John LEWIS, (2) [51]

  General Notes:

[Note by Mary Lewis Young 2003]
From a conversation with Jackie Lewis in Canada, reported by Jim Lewis - John Lewis (1856-1929) was an engineer at Clydebank. He was married twice, a very good woodworker who could speak 10 languages and write 8. He was very religious and had a good musical ear.
John Lewis was born in Llandudno, according to Grace Mortensen conversation with Jim Lewis.
[Note by Mary Lewis Young 2004]
In 1891, John and Edith's family were in a tenement (apartment block) at 8 Tamworth Street, Camlachie, Glasgow. There were 12 families in the "stair", a total of 60 persons. Three adults were listed as unemployed, the others covered a range of working-class jobs, quite remarkable compared with today - carpet sewer, shirt machinist, cloth folder, block cutter, printer, weaver, dressmaker, clerk, machine maker, furnaceman, winder, weaver, retired weaver, hairdresser (our John), painter, two power loom weavers, apprentice baker, apprentice cooper, message boy, fish dealer, storeman, gas engineer, iron works labourer, stableman, two salvation army officers (a husband and wife), iron dresser, cotton weaver, shop girl, foundry labourer, spirit salesman, warper.

  Noted events:

• 1876: he worked as a labourer

• 1881: he worked as a blacksmith's striker

• 1890: he worked as a hairdresser

• 1901: he worked as an engine fitter, hammerman

• 1908: he worked as an engine fitter (journeyman)

• 1881 census: enumerated as head at 35, Griffin Street, Workington, CUL, England, UK. ⁶

• 1929: he resided at 3, Greenlaw Road, Glasgow, LKS, Scotland, UK. ³

John married Edith Letitia BANKS [53] [MRIN: 38], daughter of John BANKS [1105] and Elizabeth Ann HEWITT [1106], on 4 Sep 1876 in Workington, CUL, England, UK.¹ (Edith Letitia BANKS [53] was born in Jan 1854 in Moira, Lurgan, County Down, Ireland ⁷ and died on 5 Feb 1908 in Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, LKS, Scotland, UK ⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• 1879: they resided at 29, Bridge Street, Workington, CUL, England, UK.

• 1901: they resided at 223, Blythswood Terrace, Glasgow, LKS, Scotland, UK.

• 1908: they resided at 250, Glasgow Road, Old Kilpatrick, DNB, Scotland, UK.

John next married Margaret Gordon CROALL [791] [MRIN: 162], daughter of David CROALL [4429] and Margaret STEWART [4430], on 26 Aug 1908 in Old Kilpatrick, DNB, Scotland, UK.² (Margaret Gordon CROALL [791] was born on 24 Dec 1856 in Arbroath, ANS, Scotland, UK ⁹ and died after 1929.)