Hello David Well in fact I am also a Brummie and I have lived in Somerset since 1982. It is my plan to visit the Birmingham Library and try and do some research as to when Adelaide came to Birmingham. She was 20 when she married my grandad Albert James Osborne in 1917, at the time he was serving in the Machine Gun Corps. I have followed various data leads which show my great grandparents were living at 32 Forster Street in 1917. This is the address on the wedding certificate for the wedding between Albert and Adelaide. I need to find where Adelaide was living before the marriage. I have a gap between 1914 and 1917 for addresses of my great grandparents. In 1914 my grandad living at 16 Vauxhall Road, this came from his war record. The other reason to visit the library is to see if there are any records from the West Heath Sanatorium where she died of TB in 1922. I believe Adelaide would have been a devout Catholic as the wedding was in a Catholic church, as my grandad was CofE. I have the church records and my father was Baptised in the same church. I have copies of the relevant 1921 censuses for various leads I have been researching, which has been helpful. The Birmingham one is the first recording of Adelaide born Bristol. Hence my next port of call is going to be adoption- orphaned in Bristol. Thanks for your post maybe you can throw some light on the Birmingham connection. Regards George |
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