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Aug 27, 2009. #1. I have only recently started to research my family and with the help of the 1911 census have found that my Great Grandfather James Kirby and his brother John Kirby spent time in Winson Green Prison. It would appear (waiting for confirmation) that they both had been in trouble with the police before 1911 and in fact my Great ...
Aug 27, 2009 · The only corresponding birth is a Thomas George Kirby registered in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the son of George Henry Kirby and a Sarah Arrowsmith, both born in Gloucestershire. They as well as Thomas George are a bit elusive but George Henry and Sarah are living in Sutton Coldfield (now part of Bham) in 1911, so there is a connection to the area.
Aug 25, 2006 · master brummie. Aug 25, 2006. #1. On the 1851 census, I have a William Kirby, Lower Tower Street, hook and eye manufacturer, employing 100 women and girls. I have looked in Historial Directories but found nothing. I did, however, find a reference to Kirby, Beard & Company and wondered if there might possibly be a connection.
Aug 27, 2009 · The Kirby branch you're descended from is the branch that's in my family tree. James and John Kirby, and their sisters Eliza, Alice and Emily, lived in Snow Hill in the 1891 census. Their father James was a fishmonger and so was his son James; and James senior's nephew John Hodgkiss, who was 14, appears to have been an apprentice in the business too.
Aug 27, 2009 · Have you seen the records for James Kirby. Missing from the 1911 census because of imprisonment. James Kirby ,b 1871, 5ft 1/2ins, fair complexion, dark brown hair , blue eyes, no marks. sentenced to serve between 13-3-1911 to 28-8-1911 for False pretences. 1915.
Aug 14, 2008 · Fred Kirby worked in the stores at BSA Tools, Kitts Green, he lived by the Glebe pub, every one got on ok with him until one day he went into a rage throwing chairs etc about and was sacked, the Kirby family ancestors lived in Summer Lane and had a bad reputation, whether they were involved in Garrison Lane i don`t know.
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Mar 29, 2007 · Jack Kirby on Frankfort street John, thanks for the listing. This is amazing, but one of the businesses listed on your posted directory page is a Jack Kirby, rag merchant. Jack was a great family friend. We called him Uncle Jack. He had been a boxer years before(and so too, his brothers).
Another pic, taken in July 1956 by Miss Gooding, soon to become Mrs Power. Its our last month of Junior school at Eliot St, me and a number of class mates. Sorry if I've got anybody's name wrong. Left to right - Colin Utteridge, me Bill Austin, Tony Kirby, Malcolm Langbourne, John Leedham, Roger Farmer, Roy Jennings, Malcolm LambView attachment ...
Oct 24, 2009 · Hi Peter Kirby, you are on my old school photo that I’ve posted on The Bentley Road junior school site. With your twin sister Penny. She was my friend at school. We all went on to different senior schools, I went to Kingshurst High school for Girls. I lived on the Chester Road, very last house before the fields started.
