MOLYNEUX of UPHOLLAND and

Introduction

This account begins with Edward Molyneux (1856–1922), a hay and straw merchant of Aintree, near Liverpool, husband of Ellen Ledson (1857–1928).1

Edward Molyneux was born at Melling, a farming township adjacent to Aintree: he was a son of William Molyneux (1824–1877), a plasterer (originally from Orrell, near Wigan) and his wife Charlotte Lloyd.

William Molyneux’s parents were John Molyneux (1799/1800–1858), a nail-maker from Orrell and his second wife Margaret Hurst.

John Molyneux’s father was Peter Molyneux (c. 1761–1830), an Orrell collier.

************************************************************** ORIGINS

It seems likely that Molyneux is a locative family name originating in , perhaps from Molineaux sur Seine, near . The family is now found most commonly in south-west ‘in all classes of society, from the highest to the lowest’.2

The clear descent of this Molyneux family begins only with Peter Molyneux, an Orrell collier (c. 1761–1830). The evidence of family Christian names suggest that Peter may have been the son of John Mollineux, a collier of Whiston (Prescot parish) and his wife Catherine, born on 1 March 1766 and baptised at Prescot on 23 March.3

Thomas Molyneux

There is a possible line of descent from Thomas Mullineux of Ditton (in Farnworth chapelry, Prescot), whose son Thomas was baptised at Farnworth on 24 October 17144 and/or from Thomas Molyneux, a claypotter of Eccleston (Prescot) who married at Prescot in 1734/5.

Thomases were baptised at Prescot as follows: sons of ‘John Mollynex, Whiston’ (31 December 1665); of ‘Henry Mollineux, Prescot’ (3 December 1674); of ‘Richard Molineux, Whiston’ (28 June 1691). Humphrey Thomas, son of ‘Thomas Mullineaux of Whiston’ was baptised on 3 July 1681.

‘Margaret, wife of Thomas Mulleneux, Whiston’ was buried at Prescot on 12 January 1684/5 and Thomas on 7 July 1685. Thomas Mollinex of Hale was married at Prescot by banns on 28 September 1712 to Easter Smith. ‘Thomas, son of Humpfrey Mollinex’ [a Whiston collier] was buried at Prescot on 28 April 1717.

Thomas Molyneux and Margaret Kenyon

Thomas Molyneux, claypotter of Eccleston and Margritt Kenyon of Prescot, spinster were married at Prescot after banns on 27 January 1734/5.

Their children were John (baptised at Prescot on 22 June 1735) and Thomas (born 4 September, baptised at Prescot 11 September 1737), sons of ‘Thomas Mollinex of Prescot, labourer and Margritt his wife’.

‘Thomas Mollinex, labourer, Prescot’ was buried at Prescot on 22 June 1743 and ‘Margaret Mollinex, widow, Prescot’ on 28 April 1770.

John and Catherine Mollineux

Peter Molyneux (according to his stated age at death) was born c. 1761. Judging from the evidence of family Christian names it seems possible that he was Peter, son of John

1 Mollineux, a Whiston collier and his wife Catherine, born on 1 March 1766 (c. five years later than might be expected) and baptised at Prescot on 23 March.

John Mollineux of Whiston married Catherine Yates of Prescot by banns at Prescot on 10 October 1757: both marked their names and the witnesses were John Holland and Hugh Smith.5 As ‘John Mollineux of Whiston, collier’ and Catherine they had children Alice (born 13 April 1758, baptised at Prescot 30 April); John (10 February, 2 March 1760); Peter (1, 23 March 1766); and Catherine (24 April, 14 May 1773).

Richard, son of John Mollineux, collier of Sutton (Prescot) was buried at Prescot on 27 January 1776. John was perhaps John Mollineux of Sutton, collier, buried at Prescot on 4 June 1781 or 9 March 1783.

Peter and (?)Elizabeth Molyneux

We have seen that the clear descent we follow begins with Peter Molyneux, an Orrell collier (c. 1761–1830), possibly a son of John Molyneux, a collier of Whiston and his wife Catherine.

Peter Molyneux, a miner married Betty Turner, spinster at Billinge parochial chapel (Wigan) on 5 March 1792.6 On 23 April 1792 there was an affiliation order against Peter Molyneux, an Orrell collier who fathered Ellen, illegitimate daughter of Ellen Banks: the order was in the sum of £1 17s for the lying-in and 1s a week thereafter.7

[In 1792 there was a miner’s strike at Wigan, in which violence was threatened].8

John, son of Peter Mollyneux, an Orrell collier, was baptised at Upholland parochial chapel (Wigan) on 16 February 1800.9

[Another John Molyneux was born at Orrell on 8 August 1796, a son of John Molyneux and Elizabeth Turner and baptised at Wigan on 27 August].10

The three occasions on which John Molyneux’s age was stated in later life (‘21 and over’ in November 1820, ‘40’ in June 1841, ‘53’ in March 1851, ‘60’ in October 1858) provide no consistent help in identification.11

‘Peter Mollyneux, collier, Orrell’ also had daughters baptised at Upholland: Elizabeth (27 January 1798); Elizabeth (2 December 1804); Margaret (29 March 1807); and Cathrine (13 August 1809): another daughter Alice was buried there on 25 July 1812.

‘Peter Mullineux of Orrell’ was buried at Upholland on 10 January 1830, aged ‘68’ and ‘Elizabeth Mullineux of Orrell’ on 9 December 1832, aged ‘69’.

Other Orrell Molyneuxs who died at this time were Ellen, a widow (c. 1733–15 July 1813); Robert (1780–29 July 1834, ‘54, Orrell’); and James (c. 1788–22 September 1839, ‘51, Orrell’).

The Orrell coalfield

Peter Mollyneux was a collier. Wigan was then the centre of a large coal-mining industry and among its townships Orrell was famous at the end of the eighteenth century for its ‘cannel’ or surface coal. Orrell is situated on what was then a picturesque site on a bend of the river Douglas and mining was concentrated at the southern end of the township. Land tax returns for 1787 and 1798 show five and six separate mining concerns respectively, in Orrell alone.12

In the later eighteenth century horse-drawn tramways greatly facilitated movement of coal: a major network in the Wigan area terminated at various points on the Douglas and the Leeds– Liverpool canal.

In July 1793, one John Molyneux, perhaps Peter’s father or kinsman, was one of five people killed in a ‘firing and explosion of foul air at Orrell’: as ‘John Molyneaux, Pemberton [Wigan], collier’ he was buried at Upholland on 10 July. On 26 April 1830 Robert (26), John (15) and Betty Mollineux (17) were killed there: all of them ‘of Pemberton’ were buried on 27 April.13

2 The Roman catholic connection

Although Peter Molyneux’s children were baptised at Upholland parochial chapel ( of ), there was some Roman catholic allegiance in the family, at least for the 50 years from 1824 and Peter’s son John and grandson William both died as Roman catholics.

An active Roman catholic mission in the neighbourhod of Orrell and Upholland seems only to have begun c. 1771, under the leadership of an ‘apostolic missionary’ and using from 1789 some converted cottages at Crossbrook, in Orrell township. The Lancashire ‘return of papists’ of 1767 included only two Molyneux families in Orrell and one in Upholland14 and no Peter Molyneux occurs. Peter’s family do not occur in the Crossbrook registers for the early period, but lists of Easter communicants there survive for various years from 1803: these include in 1803 two Elizabeth Molineuxs of Crossbrook and one Betty Molyneux of Lambert Green; a Betty Molyneux also occurs throughout the period to 1825.15 One of these may well have been Peter Molyneux’s wife.

John Molyneux (1800–1858) and Mary Gaskell (c. 1800–1821)

We have seen that Peter Molyneux’s son John was baptised at Upholland in 1800. On 20 November 1820, aged ‘21’, he married the 20-year-old Mary Gaskell at Wigan: both were resident somewhere in Wigan’s huge parish, which included both Orrell and Upholland. John signed the register, while Mary marked.16

Mary died in childbirth 8½ months later and was buried at Upholland on 8 August 1821. The child Peter was baptised at Upholland on 8 August, son of ‘John Mollineux, collier and Mary, Upholland’, but died six weeks later and was buried at Upholland on 23 September.

John Molyneux marries Margaret Hurst

On 23 February 1824 John Molyneux made a second marriage at Wigan after banns to Margaret, daughter of James Hurst. Margaret was declared to be a minor and married ‘with consent’, although her stated age at death makes it appear that she was born c. 1800. Both parties marked the register.17

This was the marriage in which all John’s surviving children were born: these were William (born 25 May 1824); Elizabeth (24 August 1826); Peter (c. 1830); and Ann (baptised 4 November 1832).

Throughout this time John and Margaret lived at Orrell: he is referred to as a ‘nailer’ of Orrell for the first time in 1832. Nail-making and coal-mining were the chief occupations in Orrell during this period.

The record of the baptisms of John and Margaret Molyneux’s children provides an interesting picture of shifting denominational allegiance. Their first child William was baptised on 6 June 1824 at Crossbrook Roman catholic chapel (with James Hurst, probably his grandfather, or an uncle as a sponsor): Elizabeth was also baptised there on 17 September 1826. No record can be found of the baptism of Peter in c. 1830.18 Anne was baptised with Church of England rites at Upholland. It may be that John’s parents were influential in preserving old loyalties, for the elder children baptised at Crossbrook were those born before their grandparents’ deaths in 1830 and 1832.

Death of Margaret Molyneux and re-marriage of John with Sarah Melling

John Molyneux’s second wife Margaret died at Orrell in 1835 and was buried at Upholland on 11 January (‘Margaret Mullineux, 34’). One James Hurst, probably Margaret’s father, died at Orrell in 1839, aged 64 and was buried at Upholland on 21 April.

On 6 December 1836 John Molyneux (by then c. 37/40) married for the third time, again at Wigan, to Sarah Melling, a widow (then 43): both marked and the witnesses were Thomas Smith and the clerk. Born at Orrell in 1793 Sarah Peet had married Richard Melling, an Orrell

3 nailer at Wigan on 14 June 1815.19 Richard died at Orrell in 1833 and was buried at Upholland on 9 July: their youngest son Henry Melling had been baptised at Upholland on 21 October 1832.

It was perhaps John’s son who was the ‘William Molyneux, 16’ sentenced to 14 days solitary confinement at Wigan borough sessions in January 1841 for stealing ‘a quantity of oil’.20

The census returns of 6 June 1841 show John Molyneux, a nailmaker and his wife Sarah living at Gantley Lane, Higher Lane, Billinge, with John’s four children (William, Elizabeth, Peter and Ann, aged 15, 14, 11 and 7) and Sarah’s five children (John, Mary, Richard, Thomas and Henry Melling, aged 20, 14, 12, 10 and 8). The neighbours in Gantley Lane were almost all nailmakers.21

At Easter 1841 Roman catholic communicants at Orrell included ‘John Molyneux’ and ‘Mr Molyneux’; in 1842 there were Mr Molyneux and Mrs Molyneux, junior and senior; in 1843 there were John Molyneux and Mr, Mrs and Elizabeth Molyneux.

