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

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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

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1935. Discharged from the Territorial Army Artillery . Odd? - only 19!!

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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

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1937. Son, Alan A Manners was born

1938. His wife divorced him. on cruelty grounds

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1939 Register. Export merchant. Living 15 Grenville Place Kensington

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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

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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

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