Conditions in Liverpool 1860s?

[philrob]

Greetings to all!

I am wondering why my G/G/Grandfather moved his family from Glasgow to Liverpool in the period 1863 - 65. He married in 1863 in Glasgow and his first child was registered in Tranmere in 1864 and three more registered in Liverpool up till 1868. His wife died in 1871.
If I am not mistaken, this period coincides with the Cotton Famine which caused so much havoc in Lancashire.

Can anybody please give me some idea of what the social and economic conditions would have been like in the early 1860s in Liverpool?

He must have been quite a clever individual because when he died in 1903, he had built up a family business based around ironmongers and oil and colormen which had four shops in Liverpool. In his will he left the equivalent in today's currency of close to a million dollars Australian to his four sons(!)

I believe it is probably a case of very good timing on his part to recognise that the cotton famine may have been coming to an end and business was about to pick up.

I would be very interested to hear your opinions.

[CaroleW]

Hi

There are a number of articles on the internet if you Google - Lancashire cotton famine. With this first link - you will have to paste the whole link into your browser because of the length

http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/


http://georgian-victorian-britain.suite ... ton_famine

http://ourwardfamily.com/cotton_trade.htm

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/En ... Famine.htm

Long link amended - MA