Family Bible

My surname is L. In the 1980s we lived in Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside and were aware from an elderly couple who had lived all their married life in the house next door that our house had been owned in the 1960s by another L family. We are not to my knowledge related. It seems they had had to leave for Australia unexpectedly to avoid the consequences of having guaranteed a debt which had not been repaid. Whilst working in the loft I found a tiny leather-bound New Testament which was inscribed 'To Gabrielle from Uncle Basil' and a date I cannot now remember. We are not Roman Catholic but I had heard of a Father Basil L, the local Priest at Whitehaven in Cumbria, from my own father who had been Town Clerk and knew Father L from his civic activities. I thought there was a chance that Uncle Basil and Father L might be one and the same, and mentioned it to my father who passed on the story. Indeed they were, and I was able to return the bible to Gabrielle in Australia via my father and her uncle.