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My gr-gr-grandmother, Margaret McQuinn, died on the 1st January 1917 at 24 Eaton Place, West Derby. Unfortunately this location doesn't appear on 'google maps', so if anyone has a circa 1917 map of the area please could you tell me whereabouts Eaton Place was?

I've noticed several large mid/late 20thC buildings on Eaton Rd, and I'm wondering whether Eaton Place may have been demolished in order to make way for these?

Liverpool History Projects have this listed in 1901 http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co. ... laz/L6.htm
The area of Breck Road has been redeveloped unfortunately and Eaton Place is where there is now a new housing estate.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Landse ... 9,,0,-1.37

Many thanks MaryA ... that's very helpful (nowhere near to where I thought it was! )

Hi Zed
In 1938 Directory Eaton Place and inhabitants listed, off Breck Rd N, nearest street was Tynemouth(In Google Maps)
Thos Wm Llewellyn at No. 24.
1911 again Breck Rd N
24 Eaton Place,
Ralph Ashworth cab driver

Tina wrote:Hi Zed
In 1938 Directory Eaton Place and inhabitants listed, off Breck Rd N, nearest street was Tynemouth(In Google Maps)
Thos Wm Llewellyn at No. 24.
1911 again Breck Rd N
24 Eaton Place,
Ralph Ashworth cab driver

Hi Tina (or g'day, if you prefer?!)

Many thanks for your input. So it seems as though Eaton Place consisted of small properties if there was just one inhabitant of no. 24 in 1938 and again in 1911. My gr-gr-grandmother Margaret McQuinn lived (and died) there with her (spinster) daughter Ada, in 1917. They'd moved there from a semi-detached property in Leyfield Road (1911 census).

Margaret was a certified midwife ... her husband John was committed to Whittingham lunatic asylum (nr. Preston) in 1895 and he remained there until his death from influenza in 1929 (there was a flu epidemic in the UK 1928-29 which resulted in 29,084 deaths). He was buried in a mass grave within the asylum grounds.

I went to Preston Record Office as they have some Whittingham records there (annoyingly, a lot of records were left on site when the place was closed during the 1990s, and were subsequently destroyed by vandals). Anyway: it transpired that gr-gr-grandfather McQuinn suffered with "melancholy" ... but the case notes suggest that he wasn't merely 'depressed': he seems to have had a persecution complex too. He was admitted to the asylum initially because he feared he was being followed by "Mohammedans" as a punishment for eating pork chops!

Zed
Just catching up with your enquiry. In a road atlas of 1930s vintage Eaton Place shows up as a short spur off Breck Road, between Tynemouth St and Baines Place, opposite Newlands Street.
Hope this helps.
D

Hi Zed
In Directories, only the head of the household is listed, it's not like electoral rolls.
Poor John.
Thanks Daggers

Tina wrote:Hi Zed
In Directories, only the head of the household is listed, it's not like electoral rolls.
Poor John.
Thanks Daggers

Aha! Thanks for clarifying that Tina!

Thanks Daggers ... I'm guessing that Mgt. McQ. will have been buried at Anfield then, as that would have been the nearest cemetery.