Danher Chandler Shop

 

 

Danher Chandler Shop

 

 

My gr8gr8 granddad John Danher of Liverpool was an accomplished builder in his last days before he passed away in 1917 of Colon Cancer. He started out as a young lad born in Limerick city , Limerick Ireland, and moved with his family to Durham/York to do mining, while there he married and started his young family and all the while dabbled with iron and steel and was an accomplished pipe fitter and gas fitter, a trade for which alot of his sons followed him in. That was the British and Irish thing to do, do your father's occupation. While in Middlesbrough he was able to experiment with ironmonging and chandlery. He moved his family from there to Liverpool to open shops in the city of Liverpool and continued to have the rest of the family there, 14 more children in fact. His life most spent in Aigburth at his Chandler shop and house on Aigburth road, number 98, pictured above. Even to this day it is a electrical shop a post establishment from the original chandler shop. A chandler shop in Britain is similar to a Hardware Store in North America. Although you did have services in the chandlery, like delivery of oils, gas, petrol, candles, all the needs for heating, lighting and cleaning your homes. John Danher and sons had many shops across Liverpool and they had almost every corner of the city covered for their delivery service for which they did deliver for 362 days of the year , only taking 3 christian days off in the year for non deliveries. In liverpool you will see this building still, it was far away from the docks in a residential area , so it was safe from the bombings of Liverpool during the war. Can you imagine 16 people once lived in that house right on the High Street of Aigburth Road.       

Danher Graves

Grave of John Danher and Jane Baines

 

This is the Tombstone of my gr8gr8 grandparents John Danher and Jane Baines of Liverpool, Lancashire, England. They are buried with 2 daughters that died at young ages in a Roman Catholic Cemetery in Roby, Liverpool. Also in this same cemetery are other Danhers, including some the famous cousin's relatives, my relatives. Yew Tree Cemetery off Finch Lane. I have been there many times and one trip in particular I could not believe the sight of my eyes by one grave, it really concerns me and concerns me more for the people who are in it, as they do not have a gravestone, imagine your relative worth quite alot of dosh and he won't even respect his fore parent and kin, with a decent burial. The Danhers are well in disbelief and really begs believers that our relatives, his relatives, still to this day after 50+ years still don't have a grave marker.    

Marriage Certificate John Danher and Jane Baines

 

 

John Danher and Jane Baines Marriage Certificate.

 

 

In 2015 , next year.. it will be the 150th Year of the anniversary of the marriage of my great great grandparents John Danher and Jane Baines. They are the matriarch and patriarch of the family Danher/Danaher worldwide. They had 16 children, the eldest being my great granddad John Walter Danher/Danaher... the Meterman. My great grandparents were married in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel in Stockton County Durham/York , England on 25th of September 1865, one year later my great granddad John Walter Danher/Danaher was born in Hartlepool/Middlesborough. My great great grandparents then had 15 more children, James Mark Danher next in Middlesborough and then the rest in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. This is the family of the Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney and his maternal sides family. It is noteworthy to remember that the Danhers and their history are very significant to the advent of the Beatles with our two family tragedies for which you will read about further into this blog. We are also the family that represents the creation of the Gasmeter. The metriculating device that counts your usage of gas in your home and business. We the Danher's don't beat around the bush about the real facts of our family importance to the world and we are quite the proud clan. We are well represented by enormous amount of us all around the world, for our family reaches far and wide especially in the British Commonwealth.    

The Danhers of Toronto, The Meterman

 

 

The Danhers/Danahers

 

This is a photo of my great granddad John Walter Danher/Danaher and my great grandma Mary Anne Considine Danaher/Danher... it was taken on a picnic in the 1920's in Toronto, most likely the parks around their home in Westend Toronto near Geoffrey Street.  L2R are my grandmother Annie Eileen Danaher, Jane Danaher, John B. Danaher, John Walter Danaher, Mary Anne Considine Danaher, Francis Walter Danaher. This is the Meterman's family.

Beatles Moms

 

The Beatles and their Moms...

 

Mary Theresa Danher - Mohin...

This is a photo of my great great Aunt Mary Theresa Danher , my great granddad John Walter Danher's younger sister, she was 7th in line of 16 births/siblings of John and Jane Danher of Liverpool England. Mary Theresa is the maternal grandmother to the one Sir Paul McCartney and she was my great granddad's best friend, along with Ambrose Mark Danher, JWD's 2nd eldest brother... they were a threesome, and best buddies, for my mom Joan Patricia Dutton Rutledge told me this. Mary Theresa Danher married one Owen Mohin , the grand parents of Sir Paul and had their family in Ireland, Co. Monaghan... Our huge family originates from Co. Limerick, Limerick city to be exact and when the famine hit in Ireland the gr8gr8gr8's moved to Scotland, Greenock first and then on to Middlesbrough/Stockton secondly and then on to Liverpool , for our fore fathers were miners and ironmongers... dabbled with Iron Ore and Steel and eventually builders in Liverpool and they had a nice tiddy business of Chandler shops and Electrical/Plumbing construction shops in the city of Liverpool. Alot of our sons then and now still do pipe fitting and contruction trades.... Mary Theresa Danher had 4 children and the last child she had , she died shortly after labour, giving child birth and the Mohin's were motherless... especially Paul McCartney's mom Mary who essentially became the the surrogate mother figure of the household afterwards... though her father went on to marry again and the step mother and daughter relationship faltered... Mary moved away from Ireland and went lived with relatives in Liverpool.   Mary Theresa Danher was her Mom, she was nicked named by the whole family as Sara Polly and hence the reason you see Sara D. on the photo... It is in no doubt in all our Danher minds not what so ever all 1500+ of us today , that due to these family tragedies, Mary  Theresa's early death, and then Sir Paul's mom Mary Patricia's early death with her embolism/ breast cancer too that these two influential events in Sir Paul's early history and progression of the Danher Family and the Beatles, it whole heartedly signifies the advent of the beginnings of the group called the Beatles, everything happens for a reason and in true life, as much as someone like Sir Paul wants the whole world not to know this was the case, it was reality at that time. Grammy night 2014 , the anniversary celebration of the 50th years since the Beatles came to America, clearly indicates his clear intention to never mention or suggest that these two women in his life, his maternal Grandma and Mother had any influence to his wayward teenage years and decisions, why would one talk about his insecurities, his betrayals, his feelings, his escapism and his obsessions... of that time, he is only going to tell you what he wants, what he wants is for you to believe his version of events and for us Danhers it is not the whole story and reality of his inevitable meeting of John Lennon, remember it was Paul who went to John, not the other way around and we know in our Family, had Mary Patricia Mohin McCartney survived, the last thing she would want to happen or allow was to have her Catholic Son go to an Anglican Church Fete, a Catholic one yes, but not St. Peter's Wooten, the place said to be the whole reason why the Beatles started in the first place and any other version of events is not a kind respect to Yesterday and Yesteryears!