Many people contact Terry and I by email to help with their Inskip research, but spirits don’t have email access and find other ways to draw our attention. Such was the case recently when on a visit to the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight on the Wirral, I decided to go and look at a rather splendid war memorial.
Port Sunlight was built by William Lever for his workers at the turn of the twentieth century, it’s a lovely garden village enhanced by the founder’s love of art. Unfortunately Lever Brothers Ltd lost 4,000 of their staff during the First World War, and erected a beautiful memorial to their memory in the middle of a rose garden – underneath is a book with all their names in. (The memorial for the Hillsborough Disaster victims is at the end of the garden.) I started to read the names just out of interest and was most surprised to find an Inskip G. F. I had not known we had Inskips on the Wirral.
I was even more fascinated when, on looking young George Fredrick Inskip up, I found out that he is related to Terry. George was born in 1895 and was a private in the 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (No 282) – he died of wounds and is listed at the Bertrancourt Military Cemetery near the Somme. His date of death was even more strange – 3rd August 1916 (my birthday, which the trip to Port Sunlight was celebrating.)
George was the son of William Inskip from Seabridge, Staffordshire a joiners labourer in 1891, and Martha Baxter from Rock Ferry, Wirral, he had siblings Annie, Jessie, William, Samuel and Gertrude Hannah. The family had arrived on the Wirral in the 1860’s when William’s father, also William Inskip (born 1829 at Forsbrook), and mother Hannah had moved there. Father William died in 1868 leaving Hannah, a Laundress, to bring up the three children.
Anyway, I know Terry has the rest of the family history, so just to say Terry, George says hi!!
Jennifer Inskip
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