Lucy (Morris) Hollywood (abt. 1898)

Born about 1898 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Biography

Lucy Morris, daughter of Alfred Morris and Alice Tomlinson, ^[1] was born in about 1898 in Birkenhead, Cheshire. ^[1]

Residence
On 31 March 1901 at 306 Beckwith Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire, with her parents Alfred Morris and Alice Morris and her sisters Elizabeth A. Morris aged 6, Alice Morris aged 4 and Jessie Morris aged 0. ^[1]

Research Notes

Note: 1)

Lucy Morris was the second youngest of 5 girls and when she left school she went to work at Arthur Lee's Tapestry Works. Lees was a rapidly growing factory making intricate tapestries and pieces of embroidery and was a major employer of women in the town. Lucy was put in the embroidery room where highly skilled and artistic work was carried out. The embroideries were stretched out on frames on tables and the embroiderers sat and worked with one hand under and one hand over the material. The wages clerk would go round every Wednesday with a ruler and a piece of cotton and calculate how many square inches of embroidery each worker had done and pay them accordingly. So the wages paid out were very variable. But however badly paid they were, the girls in the embroidery room felt they were better than the "common" weavers in the main part of the factory. According to other workers the embroiderers "gave themselves airs". From what I remember of Lucy (she was my grandmother), she probably did just that! She certainly had quite a following of admirers and for a time was engaged to society photographer William Cull, who was well known in town. However, she eventually married someone a lot closer to home.

2)

Your grandma is right, Lucy married twice. First she married my grandfather

John Henry Williams (known as Jack). When he died she used to clean house

to make ends meet and through this work met a widower called Joe Hollywood

and married him in 1950.

306 Beckwith St was the Morris family home and Lucy lived there as a child.

I've checked electoral rolls and the parents Alfred and Alice (nee

Tomlinson) continued to live there as late as 1929. However, Lucy lived 3

doors down at 312 at the time of her marriage to Jack. Before her marriage

she worked at Lee Tapestry Works, Stanley Rd. Beckwith St was in a poor area

and was divided by religion - Catholics lived one end and Protestants lived

at the other.

When raising her children in Beckwith Street, my Mum remembers that Lucy

took in washing and often there were sheets blowing out in the yard even

though the family didn't have sheets themselves. My Mum believes that

Lucy's sisters made "better" marriages and were financially better off than

Lucy and Jack were.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} England and Wales Census, 1901, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS65-92P : 21 May 2019), Lucy Morris in household of Alfred Morris, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Birkenhead subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Acknowledgements

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