Frank McCormick of Warwickshire, United Kingdom is 

RESEARCHING THESE LIVERPOOL (IRISH) FAMILIES circa 1855 to 1960s:

McCormick, McCormack, Flaherty, O’Connor, Walsh, Walshe, Kenny, Crumby

MAINLY FROM THE SCOTLAND ROAD, NORRIS GREEN AND KIRBY AREAS OF LIVERPOOL

including these addresses:

• 8, 52a & 4Ct 8 Hse Hopwood Street
• 2 Newsham Street
• 3 Kew Street
• 9b Ashfield Gardens
• 32 Bostock Street
• 2 Ct 8 Hse Blenheim Street
• 34a Adlington Street
• Lawrence Street
• 60 Oriel Street
• 1 Ct 11 / 12 Hse Richmond Row
• 83 Hornby Street
• 12 Ct 3 Hse Limekiln Lane
• 56 Teynham Crescent
• Watts Close

The notes below may not be entirely accurate in every respect, but it’s the best information I have available. If you can confirm, correct or add to any of this, I would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact me using this email link.

Either the ‘a’ or ‘i’ versions of McCormack and McCormick show up in various Births, Deaths & Marriage certificates and Census and other records, so there are slight surname spelling variations, even between brothers and sisters.

According to Census records, William  McCormick was born around 1855 in Ireland (exact year and location unknown) and died at 32 Bostock Street Liverpool in 1909, buried at Ford Cemetery. His father, presumably also from Ireland, was also William McCormick (details unknown but was deceased by 1883). The 1855 William was married (date and spouse unknown), but was widowed. In 1883, aged 28, he re-married to Mary Flaherty, aged 21 (daughter of John Flaherty) at St Sylvester‘s Temporary RC Church, Liverpool. William was a dock labourer. They had several children including:

Bernard, William, Winifred, Ellen, John (my father), Patrick - all with the surname McCormack or McCormick.

Of these, the following is known:

(Surname spellings as shown on birth certificates, where available)

• Bernard McCormick b 1884 at Limekiln Lane. Married Margaret Ann Jones in 1907 at St Sylvester's.
• Winifred McCormick b 1885/6 is believed to have married John Kenny and had a son, also John Kenny, who became a Royal Navy Petty Officer, married and believed to have lived at Parkstile Lane around 1956.
• William McCormick b 1890 at Newsham Street. A Mersey Docks & Harbour Board registered dock labourer, living at 9b Ashfield Gardens in 1949. Married Mary Jane Murphy.
• Ellen McCormack b 1894 at Kew Street. Possibly married a Michael Crumby, and lived at 32 Bostock Street in 1928 with Patrick & Mary McCormick.
• **John McCormack b 1899 at Kew Street, d 1949 at Scargreen Avenue, Norris Green. Was a merchant seamen (fireman) and later a ships’ scaler with Harland & Wolff, Liverpool. Married Catherine O’Connor at Holy Cross RC Church Liverpool in 1928. 
• Patrick McCormack b 1902 at Kew Street. Was a merchant seaman into 1960s. Believed to have married and had at least three children - including Bernard, Patrick and a daughter. Bernard may have lived at Teynham Crescent, Norris Green from 1950s/60s.

** My father John McCormack/McCormick and his wife Catherine ('Kitty' O'Connor) had seven children, all of us born in Liverpool between 1930 and 1948. John, Gerald Brian, Thomas, Maureen, Patricia, Francis (me) and Brenda - all used the McCormick spelling.

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• Catherine Walshe (dtr of John Walshe) married John Kenny (son of John Kenny) in Liverpool in 1877.
• Their daughter Elizabeth Kenny b 1881 married Joseph O’Connor b 1880 (son of James O’Connor ) in April 1902 at St Joseph‘s RC Church, Grosvenor Street. Both lived at Richmond Row addresses at time of marriage.
• Elizabeth & Joseph O’Connor had several children including Thomas, Patrick, Peter, James, Francis, Patricia, Elizabeth and Catherine (my mother, b 1908 at Lawrence Street) . The family moved to Norris Green, Liverpool in the late 1930s, early 1940s.

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All, or most, of the above families are thought to have Irish origins, including Dublin. Any information on any strand of these families and their Irish connections would be most welcome. In return I will happily update you on the extended family tree, as I know it. 

Feel free to email me at this link.      

Thank you. 

Frank McCormick

This page first published to the internet 24 January 2007

Updated 2 July 2008