John James Bamford

  Noted events in his life were:

• Education: Bollington National Boys' School, 1885-1890, Bollington, CHS. ⁶⁴

• Occupation: Cotton Operator, 1891, Bollington, CHS. ¹⁵

• Occupation: Salvation Army Captain, 1901, North Bierley, Bradford, YKS.

• Occupation: Salvation Army Officer, 1920, Pittsburgh, US-PA. ³⁵²

• Occupation: Salvation Army Officer, 1940, Salem, US-MA. ³⁵³

John married Sarah Jane Roberts, daughter of John Hardy Roberts and Elizabeth Anne Taylor, Mar Q 1904 in Dewsbury District, YKS.⁶ (Sarah Jane Roberts was born Dec Q 1876 in Liverpool, LAN ^89,354, christened on 4 Mar 1877 in St. Mary's, Kirkdale, LAN,³⁸ died on 26 Mar 1913 in St. Joseph's Hospital, Pittsburgh, US-PA ³⁵⁵ and was buried on 28 Mar 1913 in Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville, US-PA ^351,355.). The cause of her death was Carcinoma of Uterus.

John next married Beatrice A. Parry in 1914 in Philadelphia, US-PA.³⁴⁹ (Beatrice A. Parry was born about 1888,³⁵² died in 1984 ³⁵¹ and was buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, US-NY ³⁵¹.)