Narrative and Notes
I had thought the following:
- John William SCOTT, furniture dealer, married Isabella EDMOND, 27, daughter of William EDMOND in December 1900 in West Derby, and appear together in the 1901 census.
- They baptized their first and only child, Isabel, on 23 April 1902.
- A John William SCOTT died around the time of that baptism in Apr-Jun 1902, aged 36, in West Derby.
- In 1911, the widowed Isabella SCOTT, 37, a homeworking dressmaker, is living with her mother Isabell EDMOND, 69, a charwoman, and her daughter Isabel, 8, at 308 Netherfield Road North, Liverpool.
- On 31 May 1913, Isabella and Isabel left Liverpool for Sydney, Australia aboard the Argyleshire.
However, the newspaper report of his father's funeral reported that his sons John, Charles and Edward were mourners at his funeral in 1913. Clearly the above narrative was wrong.
I now believe that John was the John SCOTT, single, aged 43, general labourer, living at 190 Breck Road in 1911 with the family of Thomas EVANS and described as a brother-in-law. John's sister Edith had married John EVANS (Thomas' brother?), so, while this relationship is not technically true, it may be how they thought of him. His father had premises at 120 Breck Road.
His 1901 entry has not been identified: all the local John SCOTTs of the right age were married or not born in Everton.
