Mary, known to all as "Minnie", was born around 1904 based on her marriage certificate.
Mary Williams married Michael Aloysius Burke in 1926 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on High Park Street, Toxteth, Liverpool. At the time she was a spinster, aged 22, dressmaker, living at 128 Park Road. (On the certificate her father Samuel Williams, a gas workwer, is not shown as deceased in 1926).
Michael is a batchelor, 25, of 120 Park Road. His father, Thomas Burke, also a Licensed Victualler, is shown as deceased in 1926. Before he settled on land Michael Burke was a ship's purser. There were no children from the marriage, there was however an adopted daughter, Eileen who later married to ?Bill McCormick? and had at least 2 children, one of whom may have been called Siobhan.
Pub is almost
certainly The Crown, which was 120 Park Road. The pub was said to be " a few houses away from 128 and was not The Toxteth". My father recalls it being on more than one floor and he remembers, with Winnie, flooding the pub by running the bath to overflowing upstairs.
After the death of Michael Burke, From perhaps the
1940's Minnie lived at 43 Lambton Road in toxteth. From about 1940 her mother Elizabeth Williams (nee McGrevy) lived there as did Elizabeth's sister Susan McGrevy. Both of those ladies died at 43 Lambton Road on the same night, 9th August 1942.
Minnie remained a widow for many years but later remarried in the 1960s-1970s to a Mr Howard,
her insurance man! It is thought that they left Lambton Road and moved to Halewood, thus her name on death may not have been Williams or Burke.
