The Bridge to ALDRIDGE
A brief history of my ALDRIDGE ancestry.
About Me

- Name: A Merlin Imp
- Location: Newton Le Willows, Lancashire, United Kingdom
An only child born on a sunny Saturday afternoon at 2:30pm (is that why I'm so lazy LOL!) at the new Whiston Hospital Maternity Wing (there's press cuttings to prove it). It was the year of the Ox and it was on the cusp of Virgo and Libra (so that's why I can't make up my mind LOL!) Spent the first four years of my life moving around the St Helens area with my parents, finally settling in Newton-Le-Willows and remained there until I was 22, when I decided to try and find my fame and fortune in Manchester. Sadly I wasn't destined to find it there but I had some really great times. Ill health seems to have been the factor which slowed me down after this. I left the bright lights of the city and had a brief spell at my friend Michael's home on the outskirts of Leigh, before moving to Warrington at the end of 2004. I then returned to my "home" town of Newton Le Willows in April 2007 but still spent a fair amount of time in Leigh. I think it has something to do with the "ancestral seat" of Bonny Well, Pennington, Leigh! lol ;-)
Monday, May 09, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, November 08, 2010
Thursday, November 04, 2010
WINCKLE pickers
census so far:
1911
16 Greaves Street, Toxteth Park
John WINCKLE hd (marr 3yrs) 25 railway porter b. Liverpool
Margaret Jane WINCKLE 34 b. Liverpool
Lilian May WINCKLE dau 2 b. Liverpool
Edith Margaret BATES step-dau 13 school b. Liverpool
Martha Elizabeth BATES step-dau 5 school b. Liverpool
1901
2 Cleopas St, Toxteth Park
John WINCKLE hd 42 railway labourer b. Liverpool
Johanna WINCKLE wf 40 b. Liverpool
Johanna WINCKLE dau 16 b. Liverpool
John WINCKLE son 15 crane lad on railway b. Liverpool
Ethel WINCKLE dau 10 b. Liverpool
Lucy WINCKLE dau 8 b. Liverpool
Herbert WINCKLE son 5 b. Liverpool
William WINCKLE son 2 b. Liverpool
Benjamin WINCKLE son 4mths b. Liverpool
1891
28 Beloe St, Toxteth Park
John WINCKLE hd 32 railway lab b. Liverpool
Johanna WINCKLE wf 29 b. Liverpool
Esther B. WINCKLE dau 10 scholar b. Liverpool
Johanna A. WINCKLE dau 6 scholar b. Liverpool
John WINCKLE son 5 b. Liverpool
Harriet WINCKLE dau 3 b. Liverpool
Florence WINCKLE dau 1 b. Liverpool
Ethel A. WINCKLE dau 3mths b. Liverpool
1881
2 House, 5 Court, Rankin St, Toxteth Park
John WINCKLE hd 21 fireman b. Liverpool
Johanna WINCKLE wf 19 b. Liverpool
Ester B. WINCKLE dau 5 b. Liverpool
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The LEAY / HOWARD / BURNETT / WILSON connection
She was the mother of Elizabeth BURNETT (who became Mrs ALDRIDGE) and is therefore the grandmother of my grandmother, Annie Leay PLIMMER (previously NUGENT, nee ALDRIDGE).
Mary's father was John Davies HOWARD and her mother was Johanna HOWARD (nee STANTON) who was born in France, a British Subject (as per 1851 census).
I do not know how to trace the birth of her mother, Johanna, so any advice most welcome.
HOWARD certificates I have so far include:
It is here we find the first reference to the LEAY name (not Leah) as in the middle name of my grandmother Annie Leay PLIMMER.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Beryl Enid NUGENT (nee LADYMAN)
She taught me the joys of the card game "UNO" and I still play it with friends on our social evenings.
She cooked some fabulous meals for my father and I on many visits and I always remember as a child, the delicious thick bread and real butter I was given, whilst visiting my Gran who was staying with her and my Uncle Len, when my Gran had cancer.
Wish we had had more chance to chat, like we did when the "men" were doing the gardening, well that's what they told us. LOL!
love n hugs x
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
1911 confusions
44 Haliburton St, Toxteth Park
(NB: children's names on original not given - written as "son" / "dau" - in another hand and different ink, names have been written in but they don't match the actual names!)
William John ALDRIDGE hd 39 (m. 19 yrs) carter coal b. Liverpool
Elizabeth ALDRIDGE wf 39 b. Liverpool
Irene (should be Florence A.) ALDRIDGE (relationship left blank) 16 b. Liverpool
James ALDRIDGE (should be William J.) (relationship left blank) 15 b. Liverpool
Mary ALDRIDGE (should be Annie L.) (relationship left blank) 13 b. Liverpool
Teresa ALDRIDGE (should be Mary E.) (relationship left blank) 4 b. Liverpool
Thomas ALDRIDGE (should be Frederick) (relationship left blank) 2 b. Liverpool
Hector ALDRIDGE (should be Herbert) (relationship left blank) 1 b. Liverpool
1911
52 Woodruff St, Toxteth Park
W. GARRAWAY hd (marr 14 yrs) 44 dock lab b. Liverpool
Anne GARRAWAY wf 52 charwoman b. Liverpool
W. KNOX f-in-l (widower) 76 ship’s carpenter b. Liverpool
R. ALDRIDGE step-son (single) 29 dock lab b. Liverpool
S. ALDRIDGE step-son (single) 24 dock lab b. Liverpool
L. ALDRIDGE step-dau (single) 20 dressmaker b. Liverpool
1911
56 Hurry St, Toxteth Park
Joseph DUGDALE hd (marr 1 yr) 29 dock labourer b. Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Ada DUGDALE wf (marr 1 yr) 27 - b. Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Arthur HUGHES visitor 7 - b. Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Willie HUGHES visitor 4 - b. Toxteth Park, Liverpool
NB:
m. 1903 St Peter, Liverpool
Ada ALDRIDGE to David T. HUGHES
m. 1916 St Cleopas, Toxteth Park
Ada HUGHES to Joseph DUGDALE
NB:
Death
March quarter 1922 Toxteth Park, 8b, 255
KNOX, William (age 87)
Death
June quarter 1938 Liverpool South, 8b, 208
GARRAWAY, William H (age 67)
NB:
1911
14 Althorp St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Joseph ALDRIDGE hd (marr 2yrs) 35 lab plate b. Liverpool
N. ALDRIDGE wf 29 b. Liverpool
n.k. BARKER n.k. (female) 2mnths n.k.
1911
43 Pecksniff St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Emma ALDRIDGE hd (single) 62 housekeeper b. Liverpool
Caroline ALDRIDGE sister (single) 63 seamstress b. Liverpool
Alice ALDRIDGE sister (single) 59 costume alteration hand b. Liverpool
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Aldridge / Nugent pictures

