Liverpool Lambs

[Abhanliath]

Hello Again
Looks like I 've found her marriage
30th Oct 1926 Bombay by banns
John Frederick Patton 29 banker Malabar Hill s of John
Adelaide Kathleen Murphy 24 Malabar Hill d of Peter

Is that her ? The age is out but she could well want to look younger
John Frederick was from around the corner 33 Stanley St West Derby.He worked for the Nat and Provincial.
1916-1919 with the Royal Navy Reserve.
It looks like she died at Moston Hosp 3 Sep 1966 but that is from a Will entry so there could be another Adelaide Kathleen Paton.
Obviously you may know more and I may be on the wrong track


Ciderdrinker

Gosh, I don't! I'll have to find Cairde na hÉireann Liverpool, who may have some records about where these women served, etc.

[Abhanliath]

Crikey, what a kludge of a page that Cairde Liverpool one is - their "send us an email" form doesn't work (it opens the email but with no email address in the address field), nor does their "send us a message" form!

[heywood]

There is a Facebook page.

[Abhanliath]

I can never work Facebook. I'm a bit stupid with technology. But I've asked a friend who's on Twitter to ask them for their email address.

[heywood]

Is the one you tried
cairdeliverpool@googlemail.com

[Abhanliath]

No! Thank you! (Their page provided no emailability!)

[Abhanliath]

In Frank Thornton's Bureau of Military History witness statement he says "in the middle of 1915
a day was set aside by the British Government called the "Lord Derby Scheme Day" On this particular day everyone resident in England, Scotland and Wales were compelled to sign a form. giving full particulars about themselves, occupation, etc…"
Are these records extant? What a wonderful source they would be if they were put online!

[heywood]

It doesn’t look like ‘everyone’
“ Running from October 1915 to December 1915, the Derby Scheme urged men aged between 18 and 41 who were NOT in a ‘starred’/ reserved occupation to attest. ”
https://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/the-haslam-diaries/the-derby-scheme

[Abhanliath]

Ah… pity - still, it would be a good chunk of population to know about! Thornton goes on to say that the Irish guys put their names in the Irish form - eg he would have been Proinnsias Ó Droighneán - including some of the Orangemen who were his fellow workers in Harland & Wolf, Liverpool, who came to the Irish-speakers to ask them to give them the Irish-language versions of their names!