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1. But Came they All To Birmingham
2. Preface
3. The City of 1000 Trades
4. Where were our Family in 1770?
5. The Journey to Birmingham
5.1 Rita’s Mother’s Family
5.2 Rita’s Father’s Family
5.3 John’s Mother’s Family
5.4 John’s Father’s Family
5.5 Edith’s Mother’s Family
5.6 Edith’s Father’s Family
5.7 Alan’s Mother’s Family
5.8 Alan’s Father’s Family
6. Ancestor Miscellany
6.1 A Brief Discussion on Surnames
7. Longer Stories
7.1d) Hickerton – The Life of an Agricultural Labourer
7.2a) Disturnal or D’Estournelle – Religion and the French Huguenot Connection
7.2d) Clark – Hockley and the Jewellery Quarter.
7.3a) Bearcroft – Blockley, the Silk Trade and the Post Office
7.3a) Minors – Taylors of Chipping Campden
7.3d) Hayes – The Lake District, Gardening and Poets
7.4b) Birchall – Farmers of the Weaver Valley, Cheshire
7.4d) Wells – Oscott, Kingstanding, Perry Barr, Catholicism
7.5a) Symonds and Hardman – Hereford
7.5d) Crutchley – Wheelwrights of Market Drayton
7.6d) Cork – The story of Saltley and Witton
7.7a) Hadley – Rowley and the Black Country
7.7d) Cadman and Colley -Coal, Canals and Engineering
7.8b) Horsfall – Coventry Silk
7.8d) West – Birmingham Brass
8. Even Longer Stories – the Beginnings of Biographies
8.1 Edith. Corky to Her Friends
8.2 Alan – A Desert War
9. Official Obituaries
Apology and Bibliography
9. Official Obituaries
Those that were deemed to deserve them by their peers.
9.1 Conrad Cork 1940-2021
9.2 Edward George West OBE
But Came They All to Birmingham
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