Thank you for posting these photos! I have a huge mystery in my family that revolves around one of the houses in Fulwood Park back in the 1870s. I think it's either 54 or 34--I can't read the writing in the 1871 census that well to see whether it's a 5 or a 3.
Anyway, my great grandmother and great great aunt worked as nursemaids in that house for a family called Wrigley. The Wrigleys were well-to-do, had several house servants and a coachman and a gardener.... My great grandmother married my great grandfather (who might have been the the Wrigleys' gardener) in 1871 in St. Michaels Toxteth in 1870; they moved to Oswaldtwistle shortly thereafter. My great great aunt stayed on with the Wrigleys--she died in 1873, just a few years later, of pleurisy pneumonia in a Nurses Home in Dover Street, Liverpool.
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I've pieced all of this information together from ancestry.com because I had no family history passed down to me. I wondered if any of you are aware of any history of that area that's been written? My great grandmother and her sister were from Switzerland and I am really curious how they ended up working for a family in Liverpool.
I know it's a long shot posting on here but thought I'd try anyway as I've just about exhausted all the genealogical lists.
Valerie
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