The Wade family are thought to have originally
migrated to the Liverpool
area from Chester during the early 1850's. Several generations of
Wade's found work in the
dockyards of Bootle. Like many families in Victorian Liverpool the
Wade's will have faced
the stresses of poverty, poor housing and il-health.
Around the year 1900 the marriage between Matthew Wade and
Margaret Johnson broke down and
Matthew moved into lodgings while Margaret and some of their
children move in with her
daughter Harriet and family. Their teen-age daughter Sarah became
an inmate of Liverpool
Juvenile Refomatory for Girls around this time.
Around 1904 Sarah found work as a nurse in Blackburn, Lancashire
and married Joseph
Herberts from Leamington in 1907. Sarah and Joseph had three
children between 1907 and
1913. After losing her husband Joseph during the First World War,
Sarah remarried to
Joseph Walsh and had two more children. Sarah died in an accident
on a coach journey to
Blackpool in the summer of 1930.
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