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  • catmum
    catmum replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    When Louisa got married in 1905 I believe her father was still alive, but through all of the records he doesn't appear to be with his...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to catmum's post in the thread Dollman Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Now we're getting somewhere, Ellen is in Wales 1891, as MWS said, then 1901, Ladywood, with other family members. I am so glad I'm a...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Dollman Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    baptism for louisa mary was at st annes church duddeston...fathers occ was a clerk...address was erskine street..looks like it says back...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    People did get confused make errors or even lie. Accents also didn't help. Before Lyn said George's father was listed as an accountant...
  • catmum
    catmum replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    Don't worry I'm confused too. I was hoping to find the electoral roll with Ellens address but you have all helped me find her and her...
  • catmum
    catmum replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    Now we're getting somewhere, Ellen is in Wales 1891, as MWS said, then 1901, Ladywood, with other family members. I am so glad I'm a...
  • catmum
    catmum replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    My mistake, Louisa Mary born 1884, Aston.
  • catmum
    catmum replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    Goodness me, I've just gone to all the trouble to write the details down and you lot have beaten me to it:). Thank you all so much, I...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    And as Ellen was living at Parker's Buildings in 1881 which I think were on Duddeston Mill Road very close to Vauxhall Station, I wonder...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Dollman Street.
    Probably stove manufacturer as he is listed as a Gas Fitter in 1871. In 1881 George is listed as a Railway Clerk, living at 103 Little...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Dollman Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    marriage cert says they married at aston parish church july 31st 1881..address given for both says saltley aston...georges father was...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to MWS's post in the thread Dollman Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I'll go out on a limb and say that the address must have come from a baptism, marriage or death. So... A George Williams married an...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Birmingham, the British Empire and far afield. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Feb 1906, The Engineer. “Thomas Piggott and Co., Limited, of Spring Hill, Birmingham have recently secured orders for twenty pressed...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Piggotts and Son, Spring Hill with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Feb 1906, The Engineer. “Thomas Piggott and Co., Limited, of Spring Hill, Birmingham have recently secured orders for twenty pressed...
  • Morturn
    I used to collect bits from " Millers" when I was the errand boy at MCA on Lichfield road
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