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John James SADLER

1850 – 1913 · Windmill House, Sealand, Flintshire
Partner: Jane HOLMES
Father: Ephraim SADLER · Mother: Hannah SADLER
👶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
John James Sadler full age Bachelor Commercial Traveller Eccles W. M’Chester
Ephraim Sadler Glass Merchant

Jane Holmes full age Spinster – Southport
Isaac Holmes Commission Merchant

Witnesses:
Charles Henry Holmes
Elizabeth Martha Sadler

Certificate dated 5th June 1998 provides additional information not contained on the original marriage certificate:

Groom Address: Danesbury House, Eccles near Manchester
Bride Address: 29 Hoghton Street, Southport

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

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🏠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

Children with Jane HOLMES
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b. 1875, Stafford House, Ellesmere Road, Ellesmere Park, Monton, Lancashire · d. 1918, Infirmary Workhouse, Crumpsall, Manchester, Lancashire · m. 1903 Mary Ann Skilbeck JONES
Frank SADLER
b. 1876, Cross Lane, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1939, 148 Scarisbrick New Road, Southport, Lancashire · m. 1905 Irene COOPER
Edith SADLER
b. 1878, Cross Lane, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1950, Rothay, 34 Aughton Road, Southport, Lancashire, PR8 2AG · m. 1914 Frederick William TATTERSALL
Jessie SADLER
b. 1879, 5 Rivington View, Parker Street, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1958, Canol-Y-Marian, Gwaenysgor, Nr. Dyserth, Flintshire
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b. 1883, Barton Upon Irwell, Lancashire · d. 1900, Melrose Villas, Ashley Road, Hale, Cheshire
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b. 1884, 5 Rivington View, Parker Street, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1965, Prestwich Asylum (Mental Hospital), Prestwich, Manchester, Lancashire · m. 1919 Blanche CONRY
Notes

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

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