Birth 30/10/1850 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine | Windmill House, Sealand, Flintshire 📍 ⓘ1861 Census 1891 Census 📎 Photo No trace of any birth record in GRO indexes, FreeBMD or Cheshire BMD. Almost certainly born at his mothers parents house but needs checking. No trace of baptism |
Lived (1) 1851 🏛️ Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace | Great Saughall, Chester, Cheshire 📍 ⓘ1851 Census 📎 Census Living with his grandfather |
Lived (11) 1861 🏛️ Death of Prince Albert | Albert Street, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1861 Census 📎 Census |
Occupation (11) 1861 | Scholar ⓘ1861 Census |
Lived (21) 1871 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced | Danesbury House, Chatsworth Road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1871 Census 📎 Census |
Marriage (24) 25/03/1874 | Jane HOLMES Mornington Road Wesleyan Chapel, Southport, Lancashire 📍 ⓘMarriage Certificate 📎 Marriage 📎 Marriage Cert 25th March 1874 Jane Holmes full age Spinster – Southport Witnesses: Certificate dated 5th June 1998 provides additional information not contained on the original marriage certificate: Groom Address: Danesbury House, Eccles near Manchester The witnesses were Charles Henry Holmes and Elizabeth Martha Sadler The image of the watercolour painted in 1862 by William Gawin Herdman depicts the Mornington Road Church, said to be the first Methodist church with a spire. The stone-built gothic church had seats for 1,200 worshipers and a beautiful stained glass window in memory of Alderman William Sutton, hailed as the first sandgrounder. The last service was held in 1966 and the building was demolished shortly afterwards. The rare painted … Show more |
Lived (24) 1874 | Danesbury House, Chatsworth Road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 ⓘMarriage Certificate |
Occupation (24) 1874 | Commercial Traveller ⓘMarriage Certificate |
Lived (29) 1879 | 5 Rivington View, Parker Street, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 with Jane HOLMES ⓘBirth Certificate |
Occupation (29) 1879 | Glass & Metal Merchant ⓘBirth Certificate |
Lived (31) 1881 | 5 Cromwell Street, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 with Jane HOLMES ⓘ1881 Census Ref: 3888/17/27 📎 Census In 1881 Hannah F Wharton and Thirza H Shore, Domestic Servants lived with the family |
Occupation (31) 1881 | Glass Merchant ⓘ1881 Census |
Occupation (33) 1883 | Glass, &c. merchant (Leather, Sadler & Holmes) 5 Rivington Place, Cromwell Street, Edge Lane, Stretford, Lancashire 📍 ⓘSlaters Directory |
Occupation (36) 1886 | Glass, &c. merchant (Leather, Sadler & Holmes) ⓘSlaters Directory |
Occupation (39) 1889 | Glass, &c. merchant (Leather, Sadler & Holmes) 5 Rivington Place, Cromwell Street, Edge Lane, Stretford, Lancashire 📍 ⓘSlaters Directory |
Lived (41) 1891 🏛️ Free elementary education | 66 Cromwell Street, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 with Jane HOLMES ⓘ1891 Census 📎 Census The 1891 Census includes Hannah J Wharton, General Domestic Servant, 48, Born Saighton, Cheshire; Mary Law, General Domestic Servant, 18, Born Eggbridge, Cheshire and Alice Cobb, Visitor, 30, Artist, Born Ipswich, Suffolk. |
Occupation (41) 1891 | Photographic Material Merchant ⓘ1891 Census |
Occupation (43) 1893 | Lead &c. merchant (Holmes, Sadler & Holmes) Southall Street, Salford, Lancashire 📍 ⓘSlaters Directory |
Event (45) 1895 🏛️ National Trust founded | Under his father-in-law's will: his debt of £1,029 17s 5d to Charles Henry Holmes, secured by two promissory notes, was satisfied out of the firm's account. The shares of Jane Sadler, Charles Henry Holmes and Herbert Holmes were charged with any loss he might become liable for on the winding up of the partnership, and with any excess of his withdrawals over his share of profits between 31 October 1891 and the end of the partnership. ⓘWill |
Lived (51) 1901 🏛️ Second Boer War | Hopper Hill, Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire 📍 ⓘ1901 Census 📎 Census The 1901 Census shows him living as a lodger with Alice Lockhart a widow aged 45, born in Sheffield, a Photographic Retoucher and her son and niece. |
Occupation (51) 1901 🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria | Photographic Material Dealer ⓘ1901 Census |
Occupation (58) 1908 🏛️ Old Age Pensions introduced | Commercial Traveller |
Occupation (58) 1908 | Photographic Apparatus Dealer |
Lived (61) 1911 🏛️ National Insurance Act | 59 Raglan Road, Woodhouse, Leeds, West Yorkshire 📍 ⓘ1911 Census 📎 Census |
Occupation (63) 1913 | Commercial Traveller ⓘDeath Civil Registration Index |
Death (63) 31/07/1913 | 6 Warwick Place, Leeds, West Yorkshire 📍 Cerebral Haemorrhage & Syncope ⓘDeath Civil Registration Index 📎 Death Cert 📎 Notice Informant: L. Stringer, present at the death, 6 Warwick Place, Leeds Death Notice - August 1st 1913 page 6 of Yorkshire Evening Post SADLER - On July 31st, at 6, Warwick Place. John James Sadler, aged 63, manufacturer's agent. - Interment at Burmantofts Cemetery, Saturday, August 2nd. Friends please accept this intimation. |
Burial 02/08/1913 | Burmantofts Cemetery, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire 📍 Unconsecrated Paupers Grave No: 16837 ⓘBurial Records 📎 Burial Record Microfiche burial number: 62426. Grave number:16837. The cemetery is still there and it is located opposite St James's Hospital. Grave is in the unconsecrated section no. 3, and under the column 'lock up grave when opened' 6 23/7/13. '6' refers to the number of people in the grave. It is a public (paupers) grave. Burial record: 6 Warwick Place, Leeds; Agent aged 63 years |



He was a witness to the marriage of Elizabeth HOLMES (nee VICKERS & aunt of his wife) to George GREENHOW in 1880