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This family group is rather large and so to aid readability it is split across a few parts.
G6: Thomas Plunkett (1854-)
Birth: Thomas Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 12 March 1854. He was the fifth child of Luke and Mary. He was their second child to be named Thomas, after the early death of the first in 1851.
Christening: on 18 August 1854 at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel on Park Place in Toxteth alongside his siblings.
Residences: it is likely that he was raised by his uncle Thomas and aunt Ann from an early age. The 1861 and 1871 censuses captured him living with them.
- 20 Court, Penrhyn Street, Liverpool (1861); 7/8 Court (Elizabeth Terrace), Rose Vale, Liverpool (1871)
Occupations: in 1871 when he was aged 18, Thomas worked as a porter.
G7: Rachael Plunkett (1828)
Birth: Rachel Plunkett was born in Liverpool during January 1828. She was the fourth child of Luke and Rachel.
Christening: on 2 February 1828 at St Peter’s Church in the city centre.
Residences: Redcross Street, Liverpool (1828)
Death: died on 20 March 1828 aged two months and buried three days later at St Peter’s.
G7: Matthew Plunkett (1829)
Birth: Matthew Plunkett was born in Liverpool during April 1829. He was the fifth child of Luke and Rachel.
Christening: on 19 May 1829 at St Peter’s Church in the city centre.
Residences: Cheapside, Liverpool (1829)
Death: died aged four months and buried on 21 July 1829 at St Michael’s Church on Upper Pitt Street.
G7: Rachel Plunkett (1830-1853)
Birth: Rachel Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1830. She was the sixth child of Luke and Rachel and the second that they named Rachel, after the early death of the first one in 1828.
Christening: on 21 September 1830 at St Peter’s Church in the city centre.
Marriage: to George Adams on 22 September 1852 at All Saints Church on Great Nelson Street. She was aged 22 and he was 23.
Spouse history: George had been born in Newcastle in around 1829 to Alexander Adams and his wife Jane. Originally from Scotland, his father was a shoemaker while his mother was from Sheffield. They moved the family to Liverpool by 1841, where they lived on Blucher Street near Edge Hill station. A decade later they lived on Cazneau Street off Scotland Road in Everton. 21-year-old George had become a coppersmith.
Occupations: the 1851 census has a Rachel Plunkett of the correct age working as a house servant at 31 Church Street, which was a small private school run by the Swiss John Brunner. This part of Everton was at the edge of contemporary Liverpool and would have been relatively rural. George meanwhile was a coppersmith.
Residences: at the time of their marriage, George lived in one of the courts off Cazneau Street, while Rachel lived on nearby Penrhyn Street.
- Rachel: Blundell Street, Liverpool (1830); 10 Simpson Street, Liverpool (1832-1841); 1 Cotter Street, Liverpool (1841); 31 Church Street, Liverpool (1851); Penrhyn Street, Liverpool (1852-1853)
- George: Blucher Street, Liverpool (1841); Cazneau Street, Liverpool (1851); Victoria Place, Cazneau Street, Liverpool (1852)
Deaths: Rachel died in 1853 of consumption – a historical term used to refer to tuberculosis – when aged just 23. She was buried at St Mary’s Cemetery in Kirkdale on 19 March in plot 1402, which cost £1-5-0, substantially more than other graves on the ledger. The fee was paid by her parents.
Notes: George later married Martha Wilhelmina Scrugham in 1854. They did not have any children, and it is thought that he died around 1904.
G7: Margaret Plunkett (1834-1836)
Birth: Margaret Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1834. She was the seventh child of Luke and Rachel.
Christening: on 8 July 1834 at St Peter’s Church in the city centre.
Residences: 10 Simpson Street, Liverpool (1834-1837)
Death: died aged two and was buried on 14 February 1836 at St James’s Cemetery in the shadow of Liverpool Cathedral.
G7: Joseph Plunkett (1836-1892)
Birth: Joseph Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1836. He was the first child of Luke with his second wife Anne.
Christening: on 18 September 1836 at St Peter’s Church in the city centre.
Marriage: to Sarah Bradshaw on 28 May 1867 at All St Peter’s. He was aged 31 and she was 34.
