Looking for the following Birkenhead folk: John Turner MC CALLUM, b. 1896 Birkenhead, in USA would call him a merchant marine Wilhelmina (Mina) FORREST, 1885-1950, wife of Wm. Forrest, piano teacher Ernest Eldred FORREST, 1918-1988, Wallasey, wife named Marian Alice CROMBLEHOLME, b. 1889 Birkenhead, wife of Stephen Crombleholme Margaret DARLINGTON, b. 1891 Birkenhead Mary Elsie Elliott, b. 1893 Birkenhead, wife of Norman Elliott Would like to contact descendents of these folks. Related to my British Home Child grandfather who never knew them. Thank you, Cynthia in California, USA

Our Bennetts are all from Cardiff. In fact, although it's not STRICTLY a Merseyside matter, I would like some opinions on this: My husband is the youngest in his family. He is the only one born in England - the rest were born in Cardiff. both his parents were born and bred in Cardiff. I have traced his mother's family back to 1840 and they are ALL Cardiff born. His father's father was actually born in Herefordshire, but grew up in Cardiff. What does that make my husband? I say he is Welsh. He says he is English, of Welsh parentage. Answers on a post card - or perhaps not - Marged I am in fact 75% Welsh (JONES, HUGHES, GRIFFITHS, WILLIAMS, DAVIES and PARRY) which is almost a lost cause, but my English names are : FELL(S) (Liverpool 1500's, Bidston/Arrowe 1500/1600's) BENNETT (Neston 1500's, Woodchurch 1500/1600's) SHERLOCK (Oxton 1500/1700's, Raby/Upton-in-Overchurch 1700's) EVANS (Puddington 16/1700's, Little Meols/Wallasey 17/1800's) LEADER/LEATHER/LEDDER (Puddington 1600's, Frankby 16/1700's) COVENTRY (West Kirby 1600's) CAMPBELL (Paddington/Hampstead 1800's) After the mid-1850's just EVANS in Walton, Bootle and New Brighton with a branch in Durban, South Africa.

Hi, I'm adding to my cousin Rhona's names - we are both researching Read and Coles - I'm also researching Smith, Hughes, Jackson, Barrow as well as Goodman Paul Goodman ----- Original Message ----- From: "rhona hazelton" <rhnw44257@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <ENG-MERSEYSIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "rhona hazelton" <rhnw44257@blueyonder.co.uk> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:15 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] ancestors > Hi > My name is rhona hazelton I am searching the family tree for Parr, > Read, Bankes, woodfine, coles > I am a beginner so any help would be gratefully recieved all from > Liverpool Lancashire (merseyside now) > cheers > rhona > > To go to the site, click on > http://lists9.rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Inadvertently omitted from my list :- HUTCHINSON (Broughton-in-Furnesss, Lancashire, 17/1800's) Gordon >Good Morning >I notice we have a number of new members on the list. Let's try and make >things a bit more interesting, as there is not much going on at the moment. >Perhaps all listers would like to send in the names they are searching for. >Also, the districts of Merseyside they are interesting. This is a very >wide >area and I will send a map link so we can see how far we reach. >Marged

I am in fact 75% Welsh (JONES, HUGHES, GRIFFITHS, WILLIAMS, DAVIES and PARRY) which is almost a lost cause, but my English names are : FELL(S) (Liverpool 1500's, Bidston/Arrowe 1500/1600's) BENNETT (Neston 1500's, Woodchurch 1500/1600's) SHERLOCK (Oxton 1500/1700's, Raby/Upton-in-Overchurch 1700's) EVANS (Puddington 16/1700's, Little Meols/Wallasey 17/1800's) LEADER/LEATHER/LEDDER (Puddington 1600's, Frankby 16/1700's) COVENTRY (West Kirby 1600's) CAMPBELL (Paddington/Hampstead 1800's) After the mid-1850's just EVANS in Walton, Bootle and New Brighton with a branch in Durban, South Africa. PS. Does anyone else have both Puddington and Paddington in their family tree? :-) Gordon Wirral UK From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: "MERSEYSIDE" <ENG-MERSEYSIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 10:42 AM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS >Good Morning >I notice we have a number of new members on the list. Let's try and make >things a bit more interesting, as there is not much going on at the moment. >Perhaps all listers would like to send in the names they are searching for. >Also, the districts of Merseyside they are interesting. This is a very >wide >area and I will send a map link so we can see how far we reach. >Marged

