Hi John, Me again! I noticed your request for help on the Birkenhead List. I have found information from the Birkenhead Advertiser by asking the Wirral Archives staff. They appear to hold a good backlog of local papers and they produced a report for me from an edition in 1902. It's worth a try. Their email address is: archives@wirral-libraries.net They also have court records, Birkenhead Board of Guardians and workhouse records, hospital and school records, businesses and trades, societies, clubs etc. Also family and estate papers and census returns and solicitors' records. I went to the Archives in December and found them a very helpful lot. Best wishes, Hazel ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Farrall" <jfarrall@cox.rr.com> To: <BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 28 February 2002 02:04 Subject: [BKHD] Birkenhead Obituaries - 1950's > Hi All, > I am trying to gather information on two great aunts - Susan and Mary FARRALL. Susan was the oldest sibling in the family of eight and was born c. 1873 in Bebington (according to the 1881 census). No one knows when or where Mary was born. Since Susan's birth is unavailable in St Catherine's Index or any other index, I am left to seek out the death records or the obituaries for her and sister Mary. Susan corresponded with my parents, aunts, and uncles until 1954. She lived at 3, Barnard Road, Oxton - Birkenhead from the turn of the century until her death. Her last letter, dated 17 July 1954, lamented the fact that her younger sister Mary Farrall died of a heart attack on 12 January 1954. I am attempting to obtain a death certificate for her sister Mary based on that date. As for Susan, no one knows when she died, but it had to been after 1954. I have written the church that Susan attended - St. Saviour's - and received a "never-heard-of-her" letter in response. ! > This only leaves the possibility of obituaries being reported in local Birkenhead newspapers. Any ideas as to where I should search or write? I value your input and recommendations. > > Thanks and regards, > > John Farrall > Burke, Virginia > > ______________________________

Hi Hazel, Thanks for the reply. I shall go through the Wirral Library and see what transpires. Do they have a telephone number available or would that be a useless excercise? Timing is everything in genealogy. John and Mary FARRALL were married in Tranmere in 1872 and Susan was the first child, Susan, is born in Bebington in 1873. For some strange reason, child number two is born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales in 1875 - why? His occupation is listed as "stoker". The next child - Hannah - is born in Bebington in 1877. As for the WHITEHEAD's, John and Sarah were married in Great Broughton in 1837. John's father's name was Peter. Sarah's father's name was Robert. Regards, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hazel Fuller" <hazel@fullerh.freeserve.co.uk> To: <BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [BKHD] Birkenhead Obituaries - 1950's > Hi John, > > Me again! I noticed your request for help on the Birkenhead List. > > I have found information from the Birkenhead Advertiser by asking the > Wirral Archives staff. They appear to hold a good backlog of local > papers and they produced a report for me from an edition in 1902. It's > worth a try. Their email address is: archives@wirral-libraries.net > > They also have court records, Birkenhead Board of Guardians and > workhouse records, hospital and school records, businesses and trades, > societies, clubs etc. Also family and estate papers and census returns > and solicitors' records. > > I went to the Archives in December and found them a very helpful lot. > > Best wishes, > > Hazel > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Farrall" <jfarrall@cox.rr.com> > To: <BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: 28 February 2002 02:04 > Subject: [BKHD] Birkenhead Obituaries - 1950's > > > > Hi All, > > I am trying to gather information on two great aunts - Susan and > Mary FARRALL. Susan was the oldest sibling in the family of eight and > was born c. 1873 in Bebington (according to the 1881 census). No one > knows when or where Mary was born. Since Susan's birth is unavailable > in St Catherine's Index or any other index, I am left to seek out the > death records or the obituaries for her and sister Mary. Susan > corresponded with my parents, aunts, and uncles until 1954. She lived > at 3, Barnard Road, Oxton - Birkenhead from the turn of the century > until her death. Her last letter, dated 17 July 1954, lamented the fact > that her younger sister Mary Farrall died of a heart attack on 12 > January 1954. I am attempting to obtain a death certificate for her > sister Mary based on that date. As for Susan, no one knows when she > died, but it had to been after 1954. I have written the church that > Susan attended - St. Saviour's - and received a "never-heard-of-her" > letter in response. ! > > This only leaves the possibility of obituaries being reported in > local Birkenhead newspapers. Any ideas as to where I should search or > write? I value your input and recommendations. > > > > Thanks and regards, > > > > John Farrall > > Burke, Virginia > > > > ______________________________ > > > ==== BIRKENHEAD Mailing List ==== > Search the archives of Birkenhead-L > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/BIRKENHEAD.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >