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Thank You JimGat!  I have copied it and sent it to Hilda Little who is Carlo's great granddaughter.  Hilda is the mother of my ex sister-in-law, who, several years ago asked me to trace her Italian roots.  I had only got as far back as Carlo.

many thanks again

Carole Giffen

That is the correct Sarah.  She was born in Birkenhead in 1870. Her youngest son was Henry (known as Harry).
William Condie senior was the son of John Condie, a painter.  The family goes back to Fife in Scotland.
Before her marriage, Sarah's occupation in 1891 census is given as 'confectioner'.  My grandmother said that she worked for Jamieson's before she was married and "they were very good to her" when she was in difficulty, so perhaps that was who she worked.
I have no idea what happened between 1903 and 1911, but she seems to have managed by herself.  This old lady looked after me for 10 years when I was a child.  She died in 1963. She was quite a woman!

My gt grandmother Sarah Condie lost her husband and child in 1903. In the 1911 census she has moved house from Squires St to Lorton St in Liverpool.  I wonder how people found alternative accommodation in those days, were there classified ads?

She was working as a chocolate packer in 1911 and wondered which manufacturer she may have worked for.  I am bit sure how to research this.  I wonder if she worked from home, but she did have an older person in the house who could look after her son. Her daughter was living elsewhere as a maid of all work.

I know she managed to stay out of the workhouse after her husband died, something to do with signing the pledge and getting some money for doing so.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you.

I will ask my friend.  His grandfather was quite clear that he was born in Scotland and was taken to Canada.  I wonder if they have found this Leishman family and thought this was the one he was taken to. 
He definitely said that he never saw his sister again once they had left the ship.  I know that there are WW1 records of Eddie Leishman who came to England and that is where some of the information came from.
Many thanks for your help.  I will ask for more info.   

Yes, he went to work on a farm in Montreal (I think).  He ran away at 15 and became a lumberjack!  He returned to the UK in WW1 and settled in Devon where he worked on the forests in Bovey Tracey near Dartmoor.

This is for a friend who got as far as he could, but it is the sister he cannot find.  I have found an Edmund and Annie Thornton living in a Battery in Inverkeithing.  there is a father but no mother.  We know that Edmund and Annie were not actual orphans, but the parents could not keep them as they had too many children.  I am wondering if this is the family, although the ages do not tally, but I suppose they could have gone to Canada earlier than previously thought.