Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

An update.
I went to the National archives and found the ships log for the Guienne for the voyage in 1903 when James Filson died. It turned out he asphyxiated in his berth - his bunk mate survived - and was then buried at sea off Nantes.
thanks again for all the help offered over many years.

Thanks I don't think there is anything else on the back of the photo apart from that mentioned at the top of this post . I am not at home until next week so don't have the original with me. I can look then. I am not sure if it is definitely 1918 - it may be later but am certain it is James Filson an...

Thanks - lots of lines to follow now!
I shall report back if I have any success
J

Great thanks I shall pursue this.
J

I am now trying to attack this laterally. Does anyone know which regiments served in Ireland in 1918-1922? - I could then perhaps ask at the relevant regiment museum. I found some more information about the ships in 1917 at NA but still have drawn a blank on the army service. Thanks as before for al...

Hi I have a photo of Westminster Road Primary School 1932. Lilian Filson is 5th from right at back and her cousin James Filson is to her right. Does anyone recognise any other pupils or have any other photos of the school between 1933 and 1936? Thanks in advance Jane https://i.imgur.com/TnBW5MN.jpg

Hi
Does anyone know of any photos of the pupils at Evered Ave Central school 1937-1941. My mother Lilian Filson was a pupil and I have a photo of her in uniform but no photos of others
Are there any registers of this school remaining for these dates?
thanks in advance for help
Jane

Thanks to all. In answer to Mary his name was James Andrew Filson. Lanyard - he did work with horses in Ireland according to his daughter. As always this is a reminder to ask questions when people are still living - he never talked about his early life when I was a child. If anyone has any other ide...

I have discovered from the Royal Irish Constabulary forum that he never served with them and that is not their uniform.
Back to the drawing board!
J

I'm pretty certain it is him as the photo is in a family album labelled Jim
J

Thanks - that is an amazing lead - I shall follow up. Here is another photo dated 1918 Rhine saying To Alf from Jim I think the Alf was Alf Radcliffe my grandmother's brother so Jims later brother in law. But I do not know where the Rhine comes in! Sadly there are no surviving medal cards for my Jam...

I think this is the link to the image

https://imgur.com/a/Bghz0s2

My grandfather James Filson (1900 -1987) is shown in a photo in uniform perhaps in Ireland.Our family thinks he was working there with horses and he had a bullet wound in his arm. I have a copy of the photo and wonder if any members could point me in the correct direction of discovering what he migh...

Thanks Mary I shall start there.
Jane

James Andrew Filson is listed as a crew member on the New York ship in 1917 and then in 1924 on the Almanzora coming from Bahia to Southampton. I think he was in Ireland sometime between 1919 and 1923 and I have a photo of him in what looks like an army uniform. He told his daughter that he had work...

thanks Daggers - i knew the name Edward Carter Preston as I had found him when researching a plaque for my paternal great uncle Frederick Charles Purton, but I had not realised he came from Liverpool or that he had designed the sculptures in the Anglican cathedral.

Long story but when I discovered such things existed last year on Antiques Road Show I enquired in the family and found a distant cousin in Australia who found it in her father's effects after he died. He was a nephew ( as was my mother of Frank. The memorial plaque is still in Australia. I have als...

OK hopefully this is it
http://s1028.photobucket.com/user/janem ... ent&page=1

Just a quick update
I now have located Frank's "Dead Man's Penny" which if fantastic
I will attach a picture of it if someone tells me ho to do it
Thanks again to all who have helped me again

The 1861 census is RG 9/2654 Household Schedule no 32 Folio 296 Page no 5
On Ancestry it is under Thos Malley