Good Morning from Qld. Aus. What a good idea to re -state our interests. Here goes. WEBSTER - Widnes & Toxteth. WRIGHT - Widnes GRACE - Speke/Hale/Childwall/Woolton ROBERTSON - Warburton/Rixton with Glazebury LONGTON - Widnes area FAIR - Warrington. GREEN - Warrington/Runcorn CHAMBERS - Windle/Warrington WOOD - Warrington/Bowden HANNAWAY - Toxteth. Most interested for any connections or clues !!! Regards Maureen --------------------------------- Sponsored Link Degrees for working adults in as fast as 1 year. Bachelors, Masters, Associates. Top schools

My primary interests in Birkenhead are COX and JONES. My JONES family originated in Wrexham and one branch moved to Birkenhead circa 1835. Parents were Henry Jones, Coachmaker, and his wife Mary. Children, all born in Birkenhead, included William born in 1837, Henry in 1838, John in 1851, George in 1854, Charles Meredith in 1859 and Harriett in 1864. Ray.Jones,Ontario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: "MERSEYSIDE" <ENG-MERSEYSIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:42 AM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS > Good Morning > > I notice we have a number of new members on the list. Let's try and make > things a bit more interesting, as there is not much going on at the > moment. > > Perhaps all listers would like to send in the names they are searching > for. > > Also, the districts of Merseyside they are interesting. This is a very > wide > area and I will send a map link so we can see how far we reach. > > Marged > > > To go to the site, click on > http://lists9.rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello Anna, Can you tell me more about your McCann lot. I have a Peter McCann who married Sarah Ann Griffith Jones in 1932, then had a least 2 Sons called Frank and Peter. The came from Aspendale Road in Tranmere. Wendy Bennett Searching all Griffith-Jones connections and LEA from Harthill, Tranmere and Wallasey

Dear List I am interested in the following families McIntyre (my maiden name) (Liverpool, originally Belfast) Carter (Liverpool and Seacombe) Budworth (Liverpool and Birkenhead, originally Nottingham) Boardman (Liverpool) Line Nolan (Seacombe) Saphier I also have Price but haven't got very far with that one... My Uncle used to call me the black sheep of the family because I was born in Birkenhead and not Liverpool! Jess

The name I am pursuing is THORBURN - Liverpool, Birkenhead, Wallasey. Anne. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: "MERSEYSIDE" <ENG-MERSEYSIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 10:42 AM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS > Good Morning > > I notice we have a number of new members on the list. Let's try and make > things a bit more interesting, as there is not much going on at the > moment. > > Perhaps all listers would like to send in the names they are searching > for. > > Also, the districts of Merseyside they are interesting. This is a very > wide > area and I will send a map link so we can see how far we reach. > > Marged > > > To go to the site, click on > http://lists9.rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.6/536 - Release Date: 16/11/2006 > >

Do you have any idea what districts of Merseyside or Liverpool they may have come from, Rhona? Marged My name is rhona hazelton I am searching the family tree for Parr, Read, Bankes, woodfine, coles I am a beginner so any help would be gratefully recieved all from Liverpool Lancashire (merseyside now) cheers rhona

Hi My name is rhona hazelton I am searching the family tree for Parr, Read, Bankes, woodfine, coles I am a beginner so any help would be gratefully recieved all from Liverpool Lancashire (merseyside now) cheers rhona

Hi Marilyn - sorry I can't help with any of your names, but must tell you that a friend of mine, now in Warkworth, used to work at a college in Pickering - she was also a horse lover Marged My names are: Sunderland Kinrade Alexander McGill Gimre Davidons Mitchum Cheers, Marilyn Willette Pickering, ON, Canada

