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A History of the Wirral
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ISBN-13: 978-1860775123
Author: Stephen J Roberts
Published Date: 29-06-2024
Publisher: The History Press Ltd.
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| The Wirral peninsula is a microcosm, having experienced every historical development to have affected England since the Stone-Age hunter-gatherers came. Inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it was exploited by Romans from their nearby fortress of Deva, then settled by Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. Its growing medieval population mainly lived by farming and fishing, but the 19th century brought dramatic changes-colonisation by wealthy Liverpudlians, then the rapid growth of the great urban and industrial centres of Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Every aspect of the past lives of its people is explored, and how they moulded today’s Wirral. |
Index
Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations or their captions
Adams, Richard, Vicar of Woodchurch 111
Aethelbald, King 48
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius 34
Agriculture: Anglo-Saxon 53; Early Modern 94, 95, 114-15, 118-19, 122; (effects of urbanisation on) 180-1; Iron-Age and Romano-British 31, 33, 35-8, 40; Medieval 73, 77, 89, 90-1; 19th-century 127, 140-4, 159; transition to from hunting and gathering 28-30; 20th-century 171, 172, 176, 180
American troops 171
Anglo-Saxons 45-64
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Archaeology, Introduction to 19-23; 27, 29
Arrowe: xiii, 12, 16, 56, 68, 96, 143; Brook 17, 24, 28, 135; Brook Road 28; Hall 135; Park 28, 135, 140, 171, 172, 177
Arrowe House Farm 135
Ashfield Hall
Ashton, William 13-15
Aslan, N.J. 153
Aspinall: surname, family and individuals 88
Avowries 88
Backford: 15, 17, 69, 83, 85, 89, 96, 99, 125, 168, 170, 171; Brook 17; Church 126, 129; Gap (also see Broxton Valley and Deva Spillway) 144
Baden Powell, General 177
Bangor Iscoed (on Dee) 43
Barker Lane 42
Barnston 38, 40, 56, 65, 69, 96, 116, 128, 190
Barton, Richard Watson of Caldy 137
Basingwerk 48; Abbey of St Mary 80, 83, 94
Baylee, The Rev. Joseph 157
Bebington, Lower and Higher 5, 6, 45, 68, 79, 81, 83, 88, 92, 116, 125, 127, 128, 131, 132, 136, 136, 137, 151, 176, 178, 186; Church 3, 131, 183
Beer House Hole, Parkgate 124
Benedictines (see also Monasticism) 80, 84
Bennett: surname, family and individuals 75, 96, 105, 112
Berie, Richard 88
Bidston: 1, 12, 16, 30, 31, 49, 56, 68, 69, 71, 78, 81, 83, 93, 108, 110, 115, 118, 181; Dock 174, 174; Hall 113, 113; Hill 6, 148, 149, 172; Moss 28, 41
Bird: surname, family and individuals 95, 105, 108
Birkenhead 10, 16, 21, 30, 31, 35, 39, 40, 41, 56, 75, 78, 79, 84, 85, 112, 124, 130, 132, 133, 138, 145, 153, 157, 163, 164, 166, 168, 177, 183; Cenotaph 164, 165; County Borough Council and Corporation 135, 172, 177, 178; Decline of 155, 171, 173-5; Docks 39, 148-50, 149-50, 171, 174; Girls’ School 165; Growth of 134-5; 141, 143, 146, 151; Industries 147; Institute 163; Outline Plan 153-4; Park 31, 150; Park High School 166; Priory 78, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 93, 95, 111; Social Conditions and Crime in 156-7, 171-2; Town Hall 169; During the World Wars 161-3, 165, 166-7, 170
Birkenhead and Cheshire Advertiser and Wallasey Guardian
Birkenhead News
Birket, River 16, 59
Black Death 89, 92, 104
Black Prince 75
Blacon 69, 71, 91, 96, 120, 183, 190
Boathouse Lane, Parkgate 124
Booth, P.H.W. xiii
Boscombe John, Sir W. 165
Boulder Clay 11, 11
Bowen, Maria 156
Breton; language 32; troops 171
Brick-fields and brick-making 143, 146
Bridestones, The 31
Brigantes
Brimstage 51, 52, 68, 101, 128; Hall 141
Bromborough 17, 50, 51, 56, 60, 61, 75, 79, 81, 85, 86, 88, 89, 93, 112, 118, 125, 130, 175, 178, 183, 186; Church and Yard 43, 51; Golf Course 17; Manor House 81; Parish 50, 51, 74; Pool 17, 151, 152, 175
Broster: surname, family and individuals 143
Brown, Annie 156
Brown P.C. 117
Brownbill, John xiii
Broxton Hundred xii
Broxton Valley (see also Deva Spillway) 13, 15, 71, 144
Bruen family of Tarvin 112
Brun, Roger 88
Brunanburh
Brunstath see
Bu’lock, J.D. 43, 62
Burches, Hugh, Vicar of Thurstaston 111
Burton 6, 30, 31, 33, 41, 49, 51, 67, 74, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98, 101, 115, 116, 117, 123, 125, 130, 190; Hall 130; Manor Court 115; Parish and church 85; Point 5, 33, 130
Burtonwood Airfield 168
Calday Grange Grammar School 170
Calday, William 76
Calderstones, The 31
Caldy: 1, 5, 5, 6, 16, 44, 56, 69, 71, 73, 83, 121, 123, 188, 190; Crossroads 6; Hill 6, 56; Hundred 60; Manor 137
Cammell Lairds’ (see also Lairds’ Shipyards) 174
Canals: 129, 144-5, 145, 149; Chester 130; Manchester Ship 17, 84, 145, 146, 168, 173, 175; Shropshire Union (and Company) xii, 13, 14, 17, 71, 173
Capenhurst 17, 69, 130, 170, 190
Carlett Park xiii, 135, 171
Casualties, civilian during the Second World War 167-8
Celts 17, 32, 43, 45, 64
Charities 115-18
Cheshire: 15, 24, 35, 43, 51, 63, 65, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 80, 84, 88, 89, 95, 96, 99, 104, 106, 112, 115, 125, 126, 141, 142, 144, 148, 151, 174, 179; Archers 75-6; County Council 124, 136, 178; English Settlement of 45-8; Forests 76; In Hundred Years’ War 75-6; Norman Conquest of 65; Origins of Wirral People 103-4, 146; Ormerod’s History of 125; Palatine and Principality Status of 49, 59, 65, 84; Plain 49, 59, 65; Very Coarse Pottery 33
Cheshire Regiment, 1/4th Battalion of during the First World War 162-3
