Christopher Flynn 1901

[Blue-Spirit]

Dear hanes and Alan.
Excellent! Many thanks for the additional details, speaking to my father in-law he tells me he had no idea of the award to Christopher Flynn. He and his sister are very grateful.

[hanes teulu]

Christopher's parents were Nicholas Flynn and Susannah Gosson, married 27 Jun 1864, Parish of St Francis Xavier, Liverpool - Susannah appears as "Annie" in subsequent Census returns. In 1901 they were living at 8 Carisbrooke Road, Walton on the Hill, Nicholas' occupation "Commercial Traveller".

The Liverpool Mercury, 24 Feb 1904 reported the death of a Nicholas Flynn, Commercial Traveller of Carisbrooke Road. He was knocked down, crossing Picton Road the previous afternoon, by an electric tramcar while trying to avoid a milk cart and died later that evening at the Royal Infirmary.

[AlanBoyd]

Following on from HT’s find:

 23 February 1905: Liverpool Evening Express

FLYNN–In loving memory of Nicholas, the dearly beloved husband of Annie Flynn, who departed this life Feb. 23, 1904, 8, Carisbrooke-road. (Thy will be done.)

FLYNN–In loving memory of my dearly beloved father, Nicholas Flynn, who departed this life Feb. 23, 1904, 8, Carisbrooke-road. (Sadly misscd.)–G. and R. S.

These notices were also published in 1906.

[hanes teulu]

Christopher's father Nicholas appears as a "Bookbinder" from the 1861 Census on until the 1901 "Commercial Traveller".
Nicholas' 1864 Catholic marriage record (can be viewed on FindMyPast) names his parents and they can be found with "Nicholas, bookbinder, aged 26 born Ireland" on the '61 Census at West Derby..

[AlanBoyd]

Looking at street view, 8 Carisbrooke Road would have been at the south end of the road, on the east side. Unfortunately all of the houses at that end have gone, apart from a short block (odd numbers) on the west side.

Below I have linked to a side-by-side view with the large scale town plan. Number 8 must be in that triangular end block. The block north of Harlech north of Ludlow Street is still there, nos. 30-38 (no. 38 the former Carisbrooke Hotel, which was advertising as recently as no. 38 in 1999, but is now converted to flats.)

The first reference that I have found to Carisbrooke Road is in a newspaper article in 1879 when it is referred to as "a new road to the left of Walton Road".

I was speculating that the changes at that end of the road might have been due to bomb damage, but I found a reference to no. 8 containing bedsitting rooms in 1951, so it must have been simply clearance of some sort.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.7&lat=53.43931&lon=-2.97174&layers=117746211a&right=osm