Hi,
I also have a large Clive family tree but don't think ours connect unless you happen to know better! My Clive line starts with the early parish records from Clent (mid 1500's), in Worcestershire with spellings of Clyve, Cleeve, Cleeves, Cleve, Clive , Clieve etc all depending on who was making the records, so I guess they were mostly illiterate! I have found no connection with George Clive at all, other than where people have copied a wrong line without seeing the records which has unfortunately ruined many a tree I've seen on ancestry.
I haven't followed many of the lines of 'Clive' other than my own very far and haven't found any of them going to Birmingham itself. Most of mine either lived and died in the Clent area, moved a little way to Old Swinford, and then somewhere near 1800 up to Wolverhampton.
The place where everyone seems to go wrong is where a character named Mezey Clive b.1804, has a father named John and then his father being your George. The John someone picked and then was wrongly copied was not the right one for Mezey and it took a few visits to the archives offices in Wolverhampton and Worcester to finally sort it out.
I am sort of hoping one of the Clent Clives did make his way to Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield but haven't found that link so far. Did your research take you back to Old Swinford or Clent?
Regards,
Les Clive
