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Would love some help! My Father never knew his Father he left them when he was three. My father was born in New York, his mother was born here in the uk after the Father left them my Fathers Mother brought them back to England on a boat to Liverpool around 1920.
Where do I start please.

With a name - or two.....................

Yes sorry , I don't know His Fathers name apart from my Fathers surname is Harrison and his Mother was Elizabeth Bostock.
Thank you :-)

So Elizabeth Bostock married someone named Harrison....was that in the UK?

Or did she perhaps not marry the father?

Have you looked for a marriage?

When and where was Elizabeth born?

When was your father born?

What is your fathers christian name, and what year was he born? Did his mother marry Mr Harrison, and if so was that in US or here?

Was your father named Harrison at birth?

Where in England did they settle after they returned from the USA?

Wondering about this..............................

Marriages Mar 1925 (>99%)
Bostock Elizabeth Harrison Mansfield 7b 171
Harrison Herbert Bostock Mansfield 7b 171

Perhaps someone who subscribes to Ancestry would be good enough to look up incoming passengers

Wow where do I start lol, I think you on something there Reggie.
I really don't know if they was married here or in the US. When they returned they stayed around the Cheshire / Manchester area. At some point I'm quite sure they lived in Adcroft St, Stockport. My Father was Born in 1914 and is still with us.

Wow where do I start lol, I think you on something there Reggie.
I really don't know if they was married here or in the US. When they returned they stayed around the Cheshire / Manchester area. At some point I'm quite sure they lived in Adcroft St, Stockport. My Father was Born in 1914 , William and is still with us.
Thank you Reggie and Flip

You haven't given us Elizabeth's birth details.................

..........when and where did she die?

a long shot
did you father have any siblings ?


UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about William Harrison
Name: William Harrison
[William Henry Harrison]
Birth Date: abt 1914
Age: 5
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 12 Apr 1919
Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
Ship Name: Aquitania
Search Ship Database: View the 'Aquitania' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Cunard Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 135583

travelling with Elizabeth Harrison aged 28 going to 21 Holdall Street Dunkinfield
Samuel aged 7 and Frederick aged 3

Thanks Maddie......clears up a number of points

Deleted as Maddie had already posted it ;-)

Dea x

The last name she carried was Bostock.
She died in Stockport I do believe.
I have just asked my Father bless him 99 it's not easy for him to remember but he seems sure they was married and his brothers Fredrick and Samuel was also Harrison.
Im guessing now that she died around 1976-78.

Fantastic well done Maddie that is them.
:-D

Does your dad know his moms birth date



England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007


Name:Elizabeth Bostock

Birth Date:22 May 1891

Date of Registration:Jun 1981

Age at Death:90

Registration District:Stockport

Inferred County:Greater Manchester

Volume:39

Page:1367

Oh wow this is bringing a new lease of life to my dad I just showed him that bit of info, brought a tear to his eye but is so chuffed as he struggles to remember now a days.
Thank you so much all!!

He can't remember :-(

But we are sure she was 90 when she died.