Express & Star Walsall and wolverhampton
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Dave Stone
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Enjoyed your site I to was born in heath hayes so was my father. both in the same house in bank st dad in 1915 myself in 1938 my great grandparents also lived in the same st. My husbands family also came from Heath Hayes his grandfather a driver for Harpers buses.
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Frank
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My ancestors were from Dudley, West Bromwich and Tipton area (Black Country). The place James and Eliza you refer to is Horsley Heath in Tipton and on the 1951 census they're living in Toll End (part of Horsley Heath).
I think I've managed to find a marriage entry on familyseach for James Fellows Born abt 1804 Upper Gornal, Sedgley, and Eliza Hyde Born abt 1808 Upper Gornal, Sedgley but no name of church given. A son Joshua Fellows born 3rd April 1836 Upper Gornal, Sedgley is also listed.
Any idea what religion they were most were Church of England but a large number of people from the Black Country were Baptists etc. This will narrow down where they could be buried.
If Jame's religion was C of E and buried near Toll end Tipton I would suggest a choice of 4 churches to research
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Elaine b
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ALLCOCK I am interested learn more of Sarah Allcock (nee Ball) and her son John Allcock. According to John's birth certificate, they were at 37 Brierley Lane, Bradley, Sedgley in 1967. There is no record of them at that address in the 1978 Census
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Thelma M
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Time to add more of the papers Chronicles so we can delve more into our ancestors pasts
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Marine
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A wonderful website, thank you so much for sharing. I am a descendant of both the Warners and the Browns who provided transport services in the village of Penn - I'll see if I can get hold of some photographs if you'd be interested in having them
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Alan
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Would like to read the archives from 1972 on Wolves UEFA cup final games against Tottenham Hotspur’s was a magic time to be following Wolves
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Dorian
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Jonah Blunn married Ann Juggins on 5 March 1838 at St Martin, Birmingham. Information on marriage certificate is Jonah's father was David Blunn, Labourer and Ann's father was William Juggins, Labourer. Witnesses were (Josie?) Blunn and Sarah (?). Both Jonah and Ann were -full age - take it this means over 21.
They had a son William, have a note of his Christening as being on 19 May 1850 at Sedgley.
Next instance was found on 1871 census of Staffordshire:
Ann Blunn (Juggins) - widow - age 52 - born Dudley, Worcs William Blunn - son - age 21 - bricklayer - born Sedgley
Living at 11 School Street, Sedgley, Staffs
After this William moved to Lanarkshire in Scotland married Ann Allen Muir (whose family could have moved from Scotland to Birmingham area and then back to Scotland), in 1881.
William and Ann Blunn went on to have - Thomas William, James, David, Jonah, John, Robert and Emma. My grandfather was David -
Pat
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Looking for articles from 1984 concerning the proposed supertram from Wolverhampton to Birmingham
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Jeanette
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Hello... I have an Edward Park born c 1934 (possibly Wolverhampton) ...who in one census is listed as occ: gentleman and elsewhere as ' Iron Master'
I was wondering (along with who he was and trying to find him} i was wondering if anyone knew what.. Iron works he was master of?
Also....
Was an iron master....the actual owner of an iron works? Or just master..as in, just the one in charge of its running?
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Will c
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I enjoyed reading about Great Wyrley. I have been doing genealogy research and am a descendent of Wm De Warley, (the family of De Warley supposedly from your area from the time of the Norman Conquest). The story about the Saxons naming the area for the bog myrtle is interesting as the research I have indicates that the De Warley’s named the area after themselves. I have run across many leaps of faith in genealogy, where coincidence was taken for fact. The bog myrtle glade, wir leah, sounds very plausible, but I was wondering if any of the De Warleys are buried in your area? If not, then I need to do some further research. Thank you, in advance, for any information you can provide
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Wendy
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Is there a history society in Wolverhampton ? and if so are there any c.d.s that can be purchased that may help me track down my ancesters , e.g. something that has parish record's on , i am trying to find several bmd.s in Wolverhampton around the 1940s to 1960s and purchased several c.d.'s from Leic family history society that recorded parish record's this was a great help in finding relatives on my dad's side and wondered if something similar could be purchased from Wolverhampton , if anyone could let me know i would be grateful and it would be a tremendous help in my research
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Tim
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I'm delighted to find this group! I'm researching my family history and have found that Thomas Priest Wootton farmed 22 acres near Nonesuch Farm in 1841. I'd love to locate the exact area. One of his addresses appears to read Nonesuch House. Another, Grove..He and Sarah his wife lived in Walsall for some years and they went on to have 14 children, all but 2 surviving infancy. Would happily share information. Would love to locate Thomas's parents. He was born in 1813 in Wolverhampton
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Ben
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Does anyone have any information regarding Chequerfield House, Penn fields it was demolished to make way for Shenstone Court, at the top of Coalway Road, the Lodge House still remains and is on Stubbs Road, near to the Penn Road end.
