Burial details sought - WW1 ex Soldier, died 1917
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 18:04
This query is brought in slightly edited form from another Forum, whose members were helpful in the Case of the Melling Memorial and the Tracing of Messrs Asquith.
ALFRED ELLISON McDOWELL’s birth was registered West Derby 1881, and he was sometimes spelled McDowall. He was married at United Methodist Church, Walton in 1911 to Edith nee Roberts, and children were born and registered at Ormskirk in 1911 and 1915.
He was a teacher, then a journalist, from 1910 managing a branch of the Ormskirk Advertiser [perhaps at Formby] and wrote for the West Lancs Coast Advertiser.
In 1915 he enlisted in the Army Service Corps, giving his address as 26 Formby Street, Formby. His wife may have moved to Walton to be near her own family, as the birth of a third child was registered there in January 1916..
From 1915 he served in France but was invalided to the UK in March 1917 with tuberculosis. His death certificate shows that he died at the City Hospital, Park Hill, Toxteth Park on 12 September 1917 aged 36. [I have had details of this via an earlier thread.] The informant was his wife, whose address was given as 146 Stuart Road, Walton.
There are obituary notices in the Formby Times for 15 September 1917 and the Ormskirk Advertiser 27 Sept 1917, but without mention of where the funeral was held or where he was buried.
The family background is thought to be Presbyterian.
Thorough searches for burial entries have been made for the large cemeteries at Toxteth Park and Anfield, nil return.
As this ex-soldier died of TB which may have been the result of his army service, my contact wishes to trace the burial of Alfred McDowell/McDowall so that the possibility of having his death recognised as war-related may be explored.
Any help would be welcome.
Details of earlier family members have been traced but have been omitted here to keep the posting to a modest level.
Daggers
ALFRED ELLISON McDOWELL’s birth was registered West Derby 1881, and he was sometimes spelled McDowall. He was married at United Methodist Church, Walton in 1911 to Edith nee Roberts, and children were born and registered at Ormskirk in 1911 and 1915.
He was a teacher, then a journalist, from 1910 managing a branch of the Ormskirk Advertiser [perhaps at Formby] and wrote for the West Lancs Coast Advertiser.
In 1915 he enlisted in the Army Service Corps, giving his address as 26 Formby Street, Formby. His wife may have moved to Walton to be near her own family, as the birth of a third child was registered there in January 1916..
From 1915 he served in France but was invalided to the UK in March 1917 with tuberculosis. His death certificate shows that he died at the City Hospital, Park Hill, Toxteth Park on 12 September 1917 aged 36. [I have had details of this via an earlier thread.] The informant was his wife, whose address was given as 146 Stuart Road, Walton.
There are obituary notices in the Formby Times for 15 September 1917 and the Ormskirk Advertiser 27 Sept 1917, but without mention of where the funeral was held or where he was buried.
The family background is thought to be Presbyterian.
Thorough searches for burial entries have been made for the large cemeteries at Toxteth Park and Anfield, nil return.
As this ex-soldier died of TB which may have been the result of his army service, my contact wishes to trace the burial of Alfred McDowell/McDowall so that the possibility of having his death recognised as war-related may be explored.
Any help would be welcome.
Details of earlier family members have been traced but have been omitted here to keep the posting to a modest level.
Daggers
