Saturday 14 July 2012

Family history in smethwick



My family history covers the area of Smethwick in the West Midlands.  But has I progressed with my research it covered other areas and most of my family came to Smethwick from 1850.

The areas covered were Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Cambridgeshire.
Currently working on my maternal side of the family.  Working on Addison which goes to Shropshire.  My Great - Grandmother was Fanny Alice Addison who was born in Smethwick in 1884 and Fanny married by Great Grandfather Joseph Beasley (he was born in 1885 in Warwickshire) and they married in 1906 at St Michael and All Angels in Smethwick, which doesn't exist any more.

My Grandfather was there first child he was born 10 October 1907.  Harold was the next child born October 1910 and then Horace in 1913.  Horace was born in February and  lived for 1 hour.  Fanny died very soon after of TB.

Horace and Fanny are buried in the same grave at Uplands Cemetery, Smethwick.   Joseph married again but had no further children.  He died in October 1964.