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Owen Family, Devon Street, 1925-1938
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hi maria welcome......pretty sure a gasworks accident has been mentioned on the forum but not sure if its the one you need info on...yes there is a thread for 2 explosions..one is in 1923 the thread contains newspaper reports about it and gives names of those injured..click on link below to take you to the thread...just found a thomas and mary ann owen on the electoral rolls living at court 12 house number 6 in devon st...this is in 1935..i presume these are your grandparents?
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lyn
Saltley Gas Works explosions (1904 and 1923)
I am trying to put some flesh on my Mother's memoirs. She was living in Rose Cottage, in the grounds of the gas works, where my grandfather was foreman. I need to know the date of an explosion caused by a workman lighting a cigarette; my mother and her family had to leave their home and...
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Thank you. Yes that is them. My Dad was born there. He spoke of an accident at the gas works, but not an explosion. Getting trapped inside and being exposed to gas. Thomas was bed ridden after the incident and died in 1938. He's a bit of a mystery and we've been researching him since the 1990s trying to find out where he was born. It's almost certainly too late for living memory, but you never know if someone has a tale with someone else's family in it! Thank you so much for responding.hi maria welcome......pretty sure a gasworks accident has been mentioned on the forum but not sure if its the one you need info on...yes there is a thread for 2 explosions..one is in 1923 the thread contains newspaper reports about it and gives names of those injured..click on link below to take you to the thread...just found a thomas and mary ann owen on the electoral rolls living at court 12 house number 6 in devon st...this is in 1935..i presume these are your grandparents?
lyn
Saltley Gas Works explosions (1904 and 1923)
I am trying to put some flesh on my Mother's memoirs. She was living in Rose Cottage, in the grounds of the gas works, where my grandfather was foreman. I need to know the date of an explosion caused by a workman lighting a cigarette; my mother and her family had to leave their home and...
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Appears to be the wrong district (Warwick) Lyn. He seems to have been born about 1873, there are couple of death regs in Bham it could be, Jun 1938 or Sep 1938.
1921 census gives his birthplace as Chatham but somethings not quite right. Lived on Duddeston Mill Road prior to Devon St.
Wife is listed as a Mary Ann from Sheffield and she is also not straightforward. There doesn't seem to be a marriage and if I have the right people, their daughter, Beatrice and their son, Thomas are reg. with mmn Hardy, though that appears to be her previous married name, her maiden name possibly being Bradshaw.
An elder daughter, Mary (Alice) reg. as Hardy/Bradshaw in Sheffield. Don't know what happened to her previous husband but she possibly left a number of other children in Sheffield, including another daughter named Mary.
1921 census gives his birthplace as Chatham but somethings not quite right. Lived on Duddeston Mill Road prior to Devon St.
Wife is listed as a Mary Ann from Sheffield and she is also not straightforward. There doesn't seem to be a marriage and if I have the right people, their daughter, Beatrice and their son, Thomas are reg. with mmn Hardy, though that appears to be her previous married name, her maiden name possibly being Bradshaw.
An elder daughter, Mary (Alice) reg. as Hardy/Bradshaw in Sheffield. Don't know what happened to her previous husband but she possibly left a number of other children in Sheffield, including another daughter named Mary.
