Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

You recently gave me some very useful pointers to help my search for my great-grandfather, John Martin. Thank you. I am now wanting to find out a little more about the company that my grandfather, David Martin (1878-1964) worked at from about 1891 until his second retirement in the 1950s (his offici...

Thank you all for these helpful comments and suggestions. Jan is right that the family is transcribed as 'Marlin' in Ancestry's 1901 census. I submitted a correction to that record a while ago. Jane is marked as Head of the household in both the 1901 and 1911 censuses. In 1901, the household at 46 C...

I wonder if any of you can help me solve the mystery of my great-grandfather’s apparent disappearance from official records sometime between 1891 and 1919. JOHN MARTIN is born in Dumfries on 6 May 1850 to David Martin, a master tailor, and Mary Carson Smart of Dumfries. He marries my great-grandmoth...