Caroline Brown

Caroline was born in the waterside district of Kirkdale Liverpool to Irish parents.She met George Wailey, a seaman originally from Cork, but who had settled in Liverpool in the 1850's They got married in St James/ Saint Alexander's around the 1860's. Their first child, a daughter Geraldine died in 1868. From the age of 36 until she was 44 or 45, she gave birth to five sons, George (1870) John (1871) William Patrick (1874) Francis James (1876) and Henry (1878/79). George died, thrown overboard in a gale, in 1887. The boys were then, 17, 15, 13, 11, and 8. Twenty five years later, the 1911 census finds her living on Brisbane street, in the same waterside district. There is an eleven year old girl with her in the house.This is her youngest son's daughter, Catherine born in 1900. Caroline's occupation at the age of 77 is given as 'a knocker upper' She died in 1919 just after the Great War. She was 85. She is buried in Ford Cemetary.