In 1845 Richard Molyneux, an illegitimate grandson of John, was born at Billinge, probably to Elizabeth.22 Thomas Molyneux, another illegitimate son of Elizabeth born on 24 April 1846 must have been baptised in a non-Roman catholic church, for nearly 50 years later on 29 May 1893, he was conditionally baptised at St James Roman catholic church, Orrell: he was buried there on 15 June 1893.

By the time of the census on 30 March 1851, John and Sarah Molyneux were living at Tontine, near Upholland, where John was still a nail-maker. With them were Peter Molyneux, now a 20-year-old nailer; Ann, 17; and their six-year-old grandson Richard. Next door were John Hughson, another nailer and William Marsh, a beerseller and quarryman at the Nailers’ Arms.23

Peter and Ann Molyneux were confirmed at St James’, Orrell on 9 September 1855, aged 25 and 23. Peter took the confirmation name James and was sponsored by Joseph Dickinson; Ann, who took Agatha, was sponsored by Helen Dickinson (godmother to Ann’s brother William 31 years before).24

Deaths of Sarah and John Sarah Molyneux

Sarah Molyneux died of ‘gastric fever and general debility’ (from which she had suffered for ‘some weeks’) on 9 January 1857 at 4 Lane Ends, Orrell: she was 64. The death was registered on 12 January by her son Henry Melling and Sarah was buried at Upholland on 13 January 1857.

A year later John Molyneux contracted ‘pthisis pulmonalis’ and after a 10-month illness he died aged ‘60’ on 27 October 1858 at Near Fur’ Moor, Orrell: his death was also registered by Henry Melling on 2 November.25 John was buried that day, not with any of his wives at Upholland, but at St James’, Orrell.

Ann, Elizabeth and Peter Molyneux

Ann Molyneux had an illegitimate son John William Molyneux baptised at St James’, Orrell in May 1857: there on 31 October 1859 Ann married Robert Latham, an Upholland sawyer: the witnesses were Thomas and Ann Dickinson. Ann and Robert Latham lived first at Roby Mill Lane in Upholland, next to the Kings Head, of which Robert’s father Thomas was the licensee. In 1861 they were at Roby Mill Lane with their children ‘John Latham’ (three) and Thomas (two).26 By 1871 Ann and Robert were no longer there, but John and Thomas were living with their grandfather at the Kings Head. In 1881 John William Molyneux and Thomas Latham were colliers, living with their uncle and aunt Thomas and Mary Ann Swift at Lathams Cottages, Upholland: Swift was a stonemason.27

Ann had died by 1881, when Robert Latham, sawyer was living with his [second] wife Elizabeth at 4 Union Street, .28 Of Ann’s elder sister Elizabeth, nothing is known after 1846.

4 Peter was the youngest of the family: he never married and remained an Orrell nail-maker until his death in 1875. After the death of his father, Peter lodged with the Dickinson family at Far Moor, Orrell, where he was living at the time of the census of 7 April 1861, aged 31 29 (Mrs Dickinson had been godmother to his elder brother William and his own confirmation sponsor). By 2 April 1871 Peter was in new lodgings at Sandy Lane, Orrell.30 He died at the nearby hamlet of Longshaw31 on 1 June 1875, aged 45 and was buried on 5 June at St James’, Orrell. Described as ‘ex Longshaw, olim Sandy Lane, Orrell’ he was buried ‘in a common grave close to the Gospel wall of the church’.

William Molyneux (1824–1877) and Charlotte Lloyd

By 1850 John and Margaret Molyneux’s eldest child William was working as a plasterer in . On 11 November at Ormskirk parish church he married Charlotte Lloyd, the 18- year-old daughter of Griffith Lloyd, a labourer. The marriage, by registrar’s certificate, was witnessed by Charlotte’s brother David Lloyd and by the clerk.32

Aughton Street, Ormskirk

William and Charlotte (together with Charlotte’s parents) moved to Aughton Street, Ormskirk, where they were living at the time of the census on 30 March 1851. 33 All properties in Aughton Street are clearly shown on the 1851 town plan, the tithe map of c. 1846 and the plan attached to the Board of Health report in 1850.34

Neither William Molyneux nor Griffith Lloyd appear in the lists of authorised ‘inhabitants’ of Ormskirk’s ‘Aughton Street quarter’ in the court books of 1850 or 1851. 35 In the census returns, their household is enumerated as the twelfth on the east side of the street, proceeding northwards from the boundary brook:36 the third and fourth houses from the brook are those of Mary Spencer (farmer of 15 acres) and Robert Moorcroft, junior (hatter), both of which are specifically described in a report of a personal inspection of ‘Courts, Wells, Cesspools, &c., of Aughton Street’ made on 19 November 1849.

This report describes Mary Spencer as a ‘cowkeeper’, who ‘is supplied by well-water; the midden is only 5 feet from it’. As for ‘Moorcroft (next door)’, ‘A sewer runs under the back yard; the house is on a level with street; very damp. No water supply, and a wet midden inside of front yard wall.’

The Molyneux and Lloyd household in Aughton Street seems to have been only four doors down from an Irish lodging house with 27 inmates, six doors from another with 13 and eight doors from one with 17. Living conditions in the centre of the town (including the whole length of Aughton Street to the southern town boundary) had become notoriously overcrowded and insanitary by 1850. Many Irish had long been seasonal visitors at harvest- time and Irish navvies were employed from 1846–1849 building the Liverpool to Ormskirk railway. In the spring of 1847, however, after the potato famine there was a huge influx of Irish into the small town, many already sick with fever.

Within weeks typhus was rife, to be succeeded by cholera in 1849. The death rate rose to 46.1 per thousand, far higher than in the worst affected parts of . An inspection (leading in 1850 to the establishment of a Local Board of Health) revealed a lack of any proper sewerage system. The town boasted no bath and only five water closets and many new dwellings erected in yards behind the main streets quickly became filthy hovels. Raw sewage ran in open gullies in all the streets and into the Mere Brook along the southern boundary of the town. The 1849 inspection listed 20 yards opening off Aughton Street, some containing as many as seven lodging houses (most without either privy or water supply) and all obliged to allow their sewage to flow straight into the street.

Aughton Street was described in 1849 as:

not sewered and is very imperfectly paved. The land on each side slopes from the back towards the street; the overflow from the cesspools and middens … finds its way over the surface and at times covers the whole street with a foul sediment, the smell of which is frequently so bad that persons … will

5 go considerably out of their direct course rather than pass down this street. The lower portion, which constitutes one of the main entrances into the town, consists principally of common lodging-houses, occupied by Irish. Many of these places have no sort of accommodation at the back, and the street is regularly made the receptacle of that which is alike offensive to sight and smell.

Further evidence was given that a quarter of Aughton Street was depressed and was lower than its southerly exit at the brook-side. In consequence the street tended to:

flood with water and mud boiling up through the sewer grates, leaving a deposit on the surface impregnated with animal and vegetable refuse, which, by the combined action of the sun and air, is constantly giving off noxious gases … the back premises of the whole of the east side are much higher than the street and inclining thereto. The middens and cesspools (mostly mere holes dug in the ground) are the common receptacles, abounding in all kinds of floating, festering abominations. The liquid portion … infect the wells so as to colour the water about the tint of very pale sherry.37

Despite all this it was emphasised in 1850 that ‘proper sanitary works and regulations are alone required to render Ormskirk and the neighbourhood extremely healthy’!38

Halewood

William and Charlotte Molyneux’s stay in Aughton Street was very brief, for their first child Margaret was born at Halewood in August 1851.39 No record of Margaret’s baptism has been found and although Charlotte’s parents had been living at Hale more than 20 years earlier, no other link between the Molyneux family and Halewood has been discovered.40

Melling

By 1853 the family had moved to Melling, where William continued to work as a plasterer. William and Charlotte’s first son John was born there on 25 October 1853 and baptised on 13 November at the nearest Roman catholic chapel (St Mary’s, Aughton), with John Lockett and Alice Fazakerley as sponsors.41 John’s birth was registered by his father on 28 November. Two more children were born at Melling: Edward on 27 April 1856 (when his father was a ‘plasterer and painter’) and Ann in late 1858.42 Edward’s birth was registered by his mother on 12 June.

Aintree

Sometime between 1858 and 1861 William and Charlotte Molyneux and their three children moved to one of a group of cottages which still stand in Mill Square, Wango Lane, Aintree village: they were then part of the estate of the earls of Sefton. William continued his work as a plasterer and had two plasterer’s labourers living with him when the census was taken on 7 April 1861.43 Two more children were born here: William (1861) and Eleanor (1863).

Other than that of John (the eldest son) no record can be found of the baptism of any of William and Charlotte Molyneux’s children. The registers of all the local Roman catholic chapels and Anglican churches have been consulted and in view of Charlotte’s own Methodist baptism the Methodist meetings at Melling or Aintree seem possible locations, but records for these have not survived. It is perhaps most likely that all of them were baptised as Roman catholics.

Liverpool directories of 1864 and 1868 show William Molyneux as a slater and plasterer at ‘Wango Lane, Aintree’.44

Death of Charlotte Molyneux

William’s wife Charlotte died of phthisis on 28 January 1867 at Mill Square: she was 33. William registered the death and Charlotte was buried in Melling churchyard on 31 January.

William Molyneux’s last years

The death of Charlotte caused the dispersal of the family. On 2 April 1871 the census returns showed her widower William lodging at Fletchers Farm, Delph Lane, Kirkby with Thomas and

6 Betty Lloyd (50 and 48).45 William was said by his grandson William Edward Molyneux to have been a practising Roman catholic all his life, causing some family tensions after his wife’s death in 1867.46

In 1871 William’s older children Margaret (19) and John (17) were servants to John Rimmer (a farmer of 24 acres) at Canal Bank, , while Ann (12) was servant to John Vose (farmer of 156 acres) at Ormskirk Road, .47 William and Eleanor (nine and eight) were living at Mill Square in 1871 with their mother’s brother David Lloyd, a tailor.48

William’s other son Edward Molyneux, by now a 15-year-old agricultural labourer ‘out of employment’, was living at Altcar Brick Field in 1871 with his maternal grandparents Griffith and Ann Lloyd: Griffith was working there as a brick-maker and burner.49

Directories from 1873 have entries for plasterers named William Molyneux living on the Cheshire side of the Mersey (at 14 St Alban’s Terrace, Liscard and Wallasey Road, Liscard, 1873; 33 Greenfield St, Liscard, 1874; and 17 Conway Street, Liscard, 1875). Since similar entries for Liscard do not occur before or afterwards it seems possible that William had moved to Liscard from Kirkby. William’s son John was working as plasterer on the Wirral in 1877, which seems to strengthen this connection.

Death of William Molyneux

William Molyneux died of broncho-pneumonia (‘one month certified’) on 11 July 1877 aged 53 in a house at Sandy Lane, Walton. John registered the death, which makes it seem likely that it was the house occupied by John in 1880.50 William was buried with Roman catholic rites in Melling churchyard on 14 July. He left no will and no stone marks his grave.

