BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY
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The first known record of our Bryans in Liverpool is in 1861 when Timothy Bryan was boardng at 17 Beresford Street in Everton as a Tailor Journeyman aged 27 years. William Bell, Master Tailor, employer of Timothy and future brother in law was head of the household. In 1871, Timothy is married and living at 13 Bailey Street in central Liverpool with his wife Dorothy (nee Bell) and three children, Henry, Sarah and Dorothy Agnes. We know from the baptism of Timothy's second two children that he had likely moved to the Bailey Street area by early 1867. When Timothy died in 1880 the address was 5 Bailey Street and that was were his widow Dorothy was living in 1881 with the then four children which included John Allen born 1873. Dorothy was at 24 Essex Street with the three youngest children in 1891. In 1901 she is at 122 Admiral Street with daughter Dorothy Agnes by then aged 31. Daughter Sarah had by then married and moved to Southport.

Timothy's eldest son Henry was living at 86 Tramway Road, Saint Michaels, Liverpool 17 in 1891. Their house is the one in the centre of the adjacent photograph. He was there with his wife and first two children Minnie and Henry. In 1901 they are at the same address where there are by then six chidren.

By 1911, Minnie had at age 22 years become head of the household with her siblings at 34 Bickerton Street. Their mother Ann Jane appears to have been in an institution and father Henry may have died, though has not yet been found in records. Minnie was at the same address when she married later in 1911.

In 1924 when widowed Minnie married for the second time she was at 8 Wesley Street. By 1939, she was living at 15 Madryn Street, Liverpool 8 and her house is shown (right end) in the adjacent picture of the street. Three doors away at number 9 (left end) lived the Starkey family. One member of that family was destined to later become famous as Ringo Starr, the drummer with "The Beatles".