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Rev Dale's parish notebook

Full text of Rev Dale's book: MEMORANDA OF NAMES &c OF PARISHIONERS VISITED, 1878. MAY 10, &c This is the original title on the front cover, to which has been added: `This was the work of the Rev Dale, sometime curate of St Matthias'. On the back cover is written: `Parish notes. Herbert Dale. 60 Great Howard Street'. Parishioners visited. Sprainger Street. Ground floor, Lodge of Pillared Foundry in Love Lane, top of Sprainger Street. 1. Tyson, widow; Jackson, widow; Swain, Miss. From Halifax. Really merry and hearty. Young woman with them recovering from acute rheumatism. Going to leave in June. Very timid. 2. Blackburn, widow. In the cellar beneath: our washerwoman. Widow of Mr MacGregor watcher at Vauxhall Works. Only one child living: her eldest son. He is in L&NWR [London & North-Western Railway] works at Crewe 4 years since he ceased writing to her thinking that she wanted to throw herself on his charity. Carlton Street 3. MacAlister, Miss. Lives in a cellar; keeps a little shop & takes in sewing. 4. Fitton, Mr & Mrs. He was a bellowsmender. He is now stone deaf. 5. Thompson, Peter & Mrs. Court. 11 children. One Willie the darling died at 14. Effie re. Canada. Seems good. Son Peter to come to school. Children very obedient & affectionate. Porter Street 8 h[ouses]/ 10 c[ourts] 6. MacGarry, Mr & Mrs. Ellen. Michael. Mary. Bridget. Henry. Margaret. The wife was R.C. no where for 4 years. The husbd is an Angc. Rejected clothes. Mission House 10 Middle Street 7. Mr & Mrs Kebnecher. He was born on an island close by Bingen on the Rhine, but has not been home for 23 years. His mother died when he was very young. He has not heard from his father for 3 years now. Cottage Lecture. Canal Bank 8. Hankin. Birch Street 9. Marks, Mr & Mrs. ("55 Great Mersey Street" Inserted). He is a night watcher for Cunards. 6 6 all the year through: alone with his dog & his books. He is R.C. He has signed pledge 2 or three different places. His wife (E.C. or rather) Methodist asked to be visited. She is very deaf. He has been drinking heavily: turning his wife out & so on. Their dau. Mrs Mason sailor's wife from India living with them: careless no worshipper. 10. Hudson, widow & her son. The mother speaks warmly of her son's devotion to her. All her other Children are dead. Her son seems to have good stuff in him without any profession. He is blunt but outspoken. Her father was a soldier: she was born in Bangor in Ireland & lived near Downpatrick. Her mother had a house of her own. Her husband was cut off with 2/6 thro' the influence of a paralysed step brother. Her husband was a tradesman . He drank but all the 30 years of her married life he never spoke a wrong word or aimed a blow at her. Her dau. married a man much older than herself. He was jealous. Twice she had to leave him, so her brother who is in prosperity in America paid for her to go out there & sent her £5 for an outfit. Her other dau. is married to an engine driver up on Tunnel Road, who is good to her & her mother: & another one is married to an R.C. along the street. Murphy. Her eldest boy (13 yeas old) stowed away. The captain took a fancy to him and made him cabin boy. Her son who lives with her drinks at times but she tries to say nothing till he is better. He does what he can for her. She has been at church once or twice lately. Regent Street 10 h[ouses]/ 3 c[ourts] 11. Hill, Mr & Mrs. A bright young woman. A baby in the cradle. Constantly visited by Miss Brown. Her husband is on the Guion[?] line of steamers. She was busy cleaning (Friday). Carlton Street 3 h[ouses]/ 17c[ourts] 12. Walmsley, Mr & Mrs. A specious woman: busy white washing. 10 Eldon Place across Vauxhall Road 13. Bell, Mr & Mrs extra parochial. An old Sunday School teacher. She has two sons at Liverpool College. They keep a monkey, two parakeets, & a parrot, besides dogs. Porter Street 1st floor last h[ouse]: left c[our}t 10. 