John William SHEARD

  General Notes:

Births Sep 1893
Sheard John William Halifax 9a 487
- exact date found on Nightingale tree on Ancestry.co.uk

Marriages Mar 1915 Halifax 9a 748
Mann Florence to Sheard
Saxby Gertrude M to Woodcock
Sheard John W to Mann
Woodcock John to Saxby

1901 census
RG13/4135 F21 P4
1 Holly Grove, Warley, Luddenden
Ann Earnshaw, Head, Wid, 60, , Yorks Halifax
Zipporah do, Daur, S, 37, Worsted Coaling Weaver, Yorks Bradford
Elizabeth Ann do, Daur, S, 23, Dressmaker, Yorks Halifax
2 Holly Grove, Warley, Luddenden
Hephzibar Sheard, Head, Wid, 39, Dressmaker, Yorks Bradford
Mabel do, Daur, S, 15, Mender Worsted Coating, Yorks Halifax
John William do, Son, S, 7, , Yorks Halifax

1911 census
RG14PN26541 RG78PN1529 RD496 SD6 ED25 SN75
47 Clough Lane, Mixenden, Halifax, Yorkshire
Hephzibad Sheard, Head, 49, Married, Dressmaker, Denholme, works on own account
Zipporap Earnshaw, Boarder, 47, Single, Cloth Weaver (Worsted Mill), Denholme
Mabel Sheard, Daughter, 25, Single, Cloth Mender (Worsted Mill), Halifax
John William Sheard, Son, 17, Single, Watch Maker & Jeweller, Halifax
- some of the information has been added or altered in different inks
- the house had 4 rooms
- against Hephzibah it states that she has had 2 children born alive and that both are still alive
- it also has in the "years married" column the number 22 in different writing

Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site
SHEARD, JOHN WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 268012
Date of Death: 16/02/1918
Regiment/Service: Cheshire Regiment 6th Bn.
Awards: D C M
Grave Reference IV. B. 20.
Cemetery FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND
Additional Information:
Son of Mrs. Sheard, of 4, Argyle Terrace, Baillie St., Rochdale; husband of Florence Sheard, of 24, Tennyson St., Lee Mount, Halifax, Yorks. A Watchmaker and Jeweller.

John married Florence MANN Mar Q 1915 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. (Florence MANN was born circa 1892 and died on 7 Feb 1965 in Kirkburton, Yorkshire, England.)