Hi Andrew sorry unable to help but try http://genchatfriends.proboards39.com/index.cgi I have had lots of help with Queries like this great site full of people with info on Liverpool and Merseyside connections. Kathy -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Abrahams [mailto:andrewabrahams@usa.net] Sent: 29 January 2006 02:04 To: ENG-MERSEYSIDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-MERSEY] Looking for John Abrahams and 'The Ceylon Cafe Company', Liverpool and Leeds My gt-grandfather John Abrahams lived in Liverpool and ran a company from there. He operated Tea Houses in the Liverpool and Leeds areas with a bakery based in Liverpool. In 1909 'The Ceylon Cafe Company' was sold to the growing J.Lyons concern, I believe that it may have been it's first outside aquisition, and the business was rebranded as J.Lyons. John and his family lived in Liverpool until 1918 and then moved to Birkenhead, where he died later that same year. I am trying to find what information I can on the business, as well as attempting to trace my family and John's burial place. The J.Lyons records are held at The London Metropolitan Archives. Does anybody have any ideas as to where or what may be held locally in Liverpool, or which bodies I should approach for further help? Thanks, Andrew ==== ENG-MERSEYSIDE Mailing List ==== Lancashire Online Parish Clerks www.lan-opc.org.uk Volunteers needed for Liverpool Online Parish clerks www.lan-opc.org.uk/Liverpool/index.html ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 27/01/2006