[see Appendix 1 for more details of the children of William Molyneux, other than Edward]

Marriage of Edward Molyneux and Ellen Ledson

We have seen that William and Charlotte Molyneux’s third child Edward was born at Melling in 1856, moving to Aintree in 1858–61, aged c. 2–5. Edward’s mother died when he was 11 and by the age of 15, in 1871, he was an ‘out of employment agricultural labourer’ living with his Lloyd grandparents at Altcar.

Edward was 21 when his father died and by 1881 he had already established what was to become a flourishing hay straw business. At the census of 1881 he was a ‛hay dealer employing two men’ [perhaps his brother-in-law and brother] and living with his sister and brother-in- law Margaret and Edmund Brown and his brother and sister William and Eleanor Molyneux at 120 Longmoor Lane, Aintree.51 In 1876 Longmoor Lane had been described as ‛a rapidly improving neighbourhood’ when a house and shop there were advertised for sale.52

On 21 August 1882 Edward (26 and a hay dealer) married Ellen Ledson, eldest child of Daniel Ledson, bailiff of West Sewage Farm, at St Mary’s, Kirkdale, after banns. Both gave 98 Longmoor Lane as their address. The witnesses were Edward’s elder brother John and Ellen’s sister Elizabeth.

Edward and Ellen’s eldest child Margaret Ellen Molyneux was born in 1883. She was to marry Harry Allman (a corn merchant, born 1877) at in 1906 and had two children Doris (Ritchie) and Stanley.53 In 1911 the family were living in the 5-room 3 Monville Road, Walton. Margaret later lived at Byways, Gores Lane, and died there on 6 January 1932.

The 1884 and 1885 directories show Edward as a hay and straw merchant at 120 Longmoor Lane:54 his son Albert Edward was born there on 14 May 1885. In the 1886 electoral register Edward is shown with a vote in respect of a house and smithy.55 In 1886 the family were at 130 Longmoor Lane, where a daughter Bertha was born on 7 April 1887: Bertha married Hugh Adams at Warbreck Moor Methodist Chapel on 3 July 1911, but was childless. The 1889 directory shows Edward at 130 Longmoor Lane and in that of 1890 there is an additional entry at 424 Rice Lane.56

7 Twins Walter and Fred were born to Edward and Ellen early in 1890. Walter married Irene Levery Gullen at Limerick in 1923 and had a son Edward Gullen Molyneux (1924–1985). 57 Fred married Mary Evelyn (Eva) Capstick in 1921 and had two daughters Marjorie (1922– 2004) and Patricia Anne (born 1931).58 The youngest surviving child Beatrice Elizabeth (1898–1918) married John K. Lyons (a pharmaceutical chemist) in 1918 and lived at 308 Crumlin Road, Belfast, but died there on 12 October 1918, ten days after the birth of their only child Beatrice59

From 1890 until at least 1897 424 Rice Lane was listed as Edward and Ellen’s address, together with 130 Longmoor Lane (1890); 31 Warbreck Moor60 (1892–1894); and 199 Warbreck Moor and 3 St John’s Avenue, Aintree (1897).

In 1891 Edward (a hay and straw merchant) and his family were at 31 Warbreck Moor with his wife’s grandmother Ellen Smith (77) and a cook and general servant.61 In March 1892 Edward ‘hay and straw dealer, 31 Warbreck Moor’ was nominated in St Peter’s ward for election to Walton local board, but appears not to have been successful.62

Infant sons John (1892–1892) and Ernest (1894–1895) were born at 199 Warbreck Moor, but both died in their first 12 months and were buried at Kirkdale cemetery.63 On 9 April 1892 Edward took out a policy with Sceptre Life Assurance in the sum of £1000.

In 1892 the Liverpool Mercury advertised the sale of a hay and straw dealer’s plant, detailing the equipment then commonly used for the trade. It included a six-horse-power engine, vertical boiler, chaff-cutting machines, patent [?]diverter, weighing macine, scales and weights, corn bins, corrugated iron, a hand-cart, a farmer’s two-horse wagon and seven tons of hay.64

I was informed many years ago that by c. 1896 Edward and Ellen Molyneux lived at ‛Knowles House, Rice Lane’, described as ‘now a large garage’ and having an orchard, fields, a cobbled yard and three cottages, in one of which lived Edward’s foreman and younger brother William. There seems some confusion here between the Rice Lane premises and those at 50— 52 Longmoor Lane, later replaced by a filling station.65 Edward later moved to 26 Orrell Lane. He was lame and children sometimes called him ‘old push-pudding’.66

Edward Molyneux, who was ‘always asking people if they had been converted’ 67 was much involved in Greenwich Road chapel, a house adapted in 1885 for Wesleyan Methodist work in the North Liverpool circuit and seating 150. Soon afterwards a wooden building was added, to seat another 150. In 1898/9 Aintree Mission hall on Warbreck Moor seating 450 was erected on the initiative of Brook Road chapel and Greenwich Road chapel closed in 1900. Warbreck Moor Methodist church, seating 800, replaced the Mission hall in 1914: it became famous for the preaching of Dr Sangster in the 1930s, but was demolished in the 1980s. All its records seem to have been destroyed by fire.68

Subscriptions of 1 guinea each were paid on a date between 1898 and 1904 to the Methodist Historic Fund in the names of Edward, Ellen and their six children Margaret Ellen, Albert Edward, Bertha, Walter, Frederick and Beatrice Elizabeth, all of 422 Rice Lane.69

At the time of the 1901 census Edward and Ellen Molyneux were living at 422 Rice Lane, with their son Albert (an assistant miller) and their children Walter, Fred and Beatrice.70

By 1909 Edward Molyneux was listed as a hay and straw merchant of 424 Rice Lane and 50 Longmoor Lane, with his residence at ‛Inglenook’, an 8-room house at 26 Orrell Lane. He was still living at Orrell Lane in 1923. By 1913 the business had the telephone number N. Walton 89.71

Marriage of Albert Edward Molyneux

Albert Edward Molyneux, born in 1885 and now a 21-year-old provender dealer of 3 Chevin Road married Mary Frances Culshaw at Warbreck Moor Methodist Church on 18 September 1906: the witnesses were Frances’ brother Ernest and her sister Lilian.

8 A son Albert Ernest was born in 1907.72 The 1908 directory shows Albert as a hay salesman of 63 Endborne Road, Walton and those of 1909–1910 as a salesman of 40 Cornett Road, Walton.73

Australia

In late 1909 Albert, with his wife and son, emigrated to New South Wales, sailing from London on the Aberdeen Line steamship Moravian and sending Christmas and New Year greetings to his family from Capetown on 16 November: accompanying them on the voyage was Albert’s sister-in-law ‘Miss Ruth Culshaw, 18.’ Moravian arrived in Sydney on 13 December. The family were to spend 12 years in Sydney. Their movements may be tracked in the annual street directories,74 the telephone directories (at first quarterly, then six– monthly)75 and the commonwealth electoral registers.76

A.E. Molyneux first occurs in the street directory for 1911, living at 17 Milson Street, North Sydney. 17 lay on the street’s east side (off Pitt Street and Lewington Place), the second of five dwellings on the rise between Fitzroy Street and Burton Street, between those of Joseph Tysoe and William Jones.77

The stay in N. Sydney was brief, for the telephone directory of August 1911 shows that the family had settled by then in New South Road, Edgecliff, across the harbour on the city’s south-eastern edge: A.E. Molyneux ‘general carrier’ is listed at 199 New South Head Road, Darling Point (Edgecliff 511). The 1912 directory shows 199 on the south side of the road, nine doors city-wards from the Darling Point Hotel, in the section between Maclean Street and the Rushcutters Bay Hotel, at the intersection with Glenmore Road. Albert (199 New South Head Road) had a vote at Darling Point in 1912.78

The principal aids to identifying this property are (in addition to the Sands directories) a detailed plan of Paddington East drawn in 1950 and showing all buildings then existing, and two fine aerial photographs taken from the south-east and north in 1967 and clearly showing both front and rear of the first 12 properties running city-wards from the Darling Point Hotel.79 A governing factor in identification is a double-fronted building with a central chimney, numbered 201–203 and occupied in 1912 by Percy Parkes’ chemist’s shop. The Molyneuxs were next-door to Parkes and to Miss Scott, a dressmaker, at 197. 80 199 is shown clearly in photographs taken in 1929 (as F.H. Uhr’s poultry shop and next to the double- fronted property by then occupied by Wood, Coffill Ltd, funeral directors); c. 1976 (when 187 was a toy shop and the entire row was clearly awaiting demolition); and 1982 (the National Trust survey of Paddington and West Woollahra, when 199 was by now ‘Bad Girls’ and next to ‘Brooks’ Watering Systems’).81

Months later there was a further move, first shown by the telephone directory of December 1911 to 209 New South Head Road (a house and shop shown by the directory of 1912 as occupied by a watchmaker): it was six doors nearer to the Darling Point Hotel (next door but two) and between the houses and shops of Charles Pitman (bootmaker) and Mrs Catherine Sheehy. The telephone directories and electoral registers82 continue to list Albert Molyneux at 209 until [April] 1915, although the street directories of 1914 and 1915 show the renumbering of 209 to 193. As with 199 the principal aids to identifying 209 are the 1950 plan and the 1967 aerial photographs.83 It appears on the c. 1976 photograph (partly obscured by a ‘Waltons’ delivery van).

Here at 209/193 New South Head Road a daughter Brenda Mary was born to Albert and Frances Molyneux on 25 May 1913. Their son Ernest was c. six at this time. Frances’ sister Ruth Lilian Culshaw arrived in Sydney on a further visit, aboard ‘Moravian’ on 13 December 1913.

From April 1915 the telephone directories list Albert Molyneux with an (additional) business address at Woolbrokers Chambers, 8 Young Street, Sydney (City 4693): this listing was to continue until April 1920.84 The office was on the third (top) floor in 1915 and on the first in 1917 and 1919. Woolbrokers’ Chambers stood on the south side of Young Street, at its junction with the west side of Goldsbrough Lane, with only the massive premises of Goldsbrough, Mort

9 and Company (at 2–6 Young Street) separating it from Albert Street and Circular Quay. Both buildings and Goldsbrough Lane were swept away in 1960 to make way for the towers of the AMP Insurance building which now dominate that end of Circular Quay.85

Later in 1915 came a brief move from New South Head Road to 5 Glendon Road [off Carlotta Street], Double Bay (Edgecliff 511).86 The house was on the west side of the road, between those of Henry Richardson and John Connell (at ‘Wyreepi’).

Albert Molyneux’s wife and children made a voyage to England in 1916 and left London for their return journey to Sydney aboard the Orient liner Osterley on 1 December, arriving on 26 January 1917..87

There was no residential listing for Albert Molyneux in the telephone directory for (April) 1916 or in the street directories of 1917 or 1918, but the telephone directories of 1917–1918 show a move to 473 Glenmore Road (Edgecliff 398), round the corner from New South Head Road. Although this listing is confirmed by the 1919 street directory, there is no residential listing in the telephone directories for October 1918 onwards.