Spouse history: Sarah had been born in around 1833 to Thomas Bradshaw. She was the widow of a man named Wright and had at least one child (Thomas).
Children: (1) Joseph in 1869.
Occupations: Joseph spent his life working as a shipwright. Sarah worked as a laundress well into her sixties.
Residences: the family lived together in Everton, first on Wakefield Street and then in one of the courts that ran off Devonshire Place, before finally moving to Mark Street. After Joseph’s death, Sarah moved to Seaforth.
- Joseph: Simpson Street (1836-1837); 1 Cotter Street (1841); Butcher’s Place, Prince William Street (1842-1843); Tunstall Court, Soho Street (1846-1850); Hodgson Place (1851); 6 Coronation Street (1855); 4 Coronation Street (1856-1857); 10 Mansfield Street (1858-1860); 6 Atkinson Street (1861); Wakefield Street (1867); 12 Clare Terrace (1871-1886); 27 Mark Street (1889-1891) – all in Liverpool.
- Sarah: Wakefield Street, Liverpool (1867); 12 Clare Terrace, Liverpool (1871-1886); 27 Mark Street, Liverpool (1889-1893); 27 Langton Road, Seaforth (1901)
Deaths: Joseph died in Bootle Hospital in 1892 when aged 56 and was buried at Kirkdale Cemetery on 25 May. Sarah died in the workhouse during 1907 when aged 72 and was buried in Kirkdale Cemetery on 11 July.
G6: Joseph Edward Plunkett (1869-1938)
Birth: Joseph Edward Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1869. He was the only child of Joseph and Sarah.
Christening: on 30 December 1869 at St Mary’s Church on Walton Road in Kirkdale.
Marriage 1: to Eliza Jane McComb on 16 September 1894 at All Saints. He was aged 25 and she was 24.
Spouse history: Eliza was literally the girl next door. She had been born in Liverpool during 1870 to engine driver John McComb and Dorothy Abbot, their first child to be born away from their native Ireland. She was also christened at St Mary’s, at which time they lived in a terraced house on nearby Brisbane Street off Stanley Road, which they shared with two other families. By 1881 they had moved to Mark Street where they lived in two houses over the next decade.
Children: (1) Joseph in 1897, (2) Ernest in 1899, (3) Eliza in 1900. Ernest and Eliza both died in infancy.
Death: Eliza died in 1901 when aged just 31 and was buried on 5 January in Kirkdale Cemetery.
Marriage 2: to Alice Jane Graham during 1902 in Liverpool. He was aged 33 and she was 20.
Spouse history: Alice had been born in Liverpool on 5 February 1881, the middle child of Thomas Graham and Jane Clarke. Just like her predecessor and future husband she was also christened at St Mary’s, with the family also living on the courts off Devonshire Place for her entire childhood. Again, like her predecessor, Alice was a laundress.
Children: (1) Jessie in 1903, (2) Thomas in 1905, (3) Henry in 1908. (4/5) twins Alice and Edward in 1913, (6) John in 1919. Alice died in infancy.
Occupations: Joseph became a mariner and by the time that he was 20 worked as a fireman in the engine rooms. We know that between 1890-1891 he was part of the crew on the SS Oregon, a small passenger liner operating between Liverpool and North America with the Dominion Line. He possibly served on the RMS Aurania by the end of the decade. This was a liner of the Cunard line that served on the Liverpool-New York run. By 1921 he was a greaser for White Star Line. Both Eliza and Alice worked as laundresses before their marriage. At the time of his death, Joseph worked as a boiler maker.
Residences: Joseph and Eliza initially lived on Seacome Street, one of the many rows of terraced houses that characterised this part of central Everton. In 1896 they moved back towards the neighbourhood of their youth, living in one of the courts on Devonshire Place. Joseph and Alice continued to live in this area following their marriage. Following his death Alice lived with various lodgers and spent the final 14 years with son Thomas.
- Joseph: 12 Clare Terrace (1871-1886); 27 Mark Street (1889-1893); 29 Seacome Street (1894); 3 James Terrace, Devonshire Place (1896-1901); 38 Crete Street (1903-1904); 7 Edinburgh Street (1905); 75 Edinburgh Street (1906-1909); 35 Edinburgh Street (1910-1938) – all in Liverpool.
