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W.	T.				Mail 26^th Feb 1907 THE PROSPOSED NEW MUSIC HALL Sir, I notice a statement that the husband of Miss Vesta Tilley is to build a new music hall adjoining the Theatre Royal in New Street. Apart from the point as to whether Birmingham is not already overdone with music halls, it is a mistake to have these places of entertainment so close to each other. If they are wanted, why not have them distributed so that they might be easier to reach from different sides of the city? The people living in Handsworth, Perry Barr, Newtown Row and Aston side are so very well supplied, and a good class music hall erected fronting the new end of Corporation Street in the middle part somewhere about Legge Street would kill two birds with one stone. It would undoubtedly help to set that street going and so reduce the rates on the cost of making the street, and would be a convenience to the people of that side of the city. Yours etc., T. W.
WADHAM	JOHN				Maltster History Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire 1851
WADHAMS					See Bates
WADHAMS					Handsworth chronicle 29^th March 1890 The father of Mr Wadham’s was a farmer of the old stamp, fond of a good horse and a bold foxhunter. He occupied some of the land by Bristnalls end and his widow afterwards farmed at church hill farm for many years, much respected and well known as Mrs. Peggy Wadham’s. Mr J Wadham’s afterwards purchased Wellhead house, Perry Barr and some forty acres of land around it, which continued in the family for many years. The land was sold to the Calthorpe family and residence and grounds of the Quaker Wadham’s family. (See Horsley for the rest of this article)
WADHAMS	ANN				Wellhead BURIED St. Johns 31^st December 1844 aged 65
WADHAMS	B & R				Farmer – Oscott Frances White & Co’s Commerical & Trades Directory 1875. Vol II
WADHAMS	JAMES				1845 - 1860 – Malster & Farmer (see Horsley) (Wellhead House)
WADHAMS	JOHN				1841 – Wellhead John Wadhams – aged 57 – Farmer Catherine aged 22 Ann aged 20 Richard Light aged 25, male servant Ralph Ratcliffe aged 25, male servant John Usherwood aged 25, male servant Ann Bates, aged 15, female servant Elizabeth Chin aged 15, female servant Margaret Mays aged 8
WADHAMS	JOHN				See Monumental Inscriptions
WADHAMS	JOHN				Oscott, BURIED St Johns, 17^th July 1857, aged 75. (Gravestone, says John’s husband was Ann)
WADHAMS			JOHN	Farmer History Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire 1851
WADHAMS	JOSEPH				Oscott, BURIED St. Johns 28^th Feb 1855 aged 78
WADHAMS	MARGARET (PEGGY)				Handsworth chronicle 29^th March 1890 The Wadham’s family occupied the farm called Church Hill for many years and across its fields was a pleasant footpath to the parish church. The last occupant was the widow Mrs Margaret, more commonly known as Mrs Peggy Wadham’s, one of whose nieces the writer married. Mrs Peggy was an excellent woman and much valued by her family and neighbourhoods. (See Horsley for the rest of this article)
WADHAMS	SAMUEL				1868 – Farmer
WADHAMS	SARAH HANNAH				4^th October 1869, Thomas Henry Gardner, aged 24, Bachelor (Filer) Perry Barr, son of William (labourer) married Sarah Hannah Waddhams, 23, spinster, Perry Barr, daughter of Thomas (Gun Stock)
WADHAMS	WILLIAM				1864 – Malter and Farmer
WADHAMS	WILLIAM				Colton, Rugely, BURIED St. Johns 1^st May 1878 aged 61
WAGON ACCIDENTS					SEE fOOTBALL, SEE ATKINS
WAINWRIGHT					See Thomas Henry Bayliss
WAINWRIGHT	J				1839 Corn dealer – Aston Villa
WAITES LUNT					BIRMINGHAM CITY ARCHIVES - Release. - ref.  MS 3145/57/1a  - date: Date 1663 Parties: Richard Best the alder, Richard Best, jun., William Osborne. Property: Middle Croft, Further Close, Waites Lunt, Tonge Croft, in Perry Barr. Parks Feild, The Lees, Conigreie, Hall Meadowe, The Three Hurstes, The Two Mores, Hall Hill Field, Farthinge Close, Playne Feild, The Hurst, in Perry Barr. Land in Great Barr.
