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Your relatives must have worked at Cammell Laird's Shipbuilders, too, perhaps, certainly handy for work...... Seabank Cottages is the address my Grandfather gave on his army discharge papers; I've since found his army service record and it mentions his first job in civvies was in the ironworks at Cammell Laird's, a bit different from tilling the soil as an Irish farmer, but then, after experiencing the trenches, he would be grateful for anything. Thank you for replying to my post.

There were 22 cottages and from the service and pension records I have found, 7 lads from different families living in the cottages served during WW1. There must have been a lot of worry in that small community.

My ancestors moved just a few hundred yards from Seabank Cottages, first to Clare St. and later to Brougham St. My grandfather was an engineer on tug boats and my father worked all his life at Laird's as a shipwright.

Regarding Holme Lea in Manor Lane. The surname of the occupants in the census of 1891, 1901 and 1911 was Wilcox, not Wilson. It was the family of my great grandfather, and my grandfather was born there. Two of his brothers were killed in WW1; the first at Ypres in 1915 and the second on the Somme in 1916. historyofwallasey.co.uk shows the details in The Fallen section.