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Re: Pubs in Widnes 1871 - Is it still There?
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 13 April 17 08:21 BST (UK) »
Dear Widnes Pub people!

A complete long shotbut here gies. Does anybody have information on the Peck family that lived in Widnes (at least in 1891)?  They moved to Penketh, Warrington and many years later my Mum & Dad ran an off licence in Warrington for 30 years

are you talking of Walter and May Peck ?...was Walter born in Boxworth,Cambridgeshire
children 
Clarice Gertrude b 1906 Warrington - married 1940 to Ernest Lawton
Walter b 1908 Penketh died 1967 Warrington
is this the family ?
oakes,liverpool..neston..backford..poulton cum spittal(bebington)middlewich,cheshire......   sacht,helgoland  .......merrick,herefordshire adams,shropshire...tipping..ellis..  jones,garston,liverpool..hartley.dunham massey..barker. salford

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Re: Pubs in Widnes 1871 - Is it still There?
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 13 April 17 09:32 BST (UK) »
Those are my family, my dad was Walter b 1906 and Clarice my aunty. What I would love to find out is more about my Peck family when they lived in Widnes

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Re: Pubs in Widnes 1871 - Is it still There?
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 13 April 17 10:14 BST (UK) »
did your dad die oct/nov/dec 1967 in Warrington ?  if so the death record shows aged 59 born 1908 or is that the wrong man ??
oakes,liverpool..neston..backford..poulton cum spittal(bebington)middlewich,cheshire......   sacht,helgoland  .......merrick,herefordshire adams,shropshire...tipping..ellis..  jones,garston,liverpool..hartley.dunham massey..barker. salford

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Re: Pubs in Widnes 1871 - Is it still There?
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 13 April 17 10:21 BST (UK) »
 
 Name     Walter Peck   
 Event Type     Census   
 Event Date     1891   
 County     Lancashire   
 Parish     Widnes   
 Ecclesiastical Parish     ST LUKES   
 Registration District     Prescot   
 Residence Note     Dickson Streeet   
 Gender     Male   
 Age     13   
 Occupation     Grocers Assistant   
 Relationship to Head of Household     Son   
 Birth Year (Estimated)     1878   
 Birthplace     Cambridgeshire, England   
 Page Number     2   
 Registration Number     RG12   
 Piece/Folio     3014/ 


this looks like your Walter / granddad ? aged 13 - is it ?? if so you have an address - DICKSON STREET,Widnes
oakes,liverpool..neston..backford..poulton cum spittal(bebington)middlewich,cheshire......   sacht,helgoland  .......merrick,herefordshire adams,shropshire...tipping..ellis..  jones,garston,liverpool..hartley.dunham massey..barker. salford


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Re: Pubs in Widnes 1871 - Is it still There?
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 27 January 18 15:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi Rose

Thanks anyway - I've now found him in 1901 a widow and a publican living with is two daughters in The Railway Inn Sadler Street Widnes St Ambrose.

Anyone have photos of this one?

Cheers
Jan :D