James Patrick Mather

James was born in June 1867 in Manchester.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Aged 14 in 1881
  
  Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1867
  MATHER    James P    WOODS    1867    Ancoats    ANC/123/90
  
  MATHER, JAMES  PATRICK      WOODS 
  GRO Reference: 1867  J Quarter in MANCHESTER 
  Volume 08D  Page 135

James' 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, John, Thomas, Edmund, George, Margaret, Mary and Jane.  He was the fourth oldest of the eleven children.