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It is now part of a very old dialect that my grandparents may have known, but Heswall residents were known as "Yowlers".

I had never heard the term in my lifetime (b. 1949) until I got to know one of the last full-time Hoylake fishermen in the 1970s and he always talked about "Yowler City" meaning Heswall. But I never heard that again until some recent searching.

As confirmed by Wirral historian and writer Greg Dawson, Neston people called those in Heswall "Yowlers" and they called Neston people "Yusers" as in the greeting "A'reet Yuse?"
And two articles in Neston Past "Reminiscences of a Train Boy" describing the Hooton line journey to school at Calday Grange GS also said that Heswall was called "Yowler".

But no-one has so far explained why that epithet? My guess is like the Black Country people are called "Yam-Yams" and the Brummies "Yow-Yows" (both for "you are") maybe it was an old dialect for "you will".

Any ideas or recollections welcomed!

The following buried at Flaybrick, section 15, grave 227, Church of England.
Dates of burial.
Thomas Shaw aged 35, 19 March
John Brown Leighton aged 53, 27 March.
William Rogerson aged 50, 27 March.
William George Reed aged 47, 27 March.
Harry Endicott-Davies aged 29, the gang's foreman, 1 April.

Section 15 grave 228
John Lloyd aged 52, 1 April.
Robert John Shaw aged 27, 3 April.
Thomas Alexander Gouldson aged 22, 3 April.
Albert Edward Bethell aged 20, 6 April.

Following buried in the Catholic Section, section 1 grave 471

Charles Johnson, 27 March..
Thomas Nicholas, 2 April.
William Sanders 2 April
John Mathews, 2 April.
James Okeefe, 2 April.

DEAD
1. Harry Endicott Davies, 29, foreman, married with four children, of 37 Albion Street, Birkenhead.
2. William Rogerson, 50, married with no children, of 1 Club Row, Pool Street, Birkenhead.
3. Thomas Alexander 'Jockey' Gouldson, 22, single, of 9 Seabank Cottages. Birkenhead.
4. Albert Edward Bethelll (alias Albert Walker), 20, single, of 19 Blackpool Street, Birkenhead.
5. Thomas McNicholas, 32, single, of 106 St Paul's Road, Tranmere.
6. James O'Keefe, 26, married with two children, of School Place, Birkenhead.
7. William Saunders, 26, married with two children, of Eldon Place, Birkenhead.
8. William Reed, 45, of the Church Army Home, 92 Bridge Street, Birkenhead.
9. John Brown Leighton, alias 'Derby' Brown, single, of 13 Everton Crescent, Liverpool.
10. Robert Shaw, 27, married with two children, of 77 Thomas Street, Birkenhead.
11. John Matthews, 35, married with four children, of 2 Hope Street, Birkenhead.
12. Thomas Shaw, 35, single, lodged at 75 Market Street (thought to have relations in Manchester).
13. Thomas Lloyd, 52, married with no children, of 94 Watson Street, Birkenhead.
14. Charles James Johnson, 22, single, of 248 Beaufort Street, Liverpool.
INJURED
1. Thomas Devine, 17, of 21 Oakfield View, Birkenhead.
2. George Crichton, 24, of 61 Flamank Street, Birkenhead.
3. David Jones, of 27 Newling Street, Birkenhead.
ESCAPED
George Purnell, Liverpool
Henry Holden, of 10 Leicester Street, Birkenhead.
Edward Higginson, of 20 St Mary's Avenue, Birkenhead.
James McCann, 27 Chester Street, Birkenhead.
Robert Lloyd, a boy, of 264 Price Street, Birkenhead.
Thomas Dutton, of 98 Beresford Road, Birkenhead.
Thomas Jones, a youth, of 13 Brill Street, Birkenhead

Source, Tom McCarthy, Damburst.

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