My great grandfather originated in a village in Northamptonshire, and moved to Birmingham in the late 1870's where he is recorded as a beer retailer at a pub. His widow carried on as a beer retailer at the same address for another three years. She remarried and moved to another pub, where her new husband is shown as licensed victualler, Pub.By the time of her death her husband had become a coal merchant. My great grandfather is buried in a public grave in Warstone Lane cemetery. Does this mean that although he ran a pub, he was as poor as his customers. I am trying to find where my great grandmother is buried, but am assuming she is also probably in a public grave. Did coal merchants have no money either.
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Public/CommonGraves
- Thread starter Nodrogw
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leslam
Brummie by marriage
I added photos of some of the common graves in Warstone Lane to the Warstone Lane thread https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5395&highlight=warstone+lane
Those graves are in section J. I hope to do the ones in section I at the end of the week.
Those graves are in section J. I hope to do the ones in section I at the end of the week.