Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Reading the Times obituary notice of one Falconer Larkworthy (what a name) who was born in 1833 and died in 1928, I read that he was educated at Liverpool High School. The same appears in the Oxford DNB.
He was born in Weymouth and seems to have had no other link with Liverpool.
Can anyone throw any light on this please?

Daggers

Still struggling without my laptop, but did find Falconer and his family in 1841 when he was 8 living in London. His father Ambrose was a surgeon.
In 1851 he is again in London but with his aunt, parents already left!
Intervening years away at school?

There is a suggestion that Ambrose went to India, haven't got a world sub for Ancestry, and died there. Maybe the family went there and left Falconer to be schooled in England. Doesn't explain the Liverpool connection, but it's interesting nonetheless

Falconer Larkworthy and his brother Ambrose are with their aunt Ann Falconer in Marylebone, London in the 1851 census. He is a clerk in an office.

Ambrose Larkworthy, surgeon, was buried in Bycullah, India on 16th June 1850. Age 45

There was a Falconer Larkworthy at the Parochial School of Dyke (Moray, Scotland) in 1844/5. He won prizes for English reading and Geography.

Falconer's mother Amelia died in 1843 and was buried at St Mary le Bone Westminster. All seems to point to Falconer being sent away to school.

Retiringtype's find in Scotland looks promising, obviously a bright little boy, but some distances to go to school

Can't do a cut and paste on my ipad But an interesting website to look at
Teara.govt.nz. All about Falconer

"Falconer Larkworthy was educated at minor public schools in Scotland and Liverpool." http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies ... y-falconer

There's an autobiography in which he talks of his school days: "Ninety-One Years" (Mills & Boon 1924). There are snippets on Google Books. He attended Liverpool Institute. http://tinyurl.com/nm286lv

My word you have been busy while I was elsewhere! Thank you very much for all that information.
Mills & Boon have never been so useful...

I can add a thin local connection, as one of Falconer Larkworthy's daughters married a Liverpool corn broker named Kirby in 1905 at Hampstead and came to live in Hoylake (a second marriage for both, each having lost their first spouse).

Sorry to see the laptop is still ailing, Erika.

Daggers

daggers wrote: Mills & Boon have never been so useful...

Wow and I thought they only ever published romances, hopefully this is fact not fiction.

From a 1924 review of the book, after Ambrose went off to Bombay (compelled to accept a post "owing to unpropitious circumstances"), Mrs Larkworthy came to Elgin with her young family to stay with her sister and her husband Captain Falconer; and at 13 young Falconer was sent to Liverpool to complete his studies.

Excellent stuff. Much better than present-day M&B romances, or so I am told!
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