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![]() ![]() Surnames O- R - Liverpool And Merseyside Remembered. FRANCIS O'MELIAMy Grandmother's Nephew Francis served during world war one with the Loyal North East Lancashire regiment. Tragically he committed suicide by throwing himself ou of an upper floor window at 3. Beaufort street onto the railings below in front of my horrified Grandmother. Who knows what horrors Francis lived through and witnessed during the great war, which may possibly have preyed on his mind. You can read about four generations of the Davies family living at 3. Beaufort street by following this link http: //www. ![]() Beaufort. St. html Submitted by Frank Davies AUSTIN OWENSAustin served with the Merchant Navy during WW2, he also served before and after the war. I have found records showing that Austin sailed on . ![]() Austin lost an eye during his service. He was married to Margaret and they lived in Hopwood street. Laura Bush; First Lady of the United States; In role January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009: President: George W. Bush: Preceded by: Hillary Clinton: Succeeded by. Relationships Not Resumes. Our candidates are much more than a resumes. ASG Law Offices is a consumer law firm dedicated to consumer protection and vigorously defending the rights of our clients. We offer high-caliber legal representation. Austin was my Grandmothers brother and the son of John Owens listed below. He passed away in 1. Submitted by his Great Nephew Anthony Hogan JOHN OWENSJohn was born in Bootle and was married to Sarah Anne with a son Austin and a Daughter Ellen, the family was living at 1. Burlington Street when John went to war in 1. He served as Private 7. Battalion of the East Lancashire regiment with who he had served before in India. His regiment was present at the famous Christmas truce of 1. John was involved in fierce trench fighting before sadly losing his life on 1. May 1. 91. 5. He is remembered on the Menin Gate memorial in Belgium. John is the father of Austin listed above. John is also remembered on the war memorial at Our Lady of Reconciliation church, Eldon Street, Liverpool. Further details concerning John can be found at http: //www. Submitted by his Great Grandson Anthony Hogan. BOB PAISLEYFrom www. Liverpool FC manager Bob Paisley (1. He served with Montgomery's Eighth Army, the so called Desert Rats at the relief of Tobruk and the watershed victory at El Alamein, as an anti tank gunner. Whilst Bob was on active service in Italy he was given the news that his younger brother Alan had died back home at the age of fifteen from scarlet fever and diphtheria. On hearing this news, Bob wandered aimlessly away from where he had been positioned, understandably dazed and upset by what he had heard, and moments later a shell dropped and exploded right where he had been. The tragic news had ironically saved his own life. In June 1. 94. 4 he proudly rode aboard a tank as the Allies liberated Rome. It was a proud moment as the relieving forces were welcomed as heroes by the Italians. For Bob and his fighting comrades it was the beginning of the end of the war, a war that had given him an early insight into the Scouse character, for many of the men in his regiment were Merseysiders. BOBBY PARKERBobby Parker - 1. Bobby Parker's story could have rivaled even that of Dixie Dean's had it not been for the outbreak of the First World War. Everton needed to add a spark to a team that finishing runners up in the league in 1. Parker was to be what was needed. Signed from Glasgow Rangers in November 1. Sheffield Wednesday and ended the season with 1. Season 1. 91. 4- 1. Everton's fortunes, after winning only two of the first six games the club went on to win their second league title. For Parker the season was a personal success as he finished the countries leading scorer with 3. What made Parker's exploits even more impressive was the fact that the offside law had been changed and that three players had to be between the player receiving the ball and the goal. Bobby Parker was robbed of the best years of his football career due the war but even worse was that he returned to Everton with a bullet lodged in his back and this prevented him capturing the heights he had reached in 1. He played just 2. Nottingham Forest at the end of 1. Everton playing record : League appearances 8. FA Cup appearances 8, goals 3 DAVID PHILLIPSA lump of clay came through our roof and demolished a chair. Fortunately we were all in the Anderson shelter as usual. Ours used to flood but we had a wooden floor suspended above the water. The clay must have come from a huge crater caused by a parachute mine that landed in the playing fields of the Holt High Schoolnearby. As kids we used to stand on opposite sides of the crater throwing stones at one another. I've just come across the following: http: //www. It's enormous - no wonder ours caused such a huge crater! They must have been dropped the same night in the same area. I also once found the tail fin of an incendiary bomb which I hid under the hedge in our garden. Some sneaky kid snitched on me and my treasured tail fin was