[JohnIGoodwin]

Re 118 Whalley Road residency.

You have quoted that from 1925 to 1932, these premises were occupied by Henry Heys Duckworth and Elizabeth.

These are distant relatives of mine. Henry (born Accrington 28th September 1901 - died St. Brelade, Crown Dependency of Jersey 5th August 1995) rose from humble origins (father John Thomas Duckworth was a Blacksmith) to be a financier that bought Forboys Newsagents. He was Provincial Grand Master of Jersey.

He endowed a Trent Class All Weather Lifeboat 14-15 Henry Heys Duckworth ON1213 for the RNLI. This is normally stationed at Whitby, but stands in elsewhere when another vessel is out of service.

He married Lilian Dorothy Scott; Elizabeth, that was his sister - not his wife, was one of several other siblings.

After the death of his first wife on 19th July 1978, Harry, as he preferred to be known, married Lilian Ethel Rorrison nee Davis, widow of Alfred Ward Rorrison, on 9th December 1978 at St. Helier. One of his step-daughters was married to the son of Dorothy Leigh Sayers. There are other household names linked to this branch of his acquired family.