Robert Cain (brewer) his mother's maiden name is listed as Mary Kirk (died 1864). The story of the life of Robert Cain and Cains Brewery is told in Christopher Routledge's 2008 history of the brewery, "Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint", which unpicks many of the mythologies that have developed around the Cain family. Many of these mythologies seem to date back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Cain's sons William Cain and Charles Nall-Cain were given titles in the British honours system, and centre on the idea that the brewery's founder had a background in the Irish gentry. Such a
Cain and Abel exclaims at Cain's birth, "I have gotten a man through an angel of the Lord." According to the "Life of Adam and Eve", Cain fetched his mother a reed ("qaneh") which is how he received his name "Qayin" (Cain). The symbolism of him fetching a reed may be a nod to his occupation as a farmer, as well as a commentary to his destructive nature. He is also described as "lustrous", which may reflect the Gnostic association of Cain with the sun. Cain is described as a city-builder, and the forefather of tent-dwelling pastoralists, all lyre and pipe players, and