Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thanks so much. My family worked with them to fit-out ships with sanitary ware, apparantly.

Hello there. I am trying for information, hopefully the working dates of Perrin Hughes, who were in Hatton Garden (I don't know where that was/is). Apparently they supplied fittings for ships, and I would like more information on which shipping lines they supplied, if possible. Or anything else abou...

A brief update! I visited Quarry Bank a week before the current troubles. The very friendly owners have in their possession early conveyancing deeds, on which my ancestor featured, so that has been a great help with regards to dates, and to know that my family were home-owners, not renters at that s...

The Genealogist website has a search by address function, which I use a lot

That might actually be it! There is a bay window and a flat window as shown on your map 1891. Built of the sandstone indicated by its name 'Quarry Bank'. Thanks for looking it up.

Do you think it might still be there today?

Very clever you. I'd thought it was further west. Thank you so much

Thanks so much Bertieone. I'm a rookie poster, and have failed to upload the image, but checking the 1890 plan of the area online, I found Anfield Villas as a short row running parallel between St Ambrose Grove and St Andrews Road, which had been developed for terraced housing, according to the 1908...

Wow, thank you so much Bertieone. I don't think the two Robert Roberts are the same, believe it or not. Could you tell me where the newspaper snippet is from please? My Robert Roberts was a plumber, the Robert Roberts at 88 Breck Road is a tailor, having looked him up. The full address of Quarry Ban...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help? An ancestor David Edward Roberts (b1859) was living at Quarry Bank, Anfield from 1884-89, with his parents Robert and Hannah Roberts. They owned a plumbing business in Netherfield Road North, which was there for around 30 years. I've tried googling Quarry Bank, wh...

My results are in! Predictably, approximately 75% was British/Irish but the one that has intrigued me is the 9% Iberian Peninsula! Me too! Hubby interprets Ancestry blurb as meaning Iberian could be Spanish or thereabouts persons imported by the Romans to Britain. Did you find anything yourself to ...

Thanks Bert! So you could have taken the ferry Liverpool to Birkenhead, then 2 and a half hours stagecoach Birkenhead to Chester. Sounds like if the weather was fine, you could do a return journey in one day perhaps, if you had to? Have you any idea how the ferry worked in those days?

My Fletcher family had a strong connection with Chester, though they had moved to Liverpool by 1830. If they travelled to see a relative during the 1830s or 1840s, or attended a funeral, or had to go on business, for example, I am wondering how they would have done the journey, assuming they were no...

Thanks for the link to the old photographs site and the early photograph dated c 1851. That is the exact period I am writing about, so it is helpful to see the horse-drawn car. As you say, people walked distances in those days, not a lot of choice.

Walking from Russell Street to Everton Brow definitely seems possible mid 19th century. Would there have been any real alternatives to walking at that time? I'm not sure when trams came in, and would there have been horse-drawn transport, if so what, I wonder?

Thanks Blue70. Interesting it seems it is Willan Court, not William. Blockmaker must be 'clockmaker'! thanks also for the map and Gore's excerpt and your take on what Gay Street would have consisted of. If it was anything like Ben Jonson street it looks a bit basic. Thanks Daggers and MaryA for tour...

I am writing about Ellen Bennett who moved as a child to Gay Street (Scotland Rd area) 1827 from Chester via Manchester. Her father was James Fletcher who had a clock and watch business there. She then lived mostly in Stafford Street, which I have visited. I only know Liverpool sketchily and would l...

Thanks again for Crescent Chapel information. I am interested in how Ellen Bennett and two small children would have got to chapel on a Sunday? The period is about 1850-1870, during which they were living in the Russell Street area, then Stafford Street. Would they have walked or used a form of tran...

Thank you all very much for your help. I will post again tomorrow when I have had time to digest

I am writing a short piece about Crescent Congregational Chapel, Everton Brow 1850-1900 as my 3xg grandmother Ellen Bennett worshipped there for decades. Does anyone have any connection with it at all? I know it's now demolished. Some of the elders were Messrs Stitt, Blackburn, While, Heyworth (the ...