During the war my mum took us over the four bridges from Wallasey to Birkenhead. She used to push my brother in his pushchair, with my sister and I hanging onto the handle {I was always on the oputside and never failed to return home wihtout a big bump on my forehead from walking into the lampost, because I was facinated by the big shops in Watson Street] We had picked masses rose hips and had been given extra sugar coupons., off some elderly neighbours. We swopped the sugar and rose hips [possibly some sweet ration coupons and money as well ] for sweets, in premises in South Claughton Road I,m not sure who ran this "swop shop"' Regards Ann. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marian Foster" <marianfoster@mypostoffice.co.uk> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > We were allowed one sweet after our evening meal (and only if we'd eaten > everything up!! Marian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:39 PM > Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > > >> Marged wrote :- >> >>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>>was just wishful thinking on my part >> >> My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I >> literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( >> >> Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) >> >> Gordon >> >> From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> >> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >> >>>He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably >>>never >>>heard of Rollo. >>>No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >>>available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>>was just wishful thinking on my part >>>Marged >>> >>>That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. >>>He was probably teasing you or >>>maybe misheard you. >>>Have a good night >>>Eleanor >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by Netintelligence >> http://www.netintelligence.com/email >> >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Hi Julie Sorry none of the 'cousins' I promised you on the Merseyside list have materialised as yet, but I'm sure they will given a bit more time and maybe just a little nudge. :-) If I'm not mistaken, you're a descendant of Peter & Elizabeth JONES' son Thomas JONES (b1779 Great Meols) who married Ann BECK (b1781 Kendal Westmorland) on 9 November 1801 in Liverpool St Nicholas and had children :- 1802 Kitty (m Joseph BIRD 1823 in Liverpool St Peter) 1803 Mary (m(i) Thomas HUGHES, m(ii) William CROXTON) 1805 Betty (m Joseph ARMITAGE 1823 in Liverpool St Mark) 1807 Peter (m Mary ROBERTS from Parkgate 1829 in Liverpool St Nicholas) 1809 William (m(i) Catherine ANDERTON, m(ii) Mary HARDING) 1811 Thomas (d1813) 1814 Thomas (m(i) Elizabeth JONES, m(ii) Mary, m(iii) Elizabeth 1816 Sarah (nothing known) 1819 Samuel (m Elizabeth STEENS 1840 in Liverpool St Philip) 1821 Agnes (d1821) 1825 Susannah (m(i) Thomas JACKSON, m(ii) John WILSON) Children of Samuel (b1819) and Elizabeth nee STEENS (your own line) being :- 1841 Ann (m Joseph PARR 1863 in West Kirby St Bridget) 1843 Thomas (m Effie NICHOLSON 1867 in Hoylake Holy Trinity) 1845 Samuel (d1868, aged 22) 1847 Mary (m Frederick SMITH from Staffordshire) 1849 William (d1850) 1851 Henry (m Esther YOUDS 1872 in Liverpool St Peter) 1853 Edmond John (bachelor) 1855 Frank (m Martha YOUDS 1877 in Hoylake Holy Trinity) 1857 Sarah Elizabeth (d1861, aged 3) 1859 Ada (m Samuel DEAN from Preston Brook in 1889) 1863 John (m Ellen Maria ROBERTS 1888 in Hoylake Holy Trinity) Henry (b1851) was of course drowned in 1913, when the Hoylake fishing smack FLEETWING sank after a collision in the River Mersey, as reported here :- http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/BETA2.html Lost with him were nephews Frank JONES (b1880 Hoose) and Edmund JONES (b1891 Hoose) - both sons of his brother Frank JONES (b1855 Hoose). Sole survivor from the FLEETWING was another nephew, Frederick Arthur JONES (b1888 Hoose), who I believe went on to marry Sophia Morris STONALL on 16 October 1922 in New Brighton St James?. One of only three survivors from the sand-hopper BETA, which also sank, was Henry's Liverpool Pilot 2nd cousin once removed Henry James EVANS (b1864 Liverpool), who had hitched a lift back into Liverpool on that vessel after taking a White Star liner safely out to sea.. Will be most surprised if some of the names listed above don't ring some bells somewhere - including in Melbourne, Australia. :-) Best regards Gordon From: "Julie Swift" <greenswift@hotmail.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:40 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] ancestors in the papers Hi there - I recently started looking through 19th Century British library newspapers online & found some wonderful information regarding my ancestors. I'm related to the Jones fishing family of Hoylake & found several items mentioning members of the family. This is one I found from The Liverpool Mercury , Friday July 11: "July 1, aged 103, Elizabeth Jones, widow of the late Peter Jones, of Hoylake. She has left between 200 & 300 grandchildren & great-grandchildren." Another news item mentioned a riot in Bangor, North Wales in 1841, caused by drunken fishermen from Hoylake & Liverpool, & I found my 3x great grandfather Samuel Jones, along with William Eccles, commended for bravery when he helped rescue a sinking Belgian vessel & saved several lives. Julie

