Description:Frederick Bellamy in a picture taken in about 1904. His father was Edwin Bellamy, the founder of E.C. Bellamy & Co. of Pritchard Street, Newtown Row, makers of Kelly lamps.
This photograph is one of several that were printed in the Birmingham Evening Mail in April 1984, the negatives having been found in a derelict house in Aston. A subsequent article in the same newspaper informs us that the photographs were taken in the garden of a large house in Wellington Road which is now part of St Teresa's RC church buildings. They were identified by a daughter of one of the subjects.
The nucleus of this family appears in the 1881 census living at 47 Anglesey Street, Lozells - Edwin Bellamy aged 25, a press tool maker, his wife Sarah J. aged 27, both born in Birmingham and their daughter Beatrice aged ten months born in Aston.
The 1901 census shows the family in Handsworth. Edwin now aged 44 is described as a Lamp manufacturer, his wife Sarah aged 47 and their now large family, Beatrice 20, Winifred 17, Edith 15, Herbert 12, Frederick 10, Gertrude 9, Constance 7 and Mildred 3.