Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thank you for your reply

In the past I have looked at information in the Central Library that was on microfilche but I was wondering if any has been transcribed and put online. I can't remember what the file was but it was a business directory and also gave peoples address and occupation for each year.

I have some Sloans in my family it is my maternal nans maiden name

Thank you again. The John Daly I was looking for had a father called James.

Paula

Thank you Katie I am beginning to think the army records might belong to a different man. Although his mum was Ann (nee Butler) and he had a sister called Catherine (I can find no marriage record) all the cousins had the same names. Did your records show a name for the father? I will order a copy of...

John Daly was born 25th January 1887 and baptised in St Oswald's 30th January 1887. He joined the Loyal North Lancs reg in 1914. I have accessed these records on the ancestry site but there is a notation next to his baptism record about his marriage in 1949 his reg number was 12561 and he was listed...

Does anyone know how long service records were kept open if a soldier was presumed dead. I recently found that an ancester who was thought to have died at Gallipoli actually married after the war.