Lloyd McGreavy

One other bit of related Mcgreavy data (note spelling changes yet again) is a cutting from the Liverpool Echo, undated but I am guessing it was perhaps in the early 1960’s to perhaps early 1970's, (based on memory and “end of war” + “25 years later” - it reads as follows

" When Lloyd Mcgreavy, a New Zealand soldier, landed in England at the end of the war he took the opportunity to search for his Liverpool relatives - but discovered that they were all away at the time.

Now 25 years later, he has tried his luck again and this time is successfully reunited with the Liverpool branch of his family. Mr Mcgreavy, who lives in Auckland, is visiting his cousin Mrs Minnie Howard* of Lambton Road, Aigburth her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Bill McCormack, also of Aigburth and Mr and Mrs John Christian of Wavertree. His grandparents also named Mcgreavy, owned a dress-making shop in Park Road, Toxteth before emigrating to New Zealand"

* Minnie Howard is Mary (Minnie) nee Williams formerly Burke.

Lloyd is clearly related, but I have no trace of him anywhere and prior to this there was no family mention of such a name anywhere. Mrs and Mrs John Christian were actually away on holiday when he visited Liverpool and despite the newspaper report they did not actually get to meet him.

It would be interesting to know what might have happened to this off-shoot of McGrevy/McGreavy in Auckland. The only extra that I can add to this is that Lloyd was thought in some way to be connected to peat (as in garden peat) or something close, as he was visiting peat-bogs in Ireland after the UK and had previously been to Japan on the same quest.

It may be worth noting that his cousin mentioned. Mrs Minnie Howard, is in fact Mary nee Williams the daughter of Elizabeth nee McGrevy. For his relationship to have been a first cousin and for him to have had parents who owned a dressmaking shop in Park Road he has to have been a son of James and Mary, and a brother to the five girls known about. As Ellen had already left home in 1881 it is possible that Lloyd also had left home by this time, hence he would not have been traced, in the way that Ellen was only found from the 1901 census when she returned home under her married name. (He is not with the family in 1871 at Gelling Street in the census).

Another possibility is that the cousin relationship is not first cousin he may be a son of Ellen, a son of a brother of James McGrevy or that he could be a son of the “missing” Sarah, who could have emigrated and had children in New Zealand, the relationships for all of this would have fitted.

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