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If anyone has a Liverpool directory for about 1902 could they please look up Alexandra Drive (near Princes Park), and see who is listed for No. 10? I have a relative shown in the probate calendar as having died there in 1902, though her family were on the Wirral, without her, in the 1901 census.
Thank you
Daggers

In 1900 Gore's it is Emil Purgold, African merchant. He's there in the 1901 census with wife and 5 young children, 3 servants and 2 nurses.

See http://www.merseysiderollofhonour.co.uk ... wgc=369978 for information on this family.

Thanks very much for the census info and the link - very interesting accounts. Sadly there are no clues to link my relative to the Purgold family - so far, at least.

Daggers

There were other Alexandra Drives - one in Rock Ferry, another in Bootle. Is it definitely the one near Princes Park?

May we know your relative's name? Maybe we can find her in the 1901 census.

retiringtype wrote:In 1900 Gore's it is Emil Purgold, African merchant.

Same in Kellys 1900, not surprisingly.

The name I am looking for is Mary Kirby, nee Pennycook, born in Scotland about 1853. That address, Alexandra Drive, is confirmed in the probate details as 'Sefton Park', so it is neither of the other possibles.
I have had a few searches for her in the 1901 census on Ancestry but nothing turned up yet.

D

I see her husband Francis Arthur Marlow Kirby didn't die until 1930 in Hoylake, Cheshire, one of those named in the Probate being Annie Josephine Kirby, widow, would that be another wife or a daughter in law? Do you know where Francis was in 1901?

Added - I believe he would be the one in Birkenhead with children and mother in law Margaret Pennycook?

I get the feeling that the address where Mary died might have been some sort of nursing home?

Emile Purgold and family are definitely there in the 1901 census, I think it would need a 1903 directory look up, as that data would have been gathered the year before.

Death Index

Name: Mary Kirby
Registration Year: 1902
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Age at Death: 45
Registration district: Toxteth Park
Volume: 8b
Page: 183


Toxteth Park Cemetery

Surname: KIRBY
Forename: Mary
Age: 45 years
Rank: Wife
Address: 10 Alexandra Drive Toxteth Park
Buried: 21 June 1902
Folio: 1528
Entry: 30534
C/N: N
Section: G
Grave: 318
Ref: 352 CEM 9/2/6


Blue

Gravestone transcript:-

(Three white stone tiers, broken cross lying nearby)

Kirby

Mary Pennycook
beloved wife of
F. A. M. KIRBY
who departed this life 18th June 1902
aged 47 years
*Come unto Me and I will give you rest*

http://www.toxtethparkcemeteryinscripti ... rch=Search


Blue

Does it seem strange to anybody else that she is noted with her with maiden name on the headstone ?

Good finds - many thanks. Yes, very odd about use of her maiden name. Perhaps they had split up.
I agree that a nursing home or similar is a possibility and will look in a directory when I get to the Cen. Lib.
Francis did marry again.

D

Just a thought, in Scotland and Isle of Man, it was common to use their maiden name.

Yes, Mary was born in Scotland.

D

1903 Directory has Mrs Catherine Greenshields at this address.
Number 10 isn't listed in 1904.

Thanks Mary for saving me a look-up when I next get to Wm B Street. I shall have to find more about Mrs Greenshields.
EDIT to add: I found Mrs G at 10 Alexandra Drive in the 1901 and later census, but not at that road in the Sefton Park area. She was at the avenue of the same name in Orrell/Bootle.
D

Property owner maybe?

daggers wrote:Thanks Mary for saving me a look-up when I next get to Wm B Street. I shall have to find more about Mrs Greenshields.
EDIT to add: I found Mrs G at 10 Alexandra Drive in the 1901 and later census, but not at that road in the Sefton Park area. She was at the avenue of the same name in Orrell/Bootle.
D

Yes different Alexandra Drive Gore's Directory 1900 has Thomas Greenshields, engineer at 10 Alexandra Drive in the Victoria Park area of Walton, north end of this drive is Orrell Lane, southern end is Moss Lane. This address is now in Bootle.


Blue

Blue70 wrote: Yes different Alexandra Drive Gore's Directory 1900 has Thomas Greenshields, engineer at 10 Alexandra Drive in the Victoria Park area of Walton, north end of this drive is Orrell Lane, southern end is Moss Lane. This address is now in Bootle.

Nope, it was the correct Alexandra Drive unless the Directory got it wrong.

By 1911 Alexandra Drive in the Walton/Orrell area had become Alexandra Drive Bootle

Gore's 1911

Alexandra Drive, Bootle

(Letters through Rice Lane Walton)

10 Greenshields Mrs Catherine


While down by Sefton Park...

Alexandra Drive - S

10 Kern Hans cotton merchant


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