If you look at Brian Lawson's burials you will calculate that Ernests birth was around 1880.

He fits the son of George Gelling and Esther Shimmin as seen in the Births Index.

The marriage to Constance Pickard at St Mary the Virgin, West Derby Liverpool, shows Constance to be Constance M. Pickard. The Lawson Burial Index shows her to be Constance Mary. Where did Vera come from?

She is likely to be the daughter of Thomas Corlett and Catherine Quayle born C 1871 in Santon. She is also likely to have married a Pickard before Ernest.

The 1881 census shows the Corlett family with a butchers shop in Prospect Hill Douglas and a Pickard family with a grocers shop around the corner in Hill Street.

Len Faragher