John Porteous DEANS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1841, Newbattle, Midlothian. West Houses with parents

• Census, 1851, Newbattle, Midlothian. 87 2nd Row Newtongrange with parents scholar

• Census, 1871, Oswestry, Shropshire. Bridge Row Whittington Road brass finisher living with wife and 3 children

• Census, 1881, Broughton, Lancashire. 50 Princess Street printing machine fitter with wife and son Henry

• Census, 1861, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Oxley Street Wolverhampton single lodger brass founder

• Census, 1891, Cheetham, Lancashire. 48 Waterloo Road widower machine fitter living with son Henry, sister Christina and sisters-in-law Ann Horton and Eliza Pitt

• Census, 1901, Broughton, Lancashire. 31 York Street foreman machine maker widowed living with son Henry

John married Mary Ellen PITT on 11 Sep 1862 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. (Mary Ellen PITT was born in 1836 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and died in 1888 in Salford, Lancashire.)