My mother used to talk about her Uncle Jack, who was a favourite of hers, but there was a mystery. A couple of years ago my sister and I visited some Perry relatives who confirmed some of Mom's story. So we decided to try to find out what we could. We've drawn a lot of blanks but this is what we know.
What we know and what we don’t know.
John Percy Walter Morris
Born October 1896
(Wordsley) Baptised 4th
November 1896
My mother always called him Uncle Jack. Written on the back
of his war photograph is Johnny Morris.
Served in the 1st World War. South Staffs
Regiment. Got the basic war medals.
What did he do for a living after he left Stourbridge? He is a 14 year old errand boy
in the 1911 census. At the time of his marriage he is a watchmaker and living
at 10 New Street Stourbridge, the address of his father’s shop.
Married Nellie Westwood, Stourbridge 1924. They were married
at St Thomas Stourbridge. Nellie is a domestic living at 26 the Oak
Kingswinford. The marriage is witnessed by his brother Frank and Eli Millward
who lives at no 1 the Oak. Her father was a bricklayer and Eli a brickmaker. It seems that the Oak was a brickyard.
Divorced 1926. John Hennel was co-respondent. It seems the
only way we can see the court record is to go to the National Archives in Kew
The reference is J77/2292/1797
Moved to London Why? When?
Married again in London? Kingston on Thames? Richmond on
Thames? Visited in one of those places by my mother in 1939.
Is there a child from his first marriage as my father suggested
that we haven’t found yet? The Nellie Morris we found born in 1923 is not the
right one. Her parents were James Morris and Alice Weaver.
Are there children from his second marriage?
Visited the Perry family in the 1950s, was clearly well off,
though it was suggested that he was wanted by the police for something.
What did he do that he was wanted by the police?
Died Where? When?
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