Liverpool Americans
Posted: 20 Oct 2014 20:55
Hello everyone
I am a new member wondering whether anyone has an interest in the residents of the city in the early 19th century who had lived in America through the Revolutionary War. Many of them had lived on plantations in the southern states and would have been slave owners no doubt.
I have been researching the Storr family, who took the Loyalist side in the War. Briefly; Rachel Moodie ended her life, a spinster, at the age of 78, living in Maryland Street, in the city centre. She was buried at St James', Toxteth, in 1838, in a grave with her oldest sister, Marion Kincaid, who was buried there in 1821 and who had also lived at Maryland Street. Another older sister, Helen Storr, lived on at Maryland Street for another 3 years; dying in 1841, at the age of 97.
Does anyone have access to the old book of Memorial Inscriptions transcribed by James Gibson; volume 3 covers St James I believe. I see that there is a copy in Liverpool library (4 929.5 GIB). I would dearly like to see what was inscribed on the grave.
Many thanks
Trevor Penn
I am a new member wondering whether anyone has an interest in the residents of the city in the early 19th century who had lived in America through the Revolutionary War. Many of them had lived on plantations in the southern states and would have been slave owners no doubt.
I have been researching the Storr family, who took the Loyalist side in the War. Briefly; Rachel Moodie ended her life, a spinster, at the age of 78, living in Maryland Street, in the city centre. She was buried at St James', Toxteth, in 1838, in a grave with her oldest sister, Marion Kincaid, who was buried there in 1821 and who had also lived at Maryland Street. Another older sister, Helen Storr, lived on at Maryland Street for another 3 years; dying in 1841, at the age of 97.
Does anyone have access to the old book of Memorial Inscriptions transcribed by James Gibson; volume 3 covers St James I believe. I see that there is a copy in Liverpool library (4 929.5 GIB). I would dearly like to see what was inscribed on the grave.
Many thanks
Trevor Penn