I often wondered why my father, his twin sister Doris & his brother Edward were born in Upper Norwood, Croydon. The address given on the Birth Certificate was 37 St, Aubyns Road. I thought that they may have had a shoe shop but only having census records to go by (1901 & 1911 they were in Bath) I couldn't be sure. My father was born in 1904 & his brother in 1906 (both certificates were witnessed by Thomas Pain Bedford on 15th March 1918!). Playing around on Ancestry on Wednesday I found they were all baptised on 10th Oct 1906 with an address of 40 Church Rd, Upper Norwood. When I did a google search it came up with a row of shops! I then went to the Newspaper Archives & did a search with that address - bingo!! That gave me 'Mrs K. Butler', I then went to Find My Past & put K. Butler in, scrolled down to British Newspapers & got this....
It pays to keep trying!!
