{"id":519,"date":"2013-03-24T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:54:03","slug":"birth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=519","title":{"rendered":"Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Docker V.C: William Ratcliffe V.C., M.M. 1884-1963<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the 18<sup>th<\/sup> of January 1884, Mary Ann Ratcliffe (nee Kelly), gave birth to her fourth child and called him William after his father.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Over two months later when she told the registrar that her son was born in February, instead of January, she could never have imagined that thirty three years later the King would award him the highest military honour, The Victoria Cross, and that over a hundred years later people would be debating his date of birth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In England a birth has to be registered within six weeks. However, in the past when parents found they had missed the deadline it was not unusual for them to change their child\u2019s date of birth to avoid a fine.\u00a0 Although Mary Ann may have been slow to register William\u2019s birth, she was not neglectful when it came to his spiritual welfare. William was just three days old on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> of January when he was baptised at St Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Toxteth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?attachment_id=520\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-520\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/William-Baptism-resized-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/William-Baptism-resized-2.jpg 833w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/William-Baptism-resized-2-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?attachment_id=521\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-521\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-521\" src=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WILLIAM-BIRTH-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WILLIAM-BIRTH-resized.jpg 1170w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WILLIAM-BIRTH-resized-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WILLIAM-BIRTH-resized-1024x743.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WILLIAM-BIRTH-resized-412x300.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=955\">Family<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Docker V.C: William Ratcliffe V.C., M.M. 1884-1963 On the 18th of January 1884, Mary Ann Ratcliffe (nee Kelly), gave birth to her fourth child and called him William after his father. Over two months later when she told the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":506,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/1296"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}