Hi Yvonne You and I are of course blood-related by virtue of the John EVANS/Mary SHERLOCK marriage in Upton-in Overchurch St Mary on 29 April 1766. However, I was most interested to see that in the 1901 Census your paternal SAUNDERS ancestors were living only two streets away from my maternal JONES great-grandparents who were at 8 Moore Street, Bootle. My mother (Laura WILLIAMS) was born less than a quarter of a mile away in 1915 at 103 Hornby Road, from where we were bombed out in May 1941. Spooky how our respective familes came to be so close on two separate occasions via two completely different branches? Regards Gordon >Hi all, >I'm re-posting my Saunders family interests. I would be delighted to hear >from anyone descended/researching the same. I have much more >background >information, but at trying to update the early 1900s details. >Walter Saunders b.a. 1869, Manchester married Annie Melina Matthews (born >9 >February 1874, Birmingham) at St. John's Church, Wolverhampton on 29 >June >1897. They had moved to 32 Southey Street, Bootle by 1901 census, and >later >Annie Melina Saunders lived at 196 Longmoor Lane, Fazakerly. They had >the >following children: >Thelma Ellen Saunders, 1898, Buxton, Derbyshire, (my grandmother), >married >Thomas Christopher Sherlock on 23 October 1917, West Derby Registry >Office. >Frances Alice Saunders, 1901, registered West Derby (didn't marry) >Walter Saunders, 1903, West Derby >Elizabeth Louise Saunders, 1906, West Derby >Frank Saunders, West Derby (1906?)(didn't marry) >Lawrence Saunders, 1908, West Derby >Harold (Harry) Saunders, 1910, West Derby >(David) Philip Saunders, 1912, West Derby >I have not yet found where their baptisms took place. >Their father, Walter Saunders, left the family, but apparently had died by >1915/16, according to his daughter, my great aunt Alice. >My mother told me a wonderful little snippet, out of the blue today. >Apparently, Philip Saunders was a busker, good on the guitar and, at some >stage, went to America and worked for Gene Autrey, who apparently did >cowboy >films. How on earth do I check this out:-)) >I think Elizabeth Louise went to Australia. Mam thinks she married to a >Jim >Gard(i)ner, a master mariner. Lawrence and Walter possibly moved to >Cornwall. >Anyone with connections? >Kind regards, >Yvonne Purdy (nee Sherlock)