I have chosen Barnston as the website name as it was our home from 1953 to 1984.

My father was Vicar of Barnston on the Wirral, we had very many happy years here and it's the place we all regarded as home.

The site is divided historically starting with the history of my father's family Henry Leslie Williams and the history of my mother's family Elsie Marie Williams (nee Evans) and leading to our time at Barnston and beyond.

My family will follow

There are 9 sections, click on the links below to go directly to a section 

(or the lines in the top left corner of the page if you are using a mobile device)

Mum and Dad

Dad's Direct Family

Dad's Parents Family

Tregarth

The Quarry

Mum's Direct Family

Mum's Parents Families

Handbridge

Barnston

My parents, along with some fantastic memories, left boxes and boxes of photos, slides and some video. I have spent weeks scanning these and am now just starting to create the site. My mother and father also made some notes on Tregarth, the quarry at Penrhyn where many of dad's family worked as well as notes on their recollections of family members. To maintain the integrity of their thoughts these are included verbatim in blue in various sections of the site.

 "Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man."  

St. Ignatius Loyola

One of the many things I have learned/relearned during the initial work on the website is what a profound impact the context you are born into has on your values and beliefs in later life.

The pages on Tregarth and especially the Penryhyn Quarry really capture the world my father was born into I would suggest you start there before reading his and my mothers pages . Barnston the obvious next stop

This is an ongoing project so it will develop, hopefully rapidly, over the next few years.

I imagined when I started this project that we would be very limited for information on our ancestors, as it turns out I couldn't have been more wrong..

If you have any photos, videos or stories that link with our time at Barnston, Chester or indeed prior to my parents arrival in England from North Wales I would be very grateful if you could contact me using the form below.

David Williams 17th November 2023