confiscated and disposed of. I was allowed to keep the shrapnel I collected, but where is it now? Another time Two adjoing houses were destroyed by a stray bomb, but nobody was killed or injured in that incident. On the other hand a near- neighbour, Norman Stringfellow, a firefighter, died in the Blitz and, worse still, another former resident, Leslie Mollard, was one of the evacuees drowned when the City of Benares was sunk on its way to Canada. I often wonder how his parents coped with that devastating tragedy. Both these individuals are remembered in the CWGC website where you can find the precise dates etc. It is interesting to see how even a quiet suburban road away from strategic targets could be profoundly affected by the war. Submitted by David Phillips. JAMES POLLITTJames Pollitt died at the age of 8. April 1. 94. 1. He was sheltering under the stairs in his home at 3. Saunby Street in Garston, with his daughter Phoebe, her husband Peter and their first child Edith, when a bomb dropped on the houses opposite. Phoebe, Peter and Edith were unhurt but unfortunately James was badly injured. He was admitted to Rainhill Hospital, a converted asylum, where he died on the 2. April from his wounds. James was born on the 1st of December 1. Halton, Runcorn. He had worked most of his life for the Garston Tanning Company, working well into his seventies. At the age of 7. 6 he went blind with cataracts and had to give up work. James is buried with his wife Elizabeth and Grandaughter Joyce Williams in Allerton Cemetary, Liverpool. Submitted by his Great Grandaughter Karen Millea. EDWARD PRITCHARDMy Father spent six years in the Orphanage, received a good education & was clothed & well fed, also he learned to play the Trombone and was in the Orphanage Band and competed with other bands around Liverpool. After leaving the orphanage he and another home boy wanted to join a band, so both ended up joining the Territorial Army as band boys with the old 8. Field Regiment, Royal Artillery at Wellington Road barracks Wavertree. This was in 1. 92. Father was 1. 7 years old. At the start of the war in 1. Teritorials he was among the first to be called up, first being sent to a camp in Delamere. He didn't stay there long before being sent to Suffolk to guard the coast in case of an invasion. Then he was up and down the country while they decided what to do with him. Then on the 8 / 1. India staying at Bombay. We were there five days which was long enough,Then it came time for us to sail again. So off we went, landing at a place called Basrah in Iraq. Now this was a place for filth and disease it was thick with it, Just as we got there a small war was going on so we lost no time loading our stores onto lorries for the battle area in Iraq. We were put on trucks with loaded rifles but a small bunch of our lads had to stay with fixed bayonets to stop anyone coming near the stores. Quite a few were killed too, swarming all around us waving knives and old swords till we had to fire over their heads before we could drive them away. They were trying to stop us getting to our troops fighting the last of the Iraqian Army which we were told was still strong. We stopped in the desert and put up our tents and had a small meal, next thing we were surrounded by men women & small children, we grabbed our rifles expecting an attack, but all they wanted was food, they were starving. An officer went out to persuade them to go away but they all swarmed around him. Then we were ordered to fire over their heads which moved them back a bit but they were still watching us. As soon as the cooks buried the swill the women and girls made a dive for the place digging and scratching at the earth to get at the swill. They were all fighting each other, some half naked, what a sight that was. After a while some of our chaps had to go to them with whips and sticks and beat them away for even without food there were millions of flies and the country was full of dysentry and malaria. But the whipping never chased them away so a troop of the Poona Horse was sent out riding at them with drawn swords, that very soon cleared the place with not a person in sight. As night came we had to pick men for outside picket and men for inside picket. The outside picket had chains tied to the rifle trigger guard and to their wrist as we had been warned Arabs would sneak into camp and steal anything they could. That night some chaps had their wrists cut and rifles stolen, some even stole blankets and clothing while our lads slept. Things got so bad with so much stolen that a body of men ( me included ) were sent out to search every hut in every village for Army stores. In a village called Zubair we found some blankets in the first hut, the next hut they put up a fight and one of our lads was knifed, three of that family were shot including husband wife & daughter. We found rifles and other stuff there. The next hut also put up a fight so we set fire to their hut, the next hut was more difficult with the man saying the woman was expecting a baby, but we went in anyway. The woman was completely naked with a huge belly lying on a heap of filthy black clothes, our sergeant told them to move her off the bed, but they were protesting strongly, but with the threat of the Police or burning their hut they then moved her. Bureau of Labor Statistics. To help mark the Monthly Labor Review. This article is about the life of workers in 1. MLR began. It discusses population and labor force characteristics plus jobs and wages. It also looks at various facets of everyday life. That year was a transitional time in the United States. About 1. 