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The Common Room / Re: Tracing an illusive Railway employee, London, 1930s
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 12:22 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: MollyC on Saturday 09 March 24 10:08 GMT (UK)
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He died 15 Aug 1943
Reply #12, page 2

There is also a record at Witton for "Alfred Wilson  Unknown - 1943"
Burial Sep 1943
Worth checking.

Unfortunately this isn't the Alfred Wilson we are looking for, this one was aged 69 and married to Florence for 47 years.

Newspaper announcement of the death in the Birmingham Mail on 4th Sept 1943:

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The Common Room / Re: Tracing an illusive Railway employee, London, 1930s
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 09:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: MollyC on Saturday 09 March 24 09:12 GMT (UK)
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Edwards Spiers death was 15 May 1913
  Reply #122, p14

There appears to be a burial record for Edward Spiers in Findagrave and Witton Cemetery records, May 1913.  No middle name, but correct age and month.

https://birminghamburialrecords.co.uk/#

The Birmingham Burial Records site doesn’t show any middle names in their search so it can be difficult to pin down the right person.  However, I think you have located the correct burial.

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The Common Room / Re: Tracing an illusive Railway employee, London, 1930s
« on: Thursday 07 March 24 22:32 GMT (UK)  »
Part of the Edward Spiers newspaper report was somehow missed off Bob's previous post, here is the rest of it.

Update. I see Bob has updated his post so I have removed my image  :)

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The Common Room / Re: Tracing an illusive Railway employee, London, 1930s
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 21:24 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: BobB1 on Sunday 03 March 24 12:06 GMT (UK)
FYI. I'm plodding on and in the interim I have been reconsidering Madge's 2 moments of lucidity:

1. Alf came from ''a well do to do family''
2. Alf had 2 sisters who where on the stage  - an act something like ''the Dolly Sisters''

I am posting this to rule them out and stop someone going down the same rabbit hole that I did  ;D.

I got a free week on FindMyPast and looking at the newspapers I thought I could be on to something when I discovered "THE DALY SISTERS".  A variety act that performed with Frank Marr in the 1920s/30s. 

I was disappointed when they turned out to be Monica Daly (b. abt. 1900) and Patricia Daly (b. abt. 1907).

Never mind, not the Spiers sisters so back to the drawing board.

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Technical Help / Re: Fake RootsChat blocks content
« on: Monday 04 March 24 08:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hopefully admin will get to the bottom of it soon.  I hope other Rootschatters see this thread before they are tempted to click on the dodgy link thinking it’s genuine.

There has also been a couple of spam threads on RC over the last week, I think using genuine RC members user names, they were deleted.

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Technical Help / Re: Fake RootsChat blocks content
« on: Monday 04 March 24 07:57 GMT (UK)  »
I just closed down Rootschat and clicked back in on my link and managed to get in ok.  I didn’t have the problem this morning though.

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Technical Help / Re: Fake RootsChat blocks content
« on: Monday 04 March 24 07:50 GMT (UK)  »
I had this pop up a couple of times yesterday when not logged in, I’m in the UK so it’s not just Australia.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 3rd March
« on: Tuesday 27 February 24 16:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hopefully they are just joking, the owners have 3 years to rebuild it.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 3rd March
« on: Tuesday 27 February 24 16:07 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: BumbleB on Tuesday 27 February 24 15:45 GMT (UK)
Jool - just a shame that you can't all go to The Crooked House to celebrate with a glass or two  :'(

BumbleB, locals are suggesting we start forming a queue for a drink now ready for reopening as it will be a very long queue  ;D

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