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Notes for ELI JAMES LILLY JOHNS:
Indentured as printing apprentice in Truro from 10 October 1866 to 10 October 1873; soon after the end of his apprenticeship he went to London where he worked as a printer; became a member of the London Society of Compositors; having married in London and had several children there, he and his family moved to Brighton in about 1890, and his younger children were born there; a few years after the birth of their youngest child in 1895, they moved to Penzance, and they were living at Penair Terrace, Penzance in 1900 when their son Stanley was baptised, at the age of 9 yrs; still later they moved back to Truro, where Eli's wife died; Eli himself died in the School house, Wadebridge (the home of his son Stanley) on 11 February 1929. Eli made a will dated 12 May 1919, when he was living at 20 St, George's Road, Truro, with his son Stanley; he had been living at 37 Lemon Street, Truro, 1914, before the death of his wife;
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