John Mather

John was born in March 1871 in Bolton.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1871
  MATHER    John    WOODS    Eastern Bolton    EB/64/341
  
  MATHER, JOHN        WOODS 
  GRO Reference: 1871  M Quarter in BOLTON 
  Volume 08C  Page 392
  

John'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, Thomas, Edmund, George, Margaret, Mary and Jane.  He was the sixth oldest of the eleven children.  He died at the age of 78 on March 12th, 1949.