Congratulations on an interesting site. Please keep up the good work. 

Hi Kathy, just visited your website, very nice job! Regards,
Anne in Canada

I have just spent a very interesting half hour or so looking at your site -I think it is wonderful!
Many congratulations!!
Colin

Hi, Kathy,Loved the web site.Had a hope that the Gough, Hughes & Palmer families mentioned therein might
yield some clues for me, but no luck.  Fay Australia

Hi Kathy,
Just visited your web site, congratulations, I enjoyed the articles & the old photos. Keep up the good work & thank you for sharing. All the best Barbara Rosethorne

Hi Kathy,   I must congratulate you on your excellent website.    Although I am not researching around the Perry Barr area (as yet), I checked out the site anyway and was extremely impressed.  It must have taken you ages to put
that lot together.
I hope you get lots of good feedback about your site, as you certainly deserve it.
Kind regards,
Jan Pinch (South Wales) - Originally from Walsall.

Kathy, Just wanted to say - what a brilliant website! You've managed to include somuch fascinating information and made it fun to read. Well done. Regards
Rosemary Cotton

Hi Kathy
Just had a look at your website and it's great!! Unfortunately under Church Lane, one of the photos doesn't appear, there's only the red X in the corner. Is it waiting to be inserted or just not appearing?

I have some photos of my ggrandmother which, when I find them, I'll send to you.  When I've got some more info, I'll send it for you to publish on your website.
Many thanks for your reply and interest
Maggs

Hi Kathy
I am afraid I do not have any information for you, but I have just had a look at your site and I must say I was enthralled, I do not know the Perry Barr area in fact to me Birmingham in general is that big roundabout in the
sky that lies between Manchester where I live and all points south that I want to visit.  I have added your site to my favourites and time I have to spare I shall be back for another walk through I have only touched the surface of A's as yet.  I often go and look at peoples sites just to see if any of my family have wandered but seldom have I found one that makes you
want to not miss anything, I can only think of a couple of others that have brought history to life in such a way that I have come across anyway.
I wish you well and promise to keep my eyes open for anything that may be of interest to you.
Ivy

Hi Kathy,
                I apologize for not having any information about Perry Barr to send you and my memories of the area are vague and distant, so I read your message deleted it and passed on to my other emails. Then I saw the
reply from Ivy MURPHY that sparked my attention and suggested I have a look at your site.
              For anyone who, like me, passed by your message without a second glance and have not visited your site, they are missing a wonderful example of how to present a library of genealogical and historic information in a friendly manner and that so easy to access. To anyone reading this, when you have a few minutes I recommend a visit Kathy's site. I guarantee you will stay longer than five minutes and it will be well worth your time.
                Kathy, I congratulate you on your presentation, the content and your obvious delight and passion in collecting and presenting information. A lesson for us all, thank you for letting me visit your Perry Barr Web site

                                                            John,
                                                            Wisconsin, USA

Hi Kathy,
    It's a beautiful site.  thank you for sharing.  Unfortunately, when I click on a name, I can't read the text.  It comes out all letters and numbers and all jibberish.  Probably because I don't have Microsoft Word on my computer.McPherson - USA

Your website is fantastic; you have put a lot of work into it and it definitely is a work of art.  I applaud your work as have many others on the Stafford list.
Great job...........very well done!
Kathy Las Vegas, NV, USA

Hi Kathy,  Your Perry Barr site is a breath of fresh air.  I have only just really 'got into' emails and i can see the benefits of a web site.  If you have time may I ask a few questions re time and expertise in setting one up please?  Only if you have the time.
Doreen

Kathy

Thank you for your reply to my mail. By all means include my e-mail address on your site for contact re the Ellis and Devonshire families. I also have a
website at www.angelfire.com/ga/BobSanders  which is a family history site and includes some local history relating to
Cardiff & Glamorgan, Whitby & North Yorkshire and maritime history.

I did subsequently find the picture but it is headed James Medlicott Ellis  and I am not entirely sure who he was, though I suspect he might have been a
son of William M Ellis the elder. Can you confirm that the picture is of James not William ?

My wife's ancestor David Ormond Devonshire was an engraver who lived at Icknield Street, Birmingham. He was a first cousin to Charles Ellis the
father of William Medlicott Ellis. Two of David's sons John David born Birmingham c.1794 but I have not found his baptism) & William Devonshire
(born London 1806) were both brought up in Birmingham but returned to London where they were in the jewellery making business and then migrated to
Scarborough & Whitby where they both set up in the Jet Jewellery Trade. My wife's parents were both born in Whitby but came to South Wales to live
during the War and my wife was born in Barry. As you can tell tracing the family has taken me from Barry to Whitby then to London, then to Birmingham,
then back to London !

Another son of David O Devonshire was a Henry Devonshire (born London 1801). He too was an engraver but he stayed in Birmingham & married at Yardley in
1829. His son another Henry was a commercial traveller & lived at Brougham  Street, Aston. Yet another of David's children was Mary Devonshire of
Walsall who died at Aston in 1875.

I also have a relative named Alison Wood who was born in Perry Barr. Her parents David Wood & Valerie Taylor were married at St.Johns, Perry Barr in
1956. Her mother Valerie Taylor was born in Perry Barr in 1937 & her grandparents Arthur Taylor & Irene (Greatorex) both died there. However
Irene Greatorex was from Barry. Her mother was my grandmother's first cousin.

If I come across any connections to people from Perry Barr I will check your
site and let you know.

Regards

Bob Sanders

PERCIVAL REGINALD CREES - The above named was my farther and I beleive he was burried might have been cremated in April 1953/54 at Perry Barr.
Your help would be appreciated Thanks - Leslie G. Crees
 

I promised several weeks ago to drop you a line and provide some  detail of my connection with Great Barr.  What follows is a brief summary which may be of interest: The Clarke side of my family lived in the Handsworth area from the mid 18th century to about 1900.  My great grandfather was born in Aldridge lodge which was bought by his father Fredric Fuhrman Clarke in 1860. His father lived at Brown’s Green Handsworth a house he inherited from his father Nathaniel Gooding Clarke, Chief Justice of Brecon and Camaerthen.
I believe Aldridge Lodge still stands and I shall try and visit soon.

Regards,
Richard