473 lay on the east side of Glenmore Road, a little north of the Hampden (now Trumper) Oval and the Molyneuxs lived between Arthur Kirkby and James Bannon. The site (occupied now by an apartment unit numbered 471 (–473)) appears to have carried no dwellings until 1919: it seems, too, that 471 and 473 had already been replaced by 1927.88 The position of 473 is easy to identify from today’s property and from the 1950 plan. Photographs of the present 471 (– 473) and the original two-storey house at 475 are in the 1982 survey. 89 A rear view appears on the 1967 aerial photograph.90

The 1920 street directory shows a move across Glenmore Road to 422, a semi-detached bungalow which still stands, bearing the same number. It is the southern half of the middle bungalow of the three built between 1908 and 1915 between the stormwater channel and Walker Avenue.91 It is clearly shown on the (southward facing) 1967 aerial view.

Finally, by 1921 (when Ernest and Brenda were 14 and 8) there was another move ten further south to 98 Russell Avenue, Dolls Point.92 The electoral register for 192293 shows Albert and his wife both with votes at that address, Albert as a ‘general carrier’ and Frances with ‘house duties’, but it must be somehow significant that the street directories for 1921, 1922 and 1923 make no mention of Albert and list ‘Mrs M.F. Molyneux’ as a ‘carrier, 98 Russell Avenue, Sandringham (Botany Bay)’.

It is clear that 98 was then the first of two properties on the north side of Russell Avenue (on the steam tram route) between Napoleon Street and Clareville Avenue. Commencing a little eastwards of Napoleon Avenue was a swamp which still remains undrained. On the corner of Clareville Avenue was a grocer’s shop numbered 104 and kept by Mr Ireland (now replaced by Sans Souci library). Somewhere between swamp and shop stood 98.94

No photographs of the original houses in this part of Russell Avenue have survived, but two aerial photographs from c. 1937 and c. 1941 give general views of the area.95 The first, taken from the north-west, shows Dolls Point, Sandringham beach and the Sans Souci peninsula and includes the stretch of Russell Avenue from the beach at Dolls Point, almost to its intersection with Clareville Avenue. No. 98 is probably just off this picture to the right. The second photograph is a view of Sans Souci, showing the western half of Russell Avenue from Rocky Point Road to Napoleon Street and including the swamp beyond. Once again, no. 98 is just off the picture, to the right.

Deaths of Edward and Ellen Molyneux

In 1919 Edward Moyneux was living at 26 Orrell Lane, with his hay and straw business at 50 Longmoor Lane: by 1922 his residence was shown as 52 Longmoor Lane, with the business at 42 and 50.96 From 1922 the local telephone directory included ‘Molyneux, Edward, hay merchant, 50 Longmoor Lane (Walton 89)’.

10 On 11 July 1922 Edward Molyneux ‛hay and corn merchant’ made his will, providing for the sale of his shop and three cottages at 42—48 Longmoor Lane and the sale or lease of 50—52 Longmoor Lane. By then his sons Walter and Fred were in partnership with him: they were appointed trustees. Edward ‘hay merchant’ died at 50/52 Longmoor Lane on 12 September 1922 and after a service at Warbreck Moor Wesleyan church/Aintree Wesleyan chapel he was buried at Kirkdale cemetery, on Longmoor Lane, Aintree on 14 September.97

The will was proved on 25 October. Meanwhile Edward’s eldest son Albert Molyneux (‛carrier, 37’) sailed for England from the Orient Wharf on Sydney’s East Circular Quay on 3 October, travelling on the Orient Line Orsova via Melbourne, Adelaide, Colombo, Suez and Plymouth and arriving at Tilbury on 13 November.98 Albert’s family returned five months later after 13 years in Australia, sailing from Sydney on the Ormuz on 16 January 1923 and arriving at Tilbury after the five-week voyage on 23 February.99 By 1924 Albert was a fruiterer at 4 Woodchurch Lane, Prenton.

Edward Molyneux’s widow Ellen, of 20 Kingfield Road, Aintree died on 28 May 1928 at 9 Alexandra Road, .100

From 1930–1932 Albert Molyneux was caretaker of Brooke Road Methodist Church, at Chapel House, 4 Brooke Road. ‛Mrs Mary Molyneux’ and [her daughter] Brenda, both of Chapel House, Brooke Road were registered in December 1929 in the ‛Minister’s Tuesday class’ at Brooke Road Methodist church.101

From 1934–1936 Albert Molyneux was an insurance agent at ‘Sans Souci’, 19 Lower Lane, Fazakerley.102

Albert Molyneux died at 19 Lower Lane on 23 March 1936. The ‘devoted husband of Mary Frances Molyneux’ was buried at Kirkdale cemetery on 26 March.103

Meanwhile Albert’s brother Walter had taken over their father’s hay and straw business, at Longmoor Lane (opposite the Aintree Institute in Longmoor Lane, close to the junction with Warbreck Moor).104 Walter died at 52 Longmoor Lane on 10 August 1948, aged 57. The press notice called him ‛dearly beloved husband of Rene and father of Ted’. There was a funeral service at the house on 13 August, followed by interment at Kirkdale cemetery. By his will Walter left his estate to his widow Irene. Walter’s son Edward [Teddy] G. Molyneux took over the business in his turn.

Edward and Ellen Molyneux’s last-surviving son Frederick died on 1 February 1956 at 107 Rice Lane. The death notice gave the address 14 Alexandra Drive, Orrell (where he had lived since at least 1943) and called Fred ‛dearly beloved husband of the late Eva and dear father of Marjorie (Canada) and Pat.’ The funeral was at St John’s, Rice Lane, followed by interment at Kirkdale. Fred’s will made his daughter Patricia and sister-in-law Irene executrixes.

Walter’s widow Irene Levery Molyneux continued to live at 52 Longmoor Lane and is shown there in directories until 1966.105 Irene Molyneux lived later at Silloth, Cumbria, where she died on 28 January 1978: by her will she left her estate to her son Edward, with bequests (inter alia) to her grandsons Michael Anthony and Robert Allan Molyneux.106

APPENDIX 1

Margaret Molyneux and Edmund Brown

William and Charlotte Molyneux’s eldest child Margaret was the first to marry. Said to be ‘of Everton’, Margaret married Edmund Brown, an Everton labourer after banns, at St Mary’s, Kirkdale on 24 November 1873. The witnesses were Joseph and Ann Williams. Margaret and Edmund (by now a carter) then lived at Walton, where children Edmund (1877), Thomas W. (1879) and John Molyneux Brown (1881) were born.

At the 1881 census the Brown family were living at 120 Longmoor Lane, Walton where Edmund was a carter.107 With them were Margaret’s younger brothers Edward (then a 25-

11 year-old hay dealer employing two men) and William (21), a carter’s domestic servant and their sister Eleanor (19), a general domestic servant. In 1885 Edmund had a vote in respect of a house and shop at 98 Longmoor Lane.108

By 1891 Edmund and Margaret Brown were at High Moor House, Sandy Lane, Walton where Edmund was a hay dealer. Edmund, junior (14) was an office boy, while Thomas W. (12) and Mabel M. (four) were scholars.109

Margaret Brown died soon afterwards (probably ‛42, Liverpool, September 1892’).

On 12 December 1892 the press listed among ‛Adjudications in bankruptcy’ Edmund Brown of Warbreck Moor, Aintree, hay and straw dealer: his public examination closed in February. 110 On 29 April 1895 at Ormskirk parish church Edmund (‛widower, 41, haydealer, Street’) married Ellen Wareing, widow, also of Burscough Street.

Edmund was a hay and straw dealer at 23 Palace Road, Black Bull Lane in 1896. By 1901 Edmund (general labourer) and Ellen Brown were at 20 Seacombe Street, Toxteth with Mabel (14, born Aintree), Annie (12, born Ormskirk), together with three more children born since their marriage (Margaret, 5, born Ormskirk; Edith, 4, born Walton; and Gertrude, 3, born Liverpool). In 1911 Edmund was a corporation labourer at 24 Denton Street, Toxteth, with Ellen, Mabel Maud (24, dry cleaner’s assistant), Edith (14), Gertrude (13) and Florence (5). Edmond Brown died at Toxteth Park in 1917.111

John Molyneux and Mary Ashbrook

Five months after his father’s death, on 27 December 1877 John Molyneux (by then a plasterer living at Bromborough on the Wirral) married at Bromborough after banns Mary Leay Ashbrook, daughter of Joseph Ashbrook, a Bromborough boatman: one of the witnesses was John’s second sister Annie. The Ormskirk Advertiser noticed the marriage between ‛John, eldest son of the late W. Molyneux, Walton, late of Aintree to Mary Leay, fifth daughter of Mr J. Ashbrook, Magazine, Bromborough’.

John and Mary had at least five children. The eldest, Charlotte, was born at Bromborough at the end of 1878. John appears in the register of electors for Sandy Lane, Aintree in 1880. 112 A son William was born at Everton late in 1880 and baptised at St Peter’s, Aintree (son of ‘John Molyneux, plasterer, Longmoor Lane and Charlotte’[sic]). At the 1881 census John (a hay and straw dealer) and his family were at 141 Farnworth Street, West Derby.113

From 1884–1890 they were at 16 Wilburn Street, Walton, where John is shown as a ‘plasterer’ (1884 & 1886); ‘mill porter’ (1887); and ‘warehouseman’ (1887–90): sons Jack and Samuel were born there in 1885 and 16 September 1887; a son Joseph Ashbrooke Molyneux (1883– 1956) was born in 1883 and a daughter Margaret Leay Molyneux in 1890. In 1891 John was a ‛yard keeper, hay and straw business, 37’ in a cottage ‛by the Quadrangle, Rice Lane’ with Charlotte (12), William (10, born Aintree), and Joseph, John, Samuel and Margaret Leay (7, 6, 5 and 1, all born at Walton).

There were further children Edward, Charles W. (1896) Ann[ie] (c. 1892) and Margaret (May 1899). In 1894 and 1896 John is shown as a hay and straw dealer at 191–192 Rice Lane (between Rawcliffe Road and Yew Tree Road).

According to his nephew William Edward Molyneux, John was first a hay trusser and then a plasterer. With his brothers Edward and William he used the Rice House Hotel in Rice Lane, where the hay trade was plied. A heavy drinker, he was called ‘old rough whiskers’ because he seldom shaved.

In 1901 John and his family were at 51 Sandon Road, Rice Lane (Walton) with four sons and daughters: William (20, hay trusser, born Aintree), John (15, plumber and painter, Walton), Sam (13, Walton), Charles W. (5, Kirkdale), Margaret (11) and May (2) (both Walton).114 In 1908 they moved to a 5-room house at 78 Eastbourne Road, where they lived until 1913.

12 In 1911 John was a plasterer, with his wife Mary (56), four Walton-born sons and daughters Joseph Ashbrooke (28, clerk, fruit trade), John (26, plumber, building trade), Margaret Leay (factory worker) and Ann (19) and two born at Kirkdale (Charles, 15, an errand boy) and May (12).

John’s wife Mary died at Eastbourne Road in 1913, aged 58 and was buried on 10 March at Kirkdale cemetery, as was their son Samuel who died in April at Hornby Road, Bootle, aged 25.

