BECK - PENNINGTON - JOLLY - FLITCROFT - and ASSOCIATED

[wrjackson]

All mostly from the Manchester district but some of the Beck and Pennington families moved to the Blackpool area (Beck's later to Fleetwood).   
I have a fair amount of information regarding these families and am willing to share.   However, further information would be very much appeciated.
My wife is the daughter of JAMES WILTON BECK and HELEN PENNINGTON, both late of Fleetwood.

Another "Pom" in Australia. 

[dinkey]

What information and date span are you looking for with your Beck family in Fleetwood.

I am only minutes walk from Fleetwood Library and they have the parish records there up to 1900. also some books printed by the parish between 1867 and 1911 (only odd years I am afraid), and some in early 1920's containing baptisms, marriages and deaths. There are also monumental inscriptions of Fleetwood and Layton cemetry.

If any of these records may be helpful to you, please let me know what you are looking for and I will pay a visist there tomorrow.

dinkey

[wrjackson]

To DINKEY:
  Thanks for your speedy reply and offer of help.
Although I mentioned Fleetwood, it was there that both I and my wife lived until we migrated to Sydney in 1954.  Previous to then we lived in the (then) pre-fabs in Percy Street, later moving to 2 Larkholme Avenue, it being from there that we migrated.  My wife's parents lived at 10 Hamlet Road, they following us out here at a later date.   My father in law worked for the Lord Street Co-op, was treasurer of the local Kings Own Regt. association, plus being in other organisations, so was well known at F/D.  His nick-name was 'BUD'.
The mother of his wife 'Helen Pennington' lived in Lord Street Blackpool, so that made the Blackpool connection.
   Currently I communicate with the Scantlebury's of Shakespeare Road.
   Thanks again, and I trust that I will hear further from you.
Presumably you are on the 'Web' so we can communicate that way.
  As a PS,  you will find me as being number 1 on the  'after the war' F/D Civil Defence records - just dust away the cobwebs.         
                     William  ("Bob") Jackson.   

[dinkey]

Hi Bob

Loveley to be in touch with an expat from Fleetwood. Your life down there is obviously very different and I am sure that apart from any family in the area you do not miss Fleetwood. I do know a few Jackson's but I don't know whether any of them relate to you.

If you would like me to look up any information for you please get back to me and I will try and help. I will need to know exactly what you are looking for and the relevant dates.

regards
dinkey (from a damp and miserable Fleetwood)

[wrjackson]

WED. 09.10
    Sorry Dinkey if I have led you astray a bit.  Neither my wife Alma's roots or mine are in F/D although she was born there.
I was born at Hackney in London, 18/12/1917, spending most of my school days in the Lowestoft district.  My roots actually go back to South Elmham in Suffolk.  With my step father being a fisherman we moved to F/D and I went to the Lord Street School.  Was in the merchant service at the time I met my wife to be - love called and I went to work at the Fleet Shoe Company (Copse Rd.) until I was called up into the Royal Artillery in 1940. After my discharge in 1946 I worked as a crane driver at the North End, the Hydraulics further down the quay, and at times on the steam cranes on the dock.  Later went to work on the chlorine plants at the ICI - was there until  we migrated in 1954.
Overcast here today but the temp is expected to be 34 C.
Your report on the F/d weather makes me glad that we are not there.  We have just become G.G. Grandparents. 
If you are on email, Skype, etc. please let me know so that we can communicate that way.  You must be on the net to be able to send these messages.    Thanks again for your offer of help and I trust that this message will have cleared things up a bit.
TTFN.        William (Bob) Jackson.