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Hello everyone and after years of researching the totally wrong family I have just discovered that my Webb family came from Kidderminster or thereabouts. My Grandfather was Charles Webb  son of James Webb who was a Carpet Planer (I have this info from Charles marriage cert) I understand Charles' first wife was Leah and they had four children.

I believe Charles left Leah and came to Sheffield with Ellen Louisa Felton, the lady who was to become my grandmother. They eventually married in 1936. Ellen Louisa's husband had divorced her in 1920.

I have just started re-researching this family .....hopefully the correct one this time. If anyone has any info on this them I would be more than happy to receive it. I have found them in 1911 census under the name of Weble but have yet to look further back

Hello everyone, I would be interested to find which newspapers were published in Stroud around 1920 and would a divorce be written up. My Grandmother (Ellen Louisa Felton, was divorced by her husband (Charles Felton) in 1920 after she ran away with the man who became my Grandfather (Charles Webb)

 She left her husband and three children, he left a wife and five children. I would love to contact the families of all these children ultimately, as they would all have been my Aunts and Uncles! However that is for the future perhaps.

I was given a couple of photos today by my youngest sister. I hope you wonderful people can work your magic on them. I will post them separately. This one is myself on the left, aged nine with my two sisters. I remember having this photo taken, we were in our best dresses (white nylon seersucker)and  we had to sit on a table. For some strange reason my mum put lipstick on me, I hated it as my front teeth were missing and I would only smile with my lips tight shut. As you can see I was not the beauty of the family. This photo is quite dirty as it was kept in my dad's wallet. I would really appreciate a wash and brush up. Thank you in anticipation.

Hello all, I am trying not to be greedy at posting another photo for restoration. This the choir that my Grandad and uncle belonged to.  Grandad had a lovely voice and I remember him singing Oh Mein Papa when I was small. I realised even then that it made everyone emotional but it was only recently that I discovered his father died when he was only 10 years old.

Grandad belonged to the Methodist church whilst Grandma belonged to the C of E.

Thank you in advance.

I put this photo up earlier for dating and the results have flummoxed me. If some kind person would sharpen it up for me I will try and compare it to other members of the family and try to make a guess at who it could be. I am disappointed as I was told it was my grandfather but from the dates suggested that seems highly unlikely. I have no other photos of him even in later life, he died a few years before I was born and we were estranged from dad's side of the family. Thank you.