5 years earlier, the nation had moved from the Gilded Age. The 1. 92. 0 census shows much growth within urban and suburban areas and within the middle class. The urbanization of America, as well as new methods of management and new technology within both the home and the workplace, were changing the nature of work and the daily lives of workers. To help readers understand what life was like for workers in 1. In addition, information from primary sources and insights from social historians are included. The article begins with a look at demographics in 1. It goes on to discuss the daily life of workers: their housing, clothing, food, hours, working conditions, leisure time. The emphasis in this article is on the 7. Current events of 1. The following list of current events may help set the stage for readers to better understand the world of 1. On January 1. 2, the U. S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote. On January 1. 9, labor leader Joe Hill was arrested on murder charges and executed 2. On January 2. 5, Alexander Graham Bell made his famous call to Thomas Watson in San Francisco, thereby inaugurating the first transcontinental phone service. On February 1. 2, construction of the Lincoln Memorial began. On March 2. 7, Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was arrested and returned to quarantine after causing several typhoid outbreaks. On May 6, Babe Ruth hit his first career home run. On May 7, the British- owned RMS Lusitania ocean liner was sunk by a German submarine, which killed nearly 1,2. U. S. More than half (5. United States were less than 2. U. S. Not quite 5 percent of the population in 1. Life expectancy at birth for people born in 1. Indeed, there currently are more than 7. American centenarians. Although the rate rose to 3. The 1. 91. 5 fertility rate is not surprising given that infant mortality was much higher a hundred years ago. In addition, more families lived on farms than do so today, and these families tended to be large to ensure help with farm chores. In 1. 91. 5, about 1 baby out of 1. U. S. In 1. 90. 0, almost all births occurred outside of hospitals. By 1. 91. 5 in Pittsburgh, for instance, the percentage had fallen to 8. Today, less than 1 percent of U. S. This contrasts with over 2. Rather than living alone or with nonrelatives, young women generally lived at home until they got married. Nowadays, most women at least at some point in their lives live apart from their family, and nearly half have cohabited with a partner before marriage. Divorce was quite uncommon in 1. Although the major cause of death in both 1. In 1. 91. 5, they were pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis, and nephritis (kidney disease); today. Pneumonia and influenza continue to claim lives, but Alzheimer. Despite a resurgence of tuberculosis in 1. United States, is relatively low. Improved sanitation and hygiene throughout the 2. The racial composition of the U. S. Whites were close to 9. Now the non- Hispanic White population composes 6. U. S. About 6. 0 percent of the people who immigrated to the United States in 1. Europe and 3. 4 percent were from North and South America. Currently, most new legal permanent residents are from Asia (4. North and South America (4. United States are from Europe. In 1. 91. 5, about 1. That percentage dropped to a record low of 4. About half the population in 1. In 2. 01. 0, by contrast, only 1 in 5 people lived in a rural area. Not surprisingly, mobility within the United States was more limited than it is now, and people born in the United States were likely to stay within their home state. In 1. 91. 5, about 7. U. S.- born individuals were living in the state in which they had been born, compared with 5. Labor force participation. The 1. 91. 5 annual average civilian labor force participation rate is estimated at 5. The 1. 92. 0 census shows that, among people ages 1. January of that year. Table 1 points out that young boys were much more likely to be in the labor force in 1. Not surprisingly, women of all ages are much more likely to be in the labor force now than in 1. Half of all boys ages 1. Labor force participation among girls those ages hasn. Labor force participation rates, by age and gender, January 1. Age. Men. Women. 19. Total, 1. 4 years and older. Data for 1. 92. 