Chester (see also Deva) xii, 6, 13, 17, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 51, 55, 56, 60, 61, 65, 67, 68, 73, 75, 77, 79, 86, 89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 104, 107, 108, 112, 119, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 144, 153, 175, 176, 178, 184; Abbey of St Werburgh 76, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89; Archaeological Society 20; Battle of 47; Bishop and Diocese of 70, 108, 187; Castle 89, 108; Diocesan Consistory Court 114; Earls of 70, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 89, 91, 120; High Road (A540) 6, 17, 76, 77, 135; Siege of 112
Chester Chronicle
Childer Thornton 17, 49, 68, 81, 97, 133, 144, 183
Chirotherium
Chorlton 129, 170, 183; Hall 125, 126, 127
Christianity (see also Religion) 43
Cistercians (see also Monasteries) 84
Civil War, English 106, 107, 108, 112
Claughton 31, 39, 56, 68, 78, 83, 85, 103, 134
Clarke, Samuel, Vicar of Shotwick 111
Clwydian Hills 10, 32, 48, 130, 179
Coal measures and mining 4, 7, 92, 116, 143, 144, 151
Collingwood, W.G. 61-2, 184
Cook, Robert and Nik 88
Cookson: surname, family and individuals 88
Cornish language 32
Coventry: surname, family and individuals 96, 121
Cowell, Ron 26, 27-8
Cox, Edward W. 23, 31, 36, 92
Croughton 71, 81, 97, 129, 187
D.N.A. 63
Dannatt, Margaret and John 110
Day, Margaret 156
‘Dawpool’, Thurstaston 135
Dawson, Greg 135, 171, 172, 180
Deceangli
Dedemonnes Greve
Dee, River and Estuary 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 48, 51, 60, 71, 81, 86, 98, 99, 121, 122, 123, 124, 119-24, 128, 130, 138, 149, 151, 168, 170, 179
Dee Mills 92
Denhall 85, 86, 90, 123, 151
Derby Pool 167
Deva
Deva Spillway (also known as Backford Gap and Broxton Valley) xii, 15, 71, 144
Dibbinsdale 17, 60, 71
Dobbing, Private 159
Dodd: surname, family and individuals 143
Dodgson, John McNeal 45, 46, 49, 52, 60, 64
Domesday Book xii, 44, 50, 60, 65-74, 80, 87, 88, 187-90
Dowdswell, Roger 171
Drainage, 15-18, 16
Dungeon (Croughton) 129
Dungeon (Thurstaston) 17
Dunkirk 17
East Anglia, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Eastham: 10, 14, 15, 31, 35, 41, 46, 49, 50, 51, 68, 72, 74, 81, 85, 86, 90, 96, 97, 107, 108, 110, 113, 115, 118, 129, 130, 130, 132, 144, 145, 168, 175, 183; Church 50, 89; Dock (Queen Elizabeth II) 175; Ferry 136; Parish 51
Eddisbury Hundred 67
Eisteddfod, Welsh National at Birkenhead 163, 163
Elcocke, Margaret 110
Ellesmere Port xii, 10, 11, 124, 143, 144-5, 168, 173-6, 178-81, 183; Industries 147
Ellison, Norman xiii, 11, 21, 136, 151, 158, 168, 180, 181
Essex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Etna
Evacuees 170-1
Fahy, Patrick 157
Fairclough: surname, family and individuals 143
Fergusson-Irvine, William xiii, 78
Field-names 31, 38, 39, 44, 47, 49, 52, 56-9, 69, 86, 91, 115
Fishermen 23, 94, 114, 138, 138, 165
Flint (Stone) 21, 25, 26, 30, 39, 41
Flint (Town) 60; Castle 14
Flintshire 80, 83, 151; coast 7
Forest of Wirral 74-80, 83, 84, 85, 91
Fossils see Chirotherium, Geology
Francis, Thomas 136
Frankby 38, 56, 69, 81, 82, 91, 178
French troops 164
Gamlin, Hilda 54, 155
Garibaldi Riots (Birkenhead) 156-7
Gayton 56, 69, 71, 75, 78, 83, 88, 96, 112, 128, 179, 188
Gelling, Margaret 55
Genetics 62-3
Gentry: Early Modern 93, 96-7, 103, 110; (and religion) 113-14; Medieval 76, 77-80; ‘New’ and effects on landscape 133-7
Geology 1-8, 5
Glaciation 8-11, 9, 10, 14
Gleave, Thomas 115, 116
Glegg/Clegg: surname, family and individuals 76, 83, 96, 112, 137
Goodicar/Goodacre: surname, family and individuals 107, 115
Goodwin, John 151
Gowy, River xii, 32, 48, 67, 68, 71, 128, 133, 173
Grange (Birkenhead) 83; Road 83, 156, 162, 177
Grange (West Kirby; see also Great Caldy): 1, 71, 83,
85, 92, 96, 112, 122; Beacon 83; Hill 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 138, 165; Mill 122; War Memorial 32, 164
Grange Cow Worth (Ellesmere Port) 84-5
Greasby: xiii, 12, 25, 28, 38, 39, 41, 42, 49, 56, 78, 80, 81, 85, 96, 98, 112, 121, 122, 140, 141, 142, 143, 180, 190; Brook 16-17; Copse xiii, 26-8, 39, 41; Old Hall 80, 114
Greenhouse Farm, Greasby 27
Greswell, R. Kay 6
Grey-Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas 150
Griffiths, Eileen 168
Grosvenor Museum, Chester 21, 30, 184
Grount, Hugh 88
Gruggeworth Heath, Mollington 89
Guile/Gill: surname, family and individuals 88
Guilden Sutton 67, 71, 187
Haby, Barnston 56
Hadlow, Willaston: 51, 52, 65, 72, 76, 188; Road 52; Wood 52
Haigh, Reginald 135
Halstead: surname, family and individuals 101
Halton, Constable of 81
Halton, 6th Baron of 84
Hamlet, George 156
Hamo son of Peter 88
Handel, G.F. 124
Hardware: surname, family and individuals 112
Hare, Margery 110
Hargrave 56, 69, 81, 189; Hall Farm 17
Harrison, James 135
Hawisa de Moleton 88
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 131-2
Heaths 71
Helsby, Thomas 132, 137
Henry VIII 85, 93, 96, 107
Heskeby, Bidston 56
Heswall 1, 5, 6, 17, 38, 44, 47, 49, 56, 69, 71, 78, 85, 96, 108, 121, 122, 128, 138
Hewitt, W. xiii, 11
Higham, Dr N.J. 30
Hilbre Island: 3, 5, 10, 27, 31, 47, 61, 80, 81, 86, 96, 119, 121, 124, 168, 170; Cross 61; Point 10, 41
Hillhouse coast 9, 11-13
Hirst, Joseph 137
Hockenhull: surname, family and individuals 75, 79
Hogan, Michael 157
Hogback tombstones 62, 62
Hog, William 88
Holt 37
Holy Trinity church, Birkenhead 157, 157
Home Guard Units 169-70
Hondesdoghter: surname, family and individuals 88
Hoose 83, 93, 94, 110, 115, 138
Hooton: 11, 17, 35, 69, 93, 96, 97, 108, 129, 130, 135, 168, 183, 189; Airfield 176; Park 175
Hough: surname, family and individuals 96, 116, 117, 118
Hoylake 12, 23, 25, 94, 115, 121, 138, 142, 170, 172, 178, 183
Hoyle Lake, The 36, 81, 82, 92, 120, 121, 123, 138