>if she was a little way further towards Liverpool she would get a free bus >pass (maybe she doesn't want one, but I am so pleased I have a >Merseyside >address! >Of course, lost of Southport people would prefer to be in Lancashire rather >than Merseyside, but not me! When my wife and I were deliberating where to retire to (the world being our oyster) after a 30-year sojourn in rural Herefordshire what finally swung it for us was the free travel which comes with living in Merseyside. Although we found Southport particularly attractive we eventually plumped for Wallasey because of its proximity to Liverpool, which we can access by bus, train or ferry depending on how the mood takes us. Within less than an hour we can be whisked to Chester, Southport, West Kirby, Ormskirk or St Helens without it costing us a penny. And we can still tell our snobby friends, in all honesty, that we live in Wirral! Gordon >I have a cousin who lives in either Great or Little Sutton, and she is >pleased with the fact that their post code is CH and not L, but if she was >a little way further towards Liverpool she would get a free bus pass (maybe >she doesn't want one, but I am so pleased I have a Merseyside address! >Of course, lost of Southport people would prefer to be in Lancashire >rather than Merseyside, but not me! >Marged

Gordon, I bet I'd know you were from North Wales! I reckon that's where a big part of our general Liverpool accent comes from, along with Ireland - Scots to a lesser degree Marj >I reckon I can tell whether another scouser comes from the North End >(Bootle area) or the South End (Dingle) by the way they pronounce words > >like Hair, Fair, Warehouse Don't know where you'd place me, if e-mails could talk! Born Walton, infancy Bootle, aged 2-4 (wartime) Caernarvon, 1945-53 Huyton, 1953-65 Whiston......... Gordon

Hi Marged >I reckon I can tell whether another scouser comes from the North End >(Bootle area) or the South End (Dingle) by the way they pronounce words > >like Hair, Fair, Warehouse Don't know where you'd place me, if e-mails could talk! Born Walton, infancy Bootle, aged 2-4 (wartime) Caernarvon, 1945-53 Huyton, 1953-65 Whiston......... Gordon >As a scouser, I reckon I can tell whether another scouser comes from the >North End (Bootle area) or the South End (Dingle) by the way they >pronounce words like Hair, Fair, Warehouse >Marged

You got it on one, Gordon. As a scouser, I reckon I can tell whether another scouser comes from the North End (Bootle area) or the South End (Dingle) by the way they pronounce words like Hair, Fair, Warehouse Marged It's the way locals have of telling whether someone really IS from God's country or just a Scouser in disguise - a bit like the way Dutch people used to recognise German spies during WWII by the way they pronounced Scheveningen. :-)

I have a cousin who lives in either Great or Little Sutton, and she is pleased with the fact that their post code is CH and not L, but if she was a little way further towards Liverpool she would get a free bus pass (maybe she doesn't want one, but I am so pleased I have a Merseyside address! Of course, lost of Southport people would prefer to be in Lancashire rather than Merseyside, but not me! Marged Hi Marj - thank you for the support!!! If I go any short distance North, South and West I am on the Wirral Peninsula, if I go east - then Gawd knows where I am - but right here - well I am nowhere! Jackie

Hi Marged >However, it is "the Wirral Names" Jackie is talking about! Fair comment, although fortunately for me Jackie doesn't appear to have taken offence. :-) >I believe some people do call it The Wirral Peninsula And correctly so, but without the appendage it's just Wirral without a definitive article ie there's no "the" in front. It's the way locals have of telling whether someone really IS from God's country or just a Scouser in disguise - a bit like the way Dutch people used to recognise German spies during WWII by the way they pronounced Scheveningen. :-) Gordon Wirral (Scouser in disguise) > Hi Gordon >However, it is "the Wirral Names" Jackie is talking about! >I believe some people do call it The Wirral Peninsula >Marj > >Had no luck with the Wirral, Merseyside names so far - Jackie >Shows that you're not local. >To any native Wirralian it's just WIRRAL, not THE Wirral. :-) >Regards >Gordon

Hi all, My family names are GORE and CHALLINOR particularly in Kirkdale. Associated names are LOCK/E and RATCLIFFE. My husband's names are:- BINNS from Yorks to Toxteth, BIRD from London to Toxteth, STEELE from Ireland to Toxteth MORGAN from Oswestry to Toxteth Kathy Hoylake Wirral