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| Walter Lait... my great grand-uncle |
He was born in February 1911 when the family lived in Moorgate Street in Wavertree with his parents and five older siblings. Walter was baptised in St Catherines Church, which was just a little way up Tunnel Road. This has since been demolished and replaced by new housing.
He appeared in the 1921 census when the family were residing in 23 Moorgate Street, and was ten years old... his occupation given to be a scholar. By this time his parents family had grown with two further children, so Walter was living with seven siblings - two younger than himself.
In 1938, now living at 48 Uxbridge Street, he married Susan Margaret Wardrope... a twenty-two year-old laundry presser of Swallowhurst Crescent, West Derby. Walter was twenty-seven years old and was working as a window cleaner.
When the 1939 register was taken however, prior to WW2, Walter could not be found. This could be because he had signed up to go off to war. His wife however was living back at her parents address in West Derby. She was recorded as being married and employed as 'unpaid domestic duties'... another way of saying she worked as a housewife.
In the end, the couple are reported to have had at least four children - two girls (their names unknown), a girl Jean and a son called Frank. This information had been entered into a tree on Ancestry and I have yet to substantiate the data, so this has been flagged for further investigation in my records.
Walter died on 22 June 1977. No record has yet been found to substantiate this, but the date has been recorded into the Lait family bible against his name.
One day I'll pick up the research on his family to try and fill in some of the gaps.
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| Walter's entry in the Lait family bible (bottom of page) - the date of his death was entered by an unknown family member in blue ink. |
(c)2024 Graham Seaman
