The 1840 Electoral Register places Thomas Bickerton EVANS as having a warehouse and counting house in Lord Street. He married Agnes FLEMING in Glasgow in 1843. In 1851 the family were living in Upper Parliament Street. Thomas was listed as Bickerton EVANS, wholesale druggist. They had three children - Wallace (actually Thomas), Janet, Agnes and Reginald (actually John Reginald).
In 1854, Thomas Bickerton EVANS was living in Wavertree, with a counting house in Hanover Street. In 1860 Thomas EVANS, pharmacist, was listed at 1 Great Homer Street. I cannot find a residential address for him in Wavertree, but Greenside House is not listed as an address. I am fairly certain he was living there from the early 1850s.
The family were officially noted at Greenside House in 1856 when the Liverpool Mail reported the birth of their daughter at the address. Mrs EVANS was also very closely involved with raising funds for Wavertree Congregational Church - organising fetes etc., all reported in local newspapers for 1856.
In the 1861 census, head of household was Thomas Bickerton EVANS, a wholesale druggist born in Worcester in 1810 and his Scottish wife Agnes (nee FLEMING, born 1820). All of their children - , Janette (15), Agnes (12), John (10), Mary (8) and Margaret (4) were born in Liverpool; Margaret's place of birth is listed as Wavertree, which suggests that they moved into the house before 1857. Their live-in servants were Mary MURPHY, Marion LITTLE and Mary JONES.
In 1862 there was an advertisement for a butler for a small family in Herefordshire - interested parties to apply to Mr T B EVANS, Greenside House, Wavertree.
Agnes Fleming EVANS died at home in 1863. Thomas was admitted to Wye House, Buxton (a private lunatic asylum) in 1863 and died there in 1866. Death notices give his place of death as Devonshire Villas, Derbyshire. Thomas and Agnes are buried together in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Section L, Grave: 553
In 1867, notice was given in local papers that the house would be put up for sale - including the crofts, courts, coach-houses and over 2 acres of land - in the following Spring, if it were not already disposed of. However, there was still a listing for Thomas EVANS at Greenside House (described as freehold house) in the 1868 electoral register, with business premises in Wood Street and Fleet Street. This was probably Thomas and Agnes' oldest son, Thomas Wallace EVANS born in 1844.
The 1871 census has 20 year old John, a druggist, as the head of household. His sisters Janette, Agnes, Mary and Margaret were still living in the house and there were two servants - John WALLACE and Marian MURRAY. John WALLACE may have been a relative of Agnes as WALLACE was her mother's maiden name, and John gives his birthplace as Scotland.
The 1873 Directory has an entry for Evans, Sons & Co, wholesale and export druggists and manufacturing chemists. 56 Hanover Street, 3 and 5 Seel Street, 31 Fleet Street. However, it appears that Greenside House was empty: the last listing for Wavertree High Street was Mary WILSON, licensee of the Lamb Inn.
A sale of furniture due to take place in the house on 29th January 1875 was cancelled.
John Reginald EVANS died in Malta in 1880.