John Molyneux died on 5 October 1923 at 14 Guildhall Road and was buried in the nonconformist section at Kirkdale cemetery (in the same grave as his wife, son, daughter Annie and an infant grandson).115 Administration of John’s estate was granted (in the sum of £704) to J.A. Molyneux, plumber of 28 Inglis Road, Liverpool.

Of John and Mary’s children, their daughter Charlotte married in 1899 John S. Pierce, a Philadelphia-born railway guard: in 1901 they were living at 45 Longfield Road, with a son John S. (9 months) and Charlotte’s brother Joseph, a joiner’s apprentice. 116 In 1911 John and Charlotte were at 18 Hornby Boulevard, Litherland with John and with Charlotte’s brother Samuel, a railway porter: John is shown here in the directories of 1912–1928.

I was told many years ago that John and Mary’s son William married Nancy Wolstenholme in c. 1904 and kept the post office and general store at , Downholland. I can find no trace of this marriage, but Walter and Ann Wolstenholme certainly kept the post office and store in 1901 and Walter died there in 1905, aged 31.117 William Molyneux then/before worked as a waggoner/motor driver and lived at 14 Guildhall Road from at least 1923–1935. A daughter Charlotte Leay Molyneux (born at Ormskirk in 1906) married Thomas Rigby, a Lydiate farm labourer in 1931.118

John and Mary’s son Jack was born in 1885 and married Florence Hughes (1885–19 December 1955) in 1911. Their children were: Florence M. (1912), John Austin (1914), Ronald (1917–1918), Charles S. (1919–1967), Joseph A. (1922–1924) and Kenneth (1926). 119 Jack was a plumber, living at 67 Eastbourne Road from at least 1915 until his death, aged 75, on 14 November 1960 (his funeral was at St Peter’s, Kirkdale).

Joseph Ashbrooke Molyneux (an Aintree clerk) married Margaret Finlay at Lydiate on 6 September 1911, with William and Margaret Lucy Molyneux as witnesses, and was a clerk at 47 Ivernia Road, Walton from 1913—1926 and a manager at 23 Everest Rd, Liverpool 23 in 1943. Joseph died on 27 January 1956 at 131 Sefton Road, Litherland: administration was granted to Eric A. Molyneux.

John and Mary’s daughter Annie died at the home of her brother Joseph in 1914, aged 22.120

Annie Molyneux and William Clare

It was almost certainly Annie who appears in the 1881 census returns as a servant in the household of Frederick Edwards (a timber salesman) at 6 Orrell Park, Walton.121 On 1 August of that year Annie, by now 23, married William Clare after banns, at St Mary’s, Kirkdale. Clare was of ‘full’ age, a groom [and coachman] from 67 Sandy Lane, Walton and the son of Joseph Clare, a platelayer. The witnesses were Annie’s brother-in-law Edmund Brown and Sarah Ann Meakin.

Annie and William Clare’s elder children were Charlotte Ann (1882), John Henry (1883), Florence (1884–1885),122 Ethel (1885) and Lily (1889). In 1891 the family were at 29 Walton Vale, where William was a carter: the children then were Charlotte (seven), John Henry, Ethel (five) and Lily (two).123

There were further children William Stanley (1893), Charles (1894) and Jessie (1897). In 1901 William was a ‛shop assistant, grocer’s, 40’, with Ann (42), Charlotte (18, dressmaker’s assistant), Ethel (15, mechanical dentist’s assistance), John (14, shop assistant, furnisher), Lily (12), William Stanley (7) and Jessie (4). In 1911 William (50) was a general carrier at 18

13 Cedardale Road, Fazakerley, with his wife Ann and John (27, grocer’s assistant, disengaged), Stanley (17, labourer), Ethel (25, dressmaker), Lily (22, wrapper) and Jessie (14).

Mrs Annie Clare was a draper at 16 Warbreck Moor in 1919—1920. William Clare died a master carter at 213 Warbreck Moor on 8 January 1938. He was 76 and was buried at Kirkdale. His widow Annie died of heart trouble ‘after much suffering’ six months later on 23 June 1938 at the home of her daughter Jessie Hill, in Fazakerley: the death was registered by Annie’s son-in-law Thomas Shenton. She was buried at Kirkdale after a service at the house.124

William and Annie’s daughter Ethel married an engineer Thomas Henry Shenton and lived at 26 Coerton Road. Thomas Shenton died on 23 March 1939 and was buried at Kirkdale. Ethel died at Coerton Road on 8 January 1959.

Jessie was married to John Rawlinson Hill, labourer and lived at 40 Grieve Road, Fazakerley. Jessie Hill was at Grieve Road in 1955, her husband having died 1949–1955.

By 1938 and until 1941 John Henry, a carter was at 66 Barry Street, Kirkdale.

By 1941 Charles was also a carter, at 64 Barry Street.125

William Molyneux and Eliza Riding

William was born at Aintree village in late 1861: his mother died when he was four and his father when he was 15. In 1871 he was still living at Mill Square, Aintree with his tailor uncle David Lloyd and his young sister Eleanor.

In 1881 William and Eleanor were domestic servants to their sister and brother-in-law Margaret and Edmund Brown at 120 Longmoor Lane.

On 3 May 1889 William, 29 and a Rice Lane labourer (probably by now working for his brother Edward), married Eliza, 27 and daughter of the late Jonathan Riding of Orrell Road, Walton. The marriage was after banns and the witnesses were Edward and Ellen Molyneux.

William and Eliza had three sons: William Edward (1890–1973); Harold (1891–?); and Charles Henry (1894–1972). William Edward was born at 12 Sydney Street, Walton: his father was then a carter. By 1891 the family were at 9 Eastbourne Road, where William was a haycutter. Charles Henry was born at 452 Rice Lane, when William was a hay and straw dealer. In 1901 the family were at 2, The Quadrangle, Rice Lane: William (39) was a haycutter, living with Eliza, William (11), Harold (9) and Charles (7). By 1908 he was a haycutter at 424 Rice Lane: in 1910 he was at 11 Coerton Road.

In 1911 William (49, haycutter) and Eliza were at 31 Coerton Road, with William Edward, Harold and Charles Henry (21, 19 and 17, all haycutters).

By 1917 William and Eliza were at 26 Grace Road: Eliza died there on 26 June 1917, aged 55. William died aged 65 on 19 March 1926 at 76 Eastbourne Road. Both were buried without a memorial stone in the general section of Kirkdale cemetery.126

William Edward married Mary Alice Ashcroft (1889–1942) in 1912. They were at Palace Road, Walton in 1915 and 26 Grace Road in 1916–37. Their infant daughter Beryl was buried at Kirkdale in January 1920. There was also an adopted son Ernest. Mary Alice died at 26 Edna Avenue, L10 in October 1949, aged 60 and was buried at Kirkdale. William Edward moved in 1955 to Moorgame Farm, Rainford. He died on 8 November 1973 and was buried at Rainford.

Harold was born in 1891 and married Lillie Williams at St Peter’s, Aintree in 1914: he was living then at 23 Coerton Road and his father William, senior was a haycutter. They had a daughter Mrs Trotter.

Charles Henry (the youngest) was born at 452 Rice Lane in February 1894 and married Ellen Bennett of Thurstaston. In 1933 he was a carter at 17 Finborough Road, Walton and then at 18 Long Lane, Aintree.127

14 Eleanor Molyneux and Thomas Constable

Eleanor married Thomas Constable, a Stafford-born railwayman and son of Thomas Valentine Constable, a publican at St Mary’s on 17 December 1883, after banns. Again both gave 98 Longmoor Lane as their address. The witnesses were Eleanor’s brother Edward and Eliza Riding, soon to marry their brother William.

Thomas was a bookkeeper at Signal Works Cottages, Fazakerley when Frances Eleanor was born on 13 October 1884 and baptised at St Peter’s, Aintree on 30 November. A son Thomas Clifford was born in 1886 and Richard Archibald in March 1888 (also baptised at St Peter’s), when the family were at 170 Longmoor Lane: they are also shown around this time at 98 Longmoor Lane.

From 1891–1905 Thomas was a signalman/bookkeeper at 15 Buckingham Road.128 In 1901 he was an assistant works manager, 41, with Eleanor (37), Frances E. (16), Thomas C. (14), Richard A. (13), Constance Amy. (11, born 1890), Florence Charlotte (9, born 1892), George Edgar (5, born 1895), John Charles (4, born 1897) and Ernest E. (2, born 1898). In 1906 they were at 398 Longmoor Lane (clerk) and in 1907 (when Thomas was in a signals works) they were at 7 First Avenue, moving in 1909 (until 1926) to 13 Higher Lane.

In 1911 Thomas (51) was a bookkeeper, with Eleanor, Constance Amy (21), Florence Charlotte (19, dressmaker), George Edgar (15, pattern maker), John Charles (14), Stella Augusta (9, born 1901), Harold Alexander (6, born 1904), Elsie Edna (3, born 1908).

Eleanor Constable died aged 51 at Higher Lane in March 1915 and was buried at Kirkdale.129

From 1930–5 a Thomas Constable, clerk was at 68 Adlam Road, Fazakerley and in 1938 and 1939 at 27 Goodacre Road, Liverpool, 9.

Thomas Clifford Constable, clerk (probably Thomas and Eleanor’s eldest son) was at 3 St John’s Avenue, 9 from 1940–1943.

William Clifford Constable, clerk (perhaps a grandson) was at 25 Childwall Lane, Roby in 1940–1946.

©T.M. Steel (14 March 2012)

15 NAME INDEX Adams, Bertha (nee Molyneux, 1887-) 7-8,22 Adams, Hugh 7-8,22 Allman, Harry Francis (1877-1939) 7 Allman, Mgt Ellen (nee Molyneux, 1883-1932) 7-8,22 Allman, Stanley Francis (1910-1980) 7,22 Ashbrooke, Jos. 12 Ashcroft, Mary Alice (nee Molyneux) 14 Banks, Ellen (fl. 1792) 2 Banks, Ellen (fl. 1792) 2 Bannon, Geo. 23 Bannon, Jas 9 Bell, Rbt 23 Bell, Wm 23 Bimpson, Richd 23 Braddon, Christine (nee Molyneux, b. 1948) Brown, Annie 12 Brown, Edith 12 Brown, Edmund 7,11,13-14,22 Brown, Edmund 11-12 Brown, Ellen (formerly Wareing) 12 Brown, Flo. 12 Brown, Gertrude 12 Brown, Jn Molyneux 11 Brown, Mabel M. 11-12 Brown, Mgt 12 Brown, Mgt (nee Molyneux) 6-7,11-12,14,22,24 Brown, Thos W. 11 Caunce, Ellen 23 Clare, Ann (nee Molyneux, 1858-1938) 6,13,22 Clare, Charlotte Ann 13 Clare, Chas 13 Clare, Edwd Jas 25 Clare, Flo. 13 Clare, Jn Henry 13 Clare, Joseph 13 Clare, Lily 13 Clare, Wm (d. 1938) 13,22 Clare, Wm Stanley 13 Clerc, Ruth 24 Connell, Jn 9 Constable, Constance Amy 14-15,25 Constable, Eleanor (nee Molyneux, 1863-1915) 6,14-15 Constable, Elsie Edna 15 Constable, Ernest E. 14,25 Constable, Flo. Charlotte 14-15,25 Constable, Frances Eleanor 14,25 Constable, Geo. Edgar 14-15,25 Constable, Harold Alexander 15 Constable, Jn Chas 14-15,25 Constable, Richard Archibald 14,25 Constable, Stella Augusta 15 Constable, Thos 14-15 Constable, Thos Clifford 14-15 Constable, Thos Valentine 14 Constable, Wm Clifford 15 Culshaw, Ernest 8 Culshaw, Mary Frances (see Molyneux) Culshaw, Ruth Lilian 8 Daniels, Jn 23 Dickinson family 5

