Alice Sloane

19 Aug 2006 · 1 min

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Alice Sloane's father Jack came from Northern Ireland, her grandmother from Wales. The family lived on Scufflon Road in Liverpool, attending St. Anthony's Church. After their parents died, six or seven children were placed in St. Bernarda's Home, where the three boys kept running away until their Aunt Nell called them back.

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Yes. Yes, my father was named Johnny Smith, and he was called Jack Smith as he grew older, and he came from Northern Ireland, his family came from Northern Ireland, and his mother was Welsh, and they lived in Liverpool, they lived in Scufflon Road in Liverpool, and they went to St. Anthony's Church where all the Irish Catholics used to go. When did they come over from Northern Ireland? Oh, I couldn't tell you how, what, I couldn't tell you that at all. All I know was when their mother died and their father died, they were all a young family, there was about 6 or 7 of them, and their mother was only a schoolgirl herself and she had to look after them. And they used to come and they'd take them And they put them in St. Bernarda's Home. And the 3 boys used to run away from St. Bernarda's Home and they always knew where they found them because they came saying home to them, the sister. That's my Auntie Nell, my aunt's sister. Mmm. And I remember Molly saying once to my father, my mother told me this, Molly said once to him, she was very plain, wasn't she, Auntie Nell? And he said, if you're half as good a woman as she's been, you'll do very well on this planet.