Corporal Robert Isherwood 2232

There were 4 CWGC results for Robert Isherwood, one of them was in the King's Liverpool Regiment and the 'other information' gave his address as Gwendoline Street, very close to St James' church

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Robert Isherwood was born in West Derby in 1875 to parents Peter and Mary Ann Isherwood. They lived at 44 Howe St, Bootle and Robert and his sister Florence were baptised together on 26th Sept 1875. Peter Isherwood was a Labourer.

source ancestry.co.uk

In the 1881census the family were living at 44 Howe St, Peter Isherwood was working as a 'lime man'. Robert was 5 years old and it says he was born in Ireland.

In the 1891 census they were living at 58 St John's Road,Bootle. Peter Isherwood was working as a foreman stevedore and Robert, aged 15,was a dock labourer. This census says that he was born in Bootle.

At the time of the 1901 census they were living at 47 Keble Rd. Peter's occupation was joiner and Robert was a carpenter's labourer.

In 1901 Robert Isherwood married Isabella Gutcher in St Matthew's Church, Bootle. Robert was 25 and his address was 6 Miranda Rd. Peter's occupation on the marriage certificate was labourer.

Robert and Isabella's daughter, Isabella Mary, was born on 8th Dec 1902. 

Robert's wife Isabella died on 19th Dec and was buried, aged 25, on 22nd Dec 1902.

Isabella Mary was then baptised twice, first on 29th Dec 1902 in St Paul's North Shore in Liverpool then on 6th Jan 1903 at St John's Church, Bootle. Both were private baptisms. For both baptisms their address was 6 Miranda Rd, Bootle.

16th Dec 1910 Robert's mother died and the national probate calendar of wills shows that she lived at St James Place, Liverpool and left £120 12s to her husband Peter, retired licensed victualler.

In the 1911 census Peter Isherwood was living on his own in Bootle and the house at 15 St James place was now the home of his married daughter Agnes Wood.  Robert and Isabella Mary were enumerated at Agnes's house. This is adjacent to St James Church and explains why he was included on the memorial.  Robert's occupation was Merchant Mariner.

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On 11th August 1914, Robert Isherwood volunteered for the Territorial Force. His papers have survived in the pensions collection.

His attestation paper shows that he lived at 69 Windsor St (right by St James Church) He enlisted for 4 years.

Robert was 38 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall.

He was placed in the 7th Battn the King's Liverpool Regiment with the regimental number 2232.

He was examined for field services 3rd Feb 1915 and found fit.

He served with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 07/02/15 to 16/05/15

On 8.5.1915 he was promoted in the field to corporal

On 16th May 1915 Robert Isherwood was reported wounded and missing. It is noted on his military history sheet 'having died on or since 16.05.15'

Several papers in the file show that Robert's daughter Isabella then lived with her aunt Agnes Wood at 69 Windsor Street and Agnes completed the forms to receive Isabella's 'separation allowance' as a motherless child of a deceased soldier.

His medal card (source: ancestry.co.uk)

UK Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919

Name:	Robert Isherwood
Birth Place:	Bootle, Liverpool
Residence:	Liverpool
Death Date:	16 May 1915
Death Location:	France & Flanders
Enlistment Location:	Bootle
Rank:	Corporal
Regiment:	King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Battalion:	7th Battalion
Number:	2232
Type of Casualty:	Killed in action
Theatre of War:	Western European Theatre

click here to see the CWGC entry for Robert Isherwood (opens in new window)

Owen Owen - help please!

Here's one that I need some help with:

Owen Owen

That's all I have! Surprisingly, this is a very common name.

the CWGC has 3 results for Owen Owen with Liverpool in the 'other information' these men are:
Owen Owen
Owen Hugh Owen and
Owen Rawson Owen

Assuming that the family would have included a middle name on the memorial, this gives us only one result, Owen Owen who was in the Mercantile Marine and was lost with the SS Stuart Prince on 22 March 1917, a cargo ship which was torpedoed.
This Owen Owen was living with his parents (Amy and William) in Wales at the time of the 1911 census but was married and living in Liverpool by the time of his death.

This is based on several large assumptions though so I am looking for more information before continuing.

Bertie L Hill

This one is a bit tenuous, I will be looking for more information to confirm it...

There are no records of a Bertie L Hill so I assumed his name was Bert, Albert, Robert, Hubert, Herbert or Bertram. Using these names and the middle inital L to narrow it down I came up with one person who I can link to Liverpool but not (yet!) to the Parish of St James.

Herbert Lloyd Hill

click here to view the CWGC entry for Herbert Lloyd Hill

Herbert Lloyd Hill was born in Liverpool in 1881 to parents Herbert William and Mary Ann

Census records show that the family lived at 51 Phoebe Ann St in 1891, 1901 and 1911 and presumably for all the years in between.
Herbert's father was a tailor, born in Welshpool. His mother was from Liverpool, Herbert and his 7 siblings were born in Liverpool.

I can find no other information about Herbert Lloyd Hill until his death which is commemorated on the Tower Hill Merchant Navy Memorial.

