Everton history question - help please!

[davek]

If you're still about Pip...just checking the club share records* and Wlm Downey had 5 shares in the club between 1892 and 1910, sold one to have 4 shares then bought one in 1914 to hold his original 5 shares (5 was about average number held by a pretty big number of shareholders). Oh, and the records state he was living at Helen Road by 1896.

*Not online.

 

[Blue Ray]

you sure you wanna go there?

Hey if I could find him I would mate.

 

[pip]

If you're still about Pip...just checking the club share records* and Wlm Downey had 5 shares in the club between 1892 and 1910, sold one to have 4 shares then bought one in 1914 to hold his original 5 shares (5 was about average number held by a pretty big number of shareholders). Oh, and the records state he was living at Helen Road by 1896.

*Not online.

Dave - thanks again... I can't believe how helpful you have all been today!
Pip

 

[Fletch]

I love family history, Ive traced mine back to 1720 on my mumjs side in Buxton but my dads side are all from the old Islington part of Lioverpool, sadly the houses are no longer there, a few years later they moved over to Wallasey but then had to move again when the tunnel went right through the site of their homes. No football related clippings etc but I know Im an Evertonian........

 

[swiftyefc]

I love family history, Ive traced mine back to 1720 on my mumjs side in Buxton but my dads side are all from the old Islington part of Lioverpool, sadly the houses are no longer there, a few years later they moved over to Wallasey but then had to move again when the tunnel went right through the site of their homes. No football related clippings etc but I know Im an Evertonian........

How did you do this mate? I really want to do this!

 

[Philw]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to davek again.

lol, who woulda thunk it!

 

[bobbyrob]

I love family history, Ive traced mine back to 1720 on my mumjs side in Buxton but my dads side are all from the old Islington part of Lioverpool, sadly the houses are no longer there, a few years later they moved over to Wallasey but then had to move again when the tunnel went right through the site of their homes. No football related clippings etc but I know Im an Evertonian........

I did mine and i am a distant relative to Winston Churchill & the Spencer family That makes me a Royal Blue

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I did mine and i am a distant relative to Winston Churchill & the Spencer family That makes me a Royal Blue

That would mean bobbyrob that you have some sort of claim to Blenheim Palace...I hear that the current Duke doesn't get on too well with his son Jamie....due to him being a total loser.

I'd check it out mate...its one hell of a gaff

Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire - Birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill

 

[trebilcock66]

That would mean bobbyrob that you have some sort of claim to Blenheim Palace...I hear that the current Duke doesn't get on too well with his son Jamie....due to him being a total loser.

I'd check it out mate...its one hell of a gaff

Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire - Birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill

Just down the road from where I live - they've got one or two spare rooms....

 

[Fletch]

How did you do this mate? I really want to do this!

Start with a search on line for basic information package for free. Best way to start is to interview all your family whilst you can and get as many stories names and notes as you can and start from there.

Its mostly on line now but I had to do many visits to london to get certificates etc, never assume anything until you have proof of certificates.

 

[monty]

Hi Pip,

A few unknowns here ... firstly do you know the date of that cutting from the Liverpool Echo? If William Downey was a founder member of Everton FC, then he would have been present at the club in 1878.As thats the year of the clubs foundation.

Now the clip from the Echo mentions that he leaves a widow of 48 years behind...So assuming he also got married around that time I did some digging on the internet for marriage records between I searched on marriage records around the late 1800's in Liverpool with William Downey as a key-word, and I found this

Marriage: 18 Aug 1890 St Augustine, Everton, Lancashire, England
William Downey - 28 Tin Plate Worker Batchelor of 43 Boundary Place
Eliza Ann Brookfield - 27 Spinster of 52 Rupert Lane
Groom's Father: James Downey, Watchmaker (deceased)
Bride's Father: John Brookfield, Waiter
Witness: Joseph Francis Broadburn; Harriet Emily Kelly
Married by Banns by: William J Adams
Register: Marriage 1887 - 1896, Page 79, Entry 158
Source: LDS Film 1656014

I dont know if its the same William Downey but it maybe worth looking at

Superb job done there lads, nice to see Blues help each other, the way it should be

It is interesting to note that St Augustine's address is shown as Everton, Lancashire and not Liverpool.....................back in the days when GP was in West Lancs.........................those guys had to be tough and strong to pick it up and move it into Liverpool