sylvia131 Posted April 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2014 Hi just to let you all know i have confirmmed that Pheobe and george are my grandparents (step) i am talking to harolds neice daily. He was one of ten children the second youngest. Leonard ball did have the same father but born before marriage but they just never changed his name. Awaiting a photograph of them. Thank you for all your hard work and help. Much appreciated xxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted April 17, 2014 Report Share Posted April 17, 2014 That's fantastic news Sylvia131 and well done. How did you make contact with Harold's niece ? You should upload a photo of them once you get it cos it would be lovely to put faces to the names of people we were searching for and chatting about x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylvia131 Posted April 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 She found me, she joined a forum that im in and see me asking a question. I will def upload a photo if she agrees. Just a awaiting game now :0) Thanks for everything you did Dizzy. Stay on stanby beccause them jones questions are comming lol xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted April 18, 2014 Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 I shall buy some wine in bulk ready to calm my nerves for the Jones's Sylvia :lol:I just cancelled my 'Find My Past' subscription renewal though which was due for payment yesterday as their new site and user UN-friendliness was really peeing me off this week. I will probably only last a week without it though so may succumb to weekness. Still got my 'Ancestry' subscription to fall back on though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylvia131 Posted April 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 you might very well need a crate of the old amber nectre lol ive just managed to get 2 lots of war records free on ancestry, all war records and images free for easter weekend I have a weel holiday now from work so get ready lol xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Sylvia ,apparently the company was call Muspratt's Vitriol Works if that is any help with your research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted April 24, 2014 Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 Muspratt's Chemicals, Sulphuric acid manufacturers. Muspratt, James (1793–1886), chemical manufacturer 1793 born in Dublin on 12 August, the youngest of three children of Evan Muspratt (d. 1810) and his wife, Sarah. It is believed that his father had emigrated from southern England; his mother was a member of the Mainwaring family of Cheshire. After local schooling James was apprenticed to a wholesale chemist. 1818 After various adventures abroad, Muspratt went into partnership with Thomas Abbott (an established drug and general merchant), to set up a chemical works in Dublin. 1823, after the government abolished the £30 per ton duty on salt, it became economic to manufacture soda using Leblanc's process. Muspratt set up a small chemical works in Liverpool, in an old glass factory, taking advantage of Liverpool's import facilities. 1828 Muspratt was forced out of Liverpool for polluting the atmosphere. He built a new works at St Helens in partnership with another Irish chemist, Josias Gamble. 1830 The partnership ended. Muspratt moved to Newton (le-Willows?) on the St Helens Canal. From 1832 until 1850 Muspratt was continually involved in litigation concerning the emissions from his works; in the end he had to close the works. Muspratt's moved to Widnes operating as Muspratt Bros & Huntley, they also had a works at Flint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylvia131 Posted April 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 Thanks Algy i have added info to extra documents that im keeping to do with the family around that area. im still searching for possible workers list so at least this has give me a heads up in that direction, thanks xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Sylvia ,i have come across a book you may find interesting called " Earlestown ,yesterdays of a railway town " by Barry Carman ,but i can't find a publisher's name anywhere. It has been a library book at some time & documents Earlestown from the early to mid 19th Century with plenty of photographs. You may be able to get hold of a copy somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fergy53 Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 My Grandparents (Ferguson) lived in Vitrol Square up to the sixties in one of two remaining houses, many a happy time spent on the Muckey mountains and visiting the sweet shop as you came into Vitrol from over the railway line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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