Peter Lynskey.Eldest son
He was 12 years of age when his Mother left and ran away to Bolton
taking with her Michael who was approx. four years of age. His Father
put him to an apprenticeship in a Pawn Shop on the Corner of Bedford
Road he was age fourteen. But then at the age of sixteen he ran away
from Home to join the Navy. He stayed in the Navy until after the
first world War He married Ivy Jones and then joined the R.A.F. he
left the R.A.F. Just after Auntie Vera was born, from then on he had
many, many Jobs, the only time he was unemployed was in Wales, that
was the depression and that lasted for 8 years.
Mary Anne alias MAY.
She was approx 10 years of age when Mother left. Went to St. Anne's
school in Rock Ferry then was employed at Lever Bros. until she
married a man called Dodd. When her daughter was born she became ill
with T.B. and through neglect and cruelty from her husband she died
and is buried at Bebington.
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Patrick.
He was approx.9 years of age when his mother left. He went to the
same school as above. When he was twelve he was playing and fell off
a wall, it must have been a fracture which was never mended and
gradually he became crippled in the one leg, his Father sent him to
London to learn the trade of Boot maker where he died of the diseased Hip.
Mother Mary Anne Coyle
and
Sister Kathleen
Michael Lynskey
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Michael was about Seven years of age when his Mother left, he ran
after her as she was leaving to go to Bolton, she then took him
with her and lived over a tripe shop in bolton that was where
Kathleen was born, he grew up in Bolton with his mother and
half sister Kathleen.
Michael was a Bolton Wanderers football supporter.
His step Father died in Liverpool Docks when the dry Dock collapsed
and he was drowned. His Mother worked in a Rag Factory in Wigan
to support them.
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Margaret and Helen were a Twin. They were just Toddlers but Margaret at the age of seven became ill and her Father carried her on his back all the way to Tran to the nearest Hospital where they put her in a bath as she arrived Hygiene I suppose, she died the same night of pneumonia.
Helen attended the same school and at the age of 14 worked at Port Sunlight until she married Richard Waring she was an excellent member of staff at Lever Bros. Port Sunlight being awarded a Gold Watch. a silver set of Cutlery and many Shares in the company which she collected up until she died. When she married she lived in her Fathers House to take care of him up until the day he died in l943.