Many thanks
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Craig c
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Thomas Brooks age 69 Agr. Lab. born Wolverhampton living in Woodgate with his wife Eliza aged 70 born Bilston and unmarried son Thomas aged 34 born Penn
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Tyrone
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Hi all
Just stumbled across the website and thought I would say hello.
Born in 1955 I lived in Bridgeburn road moving to Barnes Hill new housing estate in 1963.
I actually dug up a piece of metal like a spear in the back garden and gave it to a teacher at Bartley Green School who informed me it was a Cromwell musket bayonet. I never saw it again and the teacher died.
Best Wishes all
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Geoffrey B
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I was born in Harvington road , Bloxwich , at my great grandmothers home. She was part of the Bayliss farm family . We moved in to tamerton road Tipton , when I was about 3 , about 1951. I remember walking across the farm in to genners lane village , to school next to cafe and bus terminus , the church was above on the corner, st michaels. I also remember the headmistress miss Treadwell, is there any one out there that walked up Scotland lane clutching a small brown box with pencils etc in, to the new school in nantmel grove .
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Niall
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I love from a back to back house in Wolverhampton with my parents) to the,still under construction, shopping centre of wulfreb Road and spent the formative years of my life in a maisonette above The Tower Stores hardware shop. This must have been in 1960 or thereabouts.
I attended St Michaels junior school, joining Miss Harkins reception class. Miss Treadwell was headmistress aided by Mr Topley as deputy.
Mrs Chamberlain was a star teacher who got the class involved in a production entitled "French without tears" which featured in an article in The Express and Star and which I still have a photograph of.
I moved on to KEFWS and moved from the area in the middle 70's. ( only to Northfield).
I have many happy memories of Tipton and my school days and the many friends I made there which I would be pleased to share or recount. I congratulate you on your group's work and thank you for keeping it alive for the benefit of others -
John
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I lived at 56 Adams Hill from around 1959 (when the 2 semis there were built) up until 1980, when I left for the Royal College of Art in London. My parents remained there for a few more years, before retiring and moving to Stableford close in Cali. My father had worked at Longbridge and my mother had been a district nurse in Brownhills.
I attended St Michael's from 1962 - 69, where Miss Treadwell was head, and who had also been one of my father's teachers many years before in Penkridge. Miss Deakin was in reception, Mrs Turner, Miss Orgill, the fantastic Mrs Chamberlain, and finally Mr Heath (the man with the 'slipper' - no cane!)
My sister Denise also started St M's 4 years after me, and later went to the girls school, as I went on to KES Five Ways.
Our neighbours were the Meduna's at 54. He was Czech, married to Cynthia, a midwife, and his daughters Catherine and Nina attended Woodgate school & BG Girls.
At 58 were the Rudge's. Rose was a long standing resident of BG, having grown up at the foot of jiggins lane. John worked at Birmetals, which we could see across the wheat fields, and their 2 children Simon & Jay went to StM's and Adams Hill School.
It was a great village to live in with Mr Moss (always grumpy) at the Post Office, The Jones' at the butchers, and The Hudson's at the village stores.
The old house next to the Forge had the Doctors surgery in one of the front rooms with the Ghanian Dr Daniels. the waiting room was in with the old lady who lived in the house ... and a great source of gossip, as she knew all that came through the doors.
The 'Big Shops' had even a Woolworths, along with the Tower Stores, Gillian's Wool Shop and 'Woody Woodpeckers' Barbers, and the Café next door, next door what became Dillons, but which had earlier been a great shop and source of toys and fireworks.
Eves Croft and Culford Drive were built during my time there, as was the Petrol Garage at the top of Adams Hill.
other classmates included the Coal Merchants daughter Deborah Clinton, Catherine Hudson the newsagents daughter, Ian Leech from Highmore Drive, Simon Smith, Robert Stiles from Tamerton Road, Julie Thacker & Mark Wigley from Hasbury Rd, Roy Smitten from Lutley Grove and Brian Wilkes, who lived in Beech Hill House, and whose mother was the school crossing lady over Genners Lane.
I returned in 1983 to design the school badge for St Michaels, and from then on have been design cars and many other things for the last 30 years.
I live by the sea in Paignton, and miss 'home' as I still have family nearby. Maybe soon i'll pop back for a 'top up -
Alan W
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Hi folks, does any one have any history about the club Oxbarn Social club, Bradford my late Father was Secretary in the 1950's? Although could be earlier.
His name was John Henry Cotterill born 1905 in Wv. -
Linda budd
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Hello. I have been researching the Budd family history for my sons. Their great-aunt, Beatty Turner, who lived in Bartley Green from 1960s until she died in 1997 She and her husband Joe Turner lived in an upstairs flat in Hasbury Road. In a house opposite lived a Janet and her family. In the
1980s we stayed with them. Visited the BG Social club, "The Reser" and the Lickey Hills by bus, etc. You have an excellent website.