Mother’s Profile
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Muriel, Father, Mother and Connie |
Muriel Dodd Asquith was born in Stoneycroft, Richard worked in his later years on the dredgers as chief engineer,
earlier he was on cargo vessels travelling to the far east, the Muriel had a quite childhood although once when she and Connie were
naughty they were sent to bed with dried bread for their tea as punishment.
In bed they made a pretend game and that they were on a boat (which was the
bed) and started to throw the bread onto the floor to feed the ducks, their
mother was cross and the children had a strict childhood. Muriel was never a very healthy child, once she got run over once by a
car on Queens Drive in Liverpool, the doctor advised that Muriel would be
better off in the country side, so the family moved to Lydiate where her
father bought a piece of land, her Uncle (her Dads brother) was a builder and
built a bungalow, this was 15, Sandy Lane, Lydiate, named Oak Corner after
the Oak tree in the corner of the ground surrounded by silver birch trees. Flora had one or two fainting fits and the doctor told them she should
not be left alone so when Flora was also a psychic whereby her hand used to start shaking and
she would reach for pen and paper and start writing messages down, one occasion
she wrote a letter from a boy who was killed in the war. She also wrote the
sermon that the Minister at the local The family were very religious and believed in the When Muriel left school she went to work at Dawcetts Bakery in
Ormskirk as a connectionist’s apprentice, later she went on to work at When she at Dawcetts, her friend asked her to go on a blind date with
her boyfriend’s friend, which she did and had her first date with John Finch.
All four of them went to the cinema. Eventually she married John on the 20th. April 1940 and as
it was still wartime she carried on living with her parents at Oak Corner. On 13th. April 1941, Colin was born in In 1951 the Finch Family moved again, this time to Ormskirk to a new
council house, 41, Richard died of creeping paralysis and Flora died in a nursing home of
old age. Later with the children growing, Muriel had a part time job cleaning
for Mrs Sawyer who lived in On 10th. September 1991, John her husband died from a heart
attack or stroke after falling down the stairs. Muriel was left on her own in
the large house, everybody had left the nest to get married and start their
own families. Muriel was frightened at being on her own and when she was little she
would not go up the stairs without Muriel’s health was getting worse, the house too big for her so she
decided to go into sheltered accommodation at Ellerbrook House on Muriel started hobbies, painting with water colours and oils, painting
objects such as stones for door stops, kitchen utensils and many pictures
including silk and cloth painting. She made marmalade and jams for the ‘bring
and buy’ sales at the home to boost the funds. Her health was deteriating further and went into hospital on numerous
occasions with breathing problems related to asthma to have her chest
cleared. One time when she came out of hospital, the next day she broke her
hip and had to be readmitted for an operation. She caught an infection in the
hospital which didn’t help matters,
Muriel got over the operation but she couldn’t go home as she was
having more respitory problems, she stayed in several months and was
eventually discharged and went to stay in a nursing home which she enjoyed
but unfortunately she was only there for a few days when she was rushed back
to hospital where she died on the 1st. March 2004. Her ashes were
laid to rest with her husband John in the |
