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Looking for any of my relatives

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my aunty was married to jim livesey they have three children mark who died a few years ago, diane and david. my aunty and uncle will be in there sixties now. have'nt seen them for years dont keep in touch.

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I have a James Livesey in the family tree but he has four living children

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sorry, not same family.

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Janet,

Did you have a brother called Barrie?? I went to school with him (St. Andrews)

And lived on Holland St, or that side of Blackburn Road??

If you did...then I know you and I think you would know me if you saw me.

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Sorry no brother at all not even called Barrie, the only James I have in my tree would be in his 50's now and he has a son Dean, thanks anyway

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Hi
I have a Sarah Payne in my family history who married aPiccup Whittaker in 1873 . Had Susannah b1874, Elizabeth b 1879, Eliza b 1881d before1899, John Thomas b1883, andRobert b1888. In 181 &1891 census at 19 Marsden St in 1901 census at29 Marsden St Accy. Can u connect.

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I have some Liveseys but they are Hapton/Huncoat. I had a Jim too - he emigrated to Canada and was elderly when I was a child so will no doubt have passed away.

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i am married to a livesey and there are loads of them amanda,neil,and jack there are also a lot down blackburn and if you go to salmesbury hall you will see the coat of arms of the liveseys.

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There were Whittakers who lived in Barnes Street, Church - Frank, Annie and ?, none married. There was another brother who had two children, Francis Whittaker and, I think, Sylvia, both went to Sacred Heart School, and then on to what was then St Oswalds, later Holy Family.

Have you tried Friends Reunited?

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were Whittakers next door to me in 50s (Dowry St) mum Vera, dad Harry n daughter Lynn who was in same class as me at junior school, we were good friends, all sadly no longer with us. very nice family, they bought the off licence on burnley rd which used to just before the "Boars Head" that would be mid/late 60s i reckon.

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They got nice staff in there:rolleyes::D

Ahhhh, ya said just before, not over the road:tongueout

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shop is long gone.;)

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There is a Livesey Historical Society based in America. I met the founder some 20 years back, when I gave him some ancient Livesey documents, they were on a vist over here and were staying at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel. we used to correspond regularly until sadly he died a few years ago. He made me an honourary member of their society and I still send them things on Livesey's. THey have records on all the Livesey family trees not just in America but in Lancashire as well.

Retlaw

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There was a Mrs Whittaker ran a corner shop at the top of either Paxton or Buxton St in the 1960's

Strangely enough Ive been thinking about that shop recently. As you walked in the hall way there was a door on the left to the shop. I have been trying to remember if there was apartition or anything to stop you getting inot the home accommodation. Usually in that street the stairs were opposite the front door but I cant remember seeing them.

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Are you sure you aren't thinking of the one at the top of Ranger Street, which was run by a lady called Eunice Whittaker?

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I think your right it was Ranger St

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More I think about, the more I think that this was the one. You walked through the door into a corridor then, as you say, turned left into the shop. They always had a great selection of sweets!

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Not just sweets as I recall, the whole shop was stacked with just about everything.There was a small space on the counter to put goods you were buying but everyother bit of space was full of things. I seem to remember a black csat that stalked the shop and gell asleep on the tins sometimes

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Yep, I remember the cat too.

However, king (or possibly queen) of Accy cornershop cats was the one owned by Pennock's (corner of Richmond St and Higher Antley St - did fantastic homemade iced lollies). This magnificent beast was huge and at one time was in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest cat in the world.

Thread wander?...moi? ;)

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More thread wander

I vaguely remember that cat and the lollies, but most of all I remember that this shop (Top Shop from where I lived) gave free sweetes to children who went the errands there. They would probably get arrested for that now , well they would if there were any corner shops and if shildren were allowed to 'run errands'

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There was a family called Livesey who lived on Avenue Parade. Their daughter Jennie was married to Cyril Whittaker, the hairdresser whose shop was at the bottom of Burnley Road. Jennie and Cyril's daughter lived in Kent - her name was Sheila.

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Have you noticed the thread was started in 2004 and the thread starter is banned;)

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Aye , and there were Whittakers who had a confectioners on Willows Lane at the corner of Claret St , and my grandfather had a brother on Catlow Hall St called Whittaker , but that was his Christian name . ;)

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Exactly;)

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...and they did cracking steak & kidney puddings! ;)

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This is the first time I have seen this thread. It was never going to get anywhere because of lack of information posted buy the starter. The names are so common that some narrowing down needs to be done, and that could have been achieved by supplying more detail - names, addresses, schools, workplaces, years. I suggest that the
thread be re-started.

Cyril Whittaker's daughter appeals for information about her dad on the website 'Curious Fox', which is worth a look at. It can be seartched using places or surnames.It is cheap to join but can be used for nowt.

There was another Whitaker family living next door to the off-licence near the Boar's Head - Frank & Alan were the sons in the 1950s. A Janice Whittaker lived across the road from them. She married George Plumpton.

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We have a member on here with that surname, Councillor Whittaker

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all the whittaker family i am related too came from oswaldtwistle my grandma and grandad lived in trinity street

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I have just spotted that Fur Baby, who started this thread off, has been banned by the moderators.

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Yes, Fur baby & siddie are the same person, we aren't allowed more than one user name so the mods will have removed that name.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/32766-post8.html

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yeh but they lived next door to me in 50s/60s on Dowry St, then think mid 60s they moved to the off licence, Harry n Vera were mam n dad, had daughter Lynn who was in my class at St Johns, she was a friend of Atarah,but sadly died years ago.;) didn't live next door to off license Bob they bought it.

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And she picked Fur Baby as the account to close last year when I asked her why she had 2 accounts.


Removing accounts leaves holes in threads so we ban the user instead, so she might still visit the site.

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An ancestor of mine Sarah Payne m a Piccup Whittaker 17 Oct 1873 they had 8 children I have quite a bit of detail if you can connect