John READMAN blog 10/4/2014. John & Sarah are in the home of May Brown, nee Readman, and their young daughter. May and Herbert Brown, a bank clerk live in Harrow, Middlesex. Sarah Readman, nee Duckering died on 25th March 1925, in Grimsby. John James died on 3rd October 1930, at the home of his daughter Alice now married to Arthur Ernest Bradley at 29, Beard Road, Gorton, Manchester. He was buried in Gorton Cemetery, later so were Alice and her husband. So still a lot to discover, but John is the most photographed of all my early relations-no doubt others were but the photographs have not survived. John is not a close relation, because I am descended from his younger brother Arthur. 

John READMAN blog 10/4/2014. In 2001, a remarkable piece of information came my way. It was a letter sent by a George William Readman to his father Samuel Thomas Readman in Grimsby in 1919, then serving as a young soldier in Germany. I managed to trace (more later about the letter etc), a living relative of Samuel Thomas Readman he had died in 1967, another John Readman who lived in Kent, England. We corresponded a number of times and he told me that his grandfather, Samuel Thomas Readman remembered walking with his father John James Readman from Grimsby to Waltham on a Sunday morning in the 1870's so that his father could play the organ with Samuel pumping it! After being entertained by the ladies of the church for lunch, Samuel and John would then walk back to Grimsby.  So this must have been when Sam and John were living in Garibaldi St, after the death of Sarah Readman nee Mayor. John still had his music shop then, but also played the organ at Waltham, about 4 miles away, on a Sunday and gave piano lessons. 

The marriage certificate records that John was a widower & Sarah a spinster when they married at the Parish Church in Louth on the 23rd Sept 1879. He a muscian residing Great Grimsby, father Thomas READMAN an engine driver. Sarah resding at Louth, father Joseph DUCKERING, butler. Witnesses were George Forman & Susannah Duckering.

John READMAN blog 10/4/2014. John & Sarah are in the home of May Brown, nee Readman, and their young daughter. May and Herbert Brown, a bank clerk live in Harrow, Middlesex. Sarah Readman, nee Duckering died on 25th March 1925, in Grimsby. John James died on 3rd October 1930, at the home of his daughter Alice now married to Arthur Ernest Bradley at 29, Beard Road, Gorton, Manchester. He was buried in Gorton Cemetery, later so were Alice and her husband. So still a lot to discover, but John is the most photographed of all my early relations-no doubt others were but the photographs have not survived. John is not a close relation, because I am descended from his younger brother Arthur.