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Derbyshire / Ruth Higginson
« on: Thursday 19 July 07 14:53 BST (UK)  »
My father never knew his mother as she died when he was three months old. He knows very little about her and I am trying to research her family for him. Her father (James Higginson) was a blast furnace manager and they lived in Brookvale Cottage in Denby in 1901. She was a teacher in a Board School according to the census, but I do not know which one. Does anyone have any knowledge of Board schools in the area? I know the theory about the history of education, but I would like to be specific to my unknown grandma. She died in 1920. Does anyone have any knowledge of the family?

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Gloucestershire / Boatmen on the Avon
« on: Thursday 19 July 07 14:44 BST (UK)  »
My paternal grandfather's parents both came from boatmen families (Glover and Gregory). The Gregorys lived in the lock keeper's cottage at the Avon Lock in Tewkesbury in 1901 and were still there when my father was small in the 1920s. Both families lived in Tewkesbury. Does anyone have any knowledge of the families?

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Staffordshire / Ruth Higginson
« on: Thursday 19 July 07 14:35 BST (UK)  »
Ruth Higginson was my grandmother, but she died when my father was only 3 months old. She was born in 1884 (Wolstanton) and died in 1920 (Bloxwich).  She married Francis John Glover in 1911. My father knew nothing about his mother until I started looking. I have checked the censuses and have a copy of her marriage certificate, but that is all. Can anyone help to fill in a few gaps?

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Warwickshire / Ruth Higginson
« on: Friday 13 July 07 14:14 BST (UK)  »
Ruth Higginson was my grandmother, but she died when my father was only 3 months old. She was born in 1884 (Wolstanton) and died in 1920 (Bloxwich). My father knew nothing about his mother until I started looking. I have checked the censuses and have a copy of her marriage certificate, but that is all. She was married in Stratford and her siblings lived locally. Can anyone help?  ???

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