John Gazdar 1914 -
1914. John Gazdar born 12/1/1914 at . 211 Great Cheetham Street Higher Broughton Salford Mar 1914 to James Henry Gazdar & Mary Peatfield . The address is that of his Peatfield grandparents, but his grandfather, Thomas Peatfield, had just died, in 1913. He had 2 sisters, Emilie Jeanette Gazdar1912 and Mary Gazdar 1915
1927. His father, "Henry" Gazdar, deserted the family ~1927, running away with another woman to Ireland,( but he is to be found in Macclesfield in 1939)
"Henry went off with another woman to Ireland when my mother was aged about 12, leaving his family in poverty; he died in Ireland. I never even met him. I think my mother was damaged by this and by him. She could remember visiting JJ in Essex, seeing his Queen Anne country house and little dairy herd - she was seven when he died. I knew little of JJ's wife, not even her name; she was the 'spit' of my mother from a photo I once saw, and was somewhat manic in old age, as was my mother. She retired to a hotel in "Sidmouth"??- think should read Westfield on Sea. . My mother could be quarrelsome and reclusive, and she remained a Manchester housewife, separating herself from the family. We visited Gertrude's widower in Bures ( 12 k NW of Colchester) , Essex, in a wonderful black-and-white cottage with undulating floorboards, when I was about 8; I was so strongly gripped by the house that ultimately I have bought one such myself! "- Nigel
1938. He became engaged, member of Grays Inn, to Catherine Walker of Hyderabad -Times Digital Archives. In 1946 he became engaged to the widow Kathleen Archard Jones .Married Kathleen Cooper/Archard-Jones: had son Gerald James Michael Gazdar Hertford Mar 1950, mother given as Cooper.: this birth announced in the Times . He appeared in cases in Court of criminal Appeal .Maybe appointed Appeals Secretary for the East Surrey Hospital in 1939 -FMP Newspapers
1957. His father died in Cork . Before this " John ultimately confronted his father in an Irish bar; he had tracked him down to check there were no more children to complicate inheritance matters, on which he seems to have had a special focus! John, a London barrister, died of cancer in his 50s. There was no reconciliation with my mother following the death of their mother in 1956. .I made fresh contact with Emilie/Jeanette in Surbiton in the 1980s when my mother had a breakdown, wanting to make sense of dysfunction. Emilie/'Jeanette died unmarried c.2000 with much of JJ's stunning Indian furniture and her father's splendid regency furniture and other antiques in her flat. Most went to John's son Gerald, but she kindly left Hugh and myself a substantial sum each from the Parsee inheritance.- Nigel
1967. John Gazdar died of cancer, aged 53, Islington Mar 1967- Probate £4706
His widow, Kathleen Gazdar, died in
"Mother's brother John produced two children, a girl ,Susan, sadly damaged at birth who lived to be about 15, and Gerald Gazdar, retired professor of linguistics at Sussex; sadly he and I seem unable to communicate with ease - he is maybe resentful that I have JJ's cabinet, and also I suspect at my rapprochement with my aunt, Emilie Jean, in Surbiton in about 1987.". Gerald does not seem to marry . Was living East Henfield ~2002.