A couple of additions to the data-base with a Merseyside interest at last - the first this year! Go to :- http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/index.html and click on 'What's New' in the list on the left. Regards Gordon

If it's not a rude question to ask a lady, Ann, do you still have all your own teeth after eating all those sweets? :-) Gordon From: "Ann on Optus" <bill1ann1@optusnet.com.au> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) >During the war my mum took us over the four bridges from Wallasey to >Birkenhead. She used to push my brother in his pushchair, with my sister >and >I hanging onto the handle {I was always on the oputside and never failed to >return home wihtout a big bump on my forehead from walking into the >lampost, >because I was facinated by the big shops in Watson Street] >We had picked masses rose hips and had been given extra sugar coupons., off >some elderly neighbours. We swopped the sugar and rose hips [possibly some >sweet ration coupons and money as well ] for sweets, in premises in South >Claughton Road I,m not sure who ran this "swop shop"' >Regards Ann.

Yes, unfortunately rosehips on their own are really really bitter so you need a huge amount of sugar to make it palatable but it was lovely!! Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing > Rose hips have the highest vitamin C content of all fruits. Remember Rose > Hip Syrup? I used to fill a dummy (comforter) like a little bottle with a > teat on, for my daughter. Then this stuff was outlawed as being the > biggest teeth rotter on record. > > Fortunately my daughters have healthy teeth > > Wonder if rose hips are still put to good use? > > Marged > > > During the war my mum took us over the four bridges from Wallasey to > Birkenhead. She used to push my brother in his pushchair, with my sister > and > I hanging onto the handle {I was always on the oputside and never failed > to > return home wihtout a big bump on my forehead from walking into the > lampost, > because I was facinated by the big shops in Watson Street] > > We had picked masses rose hips and had been given extra sugar coupons., > off > some elderly neighbours. We swopped the sugar and rose hips [possibly > some > sweet ration coupons and money as well ] for sweets, in premises in South > Claughton Road I,m not sure who ran this "swop shop"' > > Regards Ann. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marian Foster" <marianfoster@mypostoffice.co.uk> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:55 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > > > > We were allowed one sweet after our evening meal (and only if we'd > eaten > > everything up!! Marian > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> > > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:39 PM > > Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > > > > > >> Marged wrote :- > >> > >>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - > this > >>>was just wishful thinking on my part > >> > >> My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so > I > >> literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( > >> > >> Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) > >> > >> Gordon > >> > >> From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> > >> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM > >> Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR > >> > >>>He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably > >>>never > >>>heard of Rollo. > >>>No, I didn't get them because they were not freely > >>>available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). > >>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - > this > >>>was just wishful thinking on my part > >>>Marged > >>> > >>>That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your > rollos. > >>>He was probably teasing you or > >>>maybe misheard you. > >>>Have a good night > >>>Eleanor > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> 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 > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > >> http://www.netintelligence.com/email > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3391 - Release Date: 01/19/11 > 19:34:00 > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3391 - Release Date: 01/19/11 > 19:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email

