Hi Cassy Have you tried Historical Directories Online? (Link below). They're brill http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/ Lesley ________________________________ -------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:08:17 -0000 From: "cassy" <[email protected]> Subject: [Black Country] Kellys directorys To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Hi All I am trying to find a coal merchant named George Hickman's from the early 1900+ in Kelly's Directives , In the directives for 1932 the firm had already been taken over by R B Tudor, Albion Wharf West Bromwich , , the buildings are still there but dropping apart , its at the side of the canal by J S Lee's I am sure allot of you who come from West Bromwich had coal from there has it was one of the big coal merchants in its day My hubbies gr grandparent George Hickman's used to own it and according to what my mother in law always said when her grandfather was called up for WW1 the person he left in charge, sent it bankrupt I am trying to sort this out has to me George Hickman was to old to be in WW1 , mother in law also said that his wife hanged herself on the loo after they went bankrupt because of the same With the dates I have for deaths and ages at birth none of it makes sense So if any one has any Kelly's Directories with this coal merchants in or when R B T udor first started I might be about to sort some of it out Cheers Cassy Assistant Admin Black Country Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists - *************************************************