Randolph SCOTT was on 21 Jun 1885 in Liverpool.
In both 1881 and 1991 Censuses Randolph is staying with John Scott and Elizabeth and is recorded as being Son to John Scott.
Randolph later lived at 40 Liberty Street, Liverpool. He married Eleanor (Nellie) BEEVERS on 22nd January 1905 at St. Bridget, Wavertree, Liverpool.
Randolph SCOTT was possibly introduced to Eleanor Beevers through her older brother Fred who worked as a warehouseman in the Electric Light Company while Randolph was an Electric Engineering Apprentice.
Randolph and Eleanor had four children. Edna May was their second child, born in 1908. At that time Randolph was working as a electrician's assistant
The eldest child Randolph died in 1910, at the age of 4. By this time they were living at 22 Wilton Street. A cousin, Evelyn Scott, died in 1912 aged 3, and Randolph's father, John Scott, died in 1913. Their third child Mona Irene died in 1914, aged 15 months, and as a result Randolph purchased a burial plot Number 143 in Section 11 of Anfield Park Cemetery, Liverpool, "for his Heirs and Assigns for ever ...". Their address was given as 7 Eaton Place, Everton.
Randolph worked in a theatre as an electrician, possibly at the Theatre Royal, Breck Road, formerly the Theatre Royal of Varieties, built in 1891. In 1920 it was converted to a cinema and renamed the Super Royal Cinema.
Edna May was born on 20th August 1908, but in 1915 the family moved from Liverpool to Blackburn, in order to avoid the damp conditions, and give their family a chance of survival, but Edith Annie died on 1st November 1915, leaving only Edna May.
Randolph and Nellie continued to work in the cinema after the move to Blackburn. He was the projectionist and she worked in the box office.
They lived at 7 Howarth St, Griffin, Blackburn in July 1923.
In 1939 they were living with their daughter Edna May. He was listed as a cinema electrician and projectionist.
After his wife died in 1940, he continued to live with his daughter Edna and her husband John FORREST . He worked as a nightwatchman at the radio valve works. He died on the eve of his granddaughter's 11th birthday in 1950. She remembers being woken during the night and told not to open the door while her parents went to look after her granddad.
None of the houses in which they lived in Liverpool are still standing.
