David Briggs - unpleasant death 1934

[rittrock]

David Briggs, brewery driver, age 57-59, found dead at railway line near Latchford - see e.g. Liverpool Echo, 11 & 12 Dec 1934.
His son Cyril Briggs, a journalist, gave evidence at the inquest.
Was this the well-known sports (especially rugby league) journalist Cyril Briggs? Of the Cyril Briggs Press Agency in Warrington (near Wilderspool, where David lived)?
I would be grateful for confirmation: this looks like the family of David Briggs and Mary Ann Creighton (m. 1873), and it looks like David Briggs from Ireland (Broomhedge near Lisburn?), age 32 in 1881 census.
cheers
 

[CaroleW]

If you check the 1939 register there is only one Cyril Briggs in Warrington

[heywood]

Here is Cyril aged 2 yrs in 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWYV-43K

[rittrock]

Thanks
In that case, yes it must be David Briggs m. Edith Dumbell in St Elphin's, December 1901, by which time David Briggs senior had died. His wife Mary Ann (nee Creighton) has birthplace "Castle Ray Belfast" in one of the 1881 census transcriptions, and that must be Castlereagh.
cheers

[CaroleW]

Cyril's birth reg shows mmn Dumbell

www.freebmd.org.uk

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

[Comberton]

Military records for David on Ancestry and FindMyPast. Service number 59342

[garstonite]

in case they are of any use - David and Ediths addresses when they married

Marriage: 5 Dec 1901 St Elphin, Warrington, Lancashire, England
David Briggs - 26, Stoker, Bachelor, 370 Wilderspool Causeway
Edith Dumbell - 25, Spinster, 25 Greenall Street
    Groom's Father: David Briggs, (deceased), Drayman
    Bride's Father: William Dumbell, Boiler Maker
    Witness: Arthur Ince; Ada Marsh
    Married by Banns by: A. F. White, Assist. Priest
 

[rittrock]

And the father looks like David who died in 1897 age 48 in Warrington.
Other children (Sarah Jane age 3, William age 7 who later married Benjamin Beddard's daughter) are with him, Mary Ann and David age 5 at "Wilderspool House" in 1881 census.
Apologies for being slow and non-local...I see there was a Cheshire/Lancashire boundary switch.
I am asking some Broomhedge locals and hoping to link with the Briggs/Creighton September 1873 marriage in Warrington. Not much chance of passenger lists for Belfast-Liverpool.
Thanks again

[heywood]

The marriage is in Cheshire indexes here http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk/ and is a Civil Marriage or Registrar attended- possibly Catholic?

1881 3512 /28/15
Appleton, Cheshire
David Briggs 32 yrs b Ireland
Mary A. Briggs 31 yrs b Ireland Castlereagh
William Briggs 7 yrs
David Briggs 5 yrs
Sarah Jane Briggs 3 yrs
Frank Briggs 1 yr

An interesting note on the census page that ‘all the houses on this page were incorporated into the Municipal Borough of Warrington, November 1896’

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp  shows Frank mmn Crighton

*I see you have quoted the census so already have that information - sorry.