WAKEFIELD	ANNIE				Franchise Street, BURIED St. Johns 12^th May 1887 aged 9 months
WAKEFIELD	BENJAMIN				WAKEFIELD 9 Jan 1887 54 Hunter's Lane Handsworth late Hamstead Rd, Benjamin age 60 – Birmingham Mail - Deaths
WAKEFIELD	GEORGE FREDERICK				Wellington Road, BURIED St. Johns 15^th May 1901 aged 2 months
WAKEFIELD	GERALD HAMMERSLEY				89 Aldridge Road, BURIED St Johns 28^th Mar 1911, aged 5 months
WAKEFIELD	SIDNEY				Moseley, BURIED St. Johns 25^th September 1890 aged 77
WAKEFIELD	THOMAS WATSON				134 Fentham Road, BURIED St. Johns 2 months
WAKEFIELD	WALTER				Balsall Heath, BURIED St. Johns 9^th September 1888 aged 4
WAKEFIELD	WALTER WATSON				Balsall Heath, BURIED St. Johns 14^th August 1889 aged 3 months
WAKELAM	JOSEPH				See Frederick Brookes
WAKELAM	JOSEPH				Handsworth Herald – September 1901 At Handsworth Police Court on Friday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. H A Pearson, Coroner for South Staffordshire on the body of Joseph Wakelam (35) carter, in the employ of Mr. Isaac Foden of Kings Standing Farm Perry Barr. Susan Wakelam (13) daughter of deceased said her father was a sober man. She last saw him alive on Wednesday night. On Thursday evening she heard he was dead. She afterwards came to the mortuary and identified the body. Eliza Reynolds, a married women said she saw the deceased on Wednesday evening. He then seemed all right. Mrs Wakelam was not present because she was about to be confined. William Winwood Kings Standing Farm said he accompanied deceased to town on Friday. Each had charge of a wagon. On their return journey, when about 130 yards in front, in Holly Lane he turned round and saw deceased in the act of falling off the shaft of his wagon. He fell and two wheels passed over him. Witness went to him and found him groaning and apparently in great pain. A cart was fetched and deceased was driven by a man named Frederick Brooks in the direction of the Hospital. He was quite sober at the time. An eye witness named G. L. price having given evidence, Frederick Brooks, an engine driver, spoke to driving deceased in the direction of the hospital. He died in the Aldridge Road near the Boars Head – Detective Grindley said he examined deceased when brought to the station on Friday, and, as he was quite dead, no doctor was called in. The Jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death”.
WAKELIN	ARTHUR				179 Birchfield Road, BURIED St. Johns 26^th August 1895, aged 70
WAKELIN	JOSEPH				New Oscott, BURIED St. Johns 19^th September 1901 aged 35
WAKELIN	MARY ANN				Birchfield, BURIED St. Johns (Gravestone) 10^th November 1904 aged 75
WAKEMAN					BIRMINGHAM CITY ARCHIVES - Conveyance. Messrs. Benson, Read and Wakeman to Sir Edward Dolman Scott. Perry Barr. - ref.  MS 3883/672  - date: 16 January 1845
WAKEMAN	ELIZABETH				Birmingham, BURIED St. Johns 30^th October 1865 aged 68
WAKEMAN	MARY				1872 – Butcher
WAKEMAN	THOMAS				1868 – Butcher
WAKEMAN	THOMAS				1841 Census – Birchfield End Thomas aged 30 Elizabeth aged 35 William aged 3 Thomas aged 5 Caroline Hufield, aged 15, servant
WAKEMAN	THOMAS				23^rd December 1866: Thomas Wakeman aged 56, (Butcher), W, Birchfield, son of Thomas (Butcher) married Mary Parkes, aged 43, spinster, Birchfield, (Butcher) daughter of William Parkes (Gun Maker)
WAKESMAN	THOMAS				Birchfield, BURIED St. Johns 12^th June 1870 aged 60
WALCH	WILLIAM				1841 – William Smith
WALDEN	ELIZABETH				See 1841 Census – John Watts
WALDRON		CHARLES				In 1881 was 17, lodging with Ellen E White and family
WALKER	ANN				V65 Franchise Street, BURIED St. Johns 23^rd April 1902, aged 43
WALKER	BENJAMIN				V30 Bayswater Road, BURIED St Johns 12 August 1911 aged 83
WALKER	EDWIN				22^nd September 1866 – Edwin Walker, 28 bachelor, (Gun Stoker) Birchfield, son of Joseph (Shoe Maker) married Mary Ann Jarvis, spinster, Birchfield, daughter of Charles Jarvis (Iron Caster)
WALKER	HELEN				25^th October 1871: William Edward Price, 20, bachelor (Press Tool Worker) Franchise Street, son of Edward (Brass Founder) married Helen Walker, 18, spinster, Birchfield Road, daughter of Shadrach, (Pig Dealer)
WALKER	JAMES HERON				BIRMINGHAM CITY ARCHIVES - Draft release from trusts of a settlement of 25 April, 1843. - ref.  MS 3145/155  - date: Date 1894 Parties: Hon. Somerset John Gough Calthorpe, Somerset Frederick Gough Calthorpe, Rt. Hon. Augustus Cholmondeley, Lord Calthorpe, Godrey Baring, James Heron Walker, Sir Walter Rockcliff Farquhar, Granville Richard Ryder. Property: Perry Hall Estates, Perry Barr, Gnosall, Birmingham Heath, Handsworth, Shenstone, Shenstone Hall Estate, Winson Green, Sutton, Perry Barr, Beaufort Arms, Hamstead, Oscott, Bullers Coppice, Handsworth, Bricknalls, Broomes Croft, etc. in Perry Barr, Oscott, advowson of Perry Barr, Great Barr, Aldridge, Birchfield, Perry Common.
WALKER	JANE				Birchfield, BURIED St. Johns 24^th December 1891 aged 49
WALKER	JOSEPH				1841 Census – Birchfield End Joseph aged 30 (shoe maker) Sarah aged 25 Maria aged 6 Harriet aged 5 Edwin aged 5 James Smith aged 25 (Ag. Lab) William Hill aged 25 (Ag. Lab)
WALKER	MARY				See Charles Cooper
WALKER	MARY				18^th May 1872, Charles Cooper, aged 21, Bachelor, Perry Barr, son of John (Farmer) married Mary Walker, aged 21, spinster, daughter of John (Baker)
WALKER