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THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED. Family members have been put in touch with each other and confirm that Llewellyn Richards did not die in a bush fire.

Regards

Diana

There appears to be a child of the McSherry marriage in 1919.  He is possibly on a passenger list to Quebec in 1945 - address 44 Hornby Boulevard, Litherland, Liverpool occ Religious order.  He appears on name index as Rev.

Probably the same person went to Quebec in 1929 - his address in England Co C and C church society, London EC4.

Might be worth looking for these two in 1939 
Marriage Dec qtr 1937   
Chorley    Joseph S   
McSherry    Bessie   
Crosby reg dist    8b   1159
South Sefton Register Office or Registrar Attended

Rosie99 you were on the money!! Thru ordering certificates we can confirm that this is our Bessie   Thank you. We'll probably never know why she relinquished baby James for adoption, but we do know how Bessie's life panned out: marriage #1 to Michael McSherry on 2nd June 1918 at St John’s Parish Church in Waterloo (can't find his death, but he was a seaman and travelling to the US in 1919) and then her subsequent marriage to Joseph Chorley on 13th November 1937, aged 50. She died in 1951 and her grave is in the grounds of SS Peter and Paul RC Church, Crosby.

Thanks again Rosie99 - Marriage certificate in, and BINGO, our Bessie married Michael McSherry on 2nd June 1918 at St John's Waterloo. She stated that she was a spinster aged 31.

In August 1919 James Wainwright, her son from a previous relationship, was relinquished for adoption.

In Oct/Nov/Dec 1919 Bessie and Michael McSherry's son Harold was born.

Any suggestions where else to look to find out more about this sad situation, or was it that the newly weds wanted to start a new life, and new family without the encumbrance of a previous child?

Very little is known about Bessie. So not sure about her religious persuasions!

Updater: the hunches paid off. The birth certificate for baby James links to the Bessie Wainwright in the 1911 Census, daughter of John and Margaret. She gives their address as her place of work address as her father's place. 

But her residence and where the baby was born is 34 Newstead Road, Toxteth Park.

She would have been 29 years old and was unmarried.

Thanks for the steer.

Regards

Diana