Marston Green childrens home

[Keith847]

Hi All

My wife's Grandmother, Florence HART and her two brothers, Joseph and Albert are recorded on the 1901 census as being inmates at Marston green with their ages respectively recorded as 12,10 & 4.

Florence' first marriage register entry and banns to George Frederick Wooton shows her fathers name as Joseph and his occupation as a lock maker. It also records him as being deceased. This is all the information I have on him and I have no information at all regarding her mother.

Florence' first husband died in 1915 and she married Bertie Alwyn Beaumont-Thomas (my wife's grandfather) in 1922.

The census records all three children as being born in Birmingham Warwickshire but I cannot find her or her brothers birth registrations, however, her death registration shows her birth as 01 April 1889.

The only other bit of information I have, and it's purely an anecdotal family story is that Florence' mother was an alcoholic and was 'well known' to the local constabulary.

I sent an email to the Birmingham Library to see if there are any surviving records from Marston Green, unfortunately the automated reply stated that they cannot do personal searches.

Has anyone got any information regarding the family or can give me some advice on how to proceed further.

All my research has to be done online as I live in Malaysia.

Kind regards
Keith
 

[cov2811]

http://www.childrenscottagehomes.org.uk/marston_green.html

some information on this page  http://www.childrenscottagehomes.org.uk/accessing_records.html

[Keith847]

Thanks  for responding cov2811

When I contacted the Birmingham library I used the same address as your first link. There is a lot of info contained in both links but neither of them take me to the records that I need. Perhaps it's just early days as the Birmingham Archive and Heritage records have only just been transferred there.

Thanks again Keith