Thankyou for all of your helpful postings.
The Woolley information as it was passed to me by the family:
John Christopher Woolley was born on 21st December 1927 in Liverpool (Bootle) England.
His parents were John Woolley who died on 9th January 1936 - aged 32 (Liverpool) England, and Angelia Maria Trimarco - her father was Italian
John Christopher immigrated to Australia arriving on 10th February 1949 on the “Ranchi”.
He died on 18th January 2011 in Perth, Western Australia.
John Christopher is reported to have said that there was only one son in his family and they were always called John.
There is also a newspaper clipping which says “My name is John Christopher Woolley. I arrived in Australia in 1949 but I’ve not seen my relatives on my father’s side since 1936 when he died. They are my father’s sisters and nieces and lived in Broxton, Cheshire: Aunt Elsie, May, Hilda and Mabel and cousins Joan, Nora, Frda (sic) and Eileen. Grandma Woolley lived in Blackburn Street, Liverpool, until she died in 1936. I would love to hear from them”, followed by an address in Perth, Western Australia.
Unfortunately there is no other information on the cutting so I don’t know where or when the advert was posted.
I have found the following in the BMD indexes which tie up with the information provided by the family and which I believe to be correct:
John Woolley, death aged 32, Mar qtr 1936, Prescot, Vol 8b, Page 915
John C Woolley, birth, mmn Trimarco, Dec qtr 1927, registered in West Derby, Vol 8b Page 809
John Woolley married Angela M Trimarco, Dec qtr 1926, registered in Liverpool, Vol 8b Page 287
There is also a death for Mary Woolley, aged 60, Mar qtr 1936, Liverpool South, Vol 8b, Page 283 – I wondered it this could be his mother. This would mean that she was born about 1876.
I, too, am tending towards the 1901 census from Cheshire, mainly because the names tie up and the fact that the Mary Woolley who died in 1936 was born in 1876, the same year as the Mary in the census record.
Given that “Freda” was written as “Frda” in the newspaper clipping, perhaps “Mary” was inadvertantly recorded as “May”?
The 1894 Nantwich marriage ties in with regard to the dates, too – and with the comment that there was always only one son named John in the family – so that is possibly the same family. Broxton, Bulkeley and Nantwich are all in the same general area.
I had previously found the marriage of a Mabel Woolley to George W. Wison but could not get it to tie in with the children, so your comment about her having been widowed makes sense. How do you know that he died in 1918? I have now found her remarriage to Stanley Warburton and births of Joan and Nora Warburton, but not Freda. The only Freda Wilson I can find was born in 1920 after George Wilson’s death. Could he have actually died in late 1919 after fathering Freda but before her birth? Do you have any Vols, Page numbers for the births of Joan, Norah and Freda?
