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From: "Gordon Evans" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William Huyton/ Highton Born Prescot
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:54:55 -0000
References: <765609.93218.qm@web86508.mail.ird.yahoo.com>


Hi George

You wrote :-

>Can anyone find me a William HUYTON / Highton in the 1871 or 1881 census
>in or arround Liverpool Please

I have 31 HIGHTONs in my extended family tree, including three named
William, all born in Liverpool :-

1. Born 1829, son of Abraham HIGHTON (b1806) and Ellen RIMMER

2. Born 1853, son of William HIGHTON (b1829) and Margaret KENDRICK

2. Born 1856, son of Abraham HIGHTON (b1826) and Elizabeth WEBSTER

No 1 is the 21 year-old brother here :-

1851 Census
HO 107/2184 folio 254 page 27
64 Finch Street, Liverpool
Abraham HIGHTON, 25, journeyman tobacconist, LAN Liverpool
Elizabeth, wife, 29, LAN Cartmel
John, son, 5, LAN Liverpool
Abraham, son, 2, LAN Liverpool
Thmas, son, 1 month, LAN Liverpool
Ellen ARNOLD, mother, W, 49, LAN Liverpool
William HIGHTON, brother, U, 21, joiner, LAN Liverpool

This William must have died before 1861, since in the 1861 Census :-

RG9.2691 folio 35 page 18
63 Devon Street, Liverpool
Richard KENDRICK, 65, labourer, WALES Flint
Mary, wiwfe, 67, CHS Tranmere
Margaret HIGHTON, daur, W, 26, CHS Tranmere
John HIGHTON, grandson, 5, LAN Liverpool
William WRIGHT, lodger, U, 28, labourer, LAN Huyton

No 2 is the 8 year-old grandson here :-

1861 Census
RG9/2691 folio 62, page 17
65 Finch Street, Liverpool
Abraham HIGHTON, 36, car owner employing 3 men, LAN Liverpool
Elizabeth, wife, 39, LAN Liverpool [in fact Cartmel]
John, son, 15, LAN Liverpool
Abraham, son, 13, LAN Liverpool
Thomas, son, 10, LAN Liverpool
James, son, 8, LAN Liverpool
William, son, 4, LAN Liverpool
Ellen, mother, W, 60, LAN Liverpool
William, grandson, 8, LAN Liverpool
John HUGHES, lodger, 60, shoe maker, North Wales

And the 18 year-old boarder here :-

1871 Census
RG10/3788 folio 148 page 16
65 Blandford Street, Liverpool
John HUGHES, U, 74, boot & shoe maker, WALES Denbigh
William HIGHTON, boarder, U, 18, commercial clerk, LAN Liverpool
Sarah KEMP, mother, W, 47, charwoman, LAN Liverpool
William, son, U, 23, joiner, LAN Liverpool
Annie, daur, 6, LAN Liverpool

And ten years later :-

1881 Census
RG11/3585 folio 102 page 29
193 Old Chester Road, Tranmere
William HIGHTON, 28, clerk, LAN Liverpool
Ann J, wife, 24, CHS Tranmere
William, son, 1, CHS Tranmere
John HIGHTON, brother, U, 25, clerk, LAN Liverpool
Martha TUDOR, servant, 12, nursemaid, CHS Tranmere

This is No 3 (being the 4 year-old son at 65 Finch Street in 1861) :-

1871 Census
RG10/3717 folio 11 page 18
Aldford, Cheshire
Ann CLARKE, M, 52, laundress, LAN Cartmel [nee WEBSTER]
Ellen, daur, U, 22, laundress, LAN Liverpool
William HIGHTON, nephew, 14, LAN Liverpool
Jacob HIGHTON, nephew, 8, LAN Liverpool

None born in Prescot, though. :-(

Best regards
Gordon

From: "GEORGE HIGHTON" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:25 PM
Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William Huyton/ Highton Born Prescot
>
>Hi
>I've found a William born Prescot Jun Q 1867 can't find any other apart
>from william b. Prescot Jun. Q 1863 who I think died in Dec. 1863 sent for
>the birth cert. and its the wrong one
>Can anyone find me a William HUYTON / Highton in the 1871 or 1881 census
>in or arround Liverpool Please
>Regards George


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