This is a long time puzzle for me, and sometimes I think I am too close to it, and can't see the wood for the trees. Hope someone can suggest something. Here goes.
My great grandfather Peter Pendleton was born 23 Jan 1853 in St Helens, Lancashire. He married 13 Oct 1875. They had 7 children, all in St Helens. In 1911 they were all still living in St Helens. His wife died in 1917, and he (allegedly, according to my father) went to live with his daughter Jane Pendleton and her husband Henry Barton (they had a china shop I think) again in St Helens. He had at some point after his wife's death living in Liverpool. My father, who was born in 1911 (in Liverpool) remembers him very well, and wrote poems about him, as he was a bit of a character. One day, after collecting his pension, he went missing, and was never seen or heard of again. They never found him, or his body. Rumours abounded - that he'd fallen off the ferry crossing the Mersey; that's he been murdered for his pension (hardly riches!). My dad remembers the drama of him being missing, so it must have been, I am guessing, around the 1920s.
There is a death of a Peter Pendleton about the right age, but it's not him (I bought the certificate). I have done searches in Liverpool newspapers to no avail. I am hoping someone can come up with an idea I haven't thought of.
Thanks in advance.
My great grandfather Peter Pendleton was born 23 Jan 1853 in St Helens, Lancashire. He married 13 Oct 1875. They had 7 children, all in St Helens. In 1911 they were all still living in St Helens. His wife died in 1917, and he (allegedly, according to my father) went to live with his daughter Jane Pendleton and her husband Henry Barton (they had a china shop I think) again in St Helens. He had at some point after his wife's death living in Liverpool. My father, who was born in 1911 (in Liverpool) remembers him very well, and wrote poems about him, as he was a bit of a character. One day, after collecting his pension, he went missing, and was never seen or heard of again. They never found him, or his body. Rumours abounded - that he'd fallen off the ferry crossing the Mersey; that's he been murdered for his pension (hardly riches!). My dad remembers the drama of him being missing, so it must have been, I am guessing, around the 1920s.
There is a death of a Peter Pendleton about the right age, but it's not him (I bought the certificate). I have done searches in Liverpool newspapers to no avail. I am hoping someone can come up with an idea I haven't thought of.
Thanks in advance.
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