Thomas William NUGENT & Annie Leay NUGENT (nee ALDRIDGE) & Thomas William NUGENT (junior)

Pop PLIMMER with Grandmother Elizabeth ALDRIDGE (nee BURNETT)

Harold Edward PLIMMER & Annie Leay PLIMMER (prev NUGENT, nee ALDRIDGE) at marriage of Uncle NUGENT and Aunty NUGENT (nee LADYMAN) with Mr & Mrs LADYMAN - St George's, Huyton.
Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1953
NUGENT L. J.
to
LADYMAN B. E.
Huyton, St. George
Prescot - C1/3/2

marriage of Hercules (Paddy) Miller & Mary Elizabeth Aldridge
Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1934
ALDRIDGE Mary E
to
MILLER Hercules
Toxteth Park, St. Cleopas
Liverpool - 2065TP/5/312
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
1911 census
Monday, February 19, 2007
My ALDRIDGE research so far
John ALDRIDGE m. 1781 Ryton, Durham
to Margaret WERSON or WEATHERSTONE
off-spring:
*1a) John ALDRIDGE (1782) m. 1810 Whickham, Durham
to Elizabeth STEPHENSON
1b) Edith (1787)
1c) Elizabeth (1789)
1d) Ann (1792)
1e) Edward (1795)
1f) Thomas (1798)
1g) Margaret (1800)
*1a) John = Elizabeth off-spring, all of Whickham, Durham:
2a) Thomas (1812)
2b) John (1812)
2c) Margaret (1815)
**2d) Robert (1818)

