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Organ family

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Please does anyone have information about my grandfather Charles Organ, whom I never knew. I think he was born about 1880 and died in 1930. I think he worked as a waiter and was married to Julia Hughes, and they probably lived in Aston.
 
The only registration I could find around that date was:
Charles Organ, birth registered Dec Qtr. 1878 Aston.

Couldn't find a marriage to Julia.

There is an entry on the 1881 census

Jacob, b. Gloucestershire abt 1845 - Bootmaker
Emily b. abt 1852 B'Ham
William b. abt 1867 B'Ham
Frederick C b. abt 1869 B'Ham
Charles b. abt 1874 B'Ham
 
Thank you Suemalings. There is a family story, and I don't know whether it is true, that my grandfather was born in Canada. His father, also Charles Organ I believe, is said to have emigrated from Gloucester to make his fortune in Canada, and when it did not materialise came back and settled in Aston(?), sometime in the second half of the 19th century. Perhaps the birth was registered in Canada. I do not think there were many Organs in Birmingham, it is a West Country name mainly.
 
Just looking at the 1901 census. I was going to count the number of Organs, but there are sop many that I decided agaist it. A few born in Birmingham some Staffordshire, mostly Gloucestershire. Quite a few living in Birmingham too.

It's usually the way that we think we have an unusual name to research and then find out there are thousands of them!
 
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