14. Carroll, Mr & Mrs. From close by Ritchies in Belfast. Her husband works at Vauxhall foundry: & cobbles his and her shoes at night, & is very quiet. This is her only living baby, which was christened 2 nights ago, a little girl. 2 others died in infancy. She seemed a decent woman & spoke highly of all the neighbours in the court as peaceable quiet folks none of whom had lived there less than 20 years. Galton Street 15. Mrs Harrison. Baby with hydrocephalus (since dead) has living with her (Mrs Williams' dau) & Mr & Mrs LeGrand. He is a sail maker & Shipping Engineer on his own behalf. She seems a particular bright & pleasant woman. A little boy tho thinks the baby belongs exclusively to the mother & him: another thanked the Doctor for bringing it. The husband has just brought out a patent & is plaintiff in a law suit against an optician. (Opposite MacG) 16. Bennett, Mrs. Lodgg House Keeper. Very untidy. Drinks. Filthy house. Is subjected to a species of falling sickness. Her husband drinks & lives for the most part away from her with other relations. Son goes to Stanley St School weekdays, & Bethel Sundays. An elder one is in a fruit merchants warehouse & office & is highly spoken of. Did go to St Georges school: is to come to St Matthias's. Regent Street. 28. 17. Thornton Mr & Mrs. The husband was Mr French's Churchwarden. They come from Kirkheaton near Huddersfield. She had many brothers & sisters. She has lived in Regent Street 22 years. Mr Thornton is a great draught player. Used to be wild but is now very steady indeed. Very cordial. Great Howard Street 18. Mrs Billington. Publican. Her husband has a farm in Cty Mayo. Her daughter teaches in the Sunday Sch. They have been publicans in Great Howard Street very many years. Went to St Matthias 23 or 25 years ago. Her children are weekly boarders at school in Everton Grove. She has no men in the house. Betsy Haig is her servant has been so for 20 years. Mrs Devonport is her barwoman. The house is exactly opposite the hospital. She likes Free Churches. Her father was a publican I think there before her. Says she is shy. 19. Mrs Larsen. A young cheerful woman with one baby George Laurentius ten months old. The wife of a water clerk. They would like to leave their house: but are forced to live close by the water. She has always lived in the neighbourhood of G[rea]t H[oward] Street & is granddaughter of Mr Lawson lower down the street. Her husband's name is Larsen, hers was Lawson. He is a Norwegian & she can speak & understand his language but says that Swedes are deceitful. 2 Broom Street (left) 20. Bostock, Mr & Mrs. The husband is a river flatman & has been out of regular work since the 1st Jany. The wife suffered terribly in a recent confinement prolonged three days: instruments for 3½ hours. The baby lived 3 minutes. She is terribly reduced. Wishes to be churched on Friday. Her mother is with her. Her brother goes to Mr Flannagan's meeting. Dr.Lucas was very kind to her. The district nurses have been with her 5 weeks. Miss Brown is very good to her. 69 Burlington Street 21. Kearley, Mr & Mrs & one child to be called Louisa Mary. 7 weeks old sickly. They have recently come from Cork. The husband woks in the oil mill & attends Cranmer Chapel. The wife is a little inclined to pine for clerical society. 73 Burlington Street 22. Clark, Mrs. Has recently come from Everton way as her husband works in the oil mill. She has 4 children boys. The oldest 11 the youngest 4. Two go to St Matthews School, where they don't get on & suffer from the gas one having weak eyes. One goes to St Titus's. On Sunday they all go to Christ Ch Everton to school. 191 Harriet Street 23. Chambers, Widow. Has lately left 71 Burlington Street because of her husband's death. 53 Waterloo Road. First floor. Left. 24. Clark, Mr & Mrs. Has a little boy Thomas James whom his father & big brothers spoil. Essy & 2 other girls. Eldest boys Good Templars. Blue Coat Girl connected with them. 13 Fulton Street. 1st floor left. 25. Charles, Mr & Mrs. He was a drinker but is teetotal now. A night watchman at works just opposite. James is a little light haired boy 2/10 old. Two other boys are in the choir. Mrs Charles has never been confirmed. 