House by House: 5 Hawthorne Road

5 Hawthorne Road, 1906. Click to enlarge.

Photo: Part of 5 Hawthorne Road, with 3 attached to the left, and the as yet un-built green-space of Hawthorne Road in the distance, 1906. These were some of the first houses to be built.

1911
The first census recording the houses was taken in 1911, so these were probably the first tenants of the house.

• George Alfred William Whitmore, head, 47, organising inspector of evening school for county borough council, born Birmingham.
• Lily Whitmore, wife, 32, ---, born Birmingham.
• Agnes Whitmore, mother in law, 57, ---, born Birmingham.

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1925

On the 1925 electoral register the residents at 5 Hawthorne Road were:

Agnes Whitmore

Lily Whitmore

(this register included men over 21 and women over 30)
George A. W. Whitmore died in 1919.