16 Dickinson, Ann 4 Dickinson, Helen 4-5 Dickinson, Jos. 4 Dickinson, Thos 4 Edwards, Fred. 13 Fairbridge, Ann 23 Fazakerley, Alice 6 Fuller, Sir Geo. 25 Garvan, Edwd 23 Gill, Jean (nee Holder) Green, Jn 23 Halstead, Eliza 24 Harding, Ernest 25 Harding, Mgt Beatrice 25 Heaton, Ellen 23 Hickox, Sam. 23 Hill, Jessie (nee Clare) 13,25 Hill, Jn Rawlinson 13 Holder, Beatrice (nee Lyons) 22,24-25 Holder, Fred. W. 24 Holder, Jn Fred. Molyneux 24-25 Holland, Jn 2 Hughson, Jn 4 Hurst family 22 Hurst, Mgt (see Molyneux) Ireland, Mr 9 Jones, Wm 9 Kirkby, Arthur 9 Latham, Ann (nee Molyneux, b. 1832) 3-5,22 Latham, Jn 4 Latham, Rbt 4-5,22 Latham, Thos 4 Latham, Thos 4 Lea, Geo. 23 Lea, Geo. 23 Ledson family 22 Ledson, Dan. 7 Ledson, Eliz. 7 Ledson, Ellen (se Molyneux) Leyland, Eliz. 23 Lloyd family 23-24 Lloyd, Ann (f. Nevison, nee?) 5-7 Lloyd, Betty 7,24 Lloyd, Charlotte (see Molyneux) Lloyd, David 5,7 Lloyd, Griffith 5-7 Lloyd, Thos 7,24 Lockett, Jn 6 Lyons, Bea. Eliz. (nee Molyneux, 1898-1919) 8,22 Lyons, Jn King 8 Mackenzie, Jn 23 March, Wm 4 Meakin, Sarah Ann 13 Melling, Henry 4,23 Melling, Jn 4 Melling, Mary 4 Melling, Richd 4 Melling, Thos 4 Molyneux family (Orrell) 3 Molyneux family (SW Lancs) 1 Molyneux family (Upholland) 3

17 Molyneux family, earls of Sefton 6,23 Molyneux, Albt Edwd (1885-1936) 7-11,22,25 Molyneux, Albt Ernest (b. 1907) 8-11,22,24-25 Molyneux, Ales (nee Curry) 22 Molyneux, Alice (b. 1758, dau. of Jn) 2 Molyneux, Alice (d. 1812, dau.of Peter) 2 Molyneux, Ann 7,12-13 Molyneux, Anne 25 Molyneux, Beryl 14 Molyneux, Betty (d. 1830) 3 Molyneux, Betty (fl. 1803 & 1803-25) 3 Molyneux, Betty (nee Ball) 25 Molyneux, Catherine (b. 1809, dau. of Peter) 2 Molyneux, Catherine (fl. 1766, 1773) 1-2 Molyneux, Catherine (fl. 1773, dau. of Jn) 2 Molyneux, Catherine (nee Yates) 1-2 Molyneux, Catherine (nee Yates) 22 Molyneux, Charles S. 13,25 Molyneux, Charlotte (b. 1878) 12 Molyneux, Charlotte (nee Lloyd, 1832-1862) 1,5-7,14,24 Molyneux, Charlotte Leay 13 Molyneux, Chas Henry 25 Molyneux, Chas Henry 14,25 Molyneux, Colin 25 Molyneux, Doreen 25 Molyneux, Easter (nee Smith, m. 1712) 1 Molyneux, Edwd (1856-1922) 1,6-8,11,14,22,25 Molyneux, Edwd Gullen (1924-1985) 8-11,22,25 Molyneux, Eileen 25 Molyneux, Eleanor 7,11 Molyneux, Eliz. (fl. 1803) 3 Molyneux, Eliz. (fl. 1803) 3 Molyneux, Eliz. (b. 1798, dau. of Peter) 2 Molyneux, Eliz. (b. 1804, dau. of Peter) 2 Molyneux, Eliz. (b. 1826, dau. of Jn) 3-5 Molyneux, Eliz. (fl. 1843) 4 Molyneux, Eliz. (nee ?, d. 1832) 2,3 Molyneux, Eliz. (nee Turner, m. 1792) 2 Molyneux, Eliza (nee Riding, d. 1917) 13-14,22 Molyneux, Ellen 25 Molyneux, Ellen (c. 1733-1813, wid.) 2 Molyneux, Ellen (nee Ledson, 1857-1928) 1,6-8,11,14,22,25 Molyneux, Ernest 14 Molyneux, Ernest (1894-1895) 8 Molyneux, Ernest (s of Wm) 24 Molyneux, Eva (nee Capstick) 8,11 Molyneux, Flo. 13,25 Molyneux, Flo. (nee Hughes) 13 Molyneux, Flo. (nee Pryce) 25 Molyneux, Fred. (1890-1956) 8,10-11,22 Molyneux, Geo. (fl. 1731) 22 Molyneux, Geo. (fl. 1758) 22 Molyneux, Geoffrey 25 Molyneux, Harold 14 Molyneux, Henry (fl. 1674) 1 Molyneux, Humphrey (fl. 1717) 1 Molyneux, Humphrey Thos (b. 1681, s. of Thos) 1 Molyneux, Irene (nee Gullen, d. 1978) 8,11,25 Molyneux, Jack 13,25 Molyneux, Jas (c. 1788-1839) 2 Molyneux, Jean 25

18 Molyneux, Jean 25 Molyneux, Jn 7,12 Molyneux, Jn (1800-1858, s. of Peter) 1,3-4 Molyneux, Jn (1853-1923) 6,13,22 Molyneux, Jn (1892-1892) Molyneux, Jn (b. 1735, s. of Thos 1 Molyneux, Jn (b. 1760, s. of Jn) 2 Molyneux, Jn (b. 1796, s. of Jn) 2 Molyneux, Jn (d. 1781) 2 Molyneux, Jn (d. 1783) 2 Molyneux, Jn (d. 1793) 2 Molyneux, Jn (d. 1830) 3 Molyneux, Jn (fl. 1685) 1 Molyneux, Jn (fl. 1766) 1-2 Molyneux, Jn (fl. 1841 & 1843) 4 Molyneux, Jn (hus. of Cath. & f. of Jn) 1-2 Molyneux, Jn (m. 1735) 1 Molyneux, Jn (m. 1741) 22 Molyneux, Jn (m. C. Yates 1757) 2 Molyneux, Jn Austin 13,25 Molyneux, Jn Wm (see Latham) Molyneux, Jos. Ashbrook 13 Molyneux, Kenneth 13 Molyneux, Lucy (nee Hunter) 25 Molyneux, Mary (d. 1758) 22 Molyneux, Mary (nee Ashbrook, d. 1813) 13 Molyneux, Mary (nee Gaskell, d. 1821) 3 Molyneux, Mary Frances (nee Culshaw, b.1885) 8-11,22,24-25 Molyneux, Mary Leay 12 Molyneux, Mgt (b. 1807, dau. of Peter) 2 Molyneux, Mgt (d. 1684/5, w. of Thos) 1 Molyneux, Mgt (d. 1770) 1 Molyneux, Mgt (nee Finlay) 13 Molyneux, Mgt (nee Hurst, m. 1824, d. 1835) 1,3,8 Molyneux, Mgt (nee Kenyon, m. 1734/5, d.1770) 1 Molyneux, Michael Anthony 11,25 Molyneux, Mr (fl. 1841-1843) 4 Molyneux, Mrs (fl. 1843) 4 Molyneux, Mrs jnr (fl. 1842) 4 Molyneux, Mrs snr (fl. 1842) 4 Molyneux, Nancy (nee Parker) 25 Molyneux, Nancy (nee Wolstenholme) 13 Molyneux, Pat. 25 Molyneux, Pat. 25 Molyneux, Peter (1821-1821) 3 Molyneux, Peter (b. 1766, s. of Jn & Cath.) 1-2 Molyneux, Peter (b. c.1830, s. of Jn) 3-5 Molyneux, Peter (c. 1761-1830) 1,3 Molyneux, Peter (m. 1792 Betty Turner) 2 Molyneux, Richd 4 Molyneux, Richd (d. 1776, s. of Jn) 2 Molyneux, Richd (fl. 1674) 1 Molyneux, Richd (fl. 1691) 1 Molyneux, Robt (1780-1834) 2 Molyneux, Robt (d. 1830) 3 Molyneux, Robt Allan 11,25 Molyneux, Sam. 21 Molyneux, Sarah (f. Melling, nee Peet, d. 1857) 4,22 Molyneux, Thos 4 Molyneux, Thos (fl. 1714) 1 Molyneux, Thos (b. 1665, s. of Jn) 1

19 Molyneux, Thos (b. 1674, s. of Henry) 1 Molyneux, Thos (b. 1691, s. of Richd) 1 Molyneux, Thos (b. 1714, s. of Thos) 1 Molyneux, Thos (b. 1737, s. of Thos & Mgt) 23 Molyneux, Thos (d. 1685) 1 Molyneux, Thos (d. 1717, s. of Humphrey) 1 Molyneux, Thos (fl. 1681) 1 Molyneux, Thos (fl. 1737) 1 Molyneux, Thos (m. 1712) 1 Molyneux, Thos (m. 1734/5) 1 Molyneux, Walter (1890-1948) 8,10-11,22,25 Molyneux, Wm 25 Molyneux, Wm 7-8,11,14,22 Molyneux, Wm 6-7 Molyneux, Wm (1824-1877) 1,3-6,14,22-24 Molyneux, Wm (s of Jn) 13 Molyneux, Wm Edwd 7,14,24 Moorcroft, Rbt 5,23 Moss, Richd 23 Ogburn, Eric R. 24 Ogburn, Marjorie (nee Molyneux) 8,11,24 Parkes, Percy 9 Pierce, Charlotte (nee Molyneux) 13 Pierce, Jn 13 Pitman, Chas 9 Pope, Edwd 24 Pyke, Wm 23 Richardson, Henry 9 Riding, Jonathan 14 Rigby, Henry 23 Rigby, Jas 23 Rigby, Mgt 23 Rimmer, Jn 7 Ritchie, Doris Mgt (nee Allman, 1907-1963) 7,22 Ritchie, Jn 21 Ryding, Jn 23 Sangster, Dr 8 Scott, Miss 9 Sharrock, Jane 23 Sheehy, Mrs Catherine 9 Shenton, Ethel (nee Clare) 13,25 Shenton, Thos H. 13 Shevlin, Lawrence 23 Sinclair, David H. 24 Sinclair, Patricia Ann (nee Molyneux) 8,11,24 Smith, Ellen (nee Shaw) 8 Smith, Hugh 2 Smith, Thos 4 Spencer, Mary 5,23 Steel, Brenda Mary (nee Molyneux, 1913-2010) 9-11,22,25 Steel, Thos Molyneux 25 Sullivan, Jn 23 Sumner, Jn 23 Swift, Mary Ann 4 Swift, Thos 4 Trotter, Mrs 14 Tysoe, Jos. 9 Uhr, F.H. 9 Vizard, Sam. 23 Vose, Jn 7 Walsh, Martin 23