75 or 77 Burlington Street 26. Britton, Mr & Mrs. Manager of Earles & King's oil mills. He was not in and Mrs Britton was cleaning. Great Howard Street 27. Hartley, Widow. Robert & William are two of her sons. She keeps a milk shop & was busy cleaning. Back Leeds Street 28. Clarkson, John & Mrs. Foreman shipper. Leeds & Liverpool canal. His brother Robert (unsteady) has care of the horses. He told of one canal boat family whose wages came up to £13.18.0 a fortnight. The captain of a slow boat gets 23/ a week: the mate (his son probably) £1 & then they get 5d a head a day bounty if they do their journeys in their appointed time. Eating and drinking is their great object in life. The L & L [Leeds & Liverpool] canal boat men are the best navigators of canals going. A horse will run 20 to 25 miles daily. Fly boats are expresses & work with 4 men: 2 on duty for each 12 miles: with horses in relays by the day. Birstcar is the great fountain of boatmen. John was church warden & is sidesman. He went over a canal boat (£200 to £250) and saw the stabling for 24 horses one of whom shook hands with Robert. The horses very good to children let them run between their legs: good also to idiots. Robert says there is a great difference of some miles in a journey between a bad & good steersman. The rope should always be tight. Belgian horses very good but for their bad feet: the foot is very full & they suffer from frog. 29. Adkinson, Mr. Publican at the top of Galton Street. Not in. 30. Merrack, Mrs. Cornish house for emigrants. Emigrant Agency & lodgings. Large Cornish connection. Edwin, Melville,& Willie. The intermediate plays the bugle intending to join the 1st Lancashire R.C. buglers comp & is in the choir & Pennybank. The husband drank himself to death practically 15 months ago. One of the daughters teaches in the Sunday School. The other we saw. Ida a little girl is delicate & unable to go to school. She has to run out of doors as much as possible. Porter Street. Court 26. 1st door left. 31. MacClelland, Widow. Her husband & two children died of smallpox. She takes in a little washing. Has a delicate dau & a small sickly (posthumous?) baby. Barbara is in Mr Howells & the boy in Miss Mullen's school. Clothes are short. But the children seem willing schoolgoers, but depressed & quiet. Porter Street. 2 Court. 4 House. 32. Walker, Andrew & Mrs. Watchman on boats. Born Belfast. Wife from Bangor in Ireland. Handsome & exceedingly pleasant woman: very like little Andrew. The father is in no fixt dock but moves wherever ships want him. They have a boy of 15 or 16 at Bangor (Ireland) with the grandmother. Andrew is nearly 14. In the school. A bright honest looking lad. 8 Upper William Street 33. Widow Martin. Used to clean the church till Staffurth turned her off for doing it so ill. 23 years in the same house (8/6 a week & £6 rates). Her mother died 15 months ago aged 81. Her broth a second mate in an ocean going ship lives with her when he is in Liverpool. His wife & family live in Ireland. He wants her to go there but she'll "walk no sister in law's floor". One lodger at the foundry Jimmy Jack has lived there 8 years. Another at Heatley's Foundry only came a week ago. She lets the cellar below for 3/6 a week. She expects her brother home in a fortnight. Untidy & uncomfortable: & yet speaking quite tenderly of her old mother who has been a real mother to her. 38 Dublin Street 34. Ray, Mr & Mrs. Was in the Irish constabulary: then tried to get into the Liverpool force but was dismissed after 3 days because his Irish record was not clear. Then he became an omnibus conductor for a few months but is now at The Belfast S.S. [Steam Ship] office. His wife's family with whom his eldest boy is live in Cty Mayo, Connaught. He is a native of Donegal. They have two little girl babies here besides the boy in Ireland. He: church: she: R.C. Young, pleasant. 