Hulme, William 116
Hume, The Rev. A. 23, 38, 118
Hunter-Gatherers (see also Prehistory) 28
Ice Age (see also Glaciation) 8-11
Industry 124, 136, 143-53, 173-7
Inman, William 135
Irby: xii, 5, 23, 25, 26, 31-2, 33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 44, 56, 69, 80, 81, 98, 166, 180; Heath 16, 17; Mill Hill 26; Windmill 142
Irish Sea 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 30, 31, 34, 60, 61, 72, 99, 103, 119, 128, 130, 138, 139, 170, 186
Iron Age (see also Prehistory) 20, 23, 32-3, 36, 40, 41, 43, 72
Irvine, William Ferguson xii, 78
Ismay, Thomas Henry and family 135
Jager, Harold 170
Jermy, K.E. 38-9
Johnstone family of West Kirby during the First World War 165
Jones, Millicent 161
Kemp, Herbert 165
Kenna, Ray 15
Kent, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Kiln Walby, Overchurch 56
Kneckyn
Knuckyn
Laird family 136, 149, 165
Lairds’ Shipyards 154, 165, 174
Lancashire 10, 12, 13, 15, 24, 35, 56, 57, 63, 80, 84, 88, 93, 96, 99, 101, 104, 105, 106, 127, 129, 130, 133, 148, 151, 157, 158, 173, 179
Lancashire place-names as Wirral surnames 100
Landican 44, 49, 51, 69, 74, 168, 189
Larkin, Thomas and Catherine 157
Larton 56, 83, 90, 99
Lea 71, 81, 89, 99, 112
Leasowe: 12, 23, 24, 32, 35, 138, 143; Castle 138; Embankment 138; Road 165
Lebeg, Honoratus Vicar of Eastham 113
Le Counte, Richard 88
Ledsham 46, 79, 96, 103
Leighton 69, 71, 78, 96, 124
Lever, William Hesketh 139
Linacre: surname, family and individuals 96, 104
Liscard 44, 56, 69, 79, 91, 97, 98, 117, 143
Litherland: surname, family and individuals 88
Little Eye (see also Hilbre Island) 25, 32, 168
Liverpool: 3, 6, 7, 10, 23, 31, 54, 56, 57, 84, 86, 94, 104, 117, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149, 153, 157, 158, 159, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 178, 179; Bay 13, 15, 119; Corporation 20, 96, 149; Museum 3, 26
Liverpool Daily Post
Lloyd George, David 163, 171
Lydiate, The, Willaston 136
MacFie, Robert 135
Mahon, Thomas 156
Malpas 59
Manchester 39, 137, 141, 142, 144, 152, 157; Regiment 165
Mariners 114, 119, 121-2, 124, 139
Marl, Marling and Marlpits xiii, 12, 49, 85, 126, 141
Massie/Massey: surname, family and individuals 83, 96, 107, 137, 143
Mayer Hall 136, 137
Mayer, Joseph 20, 136
Meols, Great and Little 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 53, 56, 57, 60, 65, 69, 72, 79, 81, 82, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 110, 121, 138, 139, 183, 188
Meols: surname, family and individuals 76, 79
Mercer, Jane 110
Mercia, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45-8, 53, 55, 57, 60, 64, 185, 186
Mersey, River and Estuary: xii, 6, 7, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 34, 48, 50, 68, 83, 84, 88, 99, 104, 106, 108, 119, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 159, 167, 174, 175, 177; Docks and Harbour Board 150, 174; Ferries 99, 153, 175; Tunnel 173
Merseyside Geographical Region 6, 30, 127, 141, 143, 151, 167, 175
Merseyside, Metropolitan County of (1974-86) xii, 178, 179
Mickle Trafford 65, 67
Middle Eye (see also Hilbre Island) 32
Mollington, Great and Little 17, 45, 56, 60, 65, 69, 71, 89, 97, 129, 170, 172, 183, 188
Molyneux/Molenix (and variants): surname, family and individuals 78, 107
Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism 47, 74, 80-7, 81, 87, 95-6
Moreton 12, 30, 35, 41, 43, 52, 53, 56, 68, 83, 86, 108, 118, 135, 143, 180, 183
Mortimer, William Williams xiii, 13, 84, 133, 145, 146, 150
Mostyn Deep (Dee estuary) 120
Mostyn House School, Parkgate 166
Mutler/Motelawe/Mutlow—Field-names 52
Ness 7, 38, 81, 123, 151, 180, 183, 189; Wood 17
Neston, Great and Little 4, 30, 35, 41, 49, 51, 61, 69, 74, 76, 81, 89, 91, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 103, 111, 120, 121, 122, 123, 128, 166, 178, 179, 180, 183, 187, 189; Colliery 122, 143, 151
Netherpool 68, 97, 128
New Brighton: 5, 25, 30, 31, 135, 138, 157-9;
Baths 167; Lighthouse 139; Pier 158; Tower
159
New Key, Neston 123
Newbold: surname, family and individuals 88
New House
Newton 83, 90, 96, 99; Carr 25
Noctorum 56, 65, 78, 81, 97, 128, 141, 142, 189
Nonconformists 112-13
Normans and Norman Conquest 41, 42, 43, 51, 60, 65-74
Northumbria, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Offa’s Dyke 60
Oil refineries and related industries 84, 168, 173, 173, 175, 175
Ormerod, George xiii, 13, 83, 84, 125-33, 137, 143, 144
Orrel: surname, family and individuals 88
Ostorius Scapula 34
Overchurch 43, 51, 53, 56, 71, 189; Runic Stone 44
Overpool 17, 128, 133, 141, 144
Owen, Wilfred 163-5, 164
Oxton 3, 21, 30, 57, 59, 68, 83, 183; Ysabel Lady of 86
Parkgate 113, 120, 124, 129, 130, 138, 166, 170, 178, 180, 183
Park High School, Birkenhead 161
Pemberton: surname, family and individuals 104, 108, 113
Penketh 101, 104
‘Pennant House’ 136, 136
Pensby 44, 49, 56, 97, 98, 129, 180
Philpott, Dr Robert 26, 33, 36, 38, 92
Picton 71
Place, Dr Geoffrey xiii
Place-names 44, 45, 49, 54-6, 60
Ploughing (see also Agriculture) 89, 140, 143
Plymyard 85; Dale 17
Point of Ayr 60, 81, 119
Polish troops 164
Poole Hall 113
Poole/Pulle: surname, family and individuals 76, 92, 96, 137
Poor Law Acts/Poor Relief 116
Port Sunlight 151-2, 152, 153, 154; War Memorial 164
Potter, Charles 23
Pottery and Potteries 26, 30, 33, 36, 37, 39, 41, 144, 151
Poulton Lancelyn 39, 65, 69, 74, 79, 82, 96, 125, 130, 190; Hall 111, 130, 141
Prata Legionis
Prenton 6, 57, 71, 72, 91, 96, 130, 166, 189
Prenton, Robert 92
Preston: surname, family and individuals 88
Protestantism and Puritanism 111-12
Ptolemy 14
Puddington 46, 49, 65, 67, 81, 96, 103, 108, 112, 190; Hall 107, 108
