3 WOOLTON MOUNT - Occupiers

1850-1852
William Roskell, born c.1812, watchmaker, son of Robert Roskell of Gateacre Hall was living here with his wife Elizabeth, born c.1815 in Manchester and 3 children aged 5, 3 & 1, the eldest born in Penketh and the others in M.W., with them were 3 "house servants", none born locally. William Roskell's place of business was in Pitt Street. By 1853 we find that he had moved house to Olive Mount Villa, Wavertree.

1854/5-1857
James Walker, a commission merchant (Walker & Syers) 1857 was the next tenant who then moved on to Oxton, Cheshire.

1861-63
Ellen Rodick (1829-1900) widow of James Dawson Rodick who had died 1856, was living here with 2 children - Janet aged 9 and Charles Napier aged 6, both born in L.W. (Belle Vale Road) and a nephew Thomas, 11, born at Arnside, Westmorland. They had just one servant who came from Scotland. Ellen Rodick, born Tarbock, was sister of Sir H. Fleetwood Bt., M.P. for Preston. J.D. Rodick was a 'Barrister in Law, Cambs.'.

1864-1884
Thomas Wheeler Turmeau (c.1815-1878) tobacconist and cigar importer, who had been at Sandown, Wavertree came here with his widowed sister Penelope Glover Clare, aged 52, about 1864. His shop was at 11 Castle Street and from the 1871 census we see that his niece Marion Turmeau was staying with them and they had 1 Irish servant.

In the 1867 Rates we find that the house he occupied was owned by James Gore (1784-1872), the R.V. was £48 and the extent was 36 perches (It is by comparing these R.V's and extents - see map for the extra access path to No. 5, hence the larger extent for that house - that we differentiate between 5 and 3.)

Thomas Turmeau was one of the sons of John Turmeau born the portrait painter "of Castle Street" a member of the Liverpool Academy 1810-1834. He was described in the 1871 census as "deaf" and was unmarried; he died 13th August 1878 at Penmaenmawr leaving personal estate of £16,000. Penelope Clare went on occupying the house until 1884 when it was empty for 2 months.

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