Rose hips have the highest vitamin C content of all fruits. Remember Rose Hip Syrup? I used to fill a dummy (comforter) like a little bottle with a teat on, for my daughter. Then this stuff was outlawed as being the biggest teeth rotter on record. Fortunately my daughters have healthy teeth Wonder if rose hips are still put to good use? Marged During the war my mum took us over the four bridges from Wallasey to Birkenhead. She used to push my brother in his pushchair, with my sister and I hanging onto the handle {I was always on the oputside and never failed to return home wihtout a big bump on my forehead from walking into the lampost, because I was facinated by the big shops in Watson Street] We had picked masses rose hips and had been given extra sugar coupons., off some elderly neighbours. We swopped the sugar and rose hips [possibly some sweet ration coupons and money as well ] for sweets, in premises in South Claughton Road I,m not sure who ran this "swop shop"' Regards Ann. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marian Foster" <marianfoster@mypostoffice.co.uk> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > We were allowed one sweet after our evening meal (and only if we'd eaten > everything up!! Marian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:39 PM > Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > > >> Marged wrote :- >> >>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>>was just wishful thinking on my part >> >> My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I >> literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( >> >> Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) >> >> Gordon >> >> From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> >> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >> >>>He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably >>>never >>>heard of Rollo. >>>No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >>>available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>>was just wishful thinking on my part >>>Marged >>> >>>That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. >>>He was probably teasing you or >>>maybe misheard you. >>>Have a good night >>>Eleanor >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by Netintelligence >> http://www.netintelligence.com/email >> >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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 - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3391 - Release Date: 01/19/11 19:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3391 - Release Date: 01/19/11 19:34:00

That's fascinating Ann, all the best, Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann on Optus" <bill1ann1@optusnet.com.au> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > During the war my mum took us over the four bridges from Wallasey to > Birkenhead. She used to push my brother in his pushchair, with my sister > and > I hanging onto the handle {I was always on the oputside and never failed > to > return home wihtout a big bump on my forehead from walking into the > lampost, > because I was facinated by the big shops in Watson Street] > > We had picked masses rose hips and had been given extra sugar coupons., > off > some elderly neighbours. We swopped the sugar and rose hips [possibly some > sweet ration coupons and money as well ] for sweets, in premises in South > Claughton Road I,m not sure who ran this "swop shop"' > > Regards Ann. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marian Foster" <marianfoster@mypostoffice.co.uk> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:55 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > > >> We were allowed one sweet after our evening meal (and only if we'd eaten >> everything up!! Marian >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> >> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:39 PM >> Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) >> >> >>> Marged wrote :- >>> >>>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>>>was just wishful thinking on my part >>> >>> My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I >>> literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( >>> >>> Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> >>> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM >>> Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >>> >>>>He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably >>>>never >>>>heard of Rollo. >>>>No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >>>>available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >>>>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>>>was just wishful thinking on my part >>>>Marged >>>> >>>>That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your >>>>rollos. >>>>He was probably teasing you or >>>>maybe misheard you. >>>>Have a good night >>>>Eleanor >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> This email has been scanned by Netintelligence >>> http://www.netintelligence.com/email >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by Netintelligence >> http://www.netintelligence.com/email >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email

Thanks to Jenny, Sue, David and Gordon for your help and advice. I am now more than satisfied that the William STOTT and Isabella HARDING in my tree were the correct people and that following the death of William that Isabella very quickly married Hugh WALKER. Thanks again, Alan

