Okell street, Runcorn.

[frankray]

OKELL being a local surname, is there any explanation, if at all, of who this past Okell really was?  Thank you.

[stanmapstone]

A possibility, in Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, 1896 John Okell was the Superintendent of Police in Runcorn, of course it could have been named after anybody, or nobody.

Stan

[LizzieW]

As there have been people named Okell, living in Runcorn since at least 1558 - that's the date of the first marriage I found  - Okell Street could have been named after any one of them.  I know they were quite prominent landowners and the Okell name crops up frequently as executors of my ancestors' wills, they (the Okells) were farmers in Kingsley, Cheshire. 

There was also an Okell's Brewery (still is I think) which was founded in 1850 by a Dr William Okell a surgeon from Cheshire.  For some unknown reason he founded the Brewery on the Isle of Man.  Perhaps they were short of beer over there 

Lizzie

[frankray]

copied from earlier posting "Okell Buildings Macclesfield"

As an example I have an Okell name and asked the same question "why Okell" street
There is an Okell Street in Runcorn close to the railway station - Victorian terrace houses and close enough to the railway to have been originally built on farmland.  Many Okells' were Cheshire farmers; one may be minded to think an Okell was on the land before the Railway purchase and the Runcorn Street Okell was named in their honour.  Your Okell Buildings question runs along similar lines? eh.
Ray.