Many thanks - teach me to make a judgement on searching for one name - I have a Lees Spence card with a Liverpool address but of course he is not in that list ! However did give me Liverpool dates for W Cottier Cubbin.

There appears to be a major gap in the data for the 1870's with little or no continuity from the 1860's

I'm a bit surprised the site organiser didn't collect the names and organise alphabetically (it took me about 40min and I could turn into the 'slick' format (many thanks Kay for comment) I have with very little extra work - this also brings out the changes of ownership, incorrectly transcribed names etc