Liverpool???!!!

[Phoenix]

Thanks to Kite alerting me to Devon marriage licences, I have discovered that my ancestor John Edwards, b 1760, who happily had a family in East Portlemouth Devon born in the late 1700s, was in Liverpool in 1814.

He died before 11/11/1820. I have never found his burial - possibly because I have been looking in the wrong county!!!

His wife Peternell died 11 November 1820 and is commemorated in East Portlemouth by a stone, but her name is not in the burial register.

I am wholly unfamiliar with Lancashire. Are there online burial registers for this period? Lancashire will indexes?

[Merry]

There are parish record images for Liverpool and for Lancashire on Ancestry. Also Lancs OPC transcriptions - https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

I don't have ancestors in Lancs, but have used this site before for wills pre 1858: https://user.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm

I don't know if there are others though.

Do you have an occupation for your John? I couldn't see an obvious burial for this man who appears in the wills index (I just assumed he had a seafaring occ given where he came from and where he ended up!):

Edwards John of Liverpool, pilot. 14 Aug 1818

The Liverpool burial index I looked at (St John's) had occupations listed in the abode column :)

I have several pilots in my tree and none of them made it to the burial register. Dangerous occupation.

[Phoenix]

I would have expected him to describe himself as yeoman or gentleman. I don't know why he went to Liverpool. It may have been to live, or just a trip.

Thanks for the links

[garstonite]

shot in the dark - could Peternell have used the name Annabella - the only "Gentleman " I could find
Baptism: 23 Sep 1795 St Anne Richmond, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Thomas Parker Edwards - Son of John Edwards, Esqre & Annabella, His Wife
Born: 29 Aug

or am I clutching at straws?
added - re Merrys post of John being a Pilot - it looks like his wife was Mary ?? unless there were 2 John Edwards - Pilot?

Baptism: 30 Sep 1796 St James, Toxteth, Lancashire, England
Hannah Edwards - daughter of John Edwards & Mary
Abode: Bridgewater Street
Occupation: Pilot

[garstonite]

I have searched
http://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/dbase/toxsearch.php
edwards john - can't find him there - but there are 2 John Edwards - Gentleman -

EDWARDS John 80 years Gentleman 429 West Derby Road Tuebrook 8 February 1899
.................................................. .................................................. ...
EDWARDS John 37 years Gentleman Asylum Green Lane 3 November 1869
.................................................. .................................................. ..........
so you can rule out Toxteth Cemetery ..
have you searched this site ?

http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/deathinthepooloflife/

Looking at it - all those burial grounds were opened AFTER 1820 - so forget those