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Read Family Ladywood

gill1960

gill1960

Brummie babby
Hi, i'm looking for any information at all about my great grandfather or any of his relatives.
His name was Claude Edward Read, he lived in court 4, house 6, Beach Street Ladywood. I know he lived there in 1908 because my grandad Walter Howard read was born there.
I think he had a shop in the area, but i don't know what sort of shop.
 
Gill
Claude was listed on the online electoral rolls at that address in 1912. However only limited years are online, and this is the only year with him shown online. Below is a map c 1889 showing Beach St , with what I believe is your ancestors house in red, By 1950 court 4 has been renamed "back 12", and the house marked is 6 back 12, Beach St. I would not think they would have renumbered the houses in the court. To make it more confusing, the 1911 census describes him as living at 6 Malvern Place, Beach St, though it is undoubtably the same house. In 1911 the census entry for that address reads:
Claud , 33, married 6 years, , warehouseman, brassworker, born Ladywood
Margaret Read, 33, 4 children all alive, born Wrexham, North Wales
Lucy Margaret Read, daughter, 6, born Wrexham
Claud Edward Read, 4, born Ladywood
Walter Howard Read, 3, born Ladywood
Doris May Read, 10 months, born Ladywood
 
Claude is listed at that address in the 1912 electoral rolls (only some years are online). The map c 1889 attached shows in red where i am fairly sure the house was, It is slightly complicated by the fact that on the c1950 map the court is named "back 12". For some reason this change in description is not unusual over the years. The house marked in red was 6 back 12 on that map, and I do not think it likely that hte houses within the court were renumbered.
The 1911 census for the house lists:
Claud Edward Read, 33, married 6 years, warehouseman, brassworker, born Ladywood.
Margaret Read, 33, married 6 years , 4 children , all alive, born Wrexham
Lucy Margaret Read, 6, born Wrexham
Claud Edward Read, 4, born Ladywood.
Walter Howard Read, 3, born Ladywood.
Doris May Read, 10 months, born Ladywood.

Only other Claude (or Claud) Edward Read I could find online in the Birmingham electoral rolls is in 1930 at Rowton House, a hostel (now a luxury hotel). this could well be his son
 

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Claude Edward Read married Margaret Roberts in 1905 Wrexham
1881 census
7 house court 4 Beach Street.
Edward Read age 33b Smethwick , occ. Annealer
Mary age 27 b Evesham
Claud E age 2 b B'ham
Charlotte E age 1 month b B'ham
 
Thank you ever so much for this information. I am just beginning to start my family tree. My mother and grandparents have passed on so i haven't got much to work with.

Can you give me any advice about where to go from here now that you have given me more information.
Thank you also for the street map . GILL
 
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gill1960 said:
Thank you ever so much for this information. I am just beginning to start my family tree. My mother and grandparents have passed on so i haven't got much to work with.

Can you give me any advice about where to go from here now that you have given me more information.
Thank you also for the street map . GILL
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Hi gill
Beach street ran between monument road and freeth street
And beach street was about two streets up from ickneild square
And there was loads of shops on the monument road and i recall one was a pet shop
With alsorts of animals in the window rabbits , parrots and a couple of other pets
On the monument road almost facing beech street there was a little shop
Which sold alsorts of provisions sweets and fags a penny ball shot machine
Where you got four steel ballbearing they woulddrop out in tnefireing shoot
Pull the trigger and the balls wouldshoot up to the top of the machine and start to tumble down
There would have been lots of different holes on the board and if any one of the balls dropped in you would get the price back of your penny insert plus the prize money varying from one penny to six pennies back
I do not recall the owners name, but as you said possible name may have had a shop
I know this is a very good site we are on here at the BHF forum but there is also another site
Called old ladywood with alot of people searching and seeking info for old ladywood
There may besome lone whom will recall there name its worth a shot and it free
But please stick with us on this site you will not reget it
And if my memory serves me correctly i think it was a pub called the Duke of wellington
On the next corner down from beech street
And i do beleive the house had not really changed much from its hey day
I was brought up down the monument road at king edwards road ladywood
Wich was about a mileback down the road we used to walk up there and play
And go to the swimming baths there just yards from beech street
Best wishes and i wish you all the best in your research and please stay with us
Our experts have a great knowledge and access to most things which will
Help you,the more little bits you can accumilate the better it all helps them in tracking him down,,
Astonian,,,,
 
gill1960 said:
Thank you ever so much for this information. I am just beginning to start my family tree. My mother and grandparents have passed on so i haven't got much to work with.

Can you give me any advice about where to go from here now that you have given me more information.
Thank you also for the street map . GILL
Click to expand...
 
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