LIVERPOOL COWKEEPERS

[pipeman]

  hi my father was a james thomas mawer, he had a dairy in chelsea road litherland his father had a dairy farm in the yorkshire dales before the second world war.

[pipeman]

i have a photo of his dairy of the house with our name on side, a cow was kept in the yard at side of house.

[jcitygirl]

Hello Michael

I noticed from your email that you have the surname Charters from Liverpool at the base of your email.  My ancestor, William Charters, lived in Liverpool, somewhere near St Peter's church in the early 1800s.  His son Robert came to Australia in 1835.  Are you related to this family?

Regards

Judy

[Wilbs]

Slightly off subject, but ......

My great grandparents ran a fruit & vegetable shop in Smithdown Road in the 1930s-1940s.  Grandmother Elizabeth Augusta Green (nee Stoddart) ran the shop with her second husband Richard Green going door to door selling from the horse and cart.  According to Mum, the cart was kept in the "yard" with the horse being stabled next door.

Presumably cow & horse accommodation was interchangeable, but has anyone a photo of a green grocers with attached stable in Smithdown Road from that era?  Mum also remembers a "magnificent" photograph of Elizabeth Augusta hung over the shop counter and I'd love to find that.

Thank you

Wilbs

[Humphpaul]

Just another one to add to the list:-
I have just found out that an uncle of mine had his work shop in an ex shippen in Goodall St of Carisbrooke Rd in the 1930s/40s. So I presume there was a dairy there at some time. Humphpaul

[Humphpaul]

To anyone still working on this subject:- please see photo on front of latest Liverpool FHS journal - vol 33 Sept. 2011.
The owner's grandad Evan Owen is in a charabanc fullof people who may be cowkeepers.
They want the tower in the photo identified. I think I have seen it but cannot place it. Humphpaul.

[FELLSMAN]

hi
does anyone know anything about a James and Esther Fothergill he was a Dairyman in 1881 at 5 moorgate , west derby they had a 2month old son Thomas and James Newton brother in law living with them . James and Esther married 20th april 1880 at Longsleddale , Westmorland.

Cheers Fellsman

[skyblueFF]

Sorry not one of mine.

[Ribb]

Would you like more information about Liverpool Cowkeepers?  Both I and my husband had ancestors who were cowkeepers in Liverpool.  In my case it was an uncle by marriage, have some photos of him, with his prize cows and the Cowkeepers' Association Championship Cup.  My aunt had an uncle, Edward Capstick whose family had cows in Liverpool.  I have funeral cards for two of their children who died as infants.
Willing to share info and photos if anyone is interested.  Did visit uncle's dairy once, just after the war, in 1945.
Kath