Thomas Stanley Reay was born on 3rd February 1894 and baptised in St James Church on 1st April the same year. The baptism record shows that his parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Thornley Reay. They lived at 27 Mount Street and Thomas Snr was a baker. This photograph is of Thomas Senior circa 1881 and was found in a book of people connected to St James Church. Thomas's mother was formerly Elizabeth Thornley Stephenson. The 1901 census shows the family still lived at 27 Mount S

There was only one result for T J Prichard in the CWGC database and it gave the 'other information' that he was from Liverpool. A further confirmation that it is the correct person is the M.C. which is noted on the memorial and the CWGC entry. Thomas James Prichard was born in Liverpool on 17th July 1894. He was baptised in St Cleopas' Church, Toxteth, on 8th August and the baptism record shows that his parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Jane Prichard and they lived at 6 Made

A search in the CWGC database showed over a thousand results! Of these, 11 were for H. H. Smiths and 8 were Harold H Smiths. Not all of these entries showed where they were from so I tried a different approach and looked in the index of births for Liverpool for the period 1875-1900. I found only one matching entry, Harold Horatio Smith, born in Toxteth Park in 1896. There wasn't an entry in the CWGC for Harold Horatio so I looked in the entries in UK Soldiers Died in the Grea

This is one of the stories that really stuck with me when I was researching, probably because there was quite a lot of information but also because there is more of the family's perspective involved and I got an idea of how the war impacted the family in the years after Roderic's death. Roderic Dexter Sharpe was born on 13th August 1896 and christened at St James' Church on 20th September that year. His parents were Alexander Sharpe (a hairdresser) and Margaret. They lived at

With such an unusual name, there was only one possible entry on the CWGC database for Henry. His brother's name is also on the Holy Trinity War Memorial. Henry Schonewald was born on 10th Dec 1895 in Liverpool, he was baptised in St Peter's on 20th December and the record shows that his parents were Janet and Hermann Carl Schonewald (a hairdresser) they lived on Rathbone Street. In the 1901 census the family were living at 119 Rathbone Street. The census shows that Hermann w

The CWGC has one entry for Robert C Revera which shows the middle name to be Campbell. This name is unusual enough that I am certain the records are all for the correct man. It turned out that there was an interesting family story behind Robert Revera and I admit I did get a bit sidetracked so there is more information on this post about other members of his family than I usually include. Family Robert Campbell Revera was born in Liverpool on 24th August 1888 and baptised in

The table below lists the men from the St James Memorial who served in The King's Liverpool Regiment. The excellent website The Long Long Trail has information about the different battalions of the King's Liverpool Regiment. Click on their name to read more about each man. Men of the St James Church war memorial who served in The King's Liverpool Regiment: Name Regiment Regimental number Battalion Date of Death Arthur Patrick Beattie KLR 30532 4th 23/04/1917 William Bolton KL

There is only one Alfred Mortenson in the CWGC database, although there is no other information about his place of birth the WW1 medal roll index cards show only one Alfred Mortenson and he was in the Liverpool Regiment. The medal card also gives the address of his mother and she lived very close to the church so I am confident that this is the right man and I have identified the correct census records for his family. Alfred Mortenson was born on June 28 1895 and baptised

I have previously given a tentative identification for Owen Owen but, on revisiting the name, I'm not happy with it so I've taken another look. The CWGC give 14 results for Owen Owen, three of them have Liverpool mentioned in the 'other information' the other 11 state their parents' residences as places in Wales. I previously assumed the man without a middle name would be mine but there is no information to tie him to Toxteth so without proof I have to rethink the assumption.

The Churches Conservation Trust files for St James Church have been extremely helpful in tracing the journey of this memorial from Holy Trinity Church to the Slaughterhouse Pub in Liverpool. I can now say for sure that the memorial was in St James Church, Toxteth for a period. This memorial was brought to my attention when my St James memorial project got some publicity and a lady contacted me to ask whether her relative was on the memorial I was researching. It wasn't but I

Identification I am confident that this is the correct man, he is the only George H. Mallison recorded by the CWGC and I haven’t found...

There was only one entry for George J MacKarell in the CWGC database and it gave his parents names and address in Liverpool. George James...

Identification The CWGC had only one result for Hugh L Loughlin. Hugh Link Loughlin was born in Liverpool on 29th March 1898 and Baptised...

Identification There was only one result for R W Longmaid in the CWGC database and he was from Liverpool. Family Information Richard...

Identification Searching for F P LLOYD gave only one result on the CWGC Debt of Honour database and this soldier was from Liverpool....

Identification There were only 2 results for James Llewellin on the CWGC, one was from Bristol and the other from Liverpool. There were...

Identification There were two results for William Keam in the CWGC database. Cross-referencing them with UK Soldiers Died in the Great...

Family Information Herbert Ledger was born in Liverpool on 14th August 1889. His parents were John and Mary Ledger of 27 St James Place,...

Identification As you might expect, this is a common name, however, there were only 4 Mathew or Matthew Jones on the CWGC and of the 22...

Identification There was only one H Jeffes on the CWGC database and investigation showed that he was from Toxteth. Family Information...