Marged wrote :- >Well, my teeth are in good condition, anyway, Gordon! I didn't visit a dentist between leaving Ormskirk for rural Herefordshire in March 1975 and keeping the appointment for a check-up which my wife insisted on making for me in Wallasey in 2006, several years after I'd returned 'home'. To my astonishment (and despite much trepidation) I was declared 'A1', with only the perfunctory 'clean-up' being necessary. So although I didn't think much of it at the time, my mother's exchanging my sweet coupons for powdered egg, tinned spam, cod-liver oil capsules and such-like during my formative years has in fact proved immensely beneficial to me as I rapidly approach old age. :-) (Thanks, Mam!) Gordon From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) >Well, my teeth are in good condition, anyway, Gordon! >Marged > >Marged wrote :- >>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>was just wishful thinking on my part >My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I >literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( >Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) >Gordon

How marvellous for you to find all this information with a Jones name, Julie - wish I could do the same with mine! Marged Hi there - I recently started looking through 19th Century British library newspapers online & found some wonderful information regarding my ancestors. I'm related to the Jones fishing family of Hoylake & found several items mentioning members of the family. This is one I found from The Liverpool Mercury , Friday July 11: "July 1, aged 103, Elizabeth Jones, widow of the late Peter Jones, of Hoylake. She has left between 200 & 300 grandchildren & great-grandchildren." Another news item mentioned a riot in Bangor, North Wales in 1841, caused by drunken fishermen from Hoylake & Liverpool, & I found my 3x great grandfather Samuel Jones, along with William Eccles, commended for bravery when he helped rescue a sinking Belgian vessel & saved several lives. Julie ------------------------------- 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 - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3390 - Release Date: 01/19/11 07:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3390 - Release Date: 01/19/11 07:34:00

Mine too!! Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > Well, my teeth are in good condition, anyway, Gordon! > > Marged > > > > Marged wrote :- > > >Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this > >was just wishful thinking on my part > > My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I > literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( > > Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) > > Gordon > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3389 - Release Date: 01/18/11 > 19:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email

Allan Siddorn wrote :- >I have a copy of his RNVR Discharge Paper and although his wife is shown as >Isabelle the >names quoted are STOTT and WALker. I don't have any links to the family, but see that Family Search has the marriage on 16 December 1918, in Birkenhead St James, of an Isabella STOTT and a Hugh WALKER. Since the bride's father is given as William HARDING, this would appear to identify her as William STOTT's widow? Regards Gordon From: <alanwsiddorn@yahoo.co.uk> To: <ENG-MERSEYSIDE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:26 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William STOTT and Isabella HARDING >Quite a while now since I last posted so fingers crossed for a good >responce. >One of the children of my g.grandparents William and Annie Stott (nee >McNie) >both of Birkenhead was William STOTT b.1893 Birkenhead. An Isabella >HARDING >b.1896 Birkenhead married a William STOTT in 1916 at Birkenhead. In a >Commonwealth War Grave at Flaybrick Cemetery is a William STOTT b.1893 and >died >23/1/1918 whilst demobilised from the RNVR Anson Brigade. >I know that the William at Flaybrick is the son of William and Annie but >am >having doubts now about him being the husband of Isabelle Harding. I have >a >copy of his RNVR Discharge Paper and although his wife is shown as >Isabelle the >names quoted are STOTT and WALker. >Is there anyone on the list who has family links to any of the above or >anyone >who can help at all. >Thanks, >Alan Siddorn

Hi there - I recently started looking through 19th Century British library newspapers online & found some wonderful information regarding my ancestors. I'm related to the Jones fishing family of Hoylake & found several items mentioning members of the family. This is one I found from The Liverpool Mercury , Friday July 11: "July 1, aged 103, Elizabeth Jones, widow of the late Peter Jones, of Hoylake. She has left between 200 & 300 grandchildren & great-grandchildren." Another news item mentioned a riot in Bangor, North Wales in 1841, caused by drunken fishermen from Hoylake & Liverpool, & I found my 3x great grandfather Samuel Jones, along with William Eccles, commended for bravery when he helped rescue a sinking Belgian vessel & saved several lives. Julie

