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Is there anybody who might be planning a visit to the Central Library in Hull and would be kind enough to look up an address on the electoral registers for me ?

I live in Birmingham and I am anxious to learn if anybody lived with Robert T A Cryer at number 8 Providence Terrace, Wassand Street, Hull in the late 1920's and early 1930's before his death on Xmas Day 1934.

Grateful thanks.

Brian

A number of old photos have recently come into my possession and a long lost brother of my Dad features in all of them. His name was Robert Crook, born in Bath in 1909 and possibly using his mothers married name of Cryer.

I am desperately trying to identify the other men on these photos who worked for and travelled with Bertram Mills Circus in the 1930's. Robert is the young man on the far right of the first one and is easily spotted on the others while the man in the middle with the glasses and holding the cigarette has been identified to me as Charles Leighton who was the Advance Booking Manager and he died in 1947.

Any scrap of information, however small, would be very gratefully received.

With thanks to all.

Brian

This a photograph that has recently been discovered of my great grandfather William Rufus Crook (1857-1914) who was a Butcher and Fishmonger in Bath.
It is in postcard format and I have scanned the reverse which gives the name of a photographic studio in Bath
Unfortunately my printer can only scan to 600dpi and if this is unsuitable I have a son who can apparently go to 1200 or 2400 dpi if necessary.
With grateful thanks.
Brian

HELP PLEASE !
I have discovered a certificate for my Dad headed Children Act 1908 "Notice of reception of Infant for Nursing and Maintenance" by the Board of Guardians of the Burton - on - Trent Union, dated May 1918
Was this an orphanage or a workhouse ? If so are there records available and could anybody please search them for me ?
My Dad was born Roy Smith on 8th April 1918 at 56 Moor Street Burton on Trent. I have his full birth certificate which was registered on 6th June 1918, seemingly after he was placed into care for adoption.
My Dads parents were George Smith and Lilian Leah Smith (formerly Cryer) and interestingly my Dad was given the middle names of Villier and Cryer.
If anybody could do any searches for me or point me in the right direction I would be very very grateful.
Thank you !

Update 27/06/2010

I first posted a request for help 18 months ago and since then there has been a major breakthrough.

I have now traced my Dads family, who originated from Bath, because his birth certificate details turned out to be false but for one cryptic clue left for us. His mothers maiden name, Lilian Leah Cyer, was in fact her married name. Her maiden name was Lilian Leah Crook and she had married Robert Thomas Cryer in Bath in 1909.

She obviously had my Dad through the result of affair because Robert Cryer died miles away in Hull in 1934. Bizarrely this gave me my breakthrough because I found that Lilian had remarried to a Joseph Thomas Warrilow in Burton on 19/12/1936.

I now know that Lilian, my grandmother, spent all of her life in Burton until she died in 1960 and I am searching for anybody who may remember her through the name Warrilow or possibly Cryer. I believe that in the 1950's she may have lived at 21 Wellington Street.

I have also discovered that my Dad had an older brother named Robert (Bob) Crook who spent all his life in Burton until he died in 1974. He married Sarah Cross from Ticknall in 1937 and they had one son, David Crook born in 1947 who went to Shobnall School and Burton Grammar School

If there is anybody that has knowledge of the names, Cryer, Warrilow, Crook or Cross in Burton from the 1930's to the 1970's I would be very grateful for any help or advice you could offer.

Thank you !

Brian