People and Families

See also HomeTown Heroes pages for Ian Norris’ research into the lives of Neston men who lost their lives in the First World War.

Thomas Crimes Ashbrook (1877 -1942), railway man, and the Great War

Vizcachani, the Barber family and Neston’s South American links

The Reverend William Fergusson Barrett (1845-1892) and his wife, Margaret (1846-1925)

Robert Bridson and Son

Agnes Lois Bulley (1901 – 1995)

Angelina Jane Bushell

Growing up in Parkgate – Elizabeth Jane Bushell

The Coventry and Pyke Families, 1915 and 1916

Wolton Gray (1836 – 1891) and his family

Edward ‘Marlow’ Jones (1889 – 1966)

William Nelson Ledsham (1880 – 1951) and the Clontarf Cafe, Parkgate

Lady Hamilton’s (very distant) Neston Cousins

Jonathan Mellor (1846 – 1931) – a Neston fisherman

Commander John Monk, R.N. (1791-1880)

William Williams Mortimer and the Chester Arms, Parkgate.

George Edward (Ted) Pearson (1915 – 2003)

Are You a Descendant of Ellen Pyke?

William Quay (1778 – 1846)

Edwin Rooke (1855 – 1918) – a Neston Stationmaster

Charles Roscoe of Neston

Irish Immigrants in Neston: the Ryans