George Edward Mather

George was born in May 1880 in WestLeigh.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Aged 11mo in 1881
  
  Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1880
  MATHER    George Edward    WOODS    Westleigh    WL/28/71
  
  MATHER, GEORGE  EDWARD      WOODS 
  GRO Reference: 1880  J Quarter in LEIGH 
  Volume 08C  Page 289

George's father was James Mather and his mother was Elizabeth Woods.  His paternal grandparents were James (Jacobi) Mather and Margaret Wood. He had seven brothers and three sisters, named John, Joseph, William, James, John, Thomas, Edmund, Margaret, Mary and Jane.  He was the second youngest of the eleven children.