Hello,
There is an entry on the 1901 census for Richard and Emma A Phillips and a two yr old daughter Mary in Longton if that is any help.
Reference RG13/2615 Ed 10 folio 82 p39.
Freebmd.org.uk gives births and deaths for Joseph Richard Philips and William Thomas Phillips in the Stoke district of Staffordshire which covers Longton, but it does not give the parents' names., so may not be the right ones
Handm