forty years of research!