Nat Gould

James Edwin Adams 1873-1937

James Adams was born in 1873 at New Mills in Derbyshire, the son of James Adams 1843-1886 and his wife nee Mary Ellen Middleton 1848-1926.

In 1881 he was a scholar living at home with his parents at Stockport Road, Newtown, New Mills in Derbyshire. By 1891 he was a railway clerk, lodging at 32 Glazebrook Road, Warrington in Lancashire in the household of Fred Jane (also a railway clerk) and his wife Mary J. Jane.

He married Maud Howell in 1892 at Warrington. She was born in 1874 in Warrington.

They had a son Reginald Adams who was born on 8 August 1898 in Warrington.

When the 1901 Census was taken James Adams was living with his wife and son at 123 Marsh House Lane in Warrington with his widowed mother-in-law Eliza Ann Howell (born in 1860 at Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire), her son John Harrison Howell (a telegraph clerk, born 1886 at Warrington) and her daughter Lilian Howell (a dressmaker on her own account, born in 1882 at Warrington).

Signature 1911 Census

By 1911 James and Maud Adams and their only child Reginald Adams were living at Ash Villas, Padgate near Warrington. James Adams was by then a Chief Clerk and Canvasser for the Midland Railway.

He died at Liverpool in 1937 aged 64 years.

His widow Maud Adams went to live with her also widowed sisters-in-law Martha Elizabeth Sellers and Edith McArthur at Dale Road in Buxton, Derbyshire. She died in Liverpool in 1957 aged 83 years.