John's mother was Alice Edith Bowden, born in Chelsea in 1850 to Father, John Bowden, a brewer, and Mary Ann Bowden. Sometime after 1881, in her thirties, she married an Italian, Luigi DAntonio, probably abroad, she was widowed soon after and returned to Britain. She went back to her single name of Bowden and in 1886 she married William Jervis, in Barnet, their son, John Edward was born in 1889 in Hammersmith. William Jervis disappears from the records before 1901 when Alice (DAntonio) again states she is a widow
In 1887 Alice had applied for re-admission as a British subject which was granted in 1901, she was then living in Worthing, aged 51yrs, on private means, but mysteriously, she reverted to calling herself DAntonio until her death in 1948. She is buried in Brompton Cemetery.
In 1911, John Edward was a visitor at the Lakeside Hotel, Colton, Lancs. (now Cumbria), on the banks of Lake Windemere. He was 22yrs old and living on private means. The hotel proprietor was a Jane Robinson, widow, and her daughter, Evelyn, aged 20yrs, was a barmaid. Three years later, John Edward married Evelyn Robinson, December 1914 Steyning. They then lived in Worthing, at Oban, Wordsworth Road, where John sadly died, just 11 months after their marriage, aged 26yrs.
His death certificate gave the cause of death as 1) Acute Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2) Heart failure.
Probate was granted to his widow, Evelyn Jervis, effects £668 17s 0d. Value 2021 - £71K.