Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thanks for your quick reply. The information is a good guide - he wants one for a keep-sake.

Hi again, Wondering if anyone can help. I have been asked by a relative about purchasing a Kings Liverpool Regiment WW1 cap badge. My two great uncles (brothers) died in the war, and I'm not sure whether the badges are exactly the same for all the battalions ( they weren't in the pals). I have seen ...

Hi. I have just had a look at the photo on flickr (very interesting site), and I'm not sure if it is the same club, as it's called Walton Park, and mine is St Mary's Walton, also my photo is quite a bit older, so the name might have changed over the years. I did take the opportunity while I was on t...

Thanks for your replies everyone, I know it's a bit of a dead- end querie. I will try all of your suggestions, and see where it takes me .

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Hi, Does anyone know anything about Walton St. Mary's Bowling Club. I have a large picture taken (not quite sure of the date) about early 1900's -34 members with a large cup. Some of them are holding straw boater hats. In the background is the back of the Brown Cow public house on the corner of Chur...

Thanks Amanda I'm still keeping an open mind on that. It's just that I have two other merchant mariners in the 1850's, and they gave up the sea in their late 30's - I assume they where not physically able anymore, as it must have been a tough job. I have thought about trying to trace his merchant re...

Yes, I think it's going to be a long job going through the burials. I think they were starting to go to Anfield in 1860's as the cemetries were getting full up, but it's still a guess. I might look a bit further in the workhouse in case Catherine came in again.It didn't say where she was going after...

1881 census for George McDougall Head George Shepherd 27yrs b. Liverpool General labourer Wife Marietta Shepherd 23 yrs b. Liverpool Brother Peter Shepherd 19yrs b. Liverpool General labourer Boarder George McDougall 17yrs b. Liverpool General labourer Family history library folio 3658/17 page 30 Al...

Hi thanks for your replies.I will try to answer them in order. Yes, all the children were born in Liverpool. The census you have found is the right one. they had two more children after that Lavinia (my namesake) b. 1862 d. 1863 buried in Walton park parochial cemetary, and George my grt. grandfathe...

My first time on the Forum, so here goes. I have been searching for the death records for my 2xgrt. Grandparents James Jasper and Catherine McDougall for a number of years without any success. I have looked on Freebmd-Microfiche, Ancestry,Lancashire Bmd, and tried variant spellings. They married in ...