23 Denbigh Street 35. Griffiths, Mr & Mrs. The daughter 13 was in. Her twin sister is out at service with Mr Howell's brother in York Terrace, Everton. Has left for sickness & is now in day service with R.C.s in Athol Street. Eldest daughter is in service at Mr Pleasant. Another is at home out of work. It is a family of three batches of twins. One of the last pair (3 years old) is dead. The girl goes to Mr Weston's night school & Mr Fisher's Sunday School. They keep a mangle. The husband is in work for the Corporation. Mrs Griffiths seems a nice woman & very cordial. The little surviving twin, David, is in constant motion: with great climbing ability & a marked taste for joinery. 2 Middle Street 36. Mrs Lawrence invited me to call early in the week but was not eager to receive me on Friday afternoon. 6 Middle Street 37. Roberts, Mr & Mrs. Is growing musk & nettles for the show. Her boy Jimmy has won a certificate at Ashfield Street School & is now in the upper school. He is seven. This Xmas he wins a silver medal. His little sister goes too. Another Mrs Roberts whose husband is in Glasgow gaol till March lives with her has done for 7 years. 27 Snowdon Street 38. Dick, Mr & Mrs 4 several very small very dirty & very pretty children. One little girl who couldn't talk danced a jig. Her husband is a sailor now working in the docks busy cobbling the wife's shoes. Out of work. She was at one meeting & her husband at the last. Very pleasant though very untidy: rather too "thankful". Alexandrina the eldest has knocked her head & will have to go to hospital. The eldest girl has water on the brain: now nearly 10. ?Came only now it before 14. 59 Athol Street. First floor front. 39. Duffy, Mr & Mrs. The husband came out of hospital on the 1st of May. Abscess on the leg. The wife is recovering from inflammation. He is R.C. Generally serving in South Pacific S.S.Co he shewed me his book of devotion: & said he attended Eng: Serv: on S.S. or would lose day's pay. The wife young & decent, but not very wise either in talk or in dealing with her husband, is the daughter of Mrs Pearson 16 Sherwood Street & longs to get out to service or back home again. She is very uncomfortable amongst the lodgers of the house where they live. 4/ rent. Husband doesn't speak the truth. 5 years Australia N Zealand. 17 Snowdon Street 40. Wilson, Mr & Mrs Charles. He was drunk: had been at an Orange Funeral on Sunday or Saty. The wife & little girl looked wretched. The son is coming out of the hospital. He worked on the South Pacific S.S.Co. Son Joe has come out today Nov 21 because there is no longer room. Consumption. 47 or 49 Carlton Street (C[our]t 15, 1st door R) 41. Towser, Mr & Mrs. Reported starving from drink. Not in. 56 Dublin Street 42. Robson, Widow. Lodging at Mrs MacQuinns. Husband in R.E. [Royal Engineers?] Died at Edinboro 10 months ago. A native of Folkestone. 3/ week rent. Girl working at the salt works 1/ a day. 2 daughters. 30/ to get out of pawn. 2 brothers in law in Folkestone. Custom house Officer & plumber. Bessie Papson her maiden name. Her brother in law is at Mr Thos Poole's Iron Mgr High St Folkestone. William Curtis Mill Lane Cottage Folkestone. 101a Athol Street. Cellar. 43. Monteith Mr & Mrs. Husband off work with a bad leg. They have a little cellar shop: & a mangle wringing machine. Boy ran away to sea twice. Once to Malta, now in Montreal. 13 years old in same boat with Towser Carlton Street a tremendous reader. 7 Eleanor Terrace. Bentinck Street. 44. MacTear, Mr & Mrs. Has 11 children. 6 at home. Is in training for Diploma of Midwifery at Myrtle Street. It is a 3 month course of lectures with 20 clear cases of Del under a trained nurse. Expects the results next month. (Has won it) Writes answers for her illiterate fellow students. Likes the Doctor Instructors very much. Her husband is going on the "Sardinian" if his hand is better by Saturday. Cemeas Street 3 45. Neale, Mr & Mrs. Said not to live there. Cemeas Street 7 46. Inch Mr & Mrs. Not in Cemeas Street 9. Back Room 47. Janet or Jemmett. Has 2 sons, one a boiler fitter the younger works with a very good master a religious man down at South End & over at Birkenhead. A very good son to his mother, has never tasted beer. The elder