Quarries 3, 5, 35, 143
Raby 56, 60, 69, 129, 143, 187, 189
Raby, Thomas de 76
Radcliffe: surname, family and individuals 96, 121, 122
Railways 39, 83, 120, 124, 135, 137-8, 142, 144, 152, 153, 154, 165, 170, 173
Rainford family during the First World War 162
Rainford, Thomas (Prior of Birkenhead) 83, 84
Raynaldesdoghter: surname, family and individuals 88
Recusants (see also Roman Catholicism) 107-9
Red Noses, New Brighton 25, 30, 41
Red Rocks, Hoylake 10, 25, 119, 121
Reilly, Sir C. 152
Religion 27, 43, 105-13, 157
Rhyncosaurus
Richard son of John 88
Rideout, Eric xiii, 16, 17, 144
Roads: 6, 15, 21, 48, 125, 127-30, 144; Modern names of as clues to historic topography 50, 56, 91; Roman 13, 35, 38-41, 65
Robert of Rhuddlan 60, 70, 81, 188
Roberts, Fred 168
Roberts, Jacqueline 172
Robinson: surname, family and individuals 105, 108
Rock Ferry 134, 172
Rock Park 134, 134, 136
Rocks see Geology
Roeder, C. 30
Roman Catholicism in Victorian Birkenhead 157
Roman Conquest and Occupation 3, 14, 15, 20, 23, 33-40, 42-4, 71, 183-4
Rotel, Nicholas 88
Rough Dick (Richard Perry) 117-18
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake 170
St Aidan 45
St Augustine 45
St Bridget 57
St Hilary 43
Sand-dunes 15-16
Saughall, Great and Little 56, 71, 81, 91, 92, 96, 143, 183, 187, 189
Saughall Massie 49, 57, 68, 83, 86, 89, 96, 143, 17, 49, 116
Seacombe: 92, 142; Pool 79; Pottery 151
Shaw, John and John Ralph Nicholson 135
Sherlock: surname, family and individuals 105, 108, 116, 143
Shotwick: 41, 49, 57, 71, 75, 81, 88, 90, 92, 97, 98, 108, 110, 111, 122, 183, 187; Castle 21, 75, 81, 88; Park 88, 89, 91; War Memorial 164
Silvester, Alan 77
Smith, Joe 141
Spital 80, 83, 85, 96, 141
Stanlaw Abbey 80, 84-6, 94
Stanley: surname, family and individuals 77-80, 91, 93, 96, 107, 108, 129, 136, 137
Stanlow Oil Docks and Refinery 84, 173, 173, 175
Stanney, Great and Little 69, 71, 85, 92, 96, 97, 128, 144
Stewart-Brown, R. xiii, 76
Stoke 68, 128, 144
Stoke, Randolph or Ranulf de 76, 79
Stone Age, Old, Middle and New 24-31
Stone crosses 61, 61
Storeton: 1, 3, 5, 31, 39, 41, 47, 56, 65, 69, 77, 78, 128, 186, 190; Hill 17, 60; Manor 78; Quarries 35
Street Hey Lane, Willaston 38, 39, 41, 86
Stromby, Thurstaston 56
Submerged Forest, Meols 23-4, 24, 25, 29
Sub-Roman Wirral 42-4
Subsidy Roll of 1545 97-106
Sulley, Philip xiii-xiv, 23, 54
Sussex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Sutton, Great and Little 17, 21, 31, 41, 69, 71, 81, 88, 97, 128, 144, 179, 180, 187, 188
Swifte, Elizabeth 110
Syllaby, Great Sutton 56
Tacitus 34
Tait, James xiii, 83
Tangumstell (or Tanguistell) de Stanney 88
Tarvin 48, 112
Thingwall 5, 28, 40, 56, 57, 60, 69, 96, 97, 128, 171, 172, 180, 183, 189
Thomsen, C.J. 20
Thornton Hough 17, 40, 52, 56, 69, 96, 137, 152
Thor’s Stone 54-5, 55
Thurstaston: 1, 5, 5, 6, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, 25, 38, 41, 54, 56, 69, 71, 80, 85, 96, 111, 123, 130, 135, 140, 166, 183, 188; Common 6, 54, 55; Hill 21
Tildeslegh: surname, family and individuals 76
Tomlinson, N.H.C. 169
Torr: surname, family and individuals 135-6
Tottie: surname, family and individuals 110, 111-12
Trailbaston Court 78, 80, 86, 88, 92
Tranmere 5, 31, 56, 68, 79, 83, 88, 97, 119; Oil Jetty 175
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Umlinson’s Meadow, Storeton 31
Upton: xii, 12, 38, 51, 56, 67, 71, 96, 112, 118, 177, 180, 189; Fair 118, 128; Manor 135; Meadow 181
Upton-By-Chester 69, 71, 81, 188
Urmston: surname, family and individuals 104, 113
Ussher, Archbishop James of Armagh 1
Vale Royal Abbey 75, 80, 83, 89, 95
Valera Victrix
Vikings 54-64
Wales 6, 10, 15, 25, 32, 33, 34, 38, 40, 43, 48, 55, 56, 63, 65, 72, 75, 104, 144, 146, 148, 151, 173, 174, 176
Wallasey: 1, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 30, 31, 39, 41, 43, 44, 48, 51, 56, 61, 69, 74, 79, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 91, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 101, 107, 108, 112, 117, 124, 135, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145, 151, 165, 166, 167, 169, 171, 173, 178, 183, 188; Church 43, 114, 115; County Borough Council 178; Docks 141, 150, 150; Industries and Urban Growth 147; Pool 14, 15, 16, 19, 39, 49, 50, 68, 130, 148, 149, 173; Town Hall 7, 169
Walsh: surname, family and individuals 88
Warmby 56, 69
Wat’s Dyke 48
Welsh: language 32, 41, 44, 48-9, 57, 163; people 63, 157, 186; surnames 101-3, 125
Wervin 67
Wesley, John 124
Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
West Kirby, 6, 31, 32, 38, 41, 43, 51, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 69, 71, 74, 81, 83, 86, 90, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 110, 121, 122, 135, 142, 159, 160, 162, 165, 168, 172, 178, 183
Whalley Abbey 84-5
Whitby 56, 57, 68, 89, 130, 144, 178
Whitmore: surname, family and individuals 76, 96
Wilaveston Hundred 53, 67, 73, 187
Wilderspool 37
Willaston 17, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 49, 51, 65, 67, 72, 76, 77, 77, 86, 130, 136, 143, 183; Windmill 142
William I 74, 96
William III 123
Williams, Prof. Gwyn A. 48
Wilson: surname, family and individuals 113, 117, 143
Wirral: Definition and Boundaries of xii; Historiography of xii-xiii; Introduction to History of xii-xiii; Stone 77; ‘Type’ Brooches 38
Wirral Journal
Woodbank 17, 97
Woodchurch xii, 30, 41, 43, 44, 51, 56, 69, 78, 81, 85, 89, 95, 97, 108, 110, 112, 116, 117, 128, 143, 180
Woods, E.C. 117
Woods, Winifred 156
Young, Harold Edgar xiii, 76, 125, 133, 143
Zwingle, Col Earl 165
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Legion 35xiii, 20, 23
234
(Newton) 96
27, 180 44, 56 44, 56
, First Mersey Steam Ferry Service 133
