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Hi All.
I am trying to help my father in-law with his lost part of his ancestry.
Looking for the 1901 census for Christopher Flynn bn 1874-1876 Wife Lilian Grace bn 1876, believed to be living at Walton on the Hill, West Derby, Lancashire, England.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Thank you.
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Age is a bit out for Christopher
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9LX-H2K?lang=en
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1911 He is Christopher Bernard Flynn
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The 1901 and 1911 Censuses deliver his YoB as 1870.
On his marriage cert, dated 26 Mar 1895, his age is given as 25 (YoB 1870)
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On the 1871 Census Christopher B Flynn is aged 2 - father on census agrees with father's name on 1895 marriage cert.
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Birth Registration
Christopher Bernard Flynn, Sep Qtr 1869, West Derby, 88 311 - mother's maiden name Gosson
The Flynn/Gosson marriage can be viewed on FindMyPast - Roman Catholic Parish Marriages.
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Thank you kindly both of you, That is a great help. We were not sure on the birth of Christopher Flynn, and yes it appears his middle name was indeed Bernard. This does place more meat on the bones as to say..
I am told there was mentioned through the family there was a connection to one William Leefe Robinson, a WWI flying Ace..
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A***y have a record of a Christopher Bernard Flynn applying for a pension from the Post Office at age 60, in May 1929. He joined 9th October 1887 and thus had 41 years and 7 months of service. His dob is given as 30th May 1869. It states that he was to be recommended for the Imperial Service Medal.
Added: his Catholic baptism record has the same birthdate (this record has mmn Gosson)
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26 June 1929: Liverpool Daily Post reports that he was indeed awarded the Imperial Service Medal. Because this thread is a lookup request I can’t post an image, but it doesn’t have any other details anyway, just the names of three other Liverpool postal workers who were also awarded the medal.
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London Gazette - foot column 2
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33509/page/4190
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Dear hanes and Alan.
Excellent! Many thanks for the additional details, speaking to my father in-law he tells me he had no idea of the award to Christopher Flynn. He and his sister are very grateful.
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Christopher's parents were Nicholas Flynn and Susannah Gosson, married 27 Jun 1864, Parish of St Francis Xavier, Liverpool - Susannah appears as "Annie" in subsequent Census returns. In 1901 they were living at 8 Carisbrooke Road, Walton on the Hill, Nicholas' occupation "Commercial Traveller".
The Liverpool Mercury, 24 Feb 1904 reported the death of a Nicholas Flynn, Commercial Traveller of Carisbrooke Road. He was knocked down, crossing Picton Road the previous afternoon, by an electric tramcar while trying to avoid a milk cart and died later that evening at the Royal Infirmary.
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Following on from HT’s find:
23 February 1905: Liverpool Evening Express
FLYNN–In loving memory of Nicholas, the dearly beloved husband of Annie Flynn, who departed this life Feb. 23, 1904, 8, Carisbrooke-road. (Thy will be done.)
FLYNN–In loving memory of my dearly beloved father, Nicholas Flynn, who departed this life Feb. 23, 1904, 8, Carisbrooke-road. (Sadly misscd.)–G. and R. S.
These notices were also published in 1906.
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Christopher's father Nicholas appears as a "Bookbinder" from the 1861 Census on until the 1901 "Commercial Traveller".
Nicholas' 1864 Catholic marriage record (can be viewed on FindMyPast) names his parents and they can be found with "Nicholas, bookbinder, aged 26 born Ireland" on the '61 Census at West Derby..
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Looking at street view, 8 Carisbrooke Road would have been at the south end of the road, on the east side. Unfortunately all of the houses at that end have gone, apart from a short block (odd numbers) on the west side.
Below I have linked to a side-by-side view with the large scale town plan. Number 8 must be in that triangular end block. The block north of Harlech north of Ludlow Street is still there, nos. 30-38 (no. 38 the former Carisbrooke Hotel, which was advertising as recently as no. 38 in 1999, but is now converted to flats.)
The first reference that I have found to Carisbrooke Road is in a newspaper article in 1879 when it is referred to as "a new road to the left of Walton Road".
I was speculating that the changes at that end of the road might have been due to bomb damage, but I found a reference to no. 8 containing bedsitting rooms in 1951, so it must have been simply clearance of some sort.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.7&lat=53.43931&lon=-2.97174&layers=117746211a&right=osm (https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.7&lat=53.43931&lon=-2.97174&layers=117746211a&right=osm)