Speed Family from
Downholland Lancashire, and Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Downholland map
Toxteth map
Cross farm
Downholland is about 10 miles north of Liverpool and about 3 miles west of Ormskirk in Lancashire
Toxteth Park is just South of Liverpool city centre
William Speed
born about 1800
married 11 April 1830 at Saint Peters Church, Church street, Liverpool to -
Anne Tasker
William Speed rented 58 acre Cross farm and house from Charles Scarisbrick esquire from the 1830's.
The house on Mairscough lane close to Black a moor lane Downholland is still there today.
The Scarisbrick Arms Pub built in 1899 stands on the edge of what was William Speed's Farm.
The Leeds to Liverpool Canal passes here, William Speed will have made good use of the canal
to move his produce to Lancashire and Manchester, or to Liverpool and the docks.
Children of William Speed and Ann Tasker were -
(1) Ann Speed
born 1831 in Cheshire first married 22 February 1852 to
Thomas Davies (or Davis)
Ann Speed next married 6 May 1867 at All Saints Liverpool to -
James Ashcroft
(2) Dorothy Speed
born 9 December 1833 Downholland Lancashire
married 24 December 1854 at Saint John Church in Liverpool to
James Wright
born 1829 - death unknown
(3) Jane Speed
born 9 February 1835 Downholland Lancashire
(4) Peter Speed
born 1 March 1837 Downholland Lancashire
died 10 July 1893 at 48 Hill street Toxteth Park, Liverpool
married 10 January 1864 at Saint Josephs Chapel, Grosvenor street, Liverpool to
Margaret McNamara
born 28 January 1840 in Burton, Wirral, Cheshire
died 6 August 1893 at 48 Hill street Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Children of Peter Speed and Margaret McNamara were -
(1) William George Speed
born 8 May 1864 Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Baptism Date, 22 May 1864 Parish, St Anthony´s
died 16 January 1941, in Liverpool
married 27 October 1888 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Liverpool to -
Margaret Flynn
born 1876
died 24 November 1937 at Smithdown road hospital Liverpool
(2) Peter Speed
born 25 March 1866 in Liverpool
Baptism Date, 4 May 1866 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
died 1866 in Liverpool
(3) Edward Peter Speed
born 28 Mar 1867
Baptism Date 7 Apr 1867 Our Lady of Mount Carmel
died 1868
(4) Margaret Ann Speed
born 25 January 1869 Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Baptism Date, 4 Feb 1869 Our Lady of Mount Carmel
married 12 March 1893 at St Patrick Toxteh Park to -
Alfonso Smorra
(5) Ann Elizabeth Speed
born 26 Nov 1871 Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Baptism Date, 5 Dec 1871 Parish Our Lady of Mount Carmel
married 17 December 1898 at Toxteth Park Liverpool to -
David Burke
(6) George Joseph Speed
born 22 March 1874 Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Baptism Date, 2 April 1874 Parish St Patrick
died 1 November 1937 at 48 Thackeray street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool
first married 26 December 1899 at Saint Patrick's Chapel, Park Place, Toxteth Park Liverpool to -
Mary Ann Mcquiggins
George Speed next married 1926 to -
Annie Campbell (nee Cummings)
(7) Mary Theresa Speed
born 26 March 1876 Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Baptism Date, 1 April 1876 Parish St Patrick
died 1959 in Liverpool
married 1 June 1914 at Our Lady of Lourdes and St Bernard to -
Charles Callon
born 1869 in Liverpool
died 1963 in Liverpool