James (Seamus) Perry



S. of William (Poppy) Perry & Sarah Ellen (Glam) Dowling

James (Seamus) Perry
Born 24.7.1905 at Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Occ. Fish Monger
Marr. Beatrice Charnley Cooke 10.7.1926 at St. John the Evangelist, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire
Died 24th June 1978 at Scorton Village, Scorton, Lancashire
Buried at St Peter's Churchyard Scorton Village, Scorton, Lancashire


Children

Geoffrey James
Pamela Beatrice
Warren Norman
Brian John
Rodney K.


NOTE

Brian was about 2 when he died. He fell down some stone steps and fractured his skull, and died as a consequence.

The house (Mill Cottage) was a former warehouse connected with the cotton mill which was just across the road. During World War II, it was owned by a Mr Pieroni who used it as a cafe and sold home-made ice cream, was a popular place for cyclists to stop. Later, it was owned by someone called Nutter, still a cafe at that time. Mr Perry bought it still as a cafe but was too lazy(!) to keep it running and instead kept poultry in the part that was the former cafe (and believe pigs somewhere in the building too!). Mr and Mrs Perry later moved to the Old Folks Bungalows, still in Scorton. As a young lad in the 60s, I remember Mr Perry always had a dog leashed up in an outside kennel at the front of the building - it always barked like mad at you and as kids we lived in fear of it getting loose! (by Phil Gornall of Scorton)

SEE the Perry's Family Picture 1953
My father (Phillip Geoffrey) told me a story of how when he was young he was always given the dubious duty of cleaning out his Grandfather's hen's cages. At one point James had over a thousand hens at the Mill Cottage.

"James and Beatrice "had to get married" and that was in 1926. This would make sense if Geoffrey was then born later in 1926. One of the other "dark secrets" was that apart from 5 live births, Beatrice Charnley also had 3 abortions, highly illegal at the time. In the case of the final one, the procedure was carried out in the afternoon but the "delivery" did not take place until the evening. Nan apparently gave birth on a bucket to a boy, all this when everyone else was celebrating Victory in Europe in the pub they were running at the time. In his later years, Nan and Grandad split their time between a static caravan at Cockerham Sands and the bungalow in Scorton. My parents divorced in about 1975. My sister, brother and I stayed with my Dad and we used to go and visit them in the caravan some weekends. Grandad's caravan was opposite the site's open-air swimming pool, and he managed to wangle a reduction in site fees in exchange for acting as Lifeguard at the pool! In the site club-house he was a well-know "celebrity", known to everyone as "Seamus" because of his bawdy stories. He died in 1977, the very same night that Stephanie's second child was born - 27th July." (By Robert Laytham)


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