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Hi Uksearch

It was defintely Iron that we worked with in Wales, I did find some info about ironworks etc which
is at the palmer library in Wrexham.. just need to find the time to go there and see it 

Your Great Grandparents are both in Toxteth Park cemetery along with John M (just put the name
of the cemetery into your search engine and it will come up). My dad and I have trawled the
place to try and find headstones and didn't manage it but I am sure I saw a Charles Ellis Barlow.
I really hope you are lucky enough to find one.

Good to hear from Garstonite that there are still lots of Barlow's in Cockburn st. My side will die out with
my dad as he only had sisters and daughters.

Will send you some stuff this week.
X
Ukdescendant   

Brilliant, Thank you. Obviously I've never really seen him before but now feel
just a little bit closer to him. He was a real character and spent years trying to
prove we were heirs to the Hilton fortune but sadly failed, still I do have a book
where he transcribed all the letters he sent from Liverpool to New Orleans and New
York and pretty much everywhere else and also some replies. He had beautiful writing
for someone you would assume was uneducated as he was a rigger on merchant ships.
This is the only photograph in existence of him.

Thanks again.
Gill

Worryingly there is a death for a William Colwell in 2nd qtr 1922 aged 81 in Lewes !

Couldn't find any other likely Will or William's on freeBMD

Perhaps there are others not transcribed yet

 UKD

Hi Sossle

I found a George Henry in 1871 aged 5, his mother is Adelaide and a widow
so I looked back to 1861 and found her married to a Thomas.
Thomas was a machine Glazer in 1861 and they lived in 79 Kenworthy St
Dukinfield, Manchester. (1871 says kenworthy st is Stalybridge)

In 1871 Adelaide is a cotton reeler. There are 3 girls also named Mary, Emily
and Eliza(beth) Ann (8,5 and 5m in 1861).
I use the g...ogist and find it hard to give the page numbers etc I'm afraid but I think this could
be your man. Perhaps the girls name's sound familiar ?

Rgds
UKD

" He arrived back in Liverpool in March 1940 on the Georgic. "Gas masks issued to all passengers and DBS as necessary". What was DBS I wonder? Mohamed Din Peterson, 90 Upper Canning Street, fireman. "


Strangely on the Luisitania entry tonight there is a link to a website where DBS is mentioned , it states that it means Deported British seaman .

Sounds reasonable to me.

UKD