Burne Street, Liverpool ?

[Neil_A]

Hi

I'm trying to locate or correct a transcription listing for an address in Liverpool.

The address is given as "Burne Street". The entry was taken from the OPC for Lancs, and sadly I don't live close to Liverpool to check nor can I find an alternative listing (with image) to verify.
Looking at census returns and old maps I suspect a transcription error.

This is the entry as it appears on the OPC:

Baptism: 24 Sep 1888 St James the Less, Kirkdale, Lancashire, England
Mary Williams - [Child] of Robert Williams & Jane
    Abode: 24 Burne St
    Occupation: Fireman
    Baptised by: S. Firman
    Register: Baptisms 1888 - 1902, Page 4, Entry 32
    Source: LDS Film 1545919

Sadly I believe Mary didn't live to the 1891 census, Robert and Jane are my great * 2 grandparents.
They had 11 children in total but only 3 survived to 1911 including my great grand mother Margaret.

Many thanks

[Milliepede]

Where are Robert and Jane living in 1891 (and 1881 if married then)

Did they have other children around the same time that may have been baptised with the same address?

[CaroleW]

Could be mistranscribed - ?? Byron St

[ainslie]

My trusty but battered road atlas of South Lancashire, published about 1930, has a Burnett Street [as indexed] or Burnet St [as on the map].  It is or was off Vauxhall Road, east side, next north after Hopwood St.  I guess it would not have many dwellings and would have a fine view of the gas works across the L & L canal.
St James the Less was in Stanley Road, close enough to have B St in the parish.
A

[purlin]

I agree with ainslie, Burnett St. kirkdale, Liverpool 5 is the most likely.

[Neil_A]

My trusty but battered road atlas of South Lancashire, published about 1930, has a Burnett Street [as indexed] or Burnet St [as on the map].  It is or was off Vauxhall Road, east side, next north after Hopwood St.  I guess it would not have many dwellings and would have a fine view of the gas works across the L & L canal.
St James the Less was in Stanley Road, close enough to have B St in the parish.
A

Many thanks all - this does sound like the right place. I have forund records around William Mount Street, Cranmer and Hankin, all of which are in the vicinity of Burnet Street! It looks like a very small road in relation to the others, hence why I guess it never appeared on the online 1901 Liverpool A to Z map I've been searching. Though now can see it, albeit unamed and it all makes sense

Thanks again Ainslie.

neil

[Neil_A]

As a footnote to this, just in case others are having a similar issue with this particular Liverpool street.... in the end my ancestors lived on Burns Street in Bootle.
So not a million miles away from Liverpool centre but a separate town/parish until well into the 20th Century. "Brutal Bootle" as it was nicknamed in the latter part of the 19th Century.....

[garstonite]

Bootle had its own Police Force until the early 1960's - it still has it's own Town Hall

[ainslie]

It was a County Borough until reorganisation created the wider Sefton which also embraces Southport, Crosby etc.  Bootle has never been “in Liverpool”.