Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hello to all , last week I posted a message concerning William Evans who was born in Anglesey and ended up in Australia. I hoped perhaps some one could come up with an idea for matching this gent to one of the same name , birth year and the key thing was his parents names William and Ellen plus birt...

Hello to all who might be able to help. I have successfully to date traced nearly all of my great grandmothers immediate family in Anglesey except for two brothers including one named Wiliam who was born in Llanfinhangel Yscefiog, Gaerwen in 1828 the family were there for many years. He is shown in ...

Any one researching the Isle of Man will also find this site a huge help from census through to birth registers which in lots of cases show the original registers, so pleased to have found this free site years ago but it just gets better. L.b

Although we did not know you, we remember and give thanks for the sacrifices you made for all of us, all our love from your family. The Loyal North Lancashire Rgt 18190. Henry Harrison, age 33 yrs our Grandad xxxx Killed at the Battle of Loos 25 September 1915 G. Harrison brother of Henry who came h...

Hi there and huge thanks for the input to all, so much information to digest. Looking through papers we have we can see that on the 8th November the family had official news of his death, and by the 13th November word had come that pay would continue for a little while then came a breakdown of what ...

Hello to everyone who may possibly be able to help. I have just received courtesy of our lovely Katy copies of pension details for one of our relatives who was killed in World War One and the pension paid to his wife and children but some one else on the forum may be able to throw some light on my p...

I have just looked at our site and found this link and must say I am shocked that Joe has been made to feel like this, and he appears not to be the only one. A "thanks very much" and a smile go a long way not only face to face in everyday life but also using all the help we get through sites like ou...

Hi Steve, I have had a look for where I saw photos ages back of Dorothy street, sadly can't find them now but if you look at http://www.yoliverpool.com and flicker site , put in a search for Dorothy street, there are some of the street before the walls came tumbling down, all boarded up and some wit...

Hi Steve you are welcome. Your posting took me right back to my childhood, Dorothy street was lovely just off a very busy shopping centre, Wavertree Road all the houses in the area were lived in by very hard working family's who's doors were always open, a great community. All so proud of their home...

Hi there your posting intrigued me with your elusive Smith's as I grew up in the area that you are researching namely Edge Hill and Dorothy street was a street of bay window parlour houses. I believe they have all gone now but there are some photos still to be found on the internet. I had a similar ...

Hi Simone, I get totally what you are saying about where people thought their birth place was, I have had a few especially in the Welsh border towns, even when Welsh by birth the enumerator made them English (was it something to do with making the numbers look right) :D I have not discounted the mar...

WOW!!! what can I say but thanks to all of you for the search's you have done, I have been away from the computer and you have all been beavering away on my behalf what a great crew you all are. The 1901 census certainly looks correct with the birth places transposed between Ann and her grandson Fra...

Hi Simone thank you very much for your interest and the possible link through John Rowland the tailor. I dare say at some point all will be clear with Edward, I am just really so curious of the West Indies connection, and it is exasperating not being able to find a common link. I also have Rowlands ...

Hi to all, don't know if any one can cast an idea over this gent who was born in Manchester in 1831 according to his age on the 1881 census. He was a widower with two sons when he married Ann Hargreaves also born in Manchester at St Nicholas church. Liverpool in January 1868. Ann was also a widow wi...

Hi Marny just found your posting and here's another idea, I had a similar problem but it was finding a living child who was to young to be away from the family home on census night, I knew he was living as he was shown in later census, but when I checked both sets of grandparents out on the census t...

Hi I am in Oxfordshire but close to the Berkshire and Bucks borders, always happy to help where I can cheers L.B

Hi Barbara, I have just had the war diaries for my husbands grandad downloaded from the National Archives I was lucky enough to get the link given to me but it was through the discovery section. They downloaded everything they had from 1914-1918 plus a separate diary written by a young officer for t...

Thank you both so much for your help, I only have family stories that this chap was in Liverpool ploice but the dates and occupations on some of the birth certs for his children dont support this, but we have a photo of him in uniform and one of his family do remember that he was in the police so I ...

Hi Hilary, thanks so much for your input sounds a good piece of advice but do you know can I contact the records office by e.mail and request info or do you have to write formally and pay for search's to be done, have not gone down this road before, cheers L.B

Hi can any one help with this question please? We believe from research that the gent I am interested in served in the Liverpool police during the war 1914/1918 being too old to be conscripted in the army,would there be any records still held for these men. Thanks for any suggestions.