Another fascinating peek into the past thanks to good friend of QLocal Dot Hawkes who filled in the missing details after reporter Roger Blaxall was given a number of bound Ormskirk Parish Church magazines from over 100 years ago along with a number of old photos by the daughter of Sheila Disley of Brook Lane.

Among them were these - Dot takes up the story:

William and Martha Jump married in Liverpool on 29th June 1866. William had been working as a bricklayer in the city. His family were from Ormskirk, his parents Joseph and Mary Jump nee Leather born Whiston, ran a beerhouse at the corner of Rough Lane and Scarth Hill Lane in 1851. Rough Lane became Ruff Lane and Scarth Hill Lane became St Helens Road.

Joseph Jump died in 1853 aged 39 and his widow Mary remarried Henry Ascroft in West Derby in 1855 but she carried on living at and running the St Helens Rd beerhouse and her husband lived elsewhere.

In 1874 after Henry’s death Mary married for the third time Stephen Fairhurst, a farmer of Chapel Street and again she lived at her beerhouse and Stephen lived at his farm. Mary Fairhurst, late Ascroft, late Jump formerly Leather died in January 1891 aged 67.

William apprenticed as a bricklayer and when he married he and Martha set up home at 18 Chapel Street and had 6 daughters and 1 son. They lost their 4th daughter Louisa in 1888 aged 7 but their youngest daughter Gertrude Martha died aged just 18 months in December 1881.Their only son William born in July 1883 died in February 1891 aged 7.

Two of their daughters, the eldest, Emma and 3rd daughter Margaret married police officers. Emma married Ormskirk Police Constable John Garvey and he went on to be the a Police Inspector for Lancashire County Constabulary based at Skelmersdale Police Station. Margaret married PC Arthur Balshaw and they went to live in Castleton near Rochdale were Arthur was stationed; their son Geoffrey served in the Royal Navy from 1929 to 1945 when he was invalided out to a pension.

During the 1880s William and Martha opened a grocery and provision shop next door to the old Methodist Chapel on Chapel Street, which had been converted to a carriage works by local carriage builder John Alden Farr. The shop was demolished along with the Methodist Chapel (carriage works) before the 1920s

And that wonderful group photo is Mary Fairhurst (mother of William Jump), grandmother and Martha Jump with daughters Emily, Mary, Margaret, Louisa and Ada A, who was born about 1878.