Besom Yard, Brook Street - Wolverhampton

[willow154]

Gary,
Before I forget, here is the link with regard to the book on housing in Wolverhampton. It might be worth tracking down!
Good luck with the hunt.
Paulene
http://www.gbpeopleslibrary.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=10&showall=1

[cicely day]

Hi, I did a lot of research into the Hodgekiss family and the Besom yard.
They do have connections with my travelling families.
I also found that they sometimes changed their names from Hodgekiss to Hall, very confusing. If there is anything you would like to know just ask. I would have to go through my paper work and my tree to tell you the links. But they married into my Harris and Thorley family.
Cicely

[DEV9]

I dont know if this could help you but look down the page to calling all old wulfrunians from uplands who mentions a site called lost wolverhampton. there is a piece on there called she came from besam yard about a singer called margaret gibson completed

[cati]

Hi, I did a lot of research into the Hodgekiss family and the Besom yard.
They do have connections with my travelling families.
I also found that they sometimes changed their names from Hodgekiss to Hall, very confusing. If there is anything you would like to know just ask. I would have to go through my paper work and my tree to tell you the links. But they married into my Harris and Thorley family.
Cicely

You don't happen to have Elizabeth Hodgkiss (1865 - 1919) or her brother John  (born 1856) who married   Matilda Barnett in 1879 by any chance? They were the children of a Thomas Hodgkiss, a besom maker, and lived in the area of the Besom Yard.

Thomas was my g g grandfather and one of my brick walls....

Cati 

[RosieMo]

Hi,
My grandmother and family had to move to the Besom Yard, I'm presuming it would have been in the 20's, My great grandfather used to play the stock market and lost all the money so they had to move from a big house on Pipers Row to the Besom yard. I know my grandmother went to work as a seamstress and lost the end of one of her fingers in a sewing machine, as the eldest child she became the breadwinner for the family.
I've also been trying to research what this place was and will be following up on some of the links given, so thank you to those that have posted.