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What Christian names the Oliver family chose for their sons!  Miles Oliver, b 1883 Whitkirk near Leeds, bapt Hook nr Goole, Yorkshire.  Living in Gosford St Coventry close to Cleaver family  1851. Witness to sister Emma's marriage at St. Martin,Bull Ring, Birmingham 1856. (Emma = Charles Cleaver)
See 1851 Coventry Census.
1871 Census 51 Latimer St South Birmingham visitor to John Greasley, Boot & Shoe maker.  Another visitor Emile Paphenus (?) Foundry Moulder born Paris.  Miles' son CROMWELL Oliver born in Birmingham.  The Oliver family seemed to gravitate from Yorkshire down to Brinklow nr Coventry and then were found in Birmingham.  It would be interesting to know if this is the same family.
Miles died 1 Mar 1900 Birmingham.

Researching the history of my gt. uncle Arthur Edwin Kendall who is thought to have left Coventry in 1938 to live and work in Cheltenham.  I found a newspaper report in the Gloucestershire Echo dated June 8th 1939 of a claim for wages, lost over nine weeks, as the result of an Assault which took place on Wed. 10th August 1938, presumably in Cheltenham.  At the time he lived in Roman Road almost certainly in lodgings. He suffered multiple injuries and was admitted to Cheltenham Hospital and then for two weeks in Bristol Royal Infirmary.   He was working at the time as an aircraft inspector at Aircraft Components Ltd, Cheltenham.  I believe this was the precursor to Dowty.   Though searching the Gloucestershire Echo for 1938 around the given date in August I have found no mention at all of an assault there.   This leads me to believe it may have taken place in the workplace and was kept out of the newspapers.  I would be most grateful to anyone who could help me solve the mystery of this attack on my relative.  He left Cheltenham to work at Filton Aircraft Works and found lodgings in Bristol where he died aged 61 in 1944.

Thank you Sillgen,
I have now e-mailed Burgess Hill library so perhaps they can help further.  I am too far distant in Gloucestershire!

Could anyone throw light on the tragic death, reputedly in a farm accident of a 4 year old boy
SIDNEY JAMES BOX, only son of Henry Sidney and Beatrice Box of Lindfield.  He was born in 1934 and it is thought the accident was in 1938 -9.  Coroner's Records or a Newspaper Report seem the most obvious places to search but so far nothing found.  Please help if you can. Thank you.

Don't know whether this may help at all? Hope it does.

Catholic Cemeteries:

Holy Souls: adjacent to Arnos Vale Cemetery was established in the 1860's when it was acquired by the Catholic church due to generosity of a Liverpudlian businessman.  Within the last few years, a decision was made to limit burials at the cemetery to existing graves only.  The first burial was in 1867 and the first register covers the period 1867 to June 1886.  The entries in theis register are in Latin.  There are six further registers, in English, covering the period 27th June 1886 to the presesent day.  Unfortunately, the second register, covering the period January 1904 to February 1922 is missing.  The original old registers are held in the Diocesan archives in Alexandra House, Pennywell Road, Bristol.


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