THANKYOU EVERYONE!
Dad is doing good Garstonite - had a big reminiscing afternoon and a few beers as I turned myself bat-crazy trying to find my family records online and bugged him with lots of questions. I wish I could type everything he has to say - you'd love it! Today he was telling me about watching South Liverpool Football Club play a barefoot Nigeria team at holly park about 70 years ago. And how the woodcutters band would march down vulcan street, then king street, stop at all the pubs for a pint, and finally get to holly park and play against ?? south liverpool. It was called a comic match or something like that.
OK my dramas are partly resolved, well no not resolved but I feel a bit better!
I have on my granny Annie (working backwards):
My granny and grandads marriage in 1919
The 1911 Census of Thomas, Maria, Mary, and Anna/Annie in Garston
The 1901 Census of Thomas, Maria, Mary, and Annie in Much Woolton
The 1890 Marriage of Thomas and Maria in Kensington (Sacred Heart)
And I found (I think) Thomas's birth/baptism in Castlerea, Roscommon, Ireland, and his parents marriage!! (and his parents names lol). (hence why I feel better!!).
Still missing
The 1891 Census of Thomas and Maria, I think they were living in Much Woolton then too.
Marias Baptism, in Woolton.
Marys Baptism (cant recall where).
As to why they married in Kensington. One possible answer is at the time, St Francis of Assisi the actual church was not available, and instead the parishioners were meeting in an old church hall of another denomination. So they might have selected another church so they could get married in the chapel.
And their address - apparently the bride had to reside in the catchment area of the church? It may have been a very temporary address..
So I have achieved something super cool today - my grandmas fathers place of birth and parents. Back to his birth in 1859 and his parents wedding in Roscommon in 1857. Happy with that. Now to find my grandmas mothers details.