20 Watkinson, Jas 23 Williams, Ann 11 Williams, Jos. 11 Williams, Lillie (nee Molyneux) 14 Winrow, Rbt 23

Copy documents in author’s collection* The of Lancs: Molineux (pp. 21—24) Visitation of Lancs, 1533 (Molyneux) Communicants & cmbs Crossbrook & St James’, Orrell: L.A., RC Or L.A., Rc Or, 1803: opening folio of 1st register L.A., Rc Or, 1824: bap. of Wm Molineux Photo card of Upholland church, c. 1971 Photos of St Mary’s RC chapel, Aughton T.N.A., HO 107/522/5 /9/4v–5r/1 (1841 census, Gantley Ln., Billinge: Jn & Sarah M) M. cert of Wm Molyneux, 1850; D. cert 1877; Bur. Cert., 1877 T.N.A., HO 107/2201/135 /42 (1851 census, Tontine, Upholland: Jn & Sarah Molyneux) D. certs: Sarah & Jn Molyneux, 1857 & 1858; M. cert. Ann M & Rbt Latham, 1859 B. certs Jn & Edwd Molyneux, 1853 & 1856 T.N.A., RG 9/2726 (1861 census, Mill Ln, Aintree) Photo of Mill Square, Aintree D & Bur certs: Charlotte Molyneux, T.N.A., RG 10/3835 (1871 census, Fletcher’s Farm, Kirkby Liv. R.O., Notes on history of Liv. Methodism: ‛Wesleyan Methodist Church: N Liverpool’ M. cert. Mgt M & Edmund Brown, 1873 ; Annie M & Wm Clare, 1881; Wm M & Eliza Rideing, 1889; Eleanor M & Thos Constable, 1883 T.N.A., RG 11/3688 (1881 census, 120 Longmoor Lane) 1881 Map of Liverpool & Environs (Longmoor Ln & Warbreck Moor) Photos of houses in Longmoor Lane & Warbreck Moor, 1994 & 2009 ?Photo of Edwd Molyneux, c. 1882 M Cert. Edwd Molyneux & Ellen Ledson, 1882 ?Wedding photo of Edwd Molyneux & Ellen Ledson, 1882 1882, 1883,1892, 1899, 1909: Gore’s Dir., Longmoor Ln. ?Photo of Ellen Molyneux with [?eldest] child [Mgt] B. certs Sam. M, 1887; Bertha Molyneux, 130 Longmoor Ln, 1887 ?Photo of Edwd & Ellen Molyneux & 3 children [?eldest, ie Mgt, Albert & Bertha], c. 1888 T.N.A., RG 12/2975/123/20 (1891 census, 31 Warbreck Moor) 1892: Gore’s Dir., Warbreck Moor 1893 Map 25” , 3 sheets (Warbreck Moor & Rice Lane) Photo of Walter & Fred Molyneux, 1893 1899 & 1909: Gore’s Dir., Rice Ln. Photo of Mgt Ellen Molyneux (later Allman), mother of Stanley & Doris M Cert. Albert Edwd Molyneux & M.F. Culshaw, 1906 Photo of Albert Edwd Molyneux & son Ernest en route to Australia, ss Moravian, Nov. 1909 M Cert. Bertha Molyneux, 26 Orrell Ln, 1911 Photos of Bertha Adams (nee Molyneux), 1911 & c. 1942 Photos of Beatrice Eliz. Lyons (nee Molyneux), ??, ??, 1918, 1918 & c. 1918 Photo of Edwd Molyneux, (with his car!) & wife Ellen, daughter Mgt Allman & grandson Stanley Allman, c. 1920 Photo of same car, with Edwd Molyneux’s dau. Bertha, her future husband Hugh Adams & ‛Aunty Maggie’ (perhaps Ellen Molyneux’s sister Mgt Ledson, b. 1867), c.1920 ‛Sans Souci’ [history of], pp. 100—101, 104—107 Will of Edwd Molyneux, 1922 Wills of Edwd & Ellen Molyneux, Distribution accounts, 1922 Aerial view of Black Bull, c. 1931-5, showing ‛Edwd Molyneux’s Hay & Corn Merchants (opposite Aintree Institute Building) D certs Annie Clare, 1938 & M.Frances Molyneux, 1971 Photos of Edwd G Molyneux (1924-1985), c. 1942

21 Photo of ‛A group of workers at Edwd Molyneux & Sons, Hay, Straw & Corn Merchants, Longmoor Ln, Liverpool, c. 1950 Photo of wedding of Jn Ritchie, a gt-grands. of Edwd Molyneux (showing Edwd’s grandchn Stanley Allman [2nd lt], Brenda Steel [3rd rt] & Beatrice Holder [far rt]; J.R. is s. of another granddau. Doris Ritchie (Stanley & Doris were children of Mgt Allman [née Molyneux]; Brenda was dau. of Albert Molyneux; Beatrice was only child of Beatrice Lyons [née Molyneux]

