Enoch Livesey
Chairman of Aspull Urban District Council 1927/28 and 1928/29
Elected 20/04/1927, re-elected 18/04/1928
b 1872 New Springs, Aspull
Parents: Robert Livesey & Alice (formerly Williams)
m 1895 at St Elizabeth Aspull to Margaret Ellen daughter of Mark Pilkington, Collier (deceased)
children: Three daughters
d 1927 Aspull, Margaret died in 1952, both are buried in St Elizabeth’s Churchyard, Aspull.
Enoch Livesey was born in 1872 in New Springs, Aspull, third child in a family that would include three sons and three daughters. In 1866 his father, Robert, was a clogger but by 1881 he is described as a grocer and carter and as a general labourer in 1891.
Enoch worked as a general labourer at a coke works, he married in 1895 at St Elizabeth Aspull to Margaret Ellen Pilkington, a pit brow woman, daughter of Mark Pilkington, collier and Elizabeth (formerly Green). They set up home in Reservoir Street, Aspull and had three daughters.
Having been asked on several occasions to stand for election to Aspull Urban District Council he agreed in 1919 to stand for East Ward, where he was elected with a majority of just one vote. At subsequent elections in 1922 and 1925 he was returned unopposed.
He was elected chairman of the Council in 1927 and served for two years. He was a manager of St Elizabeth’s School for a long period and served in several Council Committees.
Enoch Livesey died in 1943, his wife, Margaret, died in 1952, both are buried in St Elizabeth’s Churchyard, Aspull.
Author: Peter Walker
Sources:
Aspull UDC Minutes
Wigan Observer 14 May 1927 p11e (Photo)
Wigan Examiner 14 September 1943 p1e
Wigan Observer 14 September 1943 p2b
Ancestry.com (free at the Museum of Wigan Life)
Findmypast.co.uk (Subscription required)