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Showell family

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Katrina

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Looking for information on the Showell family of Birmingham. I know they were brewers and one of their pubs the Bull's Head is in Price Street still. In particular James Showell (my great grandfather) who deserted 3 of his motherless children on a canal towpath in 1901.
 
Hi Lyn, James was born in 1864. I cannot find his death at all. I know when he was arrested in 1903 he was of no fixed abode so I presume when he came out of prison one month later he was again homeless. It could be he died in an alley somewhere or fell into the cut! I doubt he would have any ID. I have been in touch with the police museum in Steelhouse Lane to see if they had a photo but they don't. Very grim life for the children....
It would be great if anyone has any information or even is a member of the family!
Katrina
 
ok kat yes a very sad tale indeed..could i just ask have you searched ancestrys records yet? and also do you have james on any of the census years as it could help to narrow down when he died? the more info you give the better it will be to help you..oh who was his wife ?

lyn
 
The last year I found him on a census was 1891 when he was working as a strip castor. His wife Susannah ( nee Tomkins, daughter of Ann Chinn who may be related to Carl?? more research needed there) died in 1899 from a huge blood loss in late pregnancy. I found their boys in the 1901 census in the Marston Homes and their daughter Rosina (my paternal grandmother) living with her Aunt.
Katrina
 
Katrina said:
The last year I found him on a census was 1891 when he was working as a strip castor. His wife Susannah ( nee Tomkins, daughter of Ann Chinn who may be related to Carl?? more research needed there) died in 1899 from a huge blood loss in late pregnancy. I found their boys in the 1901 census in the Marston Homes and their daughter Rosina (my paternal grandmother) living with her Aunt.
Katrina
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yes ive got him on the 91 now strip caster and thats the same occupation on his marr cert to susannah...no luck so far finding him on a census after the 1891 will keep looking

lyn
 
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