Trade directories - Birkenhead - 1925 to 1950s?

Post by **dickiesam** » 02 May 2011 17:16

Hi folks,
Trying to locate for a friend the whereabouts of a butcher's business in Birkenhead from about 1920/1925 onwards. The proprietor was Charles Jackson and the business is believed to have been in the Conway Street/Wallace Street area. We think it was still going in 1944 when Charles remarried, aged about 56.

DS

Post by **erika** » 02 May 2011 19:05

Hi DS

1938 Kellys has

Jackson Chas Rt, Butcher, 78 Watson Street, Birkenhead

Hope that's him

Cheers
Erika

Post by **dickiesam** » 02 May 2011 22:03

erika wrote:Hi DS

1938 Kellys has

Jackson Chas Rt, Butcher, 78 Watson Street, Birkenhead

Hope that's him

Cheers
Erika

Hi Erika,
That's brilliant! Many thanks. He was baptised Robert Charles but never used the Robert, always Charles first, so that has to be him. I reckon Watson Street may have been mis-remembered as Wallace Street unless he had more than one shop. Watson Street is off Conway Street. I am fairly sure it runs parallel to Cathcart Street where my wife used to teach in the primary school there.

Hopefully I'll get a later date as well to see if he was still there after the end of the war.

Thanks again, Erika.

DS

Post by **Tina** » 03 May 2011 09:51

Hi D.S
I'll message my pal who helped with the Old Swan posting.
Tina

Post by **dickiesam** » 03 May 2011 11:16

Tina wrote:Hi D.S
I'll message my pal who helped with the Old Swan posting.
Tina

Thanks Tina,
Every little snippet helps. I need a start date to eventually look for his death. I know he was there in 1944 when he married a widow who had, coincidentally, lost her first husband 70 years ago today 3rd May at the start of the May Blitz.

DS

Post by **Tina** » 04 May 2011 08:51

Hi D.S

My pal said after the war parts of the street are missing from Directories so perhaps were bombed?
In 1949 he has a Charles Jackson meat salesman for G G J Ltd, Rocky Lane Heswall.
All the other Chas Jackson's in Lpool.

I looked in British Phone Books, the Chas mentioned in 1949 was living there in 1939, the house called"Delafield", so not sure if this is your man.
Tina

Post by **Doedoe** » 04 May 2011 19:06

1955 kellys directory

dont know if this is any help but there is a mrs Freda Jackson living at 80 watson street who is a geengrocer and fruiterer
Doe
7036

Post by **dickiesam** » 04 May 2011 20:19

Hi Tina and Doedoe,
It could be the same man Tina. Hoping to get the 1944 marriage cert for him that hopefully will tell us whether he still had a shop or was working for a meat wholesaler.

Doedoe, we know he had sons in the business so we are checking to see if one married a Freda X and opened the green-grocers next door.

Muchas gracias to both of you.

DS

Post by **Doedoe** » 05 May 2011 18:28

hello
could mrs freda jackson be winifred scholfied (freda for short)
she married an r c jackson in crosby 1955
Doe
7036

Post by **dickiesam** » 05 May 2011 19:16

Doedoe wrote:hello
could mrs freda jackson be winifred scholfied (freda for short)
she married an r c jackson in crosby 1955
Doe
7036

Hi Doedoe,
Thanks for that. We have actually found a marriage to a Freda that may be one of Charles Robert's sons, a Charles W Jackson. He may be the man that Tina found.

Name: JACKSON, Charles W
Registration District: Birkenhead; Cheshire.
Year of Registration: 1934; Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's name: LISTON, Freda
Volume No: 8A; Page No: 1281.

He could be the meat salesman? A natural progression?

DS

Post by **Doedoe** » 05 May 2011 19:26

fingers crossed D S

Doe 7036

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