It's now over a week since I last went for a walk round the streets looking for relatives. However, I have not been idle; apart from lime-washing the walls of the wash-house, black-leading the range, replacing some loose slates on the 'three-holer' at the bottom of the back yard and relaying some cobbles in the back entry ~ I have also been making lists of some relatives of some of my friends in distant parts; and depositing them at the Dock's Office for transportation by the Mail Packets. Today though, a small wooden crate arrived and inside was my new pair of leather boots made by a well-known cordwainer in Lime Street ~ so I am off to 'run them in'. As the walk today will be a long one, my wife has prepared me a lunch of home-made bread, best Lancashire Cheese, some fruit and a large stone bottle of best ale. We start with:-
CORNHILL (west side Salthouse Dock)
1 Rathbone Brothers & Co..
4 Jonathan Roose & Son
5 J. & R. Allison
6 Carter and Peers
7 Pearson, Logan & Co..
8 Backhouse, Robinson & Lowe
10 Simpson & Co..
11 W. & R. Haselden
12 Lomax and Wilson
13 Daniel Simpson
13a A. Robertson
14 P. & W. Williams
Grenfell & Co..
15 Mather, Parkes & Co..
CORNWALLIS STREET (90 Duke Street)
1 Elizabeth Spence
2 Isaac Harrison
2 Abram Rawlinson
3 Joseph Cafferata
4 Thomas Hesketh
5 H. R. Caitcheon
6 Mary Leigh
7 Francis Higgin
8 James Grayson
9 Richard Jones
10 Samuel Stott
11 Mary Bartington
12 Ann Allen
13 Edward Tobin, R.N..
14 Miss M.Jefferson
15 Moses Samuel
16 Titus Dewhurst
17 Hugh Duckworth
18 J. Poole & Son
19 William Wilson
20 Mrs B. Clarkson
21 Mrs H.Payne
22 Hannah Affleck
23 William White
24 Joseph Dutton
25 T. Calderbank
26 Mrs A. Oxley
27 Threlfall & Thistleton
28 James Tyrer
29 Thomas Wilson
30 J. Maxwell
32 J. Metcalf
33 Christopher Metcalf
33 Charles Jones
34 Luke Hall
35 J. Salisbury
36 Joseph Lucas
37 John Glover
38 John Hughes
39 Lieut. Allan M. Williamson, R.N..
40 Elizabeth Fisher
41 Mary Robinson
42 John Molineux
42 Mary Dodgson
COTTON COURT (20 Sweeting Street)
William Caistor
Joseph Dicker
Dobson and Gill
CRABTREE LANE (8 Hope Street)
1 John Thomas
2 Mary Crossley
2 John Robinson
2 Henry Scarisbrick
3 Matthew Stephenson
4 John Boscow
5 G. L. Clowes
6 Rachel Schivind
7 J. W. Glenton
8 Stephen White
8 Mrs S. White
10 Mrs A. Wright
11 Mrs A. Bridson
12 R. C. Graham
13 J. C. Nicholson
14 Ralph Bennett
16 John Davies
Before tackling the rest of my walk, I am going to take a rest and have my lunch. I have chosen a vantage point from where I can see all the comings and goings of the next part of my wanderings which will no doubt take the rest of the day............here we go!
DALE STREET (Town Hall) 1 John Eastwood 2 Robert Norris 2 George Forwood 2 S. R. Roundell 2 Lloyd & Williams 2 Lewis Franklin 3 Houghton & Rossiter 4 Lowry, Roscoe & Wardell 5 William Forshaw 6 George King 7 T. & J. Redish 7 Charles Imer 8 Francis Bretherton 9 Jane Hampson 10 T. Turner & Co.. 10 Daniel Carroll 11 Lightfoot, Humphreys & Dodd 12 Thomas Stock 13 J. G. Geller 14 James Lord 15 Ann Williams 15 John Strange *** see BYROM BUILDINGS - Walk No. 10 16 John Ashworth 21 James Grundy 25 J. Johnson & Son 26 Brown & Marshall 30 Thomas Nixon 31 William Williams 32 Joseph Birdsall 33 Nathan Knowles 34 James Chandler 35 George Taylor 36 M. Sowerby 37 James Curry 41 Matilda Ardern 42 William Fitzharris 43 John Jones 43 Samuel Hewitt 44 William Morgan 45 John Gray 46 J. Shepherd & Co.. 47 John Airey 48 George Robinson 48 James Robinson 49 J. & F. Kennedy 54 John Edwards 55 Henry Spencer 56 Bryan Mortan 57 William Whitley 58 John Aykroyd 58 Robert Walsh 59 Alcock & Morgan 60 J. D. Holt 62 Joseph Bond 63 J. Mellor & Co.. 65 Edward Gilbert 67 Edward Holme 69 Thomas Witter 70 John Garth 71 D. A. Weaver 72 Richard Laycock 75 Joseph Bissell 76 John Jackson 77 John Webster 78 Martin Nowland 79 Robert Roberts 80 H. Pooley & Co.. 81 Ellen Price 81 Samuel Haynes 82 Henry Colebourn 83 Edward Rigmaiden 84 Robert Jones 85 O. & E. Jones 86 Stephen Dexter 87 William Draper 88 W. J. Guest 89 William Silcock 90 Charles Rudd
How convenient, there's a break in the housing here and a drinking fountain.....so another short break and the last of my fruit......onwards....
108 Fletcher & Farrar 122 Robert Davis 124 H. Hopwood 125 Robert Goldsmith 126 James Somerville 127 William Jones 128 G. and W. Allen 129 Samuel Woodward 130 William Beckett 131 Benjamin Sharples 132 Thomas Constantine 133 Samuel Johnson & Co..
Before you ask, no it isn't because he died in 1784, and in any case Boswell isn't around!
134 J. S. Johnson
135 John Sharples
136 Thomas Hodgson
137 William Winn
138 Mary Robiinson
139 Ann Whittle
140 Gideon Dare
141 Margaret Williams
142 Ann Lindon
143 Ann Ingate
144 James Wright
145 Joseph Thomas
146 Richardson & Cowburn
147 G. H. Howell
148 John Hall
149 George Norris
150 William Minshull
151 Margaret Halden
152 W. A. Halden
153 Robert Buttle
154 G. Howard & Son
155 William Erwin
156 T. A. Jackson
158 Edward Rigg
159 Thomas Rigg
162 McAndrew & Pilcher
John Kirkman
163 John Leicester
164 John Shaw
165 Thomas Mayor
166 James Kelly
167 John Green
168 Charles Broad
169 William Jones
170 Sarah Heelis
171 Robert Chambers & Co..
172 Ann Coghlan
173 Benjamin Maxwell
174 John Graham
177 John Lloyd
178 Jones & Salusbury
179 Thomas Rogerson
180 Joseph Shepherd
181 Thomas Wagstaff
182 Rice Roberts
183 William Simcock
184 Peter Bretherton
185 Peter Sharples
186 Samuel Pierce
187 Moss, Rogers & Moss
DRUID COURT or DIXON's BUILDINGS (187 Dale Street)
William Dixon (junior)
Robert Rockliff
Statham & Leicester
189 Henry Ward
189 Jones & Mann
189 J. Wrigley & Son
Phew! I was well and truly knackered! I did not plan today's perambulations at all well. I finished up about three miles from home (as the crow flies), so hailing a passing brewery dray, hauled by two shire horses, I got a lift as far as my favourite tavern, where, luck would have it, the draymen had an ale delivery. Needless to say, no invitation was required to get me inside........ and the rest I leave to your imagination. My next visit will be to the Docks to see my seafaring friends........................