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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Missing Birth Records - BEGLEY St Helens
« on: Friday 30 August 13 02:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jac - I am so sorry not been back to you with my reply but I've been quite poorly.  I still haven't had the energy to dig out my paperwork but just wanted to say briefly that yes we do share the same ancestors.  I am really delighted.  We must share our information as I am sure we will both have stuff unknown to the other. Yes I do know about great grandad's lost arm - my dad and family called him "one wing" - that weird Begley humour.  Dad said he lost it working in St Helen's glassworks.  Gosh we have a lot to talk about.  I will send a private message very soon with my email address. I can't believe you've got a photograph of him!! We have no idea what he looked like.

Sorry once more for being so slow in replying.  There is so much I want to say, I feel it will take me ages to formulate an email. I will definitely be in touch, hopefully soon.

Very best wishes.

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Missing Birth Records - BEGLEY St Helens
« on: Saturday 10 August 13 01:08 BST (UK)  »
Hello Jac55 - I can't tell you how exciting it is to hear from someone researching the same family! I have been away from researching my family history for over a year now, as I have been ill.  I got an email saying you had replied to a post, and wow I hadn't thought it would actually be a relative (however distant!). As it is the middle of the night, and I am very very rusty at the old family tree, I will respond more fully when I can get my act together. 

Now I think about it your name Jac55 seems familiar - have we been in touch before?

Got family here this weekend but will dig out papers in a couple of days and get back to you.

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The Common Room / Re: Job description - 1851
« on: Saturday 29 September 12 04:53 BST (UK)  »
Sorry can't help Sandra.  It sounds like something to do with opticians, I don't know when glasses first appeared but I wonder what early opticians were called?  Maybe illuminating opticians?  I did a search but could only find this site, to do with pre-cameras - magic lanterns.  Good luck in your search.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/photographs/magic-lantern

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Lancashire / Re: Wavertree Liverpool
« on: Saturday 28 July 12 19:53 BST (UK)  »
Oh, and what about Wavertree Garden Village?  Lovely place, though I always thought it posh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/mersey_times/issue_01/garden_suburb.shtml

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Lancashire / Re: Wavertree Liverpool
« on: Saturday 28 July 12 19:51 BST (UK)  »
Although it was/still is terraced housing, it was very respectable.  My family come from Wavertree - Tiverton St, Taunton St and the Dales (eg Sunningdale).  In Tivvy St there used to be lovely iron railings, and the brass and steps were always polished.  There were a lot of railway men - my grandfather was a train driver - and their house even had a bathroom (unheard of then!); mind you the lavvy was still outside!  The entries were always clean too.  I loved it.  I went back a few years ago and the railings had all gone, and the windows and doors had been changed.  Very sad.

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Lancashire / Re: Mystery of the death of Peter Pendleton
« on: Saturday 14 July 12 12:43 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Jinks.  I have found the PP you have found the death for.  He is from the Pendletons of Prescot who were watchmakers and repairers.  I keep coming across them, as they seem to use the same first names as my Pendletons (as do the Manchester/Blackley Pendletons)!  I know that there wasn't the same range of first names in Victorian times as now, but it does seem to be a big coincidence (and I don't believe in them!).

I have never been able to make a link between the three separate Pendleton families but bet they are connected in some way!

Thanks for looking though.

Polly

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Lancashire / Re: Mystery of the death of Peter Pendleton
« on: Saturday 14 July 12 11:15 BST (UK)  »
How do you mean Jinks?  What would I have to do, and how would it help me know what happened to him?  I would just love to resolve this, it has been nagging at me (and my extended family!) for so many years.

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Lancashire / Re: Mystery of the death of Peter Pendleton
« on: Friday 13 July 12 16:19 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Marg.  That's the way it goes sometimes, isn't it?

Best of luck!

Polly

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Lancashire / Re: Mystery of the death of Peter Pendleton
« on: Friday 13 July 12 15:28 BST (UK)  »
June - I think that's worth a shot!!  I'd never thought of putting an ad in the local paper.  You never know, some distant relative might know something.  I know he lived with his daughter and husband towards the end of his life, and they were the Bartons, and I know there are Bartons still living in St Helens.  Thanks.

Marg and Gibel - I really will have to pay another visit to St Helens.  I've been a few times but couldn't find anything but then I was flailing around a lot, and didn't really know what I was looking for.

Gibel - Esther Jane, his wife, died following a fall in Stanhope St, St Helens 16.12.16.  Inquest held 20.1.17.  Information I've got from death certificate.  She is buried in St Helens Cemetery:
Grave Section:  46; Grave Number:  414; Not recorded; Purchased: Yes   
Lease Details:  Lease Type:  Fixed period   
Lease First:  21 / 01 / 1917   
Lease Start Date:  21 / 01 / 1917   
Lease End Date:  20 / 01 / 2017:  Lease PD, 100

In the grave with her are her daughter Edith Whitaker (nee Pendleton) (1969) and her husband John Thomas Whitaker (1941).

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