Dear Lyn,
Thanks for getting back.
On her tombstone in Parbold parish church she is described as `of Fairhurst Hall and Brunswick Villa in Southport`; you will know that having found her or her family, in the various censuses, but it would appear that in 1915 (She died, the inscription reads in January of that year, the 24th I think and so must have been in the locality in that year. It also states that she `suffered greatly in this life, but her end was peace`I wonder if she was what we now describe as bipolar? But perhaps you know? The tombstone is pictured on the `history` section of the parish church website.
One mystery - in 1871 she is described as `brewer`, but her father is `retired solicitor`I had always understood that her money, the money used to build the church, came from a brewing family in Wigan of that name, yet her father would not appear to be in that trade, and it seems curious that a rather eccentric spinster should be.
Ernie