(see also Chester) xiii, 32, 34
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155, 156143
, Neston 135
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| The Wirral peninsula is a microcosm, having experienced every historical development to have affected England since the Stone-Age hunter-gatherers came. Inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it was exploited by Romans from their nearby fortress of Deva, then settled by Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. Its growing medieval population mainly lived by farming and fishing, but the 19th century brought dramatic changes-colonisation by wealthy Liverpudlians, then the rapid growth of the great urban and industrial centres of Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Every aspect of the past lives of its people is explored, and how they moulded today’s Wirral. |
Index
Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations or their captions
Adams, Richard, Vicar of Woodchurch 111
Aethelbald, King 48
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius 34
Agriculture: Anglo-Saxon 53; Early Modern 94, 95, 114-15, 118-19, 122; (effects of urbanisation on) 180-1; Iron-Age and Romano-British 31, 33, 35-8, 40; Medieval 73, 77, 89, 90-1; 19th-century 127, 140-4, 159; transition to from hunting and gathering 28-30; 20th-century 171, 172, 176, 180
American troops 171
Anglo-Saxons 45-64
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Archaeology, Introduction to 19-23; 27, 29
Arrowe: xiii, 12, 16, 56, 68, 96, 143; Brook 17, 24, 28, 135; Brook Road 28; Hall 135; Park 28, 135, 140, 171, 172, 177
Arrowe House Farm 135
Ashfield Hall
Ashton, William 13-15
Aslan, N.J. 153
Aspinall: surname, family and individuals 88
Avowries 88
Backford: 15, 17, 69, 83, 85, 89, 96, 99, 125, 168, 170, 171; Brook 17; Church 126, 129; Gap (also see Broxton Valley and Deva Spillway) 144
Baden Powell, General 177
Bangor Iscoed (on Dee) 43
Barker Lane 42
Barnston 38, 40, 56, 65, 69, 96, 116, 128, 190
Barton, Richard Watson of Caldy 137
Basingwerk 48; Abbey of St Mary 80, 83, 94
Baylee, The Rev. Joseph 157
Bebington, Lower and Higher 5, 6, 45, 68, 79, 81, 83, 88, 92, 116, 125, 127, 128, 131, 132, 136, 136, 137, 151, 176, 178, 186; Church 3, 131, 183
Beer House Hole, Parkgate 124
Benedictines (see also Monasticism) 80, 84
Bennett: surname, family and individuals 75, 96, 105, 112
Berie, Richard 88
Bidston: 1, 12, 16, 30, 31, 49, 56, 68, 69, 71, 78, 81, 83, 93, 108, 110, 115, 118, 181; Dock 174, 174; Hall 113, 113; Hill 6, 148, 149, 172; Moss 28, 41
Bird: surname, family and individuals 95, 105, 108
Birkenhead 10, 16, 21, 30, 31, 35, 39, 40, 41, 56, 75, 78, 79, 84, 85, 112, 124, 130, 132, 133, 138, 145, 153, 157, 163, 164, 166, 168, 177, 183; Cenotaph 164, 165; County Borough Council and Corporation 135, 172, 177, 178; Decline of 155, 171, 173-5; Docks 39, 148-50, 149-50, 171, 174; Girls’ School 165; Growth of 134-5; 141, 143, 146, 151; Industries 147; Institute 163; Outline Plan 153-4; Park 31, 150; Park High School 166; Priory 78, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 93, 95, 111; Social Conditions and Crime in 156-7, 171-2; Town Hall 169; During the World Wars 161-3, 165, 166-7, 170
Birkenhead and Cheshire Advertiser and Wallasey Guardian
Birkenhead News
Birket, River 16, 59
Black Death 89, 92, 104
Black Prince 75
Blacon 69, 71, 91, 96, 120, 183, 190
Boathouse Lane, Parkgate 124
Booth, P.H.W. xiii
Boscombe John, Sir W. 165
Boulder Clay 11, 11
Bowen, Maria 156
Breton; language 32; troops 171
Brick-fields and brick-making 143, 146
Bridestones, The 31
Brigantes
Brimstage 51, 52, 68, 101, 128; Hall 141
Bromborough 17, 50, 51, 56, 60, 61, 75, 79, 81, 85, 86, 88, 89, 93, 112, 118, 125, 130, 175, 178, 183, 186; Church and Yard 43, 51; Golf Course 17; Manor House 81; Parish 50, 51, 74; Pool 17, 151, 152, 175
Broster: surname, family and individuals 143
Brown, Annie 156
Brown P.C. 117
Brownbill, John xiii
Broxton Hundred xii
Broxton Valley (see also Deva Spillway) 13, 15, 71, 144
Bruen family of Tarvin 112
Brun, Roger 88
Brunanburh
Brunstath see
Bu’lock, J.D. 43, 62
Burches, Hugh, Vicar of Thurstaston 111
Burton 6, 30, 31, 33, 41, 49, 51, 67, 74, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98, 101, 115, 116, 117, 123, 125, 130, 190; Hall 130; Manor Court 115; Parish and church 85; Point 5, 33, 130
Burtonwood Airfield 168
Calday Grange Grammar School 170
Calday, William 76
Calderstones, The 31
Caldy: 1, 5, 5, 6, 16, 44, 56, 69, 71, 73, 83, 121, 123, 188, 190; Crossroads 6; Hill 6, 56; Hundred 60; Manor 137
Cammell Lairds’ (see also Lairds’ Shipyards) 174
Canals: 129, 144-5, 145, 149; Chester 130; Manchester Ship 17, 84, 145, 146, 168, 173, 175; Shropshire Union (and Company) xii, 13, 14, 17, 71, 173
Capenhurst 17, 69, 130, 170, 190
Carlett Park xiii, 135, 171
Casualties, civilian during the Second World War 167-8
Celts 17, 32, 43, 45, 64
Charities 115-18
Cheshire: 15, 24, 35, 43, 51, 63, 65, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 80, 84, 88, 89, 95, 96, 99, 104, 106, 112, 115, 125, 126, 141, 142, 144, 148, 151, 174, 179; Archers 75-6; County Council 124, 136, 178; English Settlement of 45-8; Forests 76; In Hundred Years’ War 75-6; Norman Conquest of 65; Origins of Wirral People 103-4, 146; Ormerod’s History of 125; Palatine and Principality Status of 49, 59, 65, 84; Plain 49, 59, 65; Very Coarse Pottery 33
Cheshire Regiment, 1/4th Battalion of during the First World War 162-3
