Places in Lancashire
Farnworth
Manchester
South West Lancashire
St Helens Area
Stretton, Warrington
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Manchester
South West Lancashire
St Helens Area
Stretton, Warrington
Places in the Fylde area are listed on separate page.
Follow this link to places in the Fylde area.
Farnworth,
(now part of Widnes).
Scene of the marriage of William Gerrard (1820) to Mary Ann Hurst (1819), on 24th October 1842
Manchester Area
Elizabeth McGuinniss (sic) was born here on 17th June 1838.
William Cherrington died here on 15th July 1873
South West Lancashire
Banks, North Meols.
Home of William and Ellen Wilson (Census 1841)
Home of Matthew Wilson (Census 1851)
Birthplace of James Wilson and Elizabeth Leadbetter - married 1853
Marsh House, Banks
Home of William Wilson and family, and Matthew Wilson's family (Census 1851)
Numerous members of the Leadbetter family were baptised, married or buried here from 1762 onwards.
Numerous members of the early Leadbetter family were baptised, married or buried here.
St Helens Area
St Helens was formed as a municipal borough in 1868 from the townships of Windle, Parr, Eccleston and Sutton.
Home of William Gerrard and family (1861 Census)
9 Baxters Lane, Sutton
John Thomas Gerrard and family lived here in 1871
Home of William Gerrard and family (1871 Census)
Bold, Near St Helens.
John Thomas Gerrard and Ann Harrison were living here at the time of their marriage in 1869
Elizabeth Gerrard (1850) (sister of John Thomas Gerrard (1848 - ) living as servant at the home of Livewell Broadhead, shoemaker.
Home of the Harrison family in 1881.
Ditch Hillock is not seen on most modern maps. On earlier maps it is shown as an area, presumably a hillock, at the north end of Gerrard Street and New Street, in Sutton. On the 1894 map it was marked as a road, which is now the western end of Waterdale Crescent.
8 Hall Street, Windle
Samuel Gerrard and family lived here in 1851
Henry Harrison and family lived here in 1841
John Thomas Gerrard and family lived here in 1881
13 Oxley Street, Sutton
John Thomas Gerrard and family lived here in 1891
81 Rigby Street, St Helens
Margaret Oxendale, widow of Samuel Gerrard, with her second husband and family, Census 1861
232 Robin's Lane, Sutton
Mary Ann Gerrard living as a widow in 1891
Slub Brook, Windle
Henry Harrison and family were here in 1851
[The only reference I can find to Slub Brook is Slubbrook Farm, which fits with the route of the census enumerator.
This, and the other two farms in the area were demolished in the early 20th century.]
John Thomas Gerrard and family lived here in 1901
Home of John Thomas Gerrard and family and birthplace of Jane Gerrard on 2nd November 1875