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 Sorry for posting in the wrong place, but also thank you for asking for my post to be moved to the correct place,

kind regards
Anonemouse

I  did know that the eldest son Samuel born 1790 had survived married Mary Jane Dodson, who was actually his maternal cousin and gone on to produce a family of 15 children, sadly not all lived but they did later live on the IOM  i have a contact who is descended from them and he now lives in New Zealand.

So it is with great interest that i have been reading this thread.                                                                  You would find a connection to the Liverpool merchants connections to the Syers and the Leece family if you traced the Drinkwater family backwards to Peter Drinkwater of Grappenhall died at Masssie Green , i am descended from the eldest son George and the link that leads to the Liverpool merchants and peerage is from Georges younger brother Nathaniel Drinkwater. Hope this has helped and been of interest  kind regards

Good morning all,

I wonder if anyone has access to be able to look up the admissions registers for Swinton Industrial school for me please?

My father in law and three brothers were missing from the 1921 census at home with their mother and have trawled the returns to find them with no luck. But a dear friend yesterday looks like she may have found the boys at Swinton Industrial School  _
Eliza* Brown  is listed as female. BUT and a big but is that he was also baptised as Eliza in 1913 when he was was born, (7y 8m)
Richard Brown born  29 January 1912 my FIL (10y 5m)
Albert Brown MAR q 1909  (11 y 8m)
and finally James Brown born in 1916 who was not at the institution

Their father sadly died in 1917 of pneumonia after having been rejected by the army due to epilepsy brought on by a works accident 4 years previously.

Their mother remarried in 1918 to Bertram READ but he is  also not at home in 1921 but visiting someone in Nottingham.   
Alice is at  18 Whyatt Street Bradford Manchester. She is a charwoman at the Grey Mare Hotel and listed as married.

The family story (farfetched by any stretch of the imagination) was that the boys ran away from home and became boy soldiers.  One boy stayed in the USA and never married. That part is true because hiss effects were sent to my FIL when he died in the 1960s.

If anybody has access to the admission records to the school and could look to see if the mother of these boys was listed as either Alice Brown or Alice Read and the address of Whyatt Street Bradford. I would be so grateful
kind regards
Anonemouse

sorry this is even later to the discussion, I am descended from John Youd from Bradley Frodsham died  1722  He married Anne Rowe in 1790. Known children are Ann b 1700 who married Richard Drinkwater. Elinor abt 1702 she married Samuel Milner and a son John abt 1705.  Have any of you come across this family at all please?
kind regards
Anonemouse