Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hi Bert,

Do you think that Benjamin who married Mary (Emma) Hughes was the son of Benjamin & Ann Jones? I think that Benjamin & Mary had four sons, John Walker, Joseph Walker, Samuel & Charles (info from GRO).

Stay well Bert. Jenny

I think William was a brother as he was living/working in Caldy and was a carpenter, and carpenters made wheels back then. In fact, our 1923 Austin Twenty has wooden wheels! Many branches of the Stafford family seem to have been non-conformists. I think this lot were Baptists. My Joseph was married ...

My Street ancestors were very good at giving the nod to all sorts of peripheral family members, ie mother's brother-in-law's surname as a middle name, a favourite teacher's surname as a middle name, but there was one that had us looking in the wrong direction for years. My gx2 grandfather and his wi...

Hi again Bert. So I wonder what happened to my John after his father died in 1837 and the business partnership was dissolved. His mother lived on for another 4 years & just 6 months before she died my gx2 grandfather Joseph emigrated to Australia (as a cabin passenger!). Mary was recorded as living ...

Thanks for those records Bert. I came across a whole heap of St Affords the other day!

I'm sorry I missed the notification to say that you'd sent me a message a few hours ago Bert!! In the meantime I found that marriage between Benjamin Stafford & Mary Hughes in 1859 in Liverpool, Lancs. 8B 435 in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 on Ancestry so it does...

I’ll think on all this overnight Bert! I’m sure all will be revealed in time!

I'm tending to think Bert that the 'Walker' middle name has come as a nod to John's Uncle Benjamin's wife, Elizabeth Walker. I'm going to look further to see where the Stafford-Hughes marriage fits in as their infant son was named John Walker Stafford. Benjamin was born in 1793 in Sandal Magna Yorks...

John & Ann's first child Benjamin was born in 1839 in Manley & baptized at Alvanley, in very close proximity to Mouldsworth where they were married. By the time their second child Elizabeth was born in 1841, the family were in Birkenhead. However in the 1841 census they were recorded as being in Tar...

mThank you so much for all that information Bert but more questions have been thrown up as a result! Re the brother living in Walker St as reported in the paper, 'my' John only had one brother and that was my gx2 grandfather Joseph who in 1856 was living in Australia. However if the records I've fou...

It's been suggested that there could be information on this forum relating to my gx3 uncle, John Stafford who was born on the 22nd of April 1815 & baptized at Leeds St, Wesleyan, Liverpool on the 7th of May 1815. He was the 2nd child of John & Mary Stafford (nee Kinsey or Webster) who are buried at ...