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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

7. Longer Stories

A collection of longer stories and subjects related to the details of their journey to Birmingham.

  • 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
  • 7.6a) Bray – A Mormon Connection
  • 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

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