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  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Vincent Kerr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    In 1851 Harry is listed, I think, as a "professor" of dancing. I wonder if the "draper" was to have a suitable job to marry?
  • Godber
    Godber reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Bordesley Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    nice photo viv i think that would be park st burial ground on the left...all gone now thanks to HS2 including those who rested there lyn
  • Godber
    Godber reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Bordesley Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is how Bordesley Street looked in 1949. The buildings of interest with the row of 3 gables are visible behind the lamp post.
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Vincent Kerr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    On Ernest's 1892 marriage cert (will post when I put laptop on) his father is listed as a '"jester"
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    1299 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Old street pics.. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hay Mills Tavern, Coventry Road, Hay Mills, 1955. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
    Very interesting, thank you. Wife laughed and had no idea. I'm thinking her cousin who has researched Kerrs/Hemmings. So Kerr and...
  • M
    mrbluesky1957 reacted to MWS's post in the thread Vincent Kerr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It was Edith Florence Hemming's family I was looking at. Her parents appear to be Ernest Hemming and Elizabeth Steen (died quite...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
    It was Edith Florence Hemming's family I was looking at. Her parents appear to be Ernest Hemming and Elizabeth Steen (died quite...
  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
    Not sure?
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  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
    That was from my wifes cousin. Kerr and Hemming
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  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
    Looks like Henry. Think you have seen those.
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  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Kingshurst Shopping Parade.
    Hi the school past the now gone Punch Bowl would have been Fordbridge. There eas slso a RC School, Gilson way I think. St Anthony's. I...
  • M
    mrbluesky1957 replied to the thread Vincent Kerr.
    Hi Mark, my wifes cousin has been researching for years. The Kerr family Tree. Dead end at my wifes Kerr side. Back to my wifes gt...
  • M
    mrbluesky1957 reacted to MWS's post in the thread Vincent Kerr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Reviving this thread to wonder if you have looked into (Harry) Vincent Kerr's daughter-in-law's family (Hemming)? Her grandfather...
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