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101 Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Jenny, informed registrar of death. Godbert, Jenny (I250)
 
102 Elizabeth's widowed mother Elizabeth Ann was living with the family. Charles and his family lived next door to his parents. Goodwin, Charles Cross (I3993)
 
103 Ellen and Margaret were twins. Foster, Ellen (I1136)
 
104 Ellen was born on 17 May 1887. She was the 2nd child of 6 known children born to Henry Singleton and his wife Elizabeth (Lloyd). Of these children, 4 were girls.

She married her 1st husband Robert Ferguson (Bob) in 1906. He was 28 and had been widowed the previous year, and had at least 2 children, Norah who was 6 and Dick who was younger. Robert lived 2 doors away from Ellen's family in Elmore Street, Walton.

Their marriage lasted 12 years until Robert's death from TB in 1918. They had 6 children together between 1908 and 1918, Allan, Robert, Ellen (Nellie), Minnie, Catherine (Kitty) and finally Elizabeth. However, the family's life was marred by tragedy: Norah and young Robert both died in 1915, and Kitty and Allan both died in 1918.

Following the death of her husband in 1918, with 4 children to bring up, Ellen found life very hard. She was a courageous woman and soldiered on. Eventually, in 1922, she married the man who delivered coal to her door, Edwin Hilton , a 40 year old who had not previously been married. He too lived in the same street as Ellen! His brother and sister, with whom he lived, were most unhappy at his taking on a widow with 3 children (by then Dick had left home).

Ellen was a restless woman, and moved home frequently.

She had a rather cutting sense of humour. When, during World War II, her eldest daughter, Nellie, first introduced her husband to be, Harold Henon, to her mother, Ellen's comment was that the only explanation for her attraction to him must have been the blackout!

Her last home was Edensor Terrace off Breck Road Liverpool, Lancashire, UK, where she occupied 1 room in her daughter Nellie's house.
TYPE Address (Facts Pg)
DATE 1922 
Singleton, Nellie (I13)
 
105 Eric and Mamie migrated to Australia in 1952. Eric started up his own business in partnership with a friend. Spouse (F350)
 
106 family - Isabel Kirkwood b 18/3/1827 - Walter b 25/5/1828 - both Uphall Niel, Andrew (I1191)
 
107 family - Jane b 13/1/1828 - William b 7/6/1830 Duddingston Brash, George (I1180)
 
108 Family - John b 1/6/1864-d 1945 - Walter Linn - b 5/2/1867- d 1916
Great War Margaret b 24/9/1868 d 1881 - Jean b 9/10/187 2 - James
Campbell -b 1/10/1874 d 1934 - he married Lillie- their family - James
and Fiona who married 
Poole, James (I1228)
 
109 Family - Thomas - Walter - b 1862- d 1944 - shipping clerk - married A
Steel - their family were Annie who married ? Ryan - they had Walter
and Ronald and Irene
Margaret - B 1867 she married R. Jackson who died 1937 - their family
were - Robert, Margaret and Jean who married a Borryer and their
family were - Herbert and Robert.
I also have a Walter and Joseph who were possibly sons of Annie and ?
Ryan ?
Robert Blench and Margaret lived - 20 Grafton Street, Glasgow 
Blench, Robert (I1221)
 
110 fAMILY Jean married C Boardman
William maried E. Emnel - son Peter 
Warner (1), E (I1169)
 
111 George assumed the surname of Thomas some time during World War II. Morana, George (I1830)
 
112 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Lloyd, G. (I172)
 
113 Giovanni apparently never learned to speak English. Morana, John (Giovanni) (I1815)
 
114 Had family of 4. Lin, James (I1225)
 
115 Harry was a tall, thin man, a heavy smoker. Singleton, Henry (I46)
 
116 Harry was born at 10 Preston Grove, Tuebrook, Liverpool, Lancashire, UK on 15 July 1917. His mother was Alice Dowsing, a housekeeper at the Sun Hotel, Wellington Road, Rhyl in Wales. The father is unknown. His birth was registered as Harold Dowsing on 17 July 1917.

