Tagged With: Charlotte Fanny Cook
Great-Grandma’s recipe book
My great aunts recipe books have long fascinated me so when today I was sorting boxes to try and kick-start my research into their father’s life I allowed myself to distracted by one. To call it a recipe book is rather misleading as the pages have long since detached themselves from the cover. It … Continue reading
Great- grandpa learns “when to say no”
Browsing the Huddersfield Chronicle archives I came across an article that may reveal how my great-grandparents met. In the newspaper of 3rd January 1874 is a report of the annual meeting of the Brunswick Street Sunday School which took place on New Year’s Day when “considerably over 300 persons sat down to an excellent tea”. … Continue reading
Great-grandpa in Belfast.
In May 1879 my great grandfather, Alfred John Liversedge, left both his job at Messers Hopkinson and Co and his home of Huddersfield to work in Belfast. In October that year he returned to marry Charlotte Fanny Cook and in December 1880 their first child John Arthur was born, followed in July 1882 by my … Continue reading
Great-grandpa’s Huddersfield poem
My great-grandparents families, the Liversedges and Cooks were firmly rooted in the West Riding of Yorkshire, specifically Huddersfield. Alfred John was born in Huddersfield and although the family moved for a while to Halifax they soon returned. Charlotte Fanny was born in Fitzwilliam Street Huddersfield and her family lived there for many years although she … Continue reading