John E H Manners 28/12/1915- 1943
seemed to become John Henry Edward or John H Manners: except on 1937 marriage- there just John E Manners
1915. Mercedes Manners, 29, arrives in Falmouth from Buenos Aries with 3 children., James 7, Sara 14 and Ines 9
1915. John Edward Henry Manners was born 28/12/1915 to James Herbert Manners, civil engineer, & Mercedes Inostroza at 38 Warrington Crescent, Paddington. His birth was registered by his father on 4/2/1916
1935. Discharged from the Territorial Army Artillery . Odd? - only 19!!
1937. On 9/1/1937, John Edward Manners, 21, produce merchant, married Ruth Joan Catley. His father James Herbert Manners, civil engineer, deceased: hers William Aubrey Catley, builder & contractor, deceased. His address 34 Oxford Terrace, W2: hers 20 Bolsover Street, W1. Wedding was at the Catholic Church of Our Lady and the Rosary, Marylebone Road. No family witnesses, J F Hughes & I Kadorrtzeff
1937. Son, Alan A Manners was born
1938. His wife divorced him. on cruelty grounds
1939 Register. Export merchant. Living 15 Grenville Place Kensington
1940. He was living with his mother, Mercedes, at 23, Anglesmede Road, Pinner, Mddx: this is where she died on 24/8/1943. Obtained a passport on 30/10/1940 and went to Buenos Aries for up to 6 months
1943. John Henry Manners died at 307 Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen on 12/8/1943. Cause of death: Pulmonary Tuberculosis, intestinal infection .Informant S. Holliday, of same address. Left £331. Probate to Sarita Olga Holliday- she his elder sister , who died in 1965, stated age 67 ;this roughly agrees with her age which looked like 14 in ship's record in 1915. Thus likely born 1901, when Mercedes was 15 at most . Ines Manners was given as 9 in 1915 record, thus born ~ 1906: she married John Robert Baxter Jun 1935 Marylebone, she is in 1939 reg., born 8/8/1908. living Amersham with her husband, likely a child and her mother?, Mercedes Manners, widowed, born 8/9/1894 - this differs to a birth year of ~1888, given by her stated age of 55 on her death in 1943, or a birth year of 1886 , given by her stated age of 29 on ship's record in 1915\\\\; 1939 year of birth MUST be wrong