22 1 See also T.M. Steel, ‛Hurst of Orrell’; ‛Lloyd of N. Wales & Altcar’; ‛Ledson of Melling’: http://tsgf.pbworks.com (online, 2011) 2 R. McKinley, The Surnames of Lancs (London, 1981), pp. 21–24; P.H. Reaney, A Dictionary of British Surnames (London, 1976), p. 242; C.W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames (London, 1901), p. 537. Alternatively it may be an occupational name from French molineur (miller). Molyneux was the name of earls of Sefton, a family with large landholdings in S.W. Lancs 3 Another Peter, s. of Geo. Mollineux, was bap. Kirkby 2 Apr. 1758, but Peter, s. of Geo. Molyneux was bur. there 13 Sept. 1760; when other children of Geo. were bap. there, he was of ‛’; Mary, w. of Geo. was bur. 24 Oct. 1758 & Geo. (‘of Fazakerley’) m. again 24 Apr. 1758 [W.L. French (ed.), The Registers of Kirkby, St Chad’s Chapelry (Knowsley, 1977)]; for christenings, marriages & burials [hereafter cmbs] Prescot: J. Drabble (ed.), ‘The Registers of the Parish of Prescot, 1665–1726’, Lancs Parish Register Soc. [hereafter L.P.R.S.] (149), 2000; ‘1727–1765’, L.P.R.S. (156), 2003. [One Geo. Molyneux m. Ales Curry after banns at Sefton 7 Dec 1731 (both ‛this parish’) & a s. Thos was bap. 23 Oct1737 (s. of Geo. Molyneux, Ince [Blundell]] 4 For cmbs Farnworth: R. Dickinson & V. & N. Hudson (eds), ‘The Registers of Farnworth, 1698–1743’, L.P.R.S., M16 & 17 (1998 & 2000) 5 Curiously one Jn Molyneux had m. Catherine Yates (both of Ormskirk) at Ormskirk 30 Mar. 1741 6 Both marked & wits were Jas & Henry Rigby: D.J. Browning & F.R. Pope (eds), ‘The Registers of the Chapel of Billinge, 1696–1812’, L.P.R.S. (123), 1986 7 Lancs Archives [formerly Lancs Record Office, hereafter L.A.], QSP/2309/57 8 J. Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England, 1700–1870 (London, 1979), p. 128, quoting A. Aspinall, The Early English Trades Unions (1949), p. 19 9 For cmbs Upholland: L.A., PR 2907/1/4 10 For cmbs Wigan: Wigan Record Office [hereafter Wig. R.O.], DP 24/1/5 (1796); cmbs 1711—1754 are at 24/1/2—3; Cs from 1754 are at 1/4 onwards 11 The 1st & 2nd Jns would have been 24 & almost 20, 40 & 40, 54 & 51, 62 & 58 respectively 12 L.A., QDL/WD/60; T.N.A., IR 23/40, f. 823v 13 D. Anderson, The Orrell Coalfield, Lancs, 1740–1850 (Buxton, 1975), p. 143 14 E.S. Worrall (ed.), ‘Returns of Papists, 1767, Diocese of Chester, Catholic Record Soc., occasional paper 1 (1980), p. 64 15 For communicants & cmbs St Serenus, Crossbrook & St James’, Orrell: L.A., DDX 421/27 16 Wig. R.O., DP 24/1/38; wits Sam. Hickox & Sam. Vizard (probably the clerk) 17 Wig. R.O., DP 24/1/38; wits Jn Ryding & Vizard 18 Obviously named after his grandfather, who d. Jan. 1830 19 Wig. R.O., DP 24/1/40: both marked the register: wits Jn Green & Vizard; DP 24/1/38 20 Liverpool Mercury, 29 Jan. 21 T.N.A., HO 107/522/5/9/4v–5r/1* (Census records 1841 are cited with 6 elements: class [HO 107]/piece/book/enumeration district/folio/page): Gantley Ln. enumerated before Great Moss 22 Registered Wigan, Sept. 23 T.N.A., HO 107/2201/135 /42* (Census records 1851 & onwards are cited with 4 elements: class [e.g. HO 107]/piece/folio/page) 24 L.A., Rc Or 25 Henry Melling was a coal-miner at Far Moor 1871: Far Moor was the centre of Orrell’s nail-making industry 26 T.N.A., RG 9/2784/25/17 27 T.N.A., RG 11/3782/21/11 28 T.N.A., RG 11/3757/10/14 29 T.N.A., RG 9/2783/70/11 30 T.N.A., RG 10/3896/100/10 31 Longshaw was the S. limit of the Orrell collieries 32 For cmbs at Ormskirk & Melling: www.lan-opc.org.uk (Lancashire parish clerks, online) 33 T.N.A., HO 107/2197/335/5* 34 Ordnance survey (1850, surveyed 1849), 5 feet to 1 m., sheet 3; T.N.A., IR 30/18/232 (‘1846?); A. Coney (ed.), R. Rawlinson, The Ormskirk Board of Health Report, 1850 (Preston, 1991), p. 47 35 L.A., DDK/1523/14 & 15 36 Sequence: Eliz. Leyland, Jn Daniels (stonemason), Spencer, Moorcroft, Jn Mackenzie (Chelsea pensioner), Rbt Winrow (silk hand-loom weaver), Rbt Bell (joiner), Jane Sharrock (lodging house), Richd Moss (agricultural labourer), Richd Bimpson (stay-maker), Ann Fairbridge (beerseller), Jas Watkinson (blacksmith), Geo. Lea (tailor), Molyneux, Ellen Caunce (charwoman & seamstress), Mgt Rigby (dressmaker), Jn Sumner (joiner), Martin Walsh (agricultural labourer, a lodging house with 27 Irish inmates), Geo. Bannon (shoemaker), Jn Sullivan (agricultural labourer, with 13 lodgers), Wm Bell (ropemaker) & Edwd Garvan (with 17 lodgers); the court roll 1851 uses a very similar sequence with Lawrence Shevlin & Ellen Heaton appearing between Walsh & Sumner, Wm Pyke after Mrs Rigby, Geo. Lea in place of Sharrock & Bell: Daniels & Spencer are missing 37 Rawlinson, Board of Health Report, pp. 29–30 38 Rawlinson, Board of Health Report, p. 9 39 B. of Female [no Christian name] Molyneaux reg. Warrington Mar. 1852, 8c 117 40 No Molyneuxs or Lloyds occur in Hale or Halewood census returns 1851 41 L.A., RC Au/1; no other Molyneuxs occur in these registers, 1847–99 42 Registered Ormskirk Dec. 43 T.N.A., RG 9/2726/6/2 44 He does not occur there 1865 or from 1870 45 T.N.A., RG 10/3835/37r/41* The Lloyds were perhaps relatives of Wm’s late w: in 1851 Thos (b. , c. 1822) was a shopkeeper at School Ln, Kirkby & in 1881 at 3 Wilton Gr., W. Derby, with his w. & grands. Wm (b. Childwall, c. 1868) 46 Oral info. from late W.E. Molyneux 47 T.N.A., RG 10/3870/117/8 & 3871/52/1 48 T.N.A., RG 10/3838/9/11 49 T.N.A., RG 10/3872/13/20* 50 Although he seems not to have been living there 1878 or 1881: see p. 11: L.A., EL 2/4 (SW Division) 51 T.N.A., RG 11/3688/103/11* 52 Liverpool Mercury7 Nov. 53 B. at W. Derby Dec. 1907 & Dec. 1910 54 Gore’s Dir. of Liverpool & Environs, 1885 55 L.A., EL 2/5/SW/II (qualifying date 31/12/1884) 56 424 Rice Lane (next door but two to St John’s, Walton) has been long demolished; the 1890 electoral register has Edwd at 130 Longmoor Lane: L.A., EL 3/2/3; 57 Mar. 1924 58 Marjorie m. Eric Ralph Ogburn 1942 & emigrated to Canada: they had one s. Michael. Pat. was living with her father at 14 Alexandra Dr., Orrell Park prior to his d. 1956: she m. David H. Sinclair: they live in Stirling, Scotland 59 Beatrice (b. 1918) m. Fred. W. Holder at Bromley, 1939: their children were Jn F. Molyneux Holder & Jean, b. 1941 & 1944 60 *photo 61 T.N.A., RG 12/2975/123/20*: the sequence of enumerated houses was 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 27, 29, 31, 102, 100, 104,98, 106; at 29 was Eliza Halstead, a Yorkshire wid. & her young family; at 27 Edwd Pope, a cowkeeper; 100 & 104 were empty; at 98 was a public house caretaker; & at 106 a corn a& provision merchant 62 Liverpool Mercury, 24 Mar. 1892; Walton local board briefly became an urban district council 1895, before being absorbed into Liverpool city 63 L.A., EL 3/3/3 (1894: 199 Warbreck Moor) 64 20 Dec. 65 *Photo of Esso filling station, now replaced by a ‛Tesco Express’ 66 Info. from late Ruth Clerc, a sister of Edwd’s dau.-in-law M.F. Molyneux; there seems no record of a ‛Knowles House’; the 1896 dir. has Edwd (‛hay & straw dealer’) at 424 Rice Ln. & 199 Warbreck Moor 67 Info. from R. Clerc 68 Info. from Liverpool Record Office [hereafter Liv. R.O.] 69 Methodist Central Hall, Historic Roll, Liverpool District, Bootle, Aintree, f. 153. Subscriptions were also paid by Edwd’s younger brother Wm & his s. Ernest 70 T.N.A., RG 13/3451/143/1; Mgt Ellen & Bertha were staying with their mother’s sister Annie Chambers & her family at Rocky Lane (see T.M. Steel, ‛Ledson of Melling’) 71 Gore’s Dirs of Liverpool & Environs, 1909, 1913, 1915 72 Sept. , W. Derby, 8b 310 73 Gore’s Dirs of Liverpool & Environs, 1906–1910; this road joins Longmoor Ln., opposite 120 74 [J.] Sands [Ltd], Sydney, Suburban Country & Commercial Dir: info. in these dirs is usually 12 mos out-of- date 75 Commonwealth of Australia, N.S.W. Telephone Exchanges, List of Subscribers 76 Available for 1913, 1915–1917, 1919 & 1922; a state roll for 1912 also survives 77 Tysoe lived at Fitzroy St corner. See N. Sydney City Lib., re rate books, maps,photographs; see Mitchell Lib., Picman, for a photo. of another Milson St house. Milson St was later demolished completely to make way for the N. approach to the Harbour Bridge 78 199 had been a wine merchants’ shop 1911. This & the family’s next 4 addresses in the area were variously described as in Darling point, Edgecliff & Paddington, all in Paddington municipality; N.S.W. State electoral roll, 1912 79 124–49/11/AA 617 (1967); 124–95/15/AA 617 (1967); see also MI 72–4123 80 The 1912 state electoral roll shows A.E.M. at 199, voting at Darling Point. 197, 199 & 201–203 were re- numbered 183, 185 & 187 in 1914 81 N.T. Survey: 23/11/1982, proof sheet 99/40–42a 82 1913, 1915–1917: division of Wentworth, sub-division of Woollahra (‘A.E.M., carrier & Mary Francis [sic], home duties’) 83 See refs for 199. Another rather earlier photograph shows New S. Head Rd., Edgcliffe, but only Rushcutters Bay & its immediately adjacent shops can be seen in detail: Woollahra Lib., PF 825 84 In Oct. 1919 there was a second business line: (B) 2714 85 Woolbrokers Chambers just visible on some photographs of Circular Quay in Mitchell Lib. Collection, e.g. those of 1888, 1890, 1892, 1905, 1912, 1929 & c. 1950 86 Telephone dir., Aug.: shown by 1916 street dir. as 4 Glendon Rd 87 Mary Frances (29), Albt Ernest (7) & Brenda Mary (2, recte 3) 88 Part of Lot 16 of the Booth estate at Rushcutters Bay, sold 20 Dec. 1900 89 Proof sheet 2?/24 & 26 90 124–49/11/AA 617 91 3 buildings remain, although ½ of that adjacent to the storm channel has been demolished 92 Variously described as Dolls Point, Sans Souci & Sandringham & now in city of Rockdale 93 Barton division, sub-division of Kogarah 94 From 1923 an additional household (without a plot number) was shown between 98 & 104 95 City of Rockdale Lib. 96 Gore’s Dir. of Liverpool & Environs, 1919 97 Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/1 (bur. register) (N/c section 3/95); /8/2 (order book) 98 Address given as 50 Longmoor Ln., Aintree 99 (ages 38, 15 & 9): address shown as 39 Chapel Ave., Aintree; single fares from Brisbane were £45, £93 & £186 (3rd, 2nd & 1st class); the Premier of New S. Wales (Sir Geo. Fuller) was also a passenger from Sydney 100 Of Edwd & Ellen Molyneux’s 10 gt-grandchildren the only ones who still carry the Molyneux are the ss of Edwd G (and their ss): two others (Thos, s. of Brenda Steel & John, s. of Beatrice Holder) have Molyneux as an additional Christian name 101 Liv. R.O., records of Liverpool N. Methodist circuit 102 Kelly’s Dirs, 1924–1925, 1930–1936. Another fruiterer had taken over at Prenton by 1925 & another caretaker at Brooke Rd by 1933 103 Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/1/14 (bur. register); /8/2/183 (order book) 104 Liverpool & District Hay & Straw Dealers Ass. 105 Not 1968 106 Walter & Irene’s s. Edwd Molyneux was m. to Betty Audrey Ball at St Stephen, Twickenham, 1944 & children (Michael) Anthony & (Robt) Allan were b. to them (1945 & 1948); ‛Edward G. Molyneux’ & Betty lived 4 Claremont Ave, and later at Sorrento, Turnpike Rd, Aughton & Meadow Dr., Aughton Green. Edwd d. 26 Dec. 1985 107 Mgt had been b. ‛Halewood’: T.N.A., RG 11/3688/103/11 108 L.A., EL 2/5/SW/II & MF 19/36 109 T.N.A., RG 12/2975/93/14 110 Liverpool Mercury, 12 Dec. & 10 Feb. 111 Edmd appears as a ‛corporation employee’ at 24 Denton St in dirs 1917 & 1919 112 L.A., EL 2/4/SW 113 T.N.A., RG 11/3708/72/35 114 T.N.A., RG 13/3452/105/28 115 Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/796 (no memorial stone) 116 T.N.A., RG 13/3449/131/5 117 In 1911 Jas & Mgt Townsend kept the Haskayne post office & shop 118 Neither Charlotte nor her parents have been found in 1911 census returns 119 Jack’s dau. Flo. Molyneux d. c. 1970/1; Jn Austin, a plumber (b. 1914) m. Lucy Hunter 1937: they had daus Jean (1941) & Pat. (b. 1947); Chas Sam. (1919–1967) d. 67 Eastbourne Rd 1967; Ken., a plumber, lived 15 Kingsfield Rd, Maghull 120 One Mary Ashbrooke Molyneux (b. 1912) m. Thos N. Lloyd, a Lydiate dairyman 1935. One Mary Leay Molyneux m. Geo. Don. Townsend, a painter, 1924: they lived 67 Eastbourne Rd & had daus Eileen (1925), Doreen (1930) & Patricia 121 T.N.A., RG 11/3688/57/41 122 Bur. Kirkdale cemetery: Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/1/1 (CE 4) [1014?] 123 T.N.A., RG 12/2975/119/12; 1901 they were at 12 Longmoor Ln: Ethel was a ‘mechanical dentist’s assistant’, with another dau. Jessie (4) (RG 13/3451/69/6) 124 Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/1/1 (CE 4, no stone) [1014?] 125 By 1968 one Edwd Jas Clare was at 64 126 Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/796 127 Chas Henry & Ellen had children Chas Henry (b. 6 May 1922, m. Flo. Pryce St Peter’s, Aintree 1942, s. Colin & d. Jean); Wm (m. Nancy Parker 28 Dec. 1942, children Geoffrey & Anne); dau. Mgt Beatrice (b. 3 Apr. 1925, m. Ernest Harding 6 Dec. 1947) 128 1891 census shows him there as a ‘clerk cotton’, with Frances (1), Thos C. (4), Richd A. (3) & Constance (1); 1901 also Flo. (9), Geo. E. (5), John C. (4) & Ernest E. (2): T.N.A., RG 12/2975/115/3; 13/3451/102/16 129 C.E. Section 11/598: Liv. R.O., 352 CEM/8/2/126 (order book, no. 6Z685)