Alan there are 2 STOTT births registered at Birkenhead with mmn HARDING....William in 1917 and Mabel Isabella in Decebmer quarter 1918. William died 23 Jan 1918 but Mabel could still be his child. If you get her birth certificate and her deceased father looks like your William then you should have your confirmation. Sue > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:26:39 +0000 > From: alanwsiddorn@yahoo.co.uk > To: ENG-MERSEYSIDE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William STOTT and Isabella HARDING > > Quite a while now since I last posted so fingers crossed for a good responce. > One of the children of my g.grandparents William and Annie Stott (nee McNie) > both of Birkenhead was William STOTT b.1893 Birkenhead. An Isabella HARDING > b.1896 Birkenhead married a William STOTT in 1916 at Birkenhead. In a > Commonwealth War Grave at Flaybrick Cemetery is a William STOTT b.1893 and died > 23/1/1918 whilst demobilised from the RNVR Anson Brigade. > I know that the William at Flaybrick is the son of William and Annie but am > having doubts now about him being the husband of Isabelle Harding. I have a > copy of his RNVR Discharge Paper and although his wife is shown as Isabelle the > names quoted are STOTT and WALker. > Is there anyone on the list who has family links to any of the above or anyone > who can help at all. > Thanks, > Alan Siddorn > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Well, my teeth are in good condition, anyway, Gordon! Marged Marged wrote :- >Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >was just wishful thinking on my part My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) Gordon No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3389 - Release Date: 01/18/11 19:34:00

Quite a while now since I last posted so fingers crossed for a good responce. One of the children of my g.grandparents William and Annie Stott (nee McNie) both of Birkenhead was William STOTT b.1893 Birkenhead. An Isabella HARDING b.1896 Birkenhead married a William STOTT in 1916 at Birkenhead. In a Commonwealth War Grave at Flaybrick Cemetery is a William STOTT b.1893 and died 23/1/1918 whilst demobilised from the RNVR Anson Brigade. I know that the William at Flaybrick is the son of William and Annie but am having doubts now about him being the husband of Isabelle Harding. I have a copy of his RNVR Discharge Paper and although his wife is shown as Isabelle the names quoted are STOTT and WALker. Is there anyone on the list who has family links to any of the above or anyone who can help at all. Thanks, Alan Siddorn

We were allowed one sweet after our evening meal (and only if we'd eaten everything up!! Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:39 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > Marged wrote :- > >>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>was just wishful thinking on my part > > My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I > literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( > > Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) > > Gordon > > From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR > >>He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably >>never >>heard of Rollo. >>No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >>available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>was just wishful thinking on my part >>Marged >> >>That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. >>He was probably teasing you or >>maybe misheard you. >>Have a good night >>Eleanor > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email

Marged wrote :- >Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >was just wishful thinking on my part My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) Gordon From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably never >heard of Rollo. >No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >was just wishful thinking on my part >Marged > >That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. >He was probably teasing you or >maybe misheard you. >Have a good night >Eleanor

Only somebody VERY special, Marian! But would you give anyone the last one?!Marian > He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably > never heard of Rollo. No, I didn't get them because they were not freely > available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). > > Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this > was just wishful thinking on my part > > Marged > > That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. > He was probably teasing you or > maybe misheard you. > > Have a good night > Eleanor > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3389 - Release Date: 01/18/11 > 19:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email ------------------------------- 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 - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3389 - Release Date: 01/18/11 19:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3389 - Release Date: 01/18/11 19:34:00

But would you give anyone the last one?!Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR > He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably > never heard of Rollo. No, I didn't get them because they were not freely > available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). > > Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this > was just wishful thinking on my part > > Marged > > That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. > He was probably teasing you or > maybe misheard you. > > Have a good night > Eleanor > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3389 - Release Date: 01/18/11 > 19:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email