Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thank you all so much. I have some time later in the week to pick the hints and tips up and try again to unlock some more information. Mary - I thought the same about Thomas 'junior' maybe being the product of another wife. I know factually this line of the family has flitted between CoE and RC. The...

Hello all, I am hoping somebody on this lovely forum might be able to kindly offer me a bit of their time (10 mins or so!) to take a look at some Census listings? I have hit a real brick wall with my current line and feeling most frustrated. I am inept at searching 'en mass' records accurately and s...

Yes, that crossed my mind as a reason and then I thought if I knew who held such records, whether they could be released upon proof of death. I did such a thing with the RAF not so long ago. Oh well, for now I'll satisfy myself reading up on the history about the work! That link is really quite inte...

Thanks Mary A. It's interesting isn't it, that it was such a huge part of the success of WW2 and we have access to so many military records nowadays, but noone can locate any (?) of these ROF employee records?! I imagine female conscription to war work must have been organised via the labour exchang...

Hi all. I'm curious to try to find out more about a) specific details of my Nan's war work and b) general social background of those employed in the Kirkby Munitions. I have sketchy details but know she worked in Kirkby 'making bombs.' She hated the work and it's dangers. She dropped a shell on her ...

Thanks daggers.

Out of interest, when was your Thomas Morris born? I'm fairly sure my man is 1811 but I note from the 1851 Census that there was 2 other Joiners of the same name born 1816 and 1819...

M

Thank you Bert.

This seems the right Thomas for birth date but would give us a Mary from the county and not Shropshire... Interesting...

M

Thank you retiringtype. Is there a link to this at all? I have ancestry but am such a novice at accurately searching! I struggled to decipher the Brompton/Broughton but I think you could well be right. If it is him, didn't know of a William! If I'm right though this must be our 1816 born Thomas then...

Hello there, I wonder if anyone has a better way of searching the 1841 census than I do?! I'm trying to find another piece of the jigsaw and tracking down what one Thomas Morris was up in 1841 . I know he was born circa 1811 in Liverpool (so the Censuses tell me) and seems to have been a Joiner all ...

Mary, thank you. I hadn't realised how to search with the *. I find Ancestry so hard and frustrating as I'm sure I'm missing out on lots! Taking a look at that translation... "Apostolica Dispensatime obtenta super Imped mixt matron" I guessed at something like "special dispensation given due to mixe...

Dear 'retiringtype' Thank you SO much for taking the time to find this. I have no idea how you managed this as whatever search I seemed to do I was convinced these records were not on there! I see the little 'footnote' too in the margin so will be translating latin now (or asking Google to!) This ha...

Hi all, Not sure if anyone has any advice/experience on accessing this archives based there? I have tried contacting them just now but they are still on their Xmas break. Through my family research I found very close members who were temporarily placed into the Seamans Orphanage. I dealt with a lady...

A Happy New Year to you all. I'm wondering if anyone is available to help look up a record for me please? I'm trying to confirm a link in my tree between one Rose (Rosa) Ann (Anna) Mahon(e)y (MMN Lynch) and John Hess(e)y at this Church in July 1896? Ancestry 'links' have provided this information bu...

Katie & Retiringtype, thank you so much. I keep getting cross eyed with this arm of the family yet I feel it's more straightforward than other parts of my family! I mean mostly they stayed at 1 address throughout their lives, which you'd think was easy!!! I have our man Joseph Beahan B1926 and, acco...

Yes that's the one! MMM Fletcher...

... I've also just noticed on the 1939 Census the record between 2 sisters (which in DOB terms would make it Joseph J) is "officially closed" I assume this is because no death has been proven?

Thank you. That's a cracking point about needing to be 21+ to vote... It's confusing me as the other family members on that electoral role and the address are consistent with other pieces of evidence. I'm sure that's him on the role. BUT, as you say... he'd have only been 18ish...which of course, ti...

Hi there, Ancestry has popped up with a hint on one of my relatives that suggests he was killed in WW2. Forces Records expands this slightly telling me he was killed in action on 25.02.1945 serving for Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Battalion. It then says 'Incident Date' as 10.03.1945. Can anyone shed ...

Many thanks Blue, as always very grateful to you for sharing your knowledge. I do have the reference and I think I may well order the certifcate, poor lass. Although her Mother (my Great Grandmother) married twice and lost many. She also flitted (my Nan's words!) between CoE and Catholic as her firs...

Sorry to hijack the post slightly... I've come across a relative who died at around 1 year old. She was buried at Ford - listed on 11th Jan 1932 in Grave 1374. There seems to be an awful lot of babies in this 'grave number.' Am I right in assuming this would have been a 'paupers' grave? Would this h...