John, a fisherman, looks like he is leaning on an oar or spar of some kind, alongside sea boots drying. In the 1871 census he lived with his wife and 2 children in Newlyn. He died at the age of 69 years in 1904 in Paul, Cornwall.
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Described as 'son's of no. 59 '(Octavius), we can assume that this is John or William (see CHA 087).
John was the eldest son, born in 1854 in Birkenhead.