Hello Frithy!
John William abandoned his family (wife and 13 surviving children) in the mid 1920's supposedly with a mistress. We found he lived for the last few years of his life and then died in 130 Wellington Rd North in 1933, a boarding house. We subsequently have discovered that he married the owner, one Ellen Taylor, believed to come from Runcorn. They were married one month before John William died from cancer, so he must have known his time was up, and made an honest woman of her (a spinster at 65!).
Anyway, we expected that he would have been buried in Stockport, but no. We have discovered that his body was brought back to Sheffield and buried in the family plot along with two of their children who died in infancy and his first wife Annie. Annie had died by commiting suicide in 1930. (sad story).
Anyway, his resting place is in Sheffield in the family plot which we have now located and a bunch of the cousins are heading there this weekend for the first time to do a bit of maintenance and pay our respects.
What was your interest by the way?
Neil
