Notes for John Thomas: Mom's father, lost an eye in 1912 whilst working on a grinding machine at Perk's Mnomore Green, the machine 'blew up'. Paid £75 compensation some 3-4 years later but, due to injury was unable to get employment. There followed a period where he lost a quantity of the payment gambling. One evening his wife, Emily, put on his cap and jacket and went out to find him. When she did (presumably at a public house) she persuaded him to invest the rest of the money in transforming the family home, 13 Compton St into a sweet shop. Whilst sweets were the primary trade they also doubled as an emergency chemist, Annie remembers scales where the containers for the medicine had to be carefully weighed prior to filling using 1/4 dram (?) weghts. Also Annie remembered servin loose jam into pots that were supplied by the customers.
More About John Thomas and Emily Brown: Marriage: Dec 1906
Children of John Thomas and Emily Brown are:
+Clara Dorothy Thomas, b. 17 Sep 1924, 17 Compton St Wolverhampton West Midlands, d. 9 Dec 1992, New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton.
John Thomas (b. 30 Jun 1888, d. 29 Jun 1944)
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