- Eliza: 19 Brisbane Street (1871); 45A Mark Street (1881); 29 Mark Street (1891); 29 Seacome Street (1894); 3 James Terrace, Devonshire Place (1896-1901) – all in Liverpool.
- Alice: 1 James Terrace, Devonshire Place (1881); 4 James Terrace, Devonshire Place (1891-1901); 38 Crete Street (1903-1904); 7 Edinburgh Street (1905); 75 Edinburgh Street (1906-1909); 35 Edinburgh Street (1910-1963) – all in Liverpool.
Deaths: Joseph died in Liverpool on 24 September 1938 when aged 69 and was buried in Kirkdale Cemetery. He left a total of £249 0s 8d (£9k today) to his wife. Alice lived for another 24 years and died in 1963 when aged 82, being buried on 18 September in Kirkdale Cemetery.
Notes: there is no record of Joseph and the children on the 1901 census. It is interesting to note that Joseph lost one child killed in action during each of the World Wars, aged 21 and 22 respectively.
G5: Joseph Edward Plunkett (1897-1918)
Birth: Joseph Edward Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1897. He was the first child of Joseph and Eliza.
Christening: on 4 April 1897.
Residences: Joseph was captured in the 1901 census visiting the Keefe family on Sefton Terrace, where his maternal uncle David and wife lived. His mother was dead and it’s likely that he lived here while his father was away at sea.
- 3 James Terrace, Devonshire Place (1897-1901); 38 Crete Street (1903-1904); 7 Edinburgh Street (1905); 75 Edinburgh Street (1906-1909); 35 Edinburgh Street (1910-1918) – all in Liverpool.
Military service: Joseph served with the 20th and 19th Battalions, The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment during the First World War. He was a Private with service number 51777. He was reported missing on 22 March 1918 and recorded as dead eight days later.
Death: Joseph is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial, a few miles northeast of the town of Albert in France. The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 British casualties who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918, during which the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, before the advance to victory began.
G5: Ernest Abbott Plunkett (1899-1900)
Birth: Ernest Abbott Plunkett was born in Liverpool during November 1899. He was the second child of Joseph and Eliza.
Christening: on 24 December 1899 at St Chad’s Church at Walton Breck Road in the city centre.
Residences: 3 James Terrace, Devonshire Place, Liverpool (1899-1901)
Deaths: died aged 10 weeks and was buried on 25 February in Kirkdale Cemetery.
G5: Eliza Jane Plunkett (1900)
Birth: Eliza Jane Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 5 December 1900. He was the third child of Joseph and Eliza.
Christening: on 7 December 1900 at St Chad’s Church at Walton Breck Road in the city centre.
Residences: 3 James Terrace, Devonshire Place, Liverpool (1900-1901)
Deaths: only lived for a few weeks and was buried on 26 December in Kirkdale Cemetery.
G5: Jessie Plunkett (1903-)
Birth: Jessie Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 28 August 1903. She was the first child of Joseph with his second wife Alice.
Health: Jessie contracted meningitis when 8 months old which led to permanent deafness, which even today is the most common after-effect of bacterial meningitis. When aged 6 she was enrolled in the School for the Deaf and Dumb on Oxford Street as a boarder, being captured here on the night that the 1911 census was taken.
Marriage: to Thomas Edward Davies on 30 July 1938 at Christ Church in Everton. They were both aged 34.
Spouse history: Thomas had been born on 15 June 1904 to Thomas Davies.
Children: none.
Occupations: despite her disability, in 1921 Jessie worked as a shoe hand for the New Liverpool Rubber Co. on Rice Lane in Walton. The company had been founded in 1859 to manufacture rubber overshoes and operated independently until 1910. It was later absorbed by Charles Mackintosh – the inventor of the modern waterproof coat, and the business continued under its old name. In 1927 they teamed up with the Dunlop Rubber Company to begin to manufacture rubber Wellington boots. Thomas was a French polisher.
Residences: Jessie lived at home with her parents until marriage, while Thomas lived over the road with Jessie’s younger brother Henry and his wife Mildred. By the following year the couple had moved to Lancaster, where they lived in a terraced house on Bridge Road in the Greaves suburb – shared with ship’s steward Joseph B. Morris.
