Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Looking for James BLAIR (my GG Grandfather) in the 1871 Census.

I've found his wife, Margaret BLAIR living at 4 Latimer Buildings, with her daughter Margaret and her father William GILFORD (Ref RG10 / P3762 / F55 / Page 39), but no sign of the husband James.

I found a potential James BLAIR as a visitor at 49 Gordon Street (Ref RG10 / P3814 / F70 / Page 20) - although his name has been transcribed as James BLAIN

This James BLAIR does appear to tick most boxes. Born around 1844 in Scotland, and I don't think it's too much of a leap from being a carpenter to an engineer (as he was in later Census returns).

What I want to know is how close was Gordon Street to Latimer Buildings in 1871? They both appear in the parish of Everton, but were they really that close?

It looks like the James BLAIR that I'm seeking, but, as always, there's that 'niggle' in the back of my mind.

Latimer Street about 1900 http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co. ... laz/I9.htm
Gordon Street about the same date http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co. ... laz/K8.htm

Modern map of the route between the two (well Robsart Street is very close by) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Latim ... 53.4232001 about a 15 minute walk.

As she claims to be "wife" and married it wouldn't seem that he had died anyway.

Thanks for that Mary.

Will have to bookmark that Liverpool map website for future reference.

Seems the two addresses are close by so it looks like it is my James BLAIR.

He died in 1891 not long after the census, so was very much alive at the time.

Latimer Buildings was a court in Slade Street off Latimer Street in this early map it's the last court at the east end of Slade Street:-





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Mormons, FHS, site has a baptism for Margaret at St James the Less
22.6.1869 to James Blair and Margaret Jane.
Marriage James Blair to Margaret Jane Gilford 13 Nov 1865.
His father John, her father Wm.