0 are from Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1. U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1. Sources: U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U. S. Census Bureau. Education. A century ago, most jobs required little formal schooling, and most of the population had not gone beyond elementary or grammar school. In fact, high school graduates were a rarity: in 1. Royal Meeker, appointed Commissioner of Labor Statistics by President Woodrow Wilson in 1. New York Times article advocating compulsory public education through the intermediate grades. The average length of the public school term was about 1. Many young girls and boys worked instead of being enrolled in school. In fact, New York City. The economy was volatile a century ago, moving quickly from boom to bust and back again. The annual unemployment rate was relatively high in 1. However, the rate quickly jumped up to nearly 1. In recent years, the annual average unemployment rate moved from 4. December 2. 00. 7. Like workers of today, those living in 1. If you were alive in 1. In contrast, by 2. American families owned rather than rented their residence, although that proportion slipped to 6. The cost of a home in 1. If you were purchasing a home in that town, you might have done so through a catalog. Contrasting with ornate Victorian residences, the newest house style in 1. In Los Angeles County, where the population tripled from 1. Front porches were prevalent, and they were the site of countless marriage proposals. Like their modern counterparts, urban dwellers were likely to live in multiple- unit residences. Tenements proliferated on New York City. Interestingly, from colonial times until the post. According to a 1. Journal of Home Economics article written by home economist Mabel Hyde Kittredge, the typical home of a working- class family was crowded, somewhat disorderly, and without modern conveniences. The article described a New York City apartment this way: A home I know well is a fair sample: a four room flat, rent nineteen dollars, nine in family. It is furnished with cheap elaborateness . The chandelier is draped with tissue paper, the shelves are hung with ruffles and covered with paper napkins . In this, as in the home of every ambitious foreigner, is the plush parlor set. This family of nine has a boarder to help pay the rent. He is a night worker, and in the day time can always be seen asleep in one of the beds. All five children, after school, help the mother at flower making. They receive eight cents a gross for the flowers, and the tiny red leaves and yellow stamens are everywhere . There is a bath tub, but the clothes wringer and last winter. This is not the home of a very poor family: the father earns twelve dollars a week, two girls are in a factory, and the flower making brings in a certain income. Apparently, several children in the described family shared a bed, and the family members may have all shared the same bedroom. Few of the homes of working- class families had running water, and almost none had running hot water. Working- class homes typically had chairs but no sofas. However, if your family were more affluent, you might have awoken in your Victorian- style, heavily carved wooden bed, although by 1. Whether or not your abode was a single- family home or a crowded tenement, it probably was heated by a potbelly stove or by a coal furnace in the basement. Gas stoves were starting to replace coal and wood stoves in part because they conserved kitchen space. Telephones could be found in at least a few million homes. However, direct dialing did not exist until the 1. If your home had an indoor toilet, the toilet likely was located in a closet or a storage area. It would be a few more years until it was common for toilets, sinks, and bathtubs to share a room. Housework and shopping. Maintaining a home in 1. The relatively small size of iceboxes meant more trips to the grocery store, the butcher, or the fish market. Marketing trade journals reported that women were spending more time shopping than were men, an occurrence that is still true today. Grocery stores were turning into supermarkets, chain stores and franchises began to proliferate, and mail- order catalogs. Mass- produced items were becoming more available, and 5- and- 1. For instance, in 1. Woolworth merged with five other companies, which resulted in a 5. As social historian Harvey Green pointed out, household work remained hard work in 1. Although some households had running water in 1. Less affluent residents still heated a boiler full of water on a coal or wood range, rubbed clothes on a washboard, used a hand ringer, and hung clothes to dry. Homes without gas or electric heat were harder to clean because of soot from the fireplace or wood stove. What workers wore. If you were a man and your job was one on the corporate ladder, only one type of business clothing was deemed appropriate: a blue serge suit. For leisure activities and for travel to a working- class job, men typically wore newsboy or flat caps often along with a Norfolk jacket. For almost all activities, women wore long skirts. The hobble skirts of 1. Skirts were generally paired with a white blouse called a shirtwaist. Some factory jobs required women to wear pants or jumpsuits, but long skirts were the more usual attire. Clothing was relatively more expensive in 1. Clothing now is about 3 percent of consumer expenditures but was around 1. What workers ate.
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