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I have found my grandmother’s family living at 23 King Edward Walk in the 1939 Census, namely Benjamin S Binden’s family and His inlaws. The story passed down the family was that they returned home after an air raid to find the house destroyed, only the budgie survived!
 I am hoping that someone might know if it was this house that was bombed, when I looked on google street view I can see number 23 still stands but the other side of the road is newer, is it possible that the street was renumbered after the war? If not then I must assume they moved to another address that was subsequently bombed.
Thank you.

Hi, For some time now I've been researching my Father in Laws Dad who fought at Gallipoli in the Dublin Fusiliers. The only concrete documentation I have found is his war record and an entry in the 1901 census where he is a young boy living with his future in laws in Ballinagee ( his age in this entry is wrongly transcribed). I am getting desperate to establish what his roots are but cannot find a birth record. According to his war record he was born in Dublin but the only evidence I have of him is in Ballinagee.

 I'm in Ireland and have just got hold of his marriage certificate. William Dalton wed Elizabeth Dalton in May 1931 in the RC church in Kilmacanogue. The groom's age is frustratingly given as "full", which is no help and his occupation is listed as Trapper (the family story was that he worked on the Powerscourt estate so we assume this was his employer.)  The groom's father is Edward Dalton occupation, gardener. The Bride's details confirm what we already knew, her father was George Doyle, labourer. They were living in Ballinagee near Enniskerry.

I can't find an Edward Dalton in the Irish census 1901 or 1911 with the occupation Gardener although there is a van driver in Bray in 1901 with a son also called Edward which would tally with what we know.
Can someone suggest what we should do next? I think we are going to have to order William's death cert to establish his age and pin him down, though I wonder if there are any workers records from the Powerscourt estate surviving, I hope they didn't get lost in the fire.

Any help would be appreciated, my father in law is not in the best of health and it would be lovely to find out more about his Dad for him.

I am trying to follow up the life of my Nan's grandmother born Jane Pugh in Pontrobert, she married an Andrew Dorricott in Shropshire and as a widower married Edwin Edwards (batchelor) aged 47, in 1923 ,the location of the marriage was the parish church of Rhosddu (St. James? I presume), his father was Edward Edwards (deceased) a collier, both bride and groom were living at 75 Ffordd Estyn, Garden Village at the time of the wedding.
When I ordered the marriage cert I hoped I could use the info on it to pin them down in the 1939 register but can't find an Edwin and Jane Edwards that match. Can anyone help me find out what happened to this couple after they married? Any other helpful info gratefully received.
Looking at the 1881 and 1911 census for Wrexham my favourite candidate for Edwin is the son of Edward and Hannah, do you agree?
Thanks for reading this post, hope it makes sense!

One thing I've discovered thanks to this site is that I'm not the only person who picks up strays- family pictures that have lost their families that is. I've been picking them up since I was a nipper, I hope I didn't inherit this trait, it would explain some of the pictures my grandparents left me!
Anyway, I found this picture on Birmingham's Rag Market. There is no writing anywhere on it, it's pasted on very stiff card and measures 14.5 by 9.5 cm.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to name this pair and the house, unlikely but there are some clues.

My guess would be this is a head gardener, hence the bowler hat, and housekeeper or cook. I think the space between them points to them not being a married couple.
Over the lady's left shoulder you can make out a conservatory and in what must be a huge window behind the jolly gent is a very impressive porcelain objet d'art, a bowl encrusted with flowers with dolphins on the stem on a pedestal, certainly an expensive item new, must be worth a few bob now!
Over to you, what do you think?
Would this image be reversed?

Incidentally, it's probably fancy to think we can pin real identities to this couple, should we fail perhaps we should invent a back story for them, they look like a proper pair of characters.
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