Chester (see also Deva) xii, 6, 13, 17, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 51, 55, 56, 60, 61, 65, 67, 68, 73, 75, 77, 79, 86, 89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 104, 107, 108, 112, 119, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 144, 153, 175, 176, 178, 184; Abbey of St Werburgh 76, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89; Archaeological Society 20; Battle of 47; Bishop and Diocese of 70, 108, 187; Castle 89, 108; Diocesan Consistory Court 114; Earls of 70, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 89, 91, 120; High Road (A540) 6, 17, 76, 77, 135; Siege of 112
Chester Chronicle
Childer Thornton 17, 49, 68, 81, 97, 133, 144, 183
Chirotherium
Chorlton 129, 170, 183; Hall 125, 126, 127
Christianity (see also Religion) 43
Cistercians (see also Monasteries) 84
Civil War, English 106, 107, 108, 112
Claughton 31, 39, 56, 68, 78, 83, 85, 103, 134
Clarke, Samuel, Vicar of Shotwick 111
Clwydian Hills 10, 32, 48, 130, 179
Coal measures and mining 4, 7, 92, 116, 143, 144, 151
Collingwood, W.G. 61-2, 184
Cook, Robert and Nik 88
Cookson: surname, family and individuals 88
Cornish language 32
Coventry: surname, family and individuals 96, 121
Cowell, Ron 26, 27-8
Cox, Edward W. 23, 31, 36, 92
Croughton 71, 81, 97, 129, 187
D.N.A. 63
Dannatt, Margaret and John 110
Day, Margaret 156
‘Dawpool’, Thurstaston 135
Dawson, Greg 135, 171, 172, 180
Deceangli
Dedemonnes Greve
Dee, River and Estuary 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 48, 51, 60, 71, 81, 86, 98, 99, 121, 122, 123, 124, 119-24, 128, 130, 138, 149, 151, 168, 170, 179
Dee Mills 92
Denhall 85, 86, 90, 123, 151
Derby Pool 167
Deva
Deva Spillway (also known as Backford Gap and Broxton Valley) xii, 15, 71, 144
Dibbinsdale 17, 60, 71
Dobbing, Private 159
Dodd: surname, family and individuals 143
Dodgson, John McNeal 45, 46, 49, 52, 60, 64
Domesday Book xii, 44, 50, 60, 65-74, 80, 87, 88, 187-90
Dowdswell, Roger 171
Drainage, 15-18, 16
Dungeon (Croughton) 129
Dungeon (Thurstaston) 17
Dunkirk 17
East Anglia, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Eastham: 10, 14, 15, 31, 35, 41, 46, 49, 50, 51, 68, 72, 74, 81, 85, 86, 90, 96, 97, 107, 108, 110, 113, 115, 118, 129, 130, 130, 132, 144, 145, 168, 175, 183; Church 50, 89; Dock (Queen Elizabeth II) 175; Ferry 136; Parish 51
Eddisbury Hundred 67
Eisteddfod, Welsh National at Birkenhead 163, 163
Elcocke, Margaret 110
Ellesmere Port xii, 10, 11, 124, 143, 144-5, 168, 173-6, 178-81, 183; Industries 147
Ellison, Norman xiii, 11, 21, 136, 151, 158, 168, 180, 181
Essex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Etna
Evacuees 170-1
Fahy, Patrick 157
Fairclough: surname, family and individuals 143
Fergusson-Irvine, William xiii, 78
Field-names 31, 38, 39, 44, 47, 49, 52, 56-9, 69, 86, 91, 115
Fishermen 23, 94, 114, 138, 138, 165
Flint (Stone) 21, 25, 26, 30, 39, 41
Flint (Town) 60; Castle 14
Flintshire 80, 83, 151; coast 7
Forest of Wirral 74-80, 83, 84, 85, 91
Fossils see Chirotherium, Geology
Francis, Thomas 136
Frankby 38, 56, 69, 81, 82, 91, 178
French troops 164
Gamlin, Hilda 54, 155
Garibaldi Riots (Birkenhead) 156-7
Gayton 56, 69, 71, 75, 78, 83, 88, 96, 112, 128, 179, 188
Gelling, Margaret 55
Genetics 62-3
Gentry: Early Modern 93, 96-7, 103, 110; (and religion) 113-14; Medieval 76, 77-80; ‘New’ and effects on landscape 133-7
Geology 1-8, 5
Glaciation 8-11, 9, 10, 14
Gleave, Thomas 115, 116
Glegg/Clegg: surname, family and individuals 76, 83, 96, 112, 137
Goodicar/Goodacre: surname, family and individuals 107, 115
Goodwin, John 151
Gowy, River xii, 32, 48, 67, 68, 71, 128, 133, 173
Grange (Birkenhead) 83; Road 83, 156, 162, 177
Grange (West Kirby; see also Great Caldy): 1, 71, 83,
85, 92, 96, 112, 122; Beacon 83; Hill 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 138, 165; Mill 122; War Memorial 32, 164
Grange Cow Worth (Ellesmere Port) 84-5
Greasby: xiii, 12, 25, 28, 38, 39, 41, 42, 49, 56, 78, 80, 81, 85, 96, 98, 112, 121, 122, 140, 141, 142, 143, 180, 190; Brook 16-17; Copse xiii, 26-8, 39, 41; Old Hall 80, 114
Greenhouse Farm, Greasby 27
Greswell, R. Kay 6
Grey-Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas 150
Griffiths, Eileen 168
Grosvenor Museum, Chester 21, 30, 184
Grount, Hugh 88
Gruggeworth Heath, Mollington 89
Guile/Gill: surname, family and individuals 88
Guilden Sutton 67, 71, 187
Haby, Barnston 56
Hadlow, Willaston: 51, 52, 65, 72, 76, 188; Road 52; Wood 52
Haigh, Reginald 135
Halstead: surname, family and individuals 101
Halton, Constable of 81
Halton, 6th Baron of 84
Hamlet, George 156
Hamo son of Peter 88
Handel, G.F. 124
Hardware: surname, family and individuals 112
Hare, Margery 110
Hargrave 56, 69, 81, 189; Hall Farm 17
Harrison, James 135
Hawisa de Moleton 88
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 131-2
Heaths 71
Helsby, Thomas 132, 137
Henry VIII 85, 93, 96, 107
Heskeby, Bidston 56
Heswall 1, 5, 6, 17, 38, 44, 47, 49, 56, 69, 71, 78, 85, 96, 108, 121, 122, 128, 138
Hewitt, W. xiii, 11
Higham, Dr N.J. 30
Hilbre Island: 3, 5, 10, 27, 31, 47, 61, 80, 81, 86, 96, 119, 121, 124, 168, 170; Cross 61; Point 10, 41
Hillhouse coast 9, 11-13
Hirst, Joseph 137
Hockenhull: surname, family and individuals 75, 79
Hogan, Michael 157
Hogback tombstones 62, 62
Hog, William 88
Holt 37
Holy Trinity church, Birkenhead 157, 157
Home Guard Units 169-70
Hondesdoghter: surname, family and individuals 88
Hoose 83, 93, 94, 110, 115, 138
Hooton: 11, 17, 35, 69, 93, 96, 97, 108, 129, 130, 135, 168, 183, 189; Airfield 176; Park 175
Hough: surname, family and individuals 96, 116, 117, 118
Hoylake 12, 23, 25, 94, 115, 121, 138, 142, 170, 172, 178, 183
Hoyle Lake, The 36, 81, 82, 92, 120, 121, 123, 138
Hulme, William 116
Hume, The Rev. A. 23, 38, 118
Hunter-Gatherers (see also Prehistory) 28
Ice Age (see also Glaciation) 8-11