The couple were briefly registered to vote back at Jessie’s family home in 1949. They then lived on St Michael’s Road to the south of Sefton Park from 1959 until at least 1970, being joined by Jessie’s younger brother Thomas for the last three years of his life.
- Jessie: 38 Crete Street, Liverpool (1903-1904); 7 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1905); 75 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1906-1909); 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1910-1938); 46 Bridge Road, Lancaster (1939); 37 St. Michael’s Road, Liverpool (1959-1970)
- Thomas: 32 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1938); 46 Bridge Road, Lancaster (1939); 37 St. Michael’s Road, Liverpool (1959-1970)
Death: Thomas died in Liverpool during December 1985 when aged 81. Jessie had likely died in 1980.
G5: Thomas Plunkett (1905-1969)
Birth: Thomas Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 9 August 1905. He was the second child of Joseph with his second wife Alice.
Christening: on 23 August 1905 at St Polycarp Church on Netherfield Road North.
Occupations: in 1921, 15-year-old Thomas worked as a van boy for W.H. Smith’s on Dale Street.
Residences: Thomas lived at home until 1929 when aged 24, and then again with his widowed mother from 1949 until her death in 1963. He then lived with siter Jessie and husband Thomas until his own death.
- 7 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1905); 75 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1906-1909); 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1910-1929); 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1949-1963); 37 St. Michael’s Road, Liverpool (1968-1969).
Deaths: Thomas died in Liverpool on 20 September 1969 when aged 64 and was buried in Kirkdale Cemetery. He left an estate of £3,184 (the equivalent of £56k today).
G5: Henry Plunkett (1908-1988)
Birth: Henry Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 12 January 1908. He was the third child of Joseph with his second wife Alice.
Christening: on 5 February 1908 at Christ Church on Great Homer Street.
Marriage: to Mildred Florence Winifred M. Fleming during 1931 in Liverpool. He was aged 22 and she was 21.
Spouse history: Mildred had been born in Liverpool on 11 April 1909, the first child of Edward Joseph Fleming and Maria Jones and christened at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel during May. Mildred’s father was a clerk for a shipping company and in 1911 the family lived in a terraced house on Bowood Street opposite Herculaneum Dock in the south of Toxteth. Over the next decade they moved north across the city to Taliesin Street in Everton, where her father now worked as a general labourer for Bibby Brothers Ltd., who manufactured cattle food.
Children: (1) Mildred in 1936.
Residences: the newlyweds initially lodged on Adelaide Street, but in 1934 moved to a house opposite Henry’s parents on Edinburgh Street. In 1968 the couple moved to Candia Tower, one of the new tower blocks built at the end of their road in advance of Edinburgh Street being demolished. After his death Mildred moved to London, presumably to live close to her daughter.
- Henry: 75 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1908-1909); 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1910-1931); 52 Adelaide Street, Liverpool (1932); 32 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1934-1967); 64 Candia Tower, Liverpool (1968-1970); 2B York Terrace, Liverpool (1988)
- Mildred: 11 Bowood Street, Liverpool (1911); 44 Taliesin Street, Liverpool (1921); 52 Adelaide Street, Liverpool (1932); 32 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1934-1967); 64 Candia Tower, Liverpool (1968-1970); 2B York Terrace, Liverpool (1988)
Occupations: in 1939, Henry worked as a steel erector, although the National register noted that he was injured.
Deaths: Henry died in Liverpool in January 1988 when aged 80, caused by atherosclerosis (thickening or hardening of the arteries) related to peripheral vascular disease (reduced circulation of blood due to a narrowed or blocked blood vessels). He was cremated at Liverpool Crematorium. Mildred survived him for six years and died in Wandsworth, London in November 1994 when aged 85.
G4: Mildred Norma Plunkett (1936-2002)
Birth: Mildred Norma Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 30 April 1936. She was the only child of Henry and Mildred.
Marriage: to Frederick Leonard Chandler during 1965 in Westminster. She was aged 28 and he was 29.
Spouse history: Frederick, commonly known as Jeff, was a Londoner, having been born in the capital on 17 March 1935.
Children: (1) a girl in 1966.
Residences: Mildred briefly lived with her parents again between 1967 and 1968, moving with them to Candia Tower.
