I see what you are saying Cad and I agree - St Thomas would have been main church of the Tate family who lived in Duke/Parr Street and so would have been the church that JW attended whilst he was living there and would probably return to for big events.

How do we know he lived on Duke St with his mother? I was under the impression that people don't know anything about his family as there are no records. The FoWT site doesn't mention any family that is known of.



I knew that St Judes was supposedly built from Williamson sandstone and so it was likely that he worshipped there. Couldn't it be possible that he used all three churches as and when he felt like it?

As for the people who lived on mason street and didn't attend St Judes, I was under the impression that people like Revs. Raffles and Hull were dissenters and so would not attened a CofE church anyway.

It's facinating that JW has so many links to different churches in Liverpool yet seems quite unmotivated by the evangelical revival of the 1800's that kicked off so much philanthropy. Indeed, Williamsons attitude to the Bible seems most offhand in some of Stonehouses stories.