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Help please occupation 1901

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 09:00
by Tina
My dear old friend (80) lives nearby was born in New Brighton!!
Doing her tree with daughters help & mine.
We have Thomas W Barton transcribed as BASTON :roll: (error sent to Anc) occupation foreman, can't read the rest looks like Trust ??? Green??
1911 lists him as a foreman.
Living in Edge Hill bn 1866 Lpool
RG13/3496/36/19
Thanks me dears
Tina :)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 09:08
by Gray
Hi Tina,

Looks like foreman fruit trade - green to me.

Hope this helps.

Grayx

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:04
by MaryA
I agree with Gray.

The boundary of the Enumerator's Walk is on the North by West Derby Street, on the East by the point of junction between Paddington, Irvine Street, and Highgate Street, on the South by Paddington and on the West by Crown Street.

So Bamber Street would be quite near Edge Lane where the fruit market is/was.

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:32
by Tina
Thank you Ladies... :)
I never thought about fruit although it did say green :oops:
Will email my dear friend.
This family & the lass he married into, all moved to Birkenhead, then Heswall and made a pile...
My 80 yr old friend never had to work, just go out to tea with her mother etc. Shopping at George Henry Lees in Lpool.
She married a man of "means' came over to West Aus and got the shock of her life...she couldn't boil water.
I just love listening to her when she talks about the "Wallasey" days..
Tina

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 11:06
by MaryA
Tina wrote: Shopping at George Henry Lees in Lpool.
John Lewis in Liverpool One .... it just isn't the same is it :?

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 11:14
by simone
Tina wrote:My 80 yr old friend never had to work, just go out to tea with her mother etc. Shopping at George Henry Lees in Lpool.
She married a man of "means' came over to West Aus and got the shock of her life...she couldn't boil water.
Tina
a book maybe :idea: , Tina, :wink: bet it would be an interesting read :D

Simone x

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 00:55
by Tina
Great idea Simone!
Her older sister got pregnant to an American G.I
Mamma nearly died of shame, bundled her off to a Gt Aunt in the wilds of Lancashire, told the villagers she was nursing in France!!
The sister died fairly young, long before agencies like Jigsaw.

avagoodweekend everyone
Tina :)