Michael Sharpe - Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians

Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors

Tracing Your Ancestors

Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Death Records - Second Edition

Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs

Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census

Tracing Your Ancestors Childhood

Tracing Your Ancestors Parish Records

Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors

Tracing Your Army Ancestors Second Edition

Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors

Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors

Tracing Your Canal Ancestors

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors

Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors

Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors

Tracing Your East End Ancestors

Tracing Your Family History on the Internet

Tracing Your First World War Ancestors

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres

Tracing Your House History

Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors

Tracing Your Irish History on the Internet

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors

Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors

Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors

Tracing Your Legal Ancestors

Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors - Second Edition

Tracing Your London Ancestors

Tracing Your Medical Ancestors

Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors

Tracing Your Naval Ancestors

Tracing Your Northern Ancestors

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors

Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors

Tracing Your Police Ancestors

Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

Tracing Your Railway Ancestors

Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors

Tracing Your Rural Ancestors

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors

Tracing Your Servant Ancestors

Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors

Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors

Tracing Your Tank Ancestors

Tracing Your Textile Ancestors

Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors

Tracing Your West Country Ancestors

Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors

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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by
Pen Sword Family History
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Copyright Michael Sharpe 2015

ISBN 978 1 47383 344 9
eISBN 9781473856257

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A book such as this requires research on a broad range of subjects and specialties. I have been aided in this task by family historians, archivists and researchers across Birmingham and the wider Midlands region. Their experience has been invaluable and I would like to thank them all.

Special thanks are due to friends and colleagues in the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry for their support and advice, in particular Bernie and Mary McLean (Chairman and Reference Librarian respectively), Steve Freeman (Bookshop Manager), and Jackie Cotterill (General Secretary). Dr Anthony Joseph also kindly offered comments on parts of the text.

I am indebted to staff at the Library of Birmingham for their help and advice in verifying sources and references, and their general assistance in ensuring the text is accurate and up to date. Staff at Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Archives, Warwickshire County Record Office, and Worcestershire Archives & Archaeology Service also gave generously of their time in responding to my enquiries.

The following kindly gave permission to use photographs from their own private collections: Mark Norton, custodian of the work of his father Dennis John Norton; Chris Myers, owner of the Staffs Home Guard website; and Roger Mace, a fellow researcher and correspondent. The use of the work of Birmingham photographers Keith Berry and Phyllis Nicklin, now in the public domain, is also acknowledged.

Any errors and omissions remain my own.