Edwin and Frank Lester

The following two biographies were written by Carol Hunter.

The Lesters from Huyton to Irby

Edwin and Frank Lester were brothers born in Huyton, Lancashire. Their father John was baptized at St. Mary’s in Prescot on 13^th March 1868 and grew up in Whiston then Huyton with his parents George Lester (watchmaker then coal yard labourer) and Elizabeth Davies, and at least nine siblings. In 1891 he was still living at home at Richardson’s Lane, Huyton and was described as a stoker, probably at the local pit, where his younger brother Robert was working as a coal miner. John married Ellen Heyes, from Aughton near Ormskirk, in 1892 at Prescot Register Office. Ellen was baptized on 19^th June 1870 at St Peter and Paul in Ormskirk, and was the 2^nd of 3 children born to Henry (labourer at waterworks) and Lucy Core.