Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thank you for your interest. In the Workhouse Religious Creed register listed as her nearest relatives are aunt Sarah J Downs of 15 Welton Street and brother Thos Smith, Myrtle Street Military Hospital. Margaret's older brother Thomas W Smith had actually married the sister of William Winthrop(Marga...

Hello again I finally did get the birth registration for Joseph Smith and there is a marginal note stating that it was re-registered under the Legitimacy Act 1926. I have been in touch with Joseph's youngest sister who is 86 and the only one still alive but she has not really been able to add any in...

Many thanks Mary and Bert - your assistance with this is much appreciated - and my apologies for my inappropriate request. You have now given me a dilemma - I am going to have to think this through before deciding if I tell any of the family. There is a name for an aunt there which I was not aware o...

Hi Bert Many thanks for all the information. I have ordered a birth certificate for Smith. I will wait until I get that and a response from GRO regarding the query about the Winthrop birth certificate before I do any further follow up. Hopefully by then I will be able to access FMP at the library to...

Hi Bert I have been searching and searching. Where did you find the baptism at St Columba? I haven't been able to find an Ethel Walsh in the 1911 census that would match what you found in the directory - I suppose I will just have to be inventive and keep looking - I found some McKenny's I was looki...

Hi Bert I just re-read your reply and suddenly realised that the GRO reference is different from the one that I used to get the certificate (I had only searched on Winthrop and not Smith) and the name on that one you provided is SMITH - wow I wonder if the birth was actually registered twice - once ...

Many thanks for that information - that certainly could have been a baptism for Joseph - and the Winthrop name is not mentioned on there. I will see if I can find who was living at that address in the 1911 census I have a subscription to My Heritage and can access Ancestry library copy. Normally I c...

Thank you for adding me to your forum list - I am a member of the Cumbria Family History Society and most of my ancestors come from that area however I do have some links to Liverpool and Lancashire. I am hoping that someone with local knowledge and expertise can help solve a family mystery. I have ...