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**2d) Robert ALDRIDGE 20 - carpenter, as per 1841 Liverpool census,
not from Lancashire. Others:
John ALDRIDGE 55 – warehouseman
Elizabeth ALDRIDGE 45?
James ALDRIDGE 15 – appren carpenter b. Lancs
Elizabeth ALDRIDGE 13 - ?maker b. Lancs
? DOBSON 30 – blacksmith b. Lancs

**2d) Robert ALDRIDGE m. Fanny MORRISON Sept qua 1842, Liverpool
1851 Toxteth Park census:
Robert ALDRIDGE 30? Shipwright, b. Newcastle On Tyne
Fanny ALDRIDGE 28 b. Sheerness
3a) William (H.F?) 8 scholar b. Liverpool (m. c1865, Jane ?)
3b) Elliza Ann 4 scholar b. Liverpool
(d. between 1851 – 1861)
3c) Charles J. 1 b. Liverpool
(d. Sept. qua 1851)
More births to Robert and Fanny:
3d) Eleanor ALDRIDGE b. c1852
m. 1869, William BRIGHT (of France?)
***3e) John ALDRIDGE b. March qua 1854
3f) Elizabeth A. ALDRIDGE b. c1856
3g) Thomas Morrison ALDRIDGE b. c1860
1861 Liverpool census
Robert ALDRIDGE 40 shipwright b. Newcastle On Tyne
Fanny ALDRIDGE 27 b. Sheerness
William ALDRIDGE 17? b. Liverpool
Elinor ALDRIDGE 9 b. Liverpool
***3e) John ALDRIDGE 7 b. Liverpool
Elizabeth A. ALDRIDGE 5 b. Liverpool
Thomas ALDRIDGE 1 b. Liverpool
ALDRIDGE deaths (pre 1871 census)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,411715.0.html

1871 census
I am unable to locate other ALDRIDGE members in this census; yet I find Eleanor BRIGHT (nee ALDRIDGE) as Helen BRIGHT (husband at sea).
also Eleanor BRIGHT:
1881 Kirkdale
1891 Bootle
1901 Bootle
1911 Everton
***3e) John ALDRIDGE of Kitchen St, m. 1873 to Ann STUBBS
1881 Toxteth Park Census - Tamworth St, cellar
***3e) John 25 (carter) and Ann(ie) 24, with off-spring:
****4a)William (John) ALDRIDGE 7
4b) Joseph ALDRIDGE 5
4c) Robert E(dward) ALDRIDGE 3
4d) Martha J(ane) ALDRIDGE 1
(All born Liverpool)
***3e) John ALDRIDGE d. 1890, accident, sack of flour fell on him
1891 Tamworth St, Toxteth Park
Ann ALDRIDGE, widow and family:
****4a)William (John) ALDRIDGE 17 stable boy
4b) Joseph ALDRIDGE 15 warehouse boy
4c) Robert E(dward) ALDRIDGE 13 shop boy
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4e) Jane (Louise) ALDRIDGE 9
4f) Ada ALDRIDGE 7
4g) Samuel (James) ALDRIDGE 5
4h) Lily (Elizabeth) ALDRIDGE 8 months
****4a) William John ALDRIDGE (carter) m. 1892 to Elizabeth BURNETT