His entry in the CWGC files shows that he was a Pantry Steward and was killed on 19th August 1915 aged 34 when the White Star Line Steamer SS Arabic was sunk. Additional information states  Son of William Herbert and Mary Ann Hill, of 51, Phoebe Anne St., Everton, Lancs.

The SS Arabic, photograph from a webpage with more information about the ship. Click here to visit.

There was plenty of press coverage of this sinking, despite the relatively low casualty numbers, as it happened within 50 miles of where the Lusitania had been sunk 3 months previously and in similar circumstances.  It was the outrage caused by the sinking of these two ships which prompted American intervention. This lead to a change in German U-boat regulations requiring warning to be given to passenger ships and all passengers and crew to be removed before sinking of the ships (compensation was paid to America for the sinking of the Lusitania and the Arabic)


These sites have more information on the sinking:
http://www.genealogybuff.com/misc/misc-arabic-shipwreck.htm

http://www.merseysiderollofhonour.co.uk/obits/ships/arabicss.htm

James Irvine 359540

I made the assumption that if James Irvine had a middle name it would have been on the war memorial, so only counted results for James or J Irvine. This gave me 31 results on the CWGC database.

This seemed like too large a pool of men but a closer look revealed that most of them were in Scottish regiments. Checking the 'other information' on their entries meant that I could discount 29 of the men. Of the 2 left one was in the King's (Liverpool Regiment) and lived on the same street as St James' Church, the other was in the Welsh fusiliers with no other information.

It seemed likely that I had found the right man, to check the likelihood of there being another James Irvine I checked the 1911 census and found only one result for a James Irvine born in the most likely year range of 1880-1900 and living in Liverpool.  The street address from the CWGC and the census matched.

James Irvine

Born in 1885 (I do not has his date of birth yet) Son of William and Catherine Irvine. The 1891 census shows that William was a boat-builder's labourer and James was one of 7 children. The family lived at 34 Clarke Street (which was near St James)

1891 census: crown copyright

The 1901 census return shows the family now at 32 Clarke Street. William was working as a Ship Smith's Hammer Man and their 8 children range in age from 23 to 7

1901 census: crown copyright



The 1911 census return shows James to be 27 years old and employed as a Cooper, as were his brothers John and Charles. The family were living at 84 Upper Stanhope Street (Adjacent to St James' Church)

1911 census: crown copyright

James' medal card shows that he was in the Liverpool Regiment with the number 359540 and was awarded the Victory and British War Medals.

source: crown copyright

James' entry in UK Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1918

Name: James Irvine Birth Place: Liverpool Residence: Liverpool Death Date: 9 Apr 1918 Death Location: France & Flanders Enlistment Location: Liverpool Rank: Private Regiment: King's (Liverpool Regiment) Battalion: 10th Battalion Number: 359540 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Western European Theatre Click here to open a website dedicated to the Liverpool Scottish which includes photographs of a beautiful book of remembrance which of course includes the name of Private James Irvine. Click here to see James Irvine's entry in the CWGC database.

There is also  a plaque dedicated to James by his fellow choristers at Christ Church, Aigburth:

copyright Amanda Taylor 2013

Finally, the probate record for James' will is shown below. Army records show that the pay he was owed, plus a war gratuity of £3 10s were also paid to his mother Catherine.

Corporal George H Mallison 23612

This one needs a bit more information to find the reason for his being on the parish memorial but I selected him because he was the only George H Mallison on the CWGC ( I also searched under Mallinson as that seems to be the obvious misspelling) It seemed unlikely at first as he was in the Leicestershire Regiment and his parents were in Warwickshire but his medal card gave me his unusual middle name Harker and from there it was easy to find his birth record (Liverpool) and baptism record (Polesworth).

George Harker Mallison

George Harker Mallison was born Oct 29th 1891 in Liverpool, his parents were Benjamin and Emily Ann Mallison. He was christened on 24th Feb 1899 in Polesworth, Warwickshire. The christening record (below) shows that Benjamin was a mill manager.

The 1891 census shows that Benjamin and Emily Ann Harker lived at Trensall House, Queen Street, Polesworth. Benjamin was manager of a flour mill and was born in Todmorden, Yorkshire. A bit of research showed that Emily's maiden name was Uttley.

The 1900 Kelly's directory of Warwickshire shows that Benjamin Mallison was the general manager of Mallebey's Roller Flour Mills Ltd in Polesworth.

In the 1901 census the family are split up and visiting people, Benjamin visiting a family in Polesworth (their surname appears to be Hawley) and Emily and their daughter Dorothy (born 1895) visiting a family in Todmorden. I have found a likely entry for George visiting a family by the name of Glover in Liverpool.

In 1911 the family had moved to Ireland, presumably following Benjamin's job. The census shows that they were living in a house with 13+ rooms, a coach house, piggery, fowl house and coal house, it had 22 windows on the front! It was very close to the flour mill where Benjamin worked as manager. George was 19 years old and working as a Commercial Clerk in a biscuit factory.



The medal card for George H Mallison shows that he was in the Leicestershire Regt as a Corporal with the regimental number 23612. He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.

George H Mallison died on 13th November 1918, after the armistice. His grave is in the Beirut War Cemetery.

Click here to see the CWGC database entry for G H Mallison