AlParsons

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As well as economics people should read David > Copperfield You're quite right there. And not only people, governments should too. This mess is just beginning. We are not going to get out of it without a great deal of inflation and, following that, an even worse recession/depression than we have just experienced. Wish I could be more upbeat but it is just a matter of time before the U.S.A. hits the debt wall - and then we will all be screwed. Other than that, please have a nice day.:)

I'm from Canada and, for obvious reasons, cannot join in any discussions about local issues on the forum. A few weeks ago, however, I posted a message about Landcroft Road in 1891 and 1901 and mentioned my grandfather by name (he grew up on Landcroft). This week, a distant cousin of mine - wholly unknown to me - googled my grandfather's name and saw immediately my message on this forum. Through the forum, she was able to send me a private message and we have been able to re-estabish contact between the UK and Canadian sides of the family. Hurray. I know that family reunions are not among the express purposes of the forum... but I just wanted to send you a big thank you anyhow. Let us now return to our reguler programming.

Hello all. First time poster here. In 1891, my grandfather (aged 5 at the time) - Arthur Russell Parsons - lived at 109 Landcroft Road. His father, John Parsons, was a railway porter (born 1859). By 1901, the family had grown in size and now lived at 134 Landcroft Road. My grandfather was now a mechanical engineer apprentice and his dad was still a railway porter. Its fun to look at these houses today using Google Map and to think of my grandfather growing up here. (I believe that the street numbers in effect then are the same today. Certainly, the flat above 201 Lordship Lane, where other relatives lived at the same time, occupies the same numbered building today). Anyway, I was wondering if someone could tell me what duties a "railway porter" had at the time and also where my grandfather's family fell in the social hierarchy - solid working class merging with lower middle class, etc. Also, if anyone could look the family up on the 1911 census without troubling themselves to tell me where they lived in 1911, I would much appreciate it. My grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1913 with all of six pounds in his pocket and founded the Canadian branch of our family. Thank you in advance, Alan Parsons Brighton, Ontario, Canada