Industry 124, 136, 143-53, 173-7
Inman, William 135
Irby: xii, 5, 23, 25, 26, 31-2, 33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 44, 56, 69, 80, 81, 98, 166, 180; Heath 16, 17; Mill Hill 26; Windmill 142
Irish Sea 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 30, 31, 34, 60, 61, 72, 99, 103, 119, 128, 130, 138, 139, 170, 186
Iron Age (see also Prehistory) 20, 23, 32-3, 36, 40, 41, 43, 72
Irvine, William Ferguson xii, 78
Ismay, Thomas Henry and family 135
Jager, Harold 170
Jermy, K.E. 38-9
Johnstone family of West Kirby during the First World War 165
Jones, Millicent 161
Kemp, Herbert 165
Kenna, Ray 15
Kent, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Kiln Walby, Overchurch 56
Kneckyn
Knuckyn
Laird family 136, 149, 165
Lairds’ Shipyards 154, 165, 174
Lancashire 10, 12, 13, 15, 24, 35, 56, 57, 63, 80, 84, 88, 93, 96, 99, 101, 104, 105, 106, 127, 129, 130, 133, 148, 151, 157, 158, 173, 179
Lancashire place-names as Wirral surnames 100
Landican 44, 49, 51, 69, 74, 168, 189
Larkin, Thomas and Catherine 157
Larton 56, 83, 90, 99
Lea 71, 81, 89, 99, 112
Leasowe: 12, 23, 24, 32, 35, 138, 143; Castle 138; Embankment 138; Road 165
Lebeg, Honoratus Vicar of Eastham 113
Le Counte, Richard 88
Ledsham 46, 79, 96, 103
Leighton 69, 71, 78, 96, 124
Lever, William Hesketh 139
Linacre: surname, family and individuals 96, 104
Liscard 44, 56, 69, 79, 91, 97, 98, 117, 143
Litherland: surname, family and individuals 88
Little Eye (see also Hilbre Island) 25, 32, 168
Liverpool: 3, 6, 7, 10, 23, 31, 54, 56, 57, 84, 86, 94, 104, 117, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149, 153, 157, 158, 159, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 178, 179; Bay 13, 15, 119; Corporation 20, 96, 149; Museum 3, 26
Liverpool Daily Post
Lloyd George, David 163, 171
Lydiate, The, Willaston 136
MacFie, Robert 135
Mahon, Thomas 156
Malpas 59
Manchester 39, 137, 141, 142, 144, 152, 157; Regiment 165
Mariners 114, 119, 121-2, 124, 139
Marl, Marling and Marlpits xiii, 12, 49, 85, 126, 141
Massie/Massey: surname, family and individuals 83, 96, 107, 137, 143
Mayer Hall 136, 137
Mayer, Joseph 20, 136
Meols, Great and Little 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 53, 56, 57, 60, 65, 69, 72, 79, 81, 82, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 110, 121, 138, 139, 183, 188
Meols: surname, family and individuals 76, 79
Mercer, Jane 110
Mercia, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45-8, 53, 55, 57, 60, 64, 185, 186
Mersey, River and Estuary: xii, 6, 7, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 34, 48, 50, 68, 83, 84, 88, 99, 104, 106, 108, 119, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 159, 167, 174, 175, 177; Docks and Harbour Board 150, 174; Ferries 99, 153, 175; Tunnel 173
Merseyside Geographical Region 6, 30, 127, 141, 143, 151, 167, 175
Merseyside, Metropolitan County of (1974-86) xii, 178, 179
Mickle Trafford 65, 67
Middle Eye (see also Hilbre Island) 32
Mollington, Great and Little 17, 45, 56, 60, 65, 69, 71, 89, 97, 129, 170, 172, 183, 188
Molyneux/Molenix (and variants): surname, family and individuals 78, 107
Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism 47, 74, 80-7, 81, 87, 95-6
Moreton 12, 30, 35, 41, 43, 52, 53, 56, 68, 83, 86, 108, 118, 135, 143, 180, 183
Mortimer, William Williams xiii, 13, 84, 133, 145, 146, 150
Mostyn Deep (Dee estuary) 120
Mostyn House School, Parkgate 166
Mutler/Motelawe/Mutlow—Field-names 52
Ness 7, 38, 81, 123, 151, 180, 183, 189; Wood 17
Neston, Great and Little 4, 30, 35, 41, 49, 51, 61, 69, 74, 76, 81, 89, 91, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 103, 111, 120, 121, 122, 123, 128, 166, 178, 179, 180, 183, 187, 189; Colliery 122, 143, 151
Netherpool 68, 97, 128
New Brighton: 5, 25, 30, 31, 135, 138, 157-9;
Baths 167; Lighthouse 139; Pier 158; Tower
159
New Key, Neston 123
Newbold: surname, family and individuals 88
New House
Newton 83, 90, 96, 99; Carr 25
Noctorum 56, 65, 78, 81, 97, 128, 141, 142, 189
Nonconformists 112-13
Normans and Norman Conquest 41, 42, 43, 51, 60, 65-74
Northumbria, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Offa’s Dyke 60
Oil refineries and related industries 84, 168, 173, 173, 175, 175
Ormerod, George xiii, 13, 83, 84, 125-33, 137, 143, 144
Orrel: surname, family and individuals 88
Ostorius Scapula 34
Overchurch 43, 51, 53, 56, 71, 189; Runic Stone 44
Overpool 17, 128, 133, 141, 144
Owen, Wilfred 163-5, 164
Oxton 3, 21, 30, 57, 59, 68, 83, 183; Ysabel Lady of 86
Parkgate 113, 120, 124, 129, 130, 138, 166, 170, 178, 180, 183
Park High School, Birkenhead 161
Pemberton: surname, family and individuals 104, 108, 113
Penketh 101, 104
‘Pennant House’ 136, 136
Pensby 44, 49, 56, 97, 98, 129, 180
Philpott, Dr Robert 26, 33, 36, 38, 92
Picton 71
Place, Dr Geoffrey xiii
Place-names 44, 45, 49, 54-6, 60
Ploughing (see also Agriculture) 89, 140, 143
Plymyard 85; Dale 17
Point of Ayr 60, 81, 119
Polish troops 164
Poole Hall 113
Poole/Pulle: surname, family and individuals 76, 92, 96, 137
Poor Law Acts/Poor Relief 116
Port Sunlight 151-2, 152, 153, 154; War Memorial 164
Potter, Charles 23
Pottery and Potteries 26, 30, 33, 36, 37, 39, 41, 144, 151
Poulton Lancelyn 39, 65, 69, 74, 79, 82, 96, 125, 130, 190; Hall 111, 130, 141
Prata Legionis
Prenton 6, 57, 71, 72, 91, 96, 130, 166, 189
Prenton, Robert 92
Preston: surname, family and individuals 88
Protestantism and Puritanism 111-12
Ptolemy 14
Puddington 46, 49, 65, 67, 81, 96, 103, 108, 112, 190; Hall 107, 108
Quarries 3, 5, 35, 143
Raby 56, 60, 69, 129, 143, 187, 189
Raby, Thomas de 76
Radcliffe: surname, family and individuals 96, 121, 122