- Mildred: 32 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1936-1964); 32 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1967); 64 Candia Tower, Liverpool (1968); 17 Lusher House, 16 Kersfield Road, Putney (2002)
- Frederick: 14A Blackett Street, Putney (2002)
Occupations: Jeff was a journalist who in the 1960s was deputy editor of Tape Recording magazine.
Deaths: Jeff died of a brain haemorrhage n 17 April 2002 when aged 67. Mildred died of lung cancer three months later on 9 July 2002 when aged 66.
G5: Alice Plunkett (1913-1914)
Birth: Alice Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 20 August 1913. She was one of a pair of twins born to Joseph with his second wife Alice.
Christening: on 3 September 1913 at Christ Church on Great Homer Street.
Residences: 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1913-1914)
Deaths: died aged just five months and was buried at Walton Park on 14 January 1914.
G5: Edward Plunkett (1913-1997)
Birth: Edward Plunkett was born in Liverpool on 20 August 1913. He was one of a pair of twins born to Joseph with his second wife Alice, although his sister died aged five months.
Christening: on 3 September 1913 at Christ Church on Great Homer Street.
Marriage: to Mary Mannering during 1937 in Liverpool. He was aged 23 and she was 24.
Spouse history: Mary had been born on 9 October 1912, but as there were two namesakes born in Liverpool at the same time it is not certain which she was.
Children: three boys and a girl between 1939 and 1952.
Occupations: Edward was a builder’s labourer.
Residences: in 1939 the young family lived in a terraced house on Howe Street in central Everton. They then lived around the corner on Edinburgh Street, a few houses down from his mother, until moving to nearby York Terrace in 1961. As central Everton was gradually being cleared, the family moved out to Toxteth in 1970 where they lived on Corsewall Street to the north of Toxteth Park Cemetery. Coincidentally, this house was where a relative in another line of my family tree, Ada Davis, had lived with her sons in 1939.
- Edward: 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1913-1937); 5 Howe Street, Liverpool (1939); 21 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1945-1959); 35 York Terrace, Liverpool (1961-1969); 12 Corsewall Street, Liverpool (1970)
- Mary: 5 Howe Street, Liverpool (1939); 21 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1945-1959); 35 York Terrace, Liverpool (1961-1969); 12 Corsewall Street, Liverpool (1970)
Deaths: Edward died in Birkenhead during June 1997 when aged 83.
G5: John Plunkett (1919-1941)
Birth: John Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1919. He was the sixth child of Joseph with his second wife Alice.
Residences: 35 Edinburgh Street, Liverpool (1919-1939)
Military service: John was a Fusilier with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the outbreak the Second World War. He joined 11 Commando in 1940, one of 12 units created by the order of Winston Churchill and specially trained to undertake small raids against enemy occupied territory. They went through a six-week intensive commando course in the Scottish Highlands, concentrating on fitness, speed marches, weapons training, map reading, climbing, small boat operations and demolitions both by day and by night. They deployed to the Middle East in early 1941 where they initially formed the garrison of Cyprus before being sent into Palestine on 8 June 1941 to counter the threat to the Suez Canal posed by Axis forces in Syria and Lebanon. 11 Commando suffered heavy casualties during the fighting to secure a crossing over the Litani River, with John killed in action the next day.
Death: John is buried in Beirut War Cemetery, located in Jalloul, in the Assas Area to the west of the Forest of Pines.
G7: Ann Plunkett (1837-1838)
Birth: Ann Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1837. She was the ninth child of Luke and Ann.
Christening: on 9 November 1837 at St Peter’s Church in the city centre.
Residences: 10 Simpson Street, Liverpool (1837)
Death: died aged one and was buried on 23 December 1838 in St James’s Cemetery in the shadow of Liverpool Cathedral.
G7: Ann Plunkett (1840-)
Birth: Ann Plunkett was born in Liverpool during 1837. She was the 10th child of Luke and Ann and their second to be name Ann, following the death of her predecessor.
Residences: 1 Cotter Street, Liverpool (1841); Butcher’s Place, Prince William Street, Liverpool (1842-1843); Tunstall Court, Soho Street, Liverpool (1846-1850); Hodgson Place, Liverpool (1851)
Notes: the 1851 census is the last record of Ann.
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