has gone to sea this morng in the National Line The Egypt He is rather unsteady when he is at home, but very obedient to his mother. Idris Street 16 48. Cross. Plumber. Just going out. The son comes to the Bible Class on Friday evs & is deemed a little sceptical. Is an Irish woman from Cty Down. Her family originally Scotch. Macauley have lived in same place 300 years. Presbyterians in Ireland. Her dau in service with Doctor. Snowdon Street 17 49. Lindsay, Mr & Mrs. He was a soldier & disapproves of the Reserve, likes purchase, & objects to Irish Disestablishment & admires Disraeli's Eastern Policy. A good fellow, strongly Pro: his wife & he & his son who works at a new boiler? works all come to cottage lecture. Discussed Geo Body. Carlton Street 17? Court Last house 50. Towser. A very neat clean house. A pleasant woman. Her boy (14) works at the foundry close by: they used to live out at the Parkes. The boy heats rivets. They are both church people. 2 children in our school. Her sister in law Mrs Towser (not the same) lives with them who used to lodge higher up in Carlton St & has been given to drink which she is now struggling against. Her husband also a heavy drinker (?) is at sea. Whitley Street 4 C[our]t 3 h[ouse] 51. Toomey, Widow. Aged 21. Ill of Erysipelas in the face. Lives with her family the Cosgroves. Their mother & her husband (after 3 years marriage) lately dead. (A month) Her sister confirmed Whitsunday: She 3 years ago. 29 Cotton Street 52. Doherty, Mrs. Took the pledge June 20.(18)78. Gr(ea)t. Howard St 53. Walker, Mrs. Confectioner. Three years a widow. 25 a resident. Her only sister farming lately dead suddenly away from her. Used to go to S.Matthews. A good husband. Used to have large business. Thinks of retiring to the country. Her maid "Maggie" should be in reformatory. Her maid sister doing well under one of the Duke of Westm(inster)s farmers by Wrexham. Indignant with ?Staffch & Night Sch: fond of Canon Tch. Denison Street 8 Court 1st house R(ight) 54. Storey, Mr & Mrs. Had their little boy Joey drowned Friday eveng June 21st 1878. His eldest brother is an errand boy & no scholar, untidy in his habits but a good lad. Two others are free scholars at Moorfields. The Mission helped both man & wife first to come for church. Storey is a Communicant. They have a very neat clean house. Denison Street 3 C[our]t 3 h[ouse] 55. Corbett, Mrs Grace & two little boys. Her husband landed in New York 9 weeks ago & she is waiting for money to follow him. The O'Hagans were very good to her. She left them because the cellar was condemned. She seems honest & simple & cheery but happy go lucky. 56. Grant, Captn (Commander?) & Mrs. Coll: Dock Master. 8 children. Married 78. Country born she. Postance R.N. Godfather to the new baby. Eldest daughter little girl. Musical: used to sing in her home choir. He is delegate to ?Bundee: Chapln Thornton Street. 57. Gracey, Mr & Mrs. A very stout cheery woman with a little boy like a little chimney sweep a very bright little lad not fond of school, who is evidently the family pet. A boy of distinctive habits with a donkey who waggles his head, & admits of being ridden for one penny ("per personne" crossed out). Thornton Street 58. O'Donnell, Widow. Lives above a very clean woman from Waterford who had been married to her husband a soldier 12 months before on going home with him to his mothers, she discovered that he was R.C. One of her sons is married, the other (24) lives with her when he is not at sea. He was quartermaster on one of the Inman S.S. But a fortnight ago fell into the fire while drunk & upset a kettle of boiling water over himself & has been lying in the Northern Hospital on his face ever since. She cleans the Church Club & Ch: Dioces: rooms. Round the corner in a cellar is 59. Lowe. Mr & Mrs. Boilermaker. He is a very decent fellow, but he drinks at times. The house is beautifully clean, the wife altogether bright & sensitive. She comes from East Lancashire & teaches her children to wear clogs. Johnny & Charley & Lizzie. Johnny is monitor in the Infant School: & Lizzie has won this year a scholarship of 6 months free schooling. Bright cheery little fellows. Great Howard Street 60. Aitman? Eating House. Very clean. A nice sensible elderly man. His wife has given books to the Seamen's Library. He has several lodgers all sober, steady men, many of them going off to bed as early as 7 o'clock. One works on North Western Line just across the road. The cocoa houses have reduced his business very much. 61. Saunders, Mrs. Down in the Docks, not at home. Burlington Street 62. Britton, Mr & Mrs. Manager for Earle & King Seed Crushers. She comes from Cottingham Nr Hull. (3.30 8.20) 2 Foxterriers, a pug, a canary, & an aviary. Quiet but nice woman. Mr Britton not in. At Irvines 63. Pyther, Mr & Mrs. He suffers from aggravated heart disease, & was in bed at 8.30. She seems a particularly nice woman. He does not disbelieve. Cemeas St 11 1st floor front 64. Farley, Mr & Mrs. Her little child has been suffering from abscess on the face but it is healing now. Cod liver oil he should take. Cemeas St 11 Back Kitchen 65. Eylward, Mr & Mrs. Very neat: sensible & hearty. Her son (13) is errand boy at a bank & is in the choir at I think Moorfields. He goes to Sunday School till within the last last 3 Sundays when his clothes have been shabby & he has shrunk from it. They go to Weston on Wedn: Evg Boy sore throat. Lost his place. Printing offered to him. Too delicate. Snowdon Street 4 Cellar 66. Nugent, Mr & Mrs. A scotch Presbyterian woman: elderly from near Lanark where she used to work in the water power spinning mills. Father from Carstairs, mother Douglas. She has only one ("brother" crossed out) relative left there now. Family graveyard Lanark, 3 layers. She has only one brother living. He is a bell hanger in Edinboro. It is 30 years I think since she saw him. And one of her sons has been at sea in American waters 10 years without her hearing so she thinks he must be dead. Her dau (Mrs Pearse?) lives with her: both their husbands are at sea on the same ship. Papianii Laconia. She, the dau, used to be a milliner before her marriage & suffered in health, but she is much stronger now. They have lived in the cellar 15 years & never had any serious sickness till Mrs Nugent's present attack. Street used to be filled with Dock Gate Keepers. One son (18) is in Moss's boats on the Mediterranean, as engineer's steward. Is likely to be promoted to the store room. Husband a nice fellow. Native of Paisley Street. 27 Snowdon Street 1st floor front 67. Flanagan, widow. Bad foot. One son of 23 who looks only 19 who is out of work & drinks & maltreats his mother. Miss Brown seems a great help to her. She seems well nigh cleaned out of money when I was there: but had a good fire to wash by. 22 Middle Street Ground floor R(ight) 68. Mrs Alderson. A woman of 63. Two parrots. Dumfries born: in Liverpool many years lived near St Martins. Only lived a month or two in Middle Street: Knows the Cunninghams in Annan: thinks of going off to Dumfries in a week or two: had 10 brothers & sisters. Will welcome me again & also Miss Brown. Doesn't like Liverpool. Craves for the country. Mrs Alderson's daughter's name is Mrs MacGregor. She has one little child ten months old. UPSIDE DOWN AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK IS WRITTEN: St Matthias Parish notes. No School Monday & Saturday Penny Bank Monday & Saturday 6.30pm Pupil Teacher's holiday Tuesday. (2.15 crossed out) 1.45 4 Choir in School 6 Wednesday Evg High Service with sermon Thursday 7.30 Friday Choir 6 in school 8 in church Middle Street Mission 7.30 Tuesday Evg Do Mothers' Meetg 2 Tuesday Aftn Great Howard St Mothers' Meetg 2 Monday Canal Bank Mothers' Meetg Wednesday Evg Bible Woman & Scripture Reader's Reports Monday after Mattins. Sunday School Teachers' Class 6.30 Thursdy Pupil Teachers' Class Alternate Wednesdays 6.30 Music Lesson to Choir Boys Tuesday 5:30 Monday 5.30 Prayer Meeting 12 & 2 Daily Drum & Fife Band Wednesday 8pm Children's Service 4pm Friday Band of Hope 6.30 pm Tuesday

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