Railways 39, 83, 120, 124, 135, 137-8, 142, 144, 152, 153, 154, 165, 170, 173
Rainford family during the First World War 162
Rainford, Thomas (Prior of Birkenhead) 83, 84
Raynaldesdoghter: surname, family and individuals 88
Recusants (see also Roman Catholicism) 107-9
Red Noses, New Brighton 25, 30, 41
Red Rocks, Hoylake 10, 25, 119, 121
Reilly, Sir C. 152
Religion 27, 43, 105-13, 157
Rhyncosaurus
Richard son of John 88
Rideout, Eric xiii, 16, 17, 144
Roads: 6, 15, 21, 48, 125, 127-30, 144; Modern names of as clues to historic topography 50, 56, 91; Roman 13, 35, 38-41, 65
Robert of Rhuddlan 60, 70, 81, 188
Roberts, Fred 168
Roberts, Jacqueline 172
Robinson: surname, family and individuals 105, 108
Rock Ferry 134, 172
Rock Park 134, 134, 136
Rocks see Geology
Roeder, C. 30
Roman Catholicism in Victorian Birkenhead 157
Roman Conquest and Occupation 3, 14, 15, 20, 23, 33-40, 42-4, 71, 183-4
Rotel, Nicholas 88
Rough Dick (Richard Perry) 117-18
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake 170
St Aidan 45
St Augustine 45
St Bridget 57
St Hilary 43
Sand-dunes 15-16
Saughall, Great and Little 56, 71, 81, 91, 92, 96, 143, 183, 187, 189
Saughall Massie 49, 57, 68, 83, 86, 89, 96, 143, 17, 49, 116
Seacombe: 92, 142; Pool 79; Pottery 151
Shaw, John and John Ralph Nicholson 135
Sherlock: surname, family and individuals 105, 108, 116, 143
Shotwick: 41, 49, 57, 71, 75, 81, 88, 90, 92, 97, 98, 108, 110, 111, 122, 183, 187; Castle 21, 75, 81, 88; Park 88, 89, 91; War Memorial 164
Silvester, Alan 77
Smith, Joe 141
Spital 80, 83, 85, 96, 141
Stanlaw Abbey 80, 84-6, 94
Stanley: surname, family and individuals 77-80, 91, 93, 96, 107, 108, 129, 136, 137
Stanlow Oil Docks and Refinery 84, 173, 173, 175
Stanney, Great and Little 69, 71, 85, 92, 96, 97, 128, 144
Stewart-Brown, R. xiii, 76
Stoke 68, 128, 144
Stoke, Randolph or Ranulf de 76, 79
Stone Age, Old, Middle and New 24-31
Stone crosses 61, 61
Storeton: 1, 3, 5, 31, 39, 41, 47, 56, 65, 69, 77, 78, 128, 186, 190; Hill 17, 60; Manor 78; Quarries 35
Street Hey Lane, Willaston 38, 39, 41, 86
Stromby, Thurstaston 56
Submerged Forest, Meols 23-4, 24, 25, 29
Sub-Roman Wirral 42-4
Subsidy Roll of 1545 97-106
Sulley, Philip xiii-xiv, 23, 54
Sussex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
Sutton, Great and Little 17, 21, 31, 41, 69, 71, 81, 88, 97, 128, 144, 179, 180, 187, 188
Swifte, Elizabeth 110
Syllaby, Great Sutton 56
Tacitus 34
Tait, James xiii, 83
Tangumstell (or Tanguistell) de Stanney 88
Tarvin 48, 112
Thingwall 5, 28, 40, 56, 57, 60, 69, 96, 97, 128, 171, 172, 180, 183, 189
Thomsen, C.J. 20
Thornton Hough 17, 40, 52, 56, 69, 96, 137, 152
Thor’s Stone 54-5, 55
Thurstaston: 1, 5, 5, 6, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, 25, 38, 41, 54, 56, 69, 71, 80, 85, 96, 111, 123, 130, 135, 140, 166, 183, 188; Common 6, 54, 55; Hill 21
Tildeslegh: surname, family and individuals 76
Tomlinson, N.H.C. 169
Torr: surname, family and individuals 135-6
Tottie: surname, family and individuals 110, 111-12
Trailbaston Court 78, 80, 86, 88, 92
Tranmere 5, 31, 56, 68, 79, 83, 88, 97, 119; Oil Jetty 175
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Umlinson’s Meadow, Storeton 31
Upton: xii, 12, 38, 51, 56, 67, 71, 96, 112, 118, 177, 180, 189; Fair 118, 128; Manor 135; Meadow 181
Upton-By-Chester 69, 71, 81, 188
Urmston: surname, family and individuals 104, 113
Ussher, Archbishop James of Armagh 1
Vale Royal Abbey 75, 80, 83, 89, 95
Valera Victrix
Vikings 54-64
Wales 6, 10, 15, 25, 32, 33, 34, 38, 40, 43, 48, 55, 56, 63, 65, 72, 75, 104, 144, 146, 148, 151, 173, 174, 176
Wallasey: 1, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 30, 31, 39, 41, 43, 44, 48, 51, 56, 61, 69, 74, 79, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 91, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 101, 107, 108, 112, 117, 124, 135, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145, 151, 165, 166, 167, 169, 171, 173, 178, 183, 188; Church 43, 114, 115; County Borough Council 178; Docks 141, 150, 150; Industries and Urban Growth 147; Pool 14, 15, 16, 19, 39, 49, 50, 68, 130, 148, 149, 173; Town Hall 7, 169
Walsh: surname, family and individuals 88
Warmby 56, 69
Wat’s Dyke 48
Welsh: language 32, 41, 44, 48-9, 57, 163; people 63, 157, 186; surnames 101-3, 125
Wervin 67
Wesley, John 124
Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 45
West Kirby, 6, 31, 32, 38, 41, 43, 51, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 69, 71, 74, 81, 83, 86, 90, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 110, 121, 122, 135, 142, 159, 160, 162, 165, 168, 172, 178, 183
Whalley Abbey 84-5
Whitby 56, 57, 68, 89, 130, 144, 178
Whitmore: surname, family and individuals 76, 96
Wilaveston Hundred 53, 67, 73, 187
Wilderspool 37
Willaston 17, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 49, 51, 65, 67, 72, 76, 77, 77, 86, 130, 136, 143, 183; Windmill 142
William I 74, 96
William III 123
Williams, Prof. Gwyn A. 48
Wilson: surname, family and individuals 113, 117, 143
Wirral: Definition and Boundaries of xii; Historiography of xii-xiii; Introduction to History of xii-xiii; Stone 77; ‘Type’ Brooches 38
Wirral Journal
Woodbank 17, 97
Woodchurch xii, 30, 41, 43, 44, 51, 56, 69, 78, 81, 85, 89, 95, 97, 108, 110, 112, 116, 117, 128, 143, 180
Woods, E.C. 117
Woods, Winifred 156
Young, Harold Edgar xiii, 76, 125, 133, 143
Zwingle, Col Earl 165
xiii, 39
Legion 35xiii, 20, 23
234
(Newton) 96
27, 180 44, 56 44, 56
, First Mersey Steam Ferry Service 133
(see also Chester) xiii, 32, 34
4734 2-3143 Brimstage, Battle of 54, 185-634
155, 156143
, Neston 135
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