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John Morris 1926-1930

By Gwebb1 |
General Genealogy

Hi everyone and a belated Happy New Year to you all.

My grandfather, John Morris, was born in 1876 and married Georgina Vickers Forrest in 1900 and they lived most of their married like at 70 Stanfield Road.  They separated acrimoniously in the 1920s and the 1925 Electoral Register shows John living there on his own in 1925.

The 1930-31 Electoral Register shows him living at 67 Bourne Street with his sister (Sarah Ellen Levens) and some of his family and this is the address on his death certificate when he died in April 1931.  So I am trying to find where John was between 1926 and 1930.

An anecdotal story suggests John, after his marriage collapsed, went to live in the Dingle, possibly in Gloucester Place with a Polly Howard.  However, I cannot find Gloucester Place and the one Polly Howard on the Electoral Registers doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Dingle.  The couple of John Morrises I identified on the Electoral Registers as living in the Dingle don't seem likely as they are with female Morrises, the names of whom I do not recognise.

Any help would be appreciated.

Gen

That's a big question, since obviously no censuses for those dates, and if the Electoral Registers make no mention I can only think of newspapers.

There are loads of John Morrises on the Registers but I could do with a way of narrowing them down a bit.

I got hold of a list of streets in the Dingle and used these as a starting point without success.  I was wondering if anyone with a better knowledge of the roads close to the Dingle could perhaps help me narrow down the search.  My 'Dingle source' has proved very reliable in the past so I am tempted to think there is something in what she says.

Another family story I have heard from several people, including my father, is that John Morris was knocked down by either a taxi or a tram and never recovered from his injuries but a RTA is not the course of death on his death certificate and a cursory look at newspapers when we were allowed to do research in the library in 'normal times' also proved unsuccessful!

Always amazes me how you can go so far back with family history and then get stuck on things that happened more recently - 1921 Census will help with some of this, of course.

Glen

A search for the street name Gloucester Place, Liverpool in the 1921 census only returns results for the Gloucester Place in Kensington, just South of the bottom end of West Derby Rd, which stiill exists today. It was far longer in 1921. However it's obviously not in the Dingle. That said, I don't have a lot of faith in FMP's search engine for addresses in the 1921C.

Thanks, Andy.  At least you tracked down Gloucester Place, which is more than I managed on Google!

It was a long-shot and I guess the story remains filed under 'anecdotal'!  At least the Electoral Registers gave me corroboration for other stories I have been told so it was worth revisiting my research.

Glen