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George Henry Purseglove

Mother: Margaret Edith Purseglove.
Father: George Purseglove worked at the gas works converting coal to coke (using a Retorts machine) but also fought in WWI. He died in his 90s in 1943.
They lived in Ash Street, Bootle.

The Pursegloves had 7 children:

Lillian ("Lil"). She married Ernie (a milkman). Ernie delivered milk to the Purseglove's shop every day on a pony-pulled milk float. He didn't have a farm but had a big yard with a cow shed on the Seaforth Road. Lil served milk at the dairy. They had 2 children including Ken Matthews who was a journalist for the Liverpool Echo and a great cyclist.
• George Henry
• Harold. He married Helen. They lived in Caldy (at the bottom of Fort Hill) in Wirral and had 2 sons: David - a manager at Sykes Waterhouse Estate Agents and a tennis umpire for West Kirby and John who worked in the Insurance industry.
• Ernest. Agnes remembers him giving her flowers each time she walked past his house.
• Albert (all of her aunts and uncles would give Agnes a penny when her dad took her to see them except Albert who used to say "If I have 11 more of these pennies I'll have a shilling"!)
• Hilda. Agnes was her bridesmaid in 1938. She had one daughter, Patricia (Pat) who died from cancer at a young age.
• There was also one other brother.

The Pursegloves did not approve of Agnes' mother because she worked so Agnes only visited this side of the family with her father.

Like his father before him, George worked as a Boilerman.

The Pursegloves lived in the Liverpool area their entire lives but enjoyed taking holidays on the islands around England - especially the Isle of Man which they visited each year and Jersey (This is where they are pictured in the photographs bottom left and bottom right).

Edith Nicholas

Mother: Agnes Nicholas (and Edith's daughter's namesake. Her father wanted Agnes named after his mother but her Edith did not want her to be called Maggie). She died before Agnes was born. Born in Kirkdale, Liverpool.
Father: John Nicholas. He worked as a manager at Irwin's Grocery Shop in Fountains Road, Kirkdale. He died in 1931.
They lived on Fountains Road.

The Nicholas' had three children:

• Laura (She married Joe and had 3 children: James who emigrated to Australia and twin girls Sheila (who married Tom and had twins girls Anne and Sheila) and Laura (who married Joe and had 2 boys).
• Edith
• James ("Jim") (He had 2 girls and was killed during the war in a freak accident between a troop train and a passenger train; a girder sliced the troop train in half).

Edith wanted to continue working after she was married in order to keep her independence. She always had 'big ideas'. She was a barmaid when she met George. After that she worked as a waitress at Brown's restaurant and then as a relief pub manager for Bents (working at various pubs as required). Later she bought a fish and chip shop in Bootle and eventually changed it to a grocery shop. In 1938 she sold the shop, bought a house Litherland and worked at The White House pub in Litherland.

She returned to Kirkdale as the war started because Edith and her sister Laura wanted they should be close during the war. They moved back to Bootle towards the end of the war. Edith went on to be the licensee for several pubs.

Both

George and Edith had 4 children - 2 girls and 2 boys. Agnes was the only surviving child. Her twin brother died at birth, as did the eldest boy, George. Their youngest daughter, Audrey, died a few months into her life, despite it seeming as though she might pull through. (Agnes remembers there being a pram waiting for her to come home from hospital).

Henry and Edith had 4 children - 2 girls and 2 boys. Agnes was the only surviving child. Her twin brother died at birth, as did the eldest boy, George. Their youngest daughter, Audrey, died a few months into her life, despite it seeming as though she might pull through. (Agnes remembers there being a pram waiting for her to come home from hospital).

The Pursegloves lived in the Liverpool area their entire lives but enjoyed taking holidays on the islands around England - especially the Isle of Man which they visited each year and Jersey (This is where they are pictured in the photographs bottom left and bottom right).

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