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Thanks for the replies, I agree it's possible because he didn't retire till the 70s that's why I can't find his records online.

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4) garston was pretty small in the mid 1700s. It was not like industrial garston.  It was I believe a little township and not a well to do or wealthy one, with few job prospects if you didn't have land, a fishing license, or serve a need to locals. And as far as I know locals were not doing well, it was a poor place.  So in a way my theory is why would a family be there and stay there all that time unless they didn't have anywhere else to go.  (Talking about pre industrial times here, there were no docks, no easy travel between areas, no industry; the mill was the early human attempts at industry). Th

5) in 1801 or 1802 in a church burial book where the afore mentioned Edward miller (b. c1758) first wife Mary was buried, I was reading the next pages and on a page it had the burial of a young son of my Edward miller, and a few entires down the infant of another Edward miller.  The part that ties into my belief that my millers might be there from the middle ages, is that next to this other child's burial, next to the fathers name it said "from ireland".  I read all of the pages of that book at some point in the past and this was possibly a differentiation that wasn't common.  They did note if someone was being interred there who had dies in the area and so was interred but was not living locally.   But this particular entry had their place of living as garston, and "Edward miller from ireland" as his name. As if to differentiate from the long time local miller family. 

6) almost all my family history is in garston on many sides, until it goes back to Ireland on quite a few.  But there was a very noticeable difference in my 1800s garston miller family in their records.  A number of differences.  Most of my other family's kept orderly catholic style living arrangements and family units.  My millers were an outlier.  For instance many of the daughters of millers had babies out of wedlock.  This happened occasionally in other lines but it was more extreme and multigenerational with my millers. 
All my ancestors were very poor. So it wasn't just poverty that was different.  It was almost normal or expected of them. Which I find weird given the time.  It's like the family was a bit, different.  It just, to me, it seems like there's every chance they were deeply rooted there and a bit different to others who had come to garston from elsewhere with their more predictable culture and ways of doing things. 

OK that's all my notes for now.
I should have gone and got my notes clear before I made this post because this is all stuff swimming round in my head for decades. But ive been meaning to do just that for a long time and I might drop dead before I get around to it haha so this message is just in case. 

Even though we were very poor and rough around the edges I'm extremely proud of our deep roots in garston and proud to be related to just about everyone from there in the 19th and 20th century. 

Thanks for reading if you did.

I have my kids great grandads ww2 basics but I don't know how to find out if, when, where he was deployed overseas during the 2ww.

Mervyn clive bishop
Service number 49277
Last rank sergeant
Enlisted 30 Dec 1941, aus military forces, Glenelg

Is there a resource (hoping online) I can use this info to find out more details?

Hi all 😊
I wonder if anyone knows exactly where upper dalton street was c1890?  West derby area.  Hoping to find it on an ordnance survey map. And info about the area too.

Thank you in advance!

I am aware discussing living people is not ok here.  I met a man via this board in 2014 who is a cousin.  he only posted 3 times then disappeared.  what transpired is he is the son of a formerly unknown child of my dads cousin.  His mother was born to my dads cousins first wife. Later this first cousin remarried and had more children with his 2nd wife who are the kids (in their late 50s) we know of.  These children are still alive and did not know about their half sister until this serendipitous meeting on rootschat.  Another of my cousins from that family line began to try to gently handle it to figure out if contact could be made.  But as quickly as we found this man, he disappeared.  I am unsure if he was just new to rootschat (he only posted 3 times and never logged in under that username again) or if he doesn't want contact. 

But he seemed very keen.. he also has siblings I believe. these are all the half nephews/nieces of my dads cousins other kids.  these cousins have now had to come to terms with the fact they had a sister (I believe she has been deceased since 2001) and they have nieces/nephews out there.  And now we cant find the rootschat member

Where could I go with this info for assistance tracing these nieces and nephews?