Hi Colin,
As a matter of interest do you know if Edgar Hitchin had any connections with shoe manufacturing?
I ask because some of these names are similiar to those in my family. We know of 2 sisters, Lizzie & Florrie, who went to live in the Midlands. One of which we believe married someone connected to Barrats, the shoemakers.
It may turn out that these were cousins and not sisters of my Great-grandfather William Faragher (parents William & Alice)