About

• Summary:
   

  William Birch is included here as mother of Kate, Samuel Stretton’s wife and mother to fifteen children, includinng John Lionel. Details of his wider family have not been researched and are thus not to be found herein.
  The Archive contains an interesting document - see details under Notable Aspects in the Bio section below.

• Archive link: Link to William’s documents and images
• No of documents: 16
• No of Images: 2
• No of photo albums: 1
• Born: Friday, 28 August 1801
• Died: Tuesday, 03 August 1869
• Bio:

  
  Career:
  William trained in medicine in London and this Archive contains copies of many of the Certificates and testimonials that he obtained during his training.
  
  Notable aspects:
  The Archive contains a hand-written script of a talk that William gave to the Mechanical Institute of Barton under Needwood in 1859. The talk, running to 69 pages, is entitled:
           On some interesting facts connected with the circulation of the blood in man and in the higher order of animals.
  View this here
  

• Place of Death: Barton under Needwood
• Spouse: Rosa Elizabeth (Née Meek)
• Marriage Date: Tuesday, 10 August 1830
• Sibling-1: ...family not researched
• Child 1: Kate Birch
• Child 2: ...family not researched