People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

There's a scan of Margaret Lloyd's baptism on August 8th 1837 at St Peter and Paul's in Ormskirk. She was born after civil registration was introduced and so you can buy the birth certificate. But I just tried a "sounds like" search on lancashire bmd and found this for 1837:

LOYD Margret SHORLIKER Ormskirk Preston OK/1/2

SHORLIKER doesn't sound very Welsh. (I think the Welsh only had the surnames Lloyd, Hughes, Davies, Roberts and Griffiths!!). I couldn't find a marriage to a Lloyd, but a Mary Shorliker was born in Ormskirk in 1818, and I'm thinking that she was Margaret's mother. So we can forget this. On the other hand, she can't be the 50 year old MARY LLOYD who died in Lathom in 1854. Robert and Mary Ann had three children in Ormskirk: William (1848-1864), Richard (1851-), Sarah (1853-?). Their next child and all the following ones (including a Benjamin and a William Benjamin) were born in Lathom. I think there must be a connection, but I haven't found one yet.

Linda