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im trying to research a "Derby House" in Rock Ferry.
Does anyone have any further info on it?
I know exactly where it was and that it was at one time the seat of the Minshull family who at that time owned most of Rock Ferry and that a Lord Mayor of Liverpool (William Oakshott) also lived there, would love to hear anything anyone else might know and see any pictures, im baffled by the importantance of the house that theres very little info on it even though it was only demolished around the 1930`s. Apparently it was in the Elizabethan style.

I know that some of the family are buried in St Peters behind the depot.

I presume you have looked at

http://www.oldwirral.com/rockferry.html

Good luck with your search.

Really? which family do you mean? Minshulls? I shall go see

I am at the moment involved in a history project about the woodward rd estate and its former name was the derby park estate and like you we r findig info about its origin hard to come by. we think most of the land was owned by lord derby , we r off to land regisrty soon so if we get any info about derby house i will share it .good luck in ur search

oh that would be great Thanks Nettie

some owners of Derby house
Thought this might be of interest Nettie.

Thanks, that was interesting.

In 1909.

A lot of mention and information on Derby House in passing in this document https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/156-6-Dyson.pdf