Entry #: 134 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-13 16:47:48
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Rob Ainsworth |
| Web Site: |
Liverpool History Society |
Visitor Comments: Hello Mike,
could you please change the contact email address for the LHS on your site to webmaster@liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk as the one you publish is not longer used or accessible.
Regards
Rob |
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Entry #: 133 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-31 00:34:28
-- Edited On: 2009-10-31 13:40:00
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Phil Riley |
| Visitor Comments: Mr Mike Royden,
As I live and breathe! I thought you'd go down as the best Whitby High School teacher never to be contacted by me. Not that i'm doing anything special mind you. You may remember me from the A* destined camp that left your class by relocation to the Isle of Man (my little sister (the second best history student in Whitby history) was also lost). You told me all about the Magnetic Hill that day and i always remember that.
Anyways, fast forward 11 years Mike. I am a fully qualified accountant whilst Ali is now teaching in Sweden. I may be speaking for myself, but you were the man that inspired me to do History at Uni. You are the man that leads to Phil Riley today (i have just reread this for drunkenness and that is absolutely no exaggeration). I had some superb History lessons with you and if you get in touch one day i will see that as an absolute triumph! Mike Royden = Phil Riley as i have already said, and in the past i have come close to contacting you. my email is (removed) and my personal mobile is (removed). In my eyes you were already an Everton hero, if you're still about please please get in touch and i will visit asap.
Yours,
Phil. |
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Entry #: 132 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-24 21:25:42
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| Name: |
Margaret DeLacy |
| Web Site: |
Contagionism in History |
Visitor Comments: Help! I am working on a book that will include an account of the creation of the Liverpool House of Recovery (Liverpool Fever Hospital) in 1806.
In going through the Bickerton Papers many years ago, I found a note, apparently from the Dispensary minutes stating that the four physicians to the Dispensary: John Rutter, John McCartney, John Bostock (Jr.), and Robert Lewin were resigning en masse because they were angry at the way they had been treated at the "annual meeting". Was this a meeting of the Dispensary or of the Vestry? Was their resignation related to the opening of the House of Recovery or to something else (and if so what?). What did James Currie mean when he wrote to William Shepherd in 1805 that Dr. John Bostock was "seized ...of the necessity of supporting [his] personal consequence" (Thornton, James Currie, p. 368) and was it related to this resignation?
Is Bickerton's printed Medical History Liverpool, 274 correct in listing the staff of the Fever Hospital at its opening in 1806 as Physicians: Jonathan Binns, Joseph Brandreth, James Worthington and Surgeons Edward Alanson, James Gerard and Wright Gleave, or did they reprint the staff at the opening of the Dispensary (1778) by mistake? The two lists are identical and Binns seems to have been in Lancaster, not Liverpool, in 1806 (after leaving Ackworth). If this IS a mistake, who were the founding physicians to the Fever Hospital?
Is there a good source for this information? I think I have checked all the usual printed suspects but I don't have access to Liverpool newspapers from this period (I live in Oregon). Currie's Medical Reports are not helpful on the question of who opposed the House of Recovery and why.
Anyone who can help with these questions will be rewarded with a footnote!
Please mail me directly-- Margaret DeLacy margaretdelacy@comcast.net |
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Entry #: 126 |
Entry Date: 2009-09-17 05:27:31
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| Name: |
Mike Royden |
| Visitor Comments: Hello Georgia - regarding your entry and the Kinsellas - yes this looks like the same line on my mothers side. Tried to contact you, but got a bounce back on the email you gave me. Please contact me again. See my email on the website or sign in again here.
Thanks
Mike |
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Entry #: 125 |
Entry Date: 2009-08-19 18:26:25
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Georgia Cavanaugh |
Visitor Comments: Hi, Mike,
I've been corresponding with a lady who says that you once contacted her for information on the Wavertree Kinsella family. We have proven my husband's connection to Nicholas and Catherine Kinsella (see census records 1881, 1891). In the 1861 census they were in Toxteth Park. We wondered if you are a Kinsella descendant? As far as we can prove, only one child of Nicholas and Catherine came to America and that was John who arrive in 1884. If you are related to my husband, I'd be glad to share more information with you. I'm still trying to find where Nicholas and Catherine were born (somewhere in Ireland). Thank you. |
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Entry #: 124 |
Entry Date: 2009-07-23 07:54:16
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Alan Davies |
Visitor Comments: Hi Mike,
Fantastic website.I'm particularly interested in my local area, Speke - Hale and recently found another site specializing in this www.spekeliverpool.co.uk/
Best regards
Alan |
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