Two days after his birth, he was given to Martha Oliphant, who considered him adopted from that point, and who brought him up as her son. Certainly, as far as Harry was concerned, Martha was his only mother, and he never attempted to trace his birth mother.

By the time he went to school at St Saviour's Church of England School, his name was given as Henry Oliphant. He subsequently and throughout his life called himself Harold Henry Oliphant, but was always known as Harry. This gave him no problem at the time of his marriage in 1943, when he gave as his father the name of his adoptive mother's husband - who lived in Jamaica. However, when he came to apply for a passport in 1957, in order to take a holiday in Ireland, he was forced to declare that the Harold Dowsing on his birth certificate and Harry Oliphant were one and the same person. He signed a statement to the effect that he had adopted the name Harold Henry Oliphant in 1938, but from his various job references dating back to 1930 it is clear that he was always known as Oliphant.

Harry became bald quite early. He took to wearing a wig, and wore one from then on, throughout his life.

Harry's adoptive mother Martha was nearly 50 when she adopted Harry, and apparently faced opposition from her grown up children. However, the circumstances surrounding her decision make it easy to understand.

Harry's natural mother Alice was a housekeeper in a hotel in Rhyl, North Wales. She chose to have the baby in Liverpool, Lancashire, UK, in a nursing home only a short walk from where Martha and her family lived. If Martha had merely been looking for a baby to adopt, a nearby nursing home might have been an obvious place to look. But at her age, this seems somewhat unlikely. From a letter written to Martha in 1919, it is clear that her husband's work was in North Wales and that he spent much time away from home.

Investigating Harry's life from documents we discovered after his death, my suspicions about the unnamed father on his birth certificate were aroused. Her husband working in North Wales, Alice Dowsing working in North Wales coming to Liverpool so close to Martha to give birth, Marth adopting the baby at such an advance age - all these things aroused suspicions that Martha's husband was the father of the baby.

The absolute clincher came when I found a photograph of Martha's husband. I could have been looking at a photo of Harry! 
Oliphant, Harold Henry (I124)
 
117 He may be Martin Francis Donegan, born cir June 1901, West Derby, vol 8b, p522. Donegan, Martin Joseph (I1266)
 
118 I have a John Fleming Linn M.A. B 1845 - D 11/9/1930. He was
minister of Airlie South Church - Free Church of Scotland , Kirriemuir
- Studied Glasgow University and Free Church College. Ordained Airlie
1872 - Died Port BannaTyne, Northumberland, UK, Bute.
Estate-£5022 19/6d
died ages 86 year 
Linn, John Fleming (I1231)
 
119 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Spouse (F385)
 
120 In 1861, he gave his birth place as Upholland; in 1871 as Mundley (?); in 1881 as Manchester, Lancashire, UK. Deakin, William (I352)
 
121 Interesting is that one of the witnesses at Margaret's wedding to Thomas Green was Thomas Foster, presumably a friend of Thomas Green. After both Margaret and Thomas Foster were widowed (she in 1805, he in 1807), they appear to have had an illegitimate child William Green, later known as William Foster, in 1809. Margaret and Thomas Foster married in 1811. Sharples, Margaret (Peggy) (I248)
 
122 It appears that Ellen did not marry. Singleton, Ellen (I766)
 
123 It is not clear that Andrew was the son of Robert and Elizabeth. I have made the assumption that he was, because all Slater births in Lancashire between 1690 and 1717 were born to this couple. Slaytor, Andrew (I684)
 
124 It is not clear when James was born. His dob was given as 12 Nov 1916 at the time of his death. This could have been a mistake, else his birth was registered 2 years late! Singleton, James Arthur (I2196)
 
125 It is quite possible that Thomas was not Richard's son, since he was plainly born long before Richard and Ellen married. Davies, Thomas (I2265)
 

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