m. 1899, Ann ALDRIDGE (nee STUBBS) to William Henry GARRAWAY
(Anne GARRAWAY d. 1945)
1901 Beresford Rd, Toxteth Park
****4a) William (John) and Elizabeth with family:
5a) Florence (Adelaide) ALDRIDGE 6 (m. 1914 to Stanley BAKER)
5b) William ALDRIDGE 5 (m. ?, Gladys ?)
*****5c) Annie (Leay) ALDRIDGE 3 (1897-1979) {my grandmother}


m. 1920 to Thomas William NUGENT (d. 1933)

m. 1938 to Harold Edward PLIMMER (d. 1962) {my grandfather}
Also:
5d) Mary Elizabeth ALDRIDGE b. 1906
NB: Commonwealth War Graves Commission website:
Fireman, Patrick MILLER d. 1942, 33
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth MILLER
(speculate husband of Mary Elizabeth MILLER (nee ALDRIDGE))
Only found ref. to a marriage to a Hercules MILLER, freebmd marriage 1934.)

****4a) William John ALDRIDGE d. 1932

NB: Commonwealth War Graves Commission website:
stoker 1st class, William John ALDRIDGE d. 1942 on HMS Hecla
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
(speculate son (5b) of William John & Elizabeth ALDRIDGE)

Elizabeth ALDRIDGE (nee BURNETT) d. 1952
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Great Great Grandmother
(1855 - 1945)

She died a widow in 1945, aged 88, in Toxteth Park, Liverpool; her daughter A(da). DUGDALE was present at the time.
She was widowed in 1938.

I know very little about her life, as Mrs GARRAWAY.
In 1922 on 04th Feb, at 52 Woodruff Street, Toxteth Park her step-father died aged 87. She is listed as a daughter of the same address.
In the 1911 census at 52 Woodruff Street, Toxteth Park, her husband is listed as W. GARRAWAY, head of the household and she is listed as Anne, aged 52. Her step-father W. KNOX is listed as the father-in-law and her children are listed as: R. ALDRIDGE, S. ALDRIDGE (step-sons) and L. ALDRIDGE (step-daughter).
In 1901 she is at 52 Woodruff Street, Toxteth Park with her husband William Henry GARRAWAY and two children from this marriage, Henry Thomas aged 1 and Albert Edward aged 2 months, sadly they both die not long after the census was taken. Listed in the household are her other children from her first marriage, as Aldridge GARRAWAY. She is aged 39, so someone was fibbing! (LOL)
She married William in 1899 at St Matthew's, Toxteth Park, her age is stated as full but his is revealed as 30; I think she had bagged herself a toy-boy and somebody seemed bothered about it. They were both living at 33 Longville Street. Her father is listed as Charles STUBBS, deceased, carpenter.
At the time of the 1891 census (aged 34) she had been recently widowed, as her husband John ALDRIDGE had died a few months before in the previous year, after a tragic accident.
The seven off-spring were: William, Joseph, Robert E, Jane L, Ada, Samuel J and Lily E.
In 1881 (aged 25) I found her living in the cellar of 20 Tamworth Street with her husband, John ALDRIDGE and four off-spring; William, Joseph, Robert E. and Martha J. It is possible that her mother and step-father KNOX are living in the cellar next door, at number 18.
She married in April 1873 at the Parish Church of Liverpool to John ALDRIDGE. They are both resident at Kitchen Street and her father is listed as Charles STUBBS, shipwright. It doesn't state it but I am sure he had died by then. A witness is named as Thomas KNOX.
I have yet to locate her in the 1871 census.
I have her in 1861 at 40 John Street, Toxteth Park aged 5, with her widowed mother Ann STUBBS, aged 29, a mangle woman. I have yet to find the death of her father before this date. She has an older sister, Jane and a younger sister, Martha. It is Martha who appears as Martha KNOX with their mother Ann and step-father William KNOX in 1871.
The marriage of Ann STUBBS to William KNOX in 1863 confirms this:
I now have her birth certificate from 1855.

Her parents married in 1853 and her mother's maiden name appears here as HEALY, not HEALING as it did in the marriage certificate to Ann's step-father, William KNOX.






















