Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Has anyone got access to Gore's/Kelly's Directory, for 1900 or nearby? If so, could you please look in the back pages where the military section should include Volunteers and Yeomanry.
There should be a reference to the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry and probably a list of their various drill halls or squadron headquarters.
If there is one for Southport, it will help to make sense of the Boer War memorial in the thread entitled Arthur [Not The Rat].

Daggers

Liverpool Directory for 1900 available free here:-

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd ... cation.asp


Blue

Blue
Thanks for the link, but the yeomanry are not listed there. I'll have to thank of other sources.

D

Hi Daggers,

I have the 1900 directory on CD.

I have looked but can't find anything listed under Yeomanry, but found only Volunteers.

Do you want the list or did you find that?

It lists Headquarters (Artillery), (Rifles), (Engineers).

Jan

Jan
Thanks for looking. I have been seeking elsewhere and have concluded that the Lancs Hussars Yeomanry had no base in Liverpool at that period, though they did at another time. They were spread around SW Lancs - Ashton, Newton, etc.
D

Thanks Daggers,

I had a look in the old newspapers to see if anything came up, I could only find odd bits of info, some of the troops went from St Helens, and met up with others of the same regiment in Southport! That was in 1900 before they went off to war in South Africa.

Jan

Jan
Thanks for that too. I have combed the online 19th century newspapers and the Times, both online, and gathered useful material there. If you have anything about their return from South Africa that would help to round off the story.
D

Hi Daggers,

I think the records are now available on Find My Past.

Also The National Archives has a lot of records there too.

http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... _1899-1902

Jan

Thanks again, Jan. Lots to chew on there.
D

Daggers,

There is a record on ancestry for a Henry Oubridge of the Imperial Yeomanry.

Is this the man you are researching?

Jan

Sorry Daggers, I went back and read the whole of the other thread!

Jan

'My' man was Henry, as you may have seen now.
D