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John Joan and Jennifer Paxton Petty at Blue Mist
Jen is wearing a sun suit.

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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On Worvas Hill (The Steeple) St. Ives

John Mathews.

John Passmore Edwards Free Library and Technical School, in Truro, with cyclist and sign for St Mary's Methodist Church.

Build 1894 as Inttitute then Parish Council followed as Village Hall

The John Passmore Edwards Library in Camborne, with a statue of Richard Trevithick, inventor of the steam locomotive, in front.

John Passmore Edwards Miners & Mechanics Institute, built 1893

John Ralfs Portrait Penzance Natural History Society Minute Books.

Grandfather of John Richards who opened what is now Archie Brown's health food shop and cafe.

John Roberts. ?

The son of John Hett and Louisa Nicholson. He was born in Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England in 1842. In 1871 he emigrated to Canada where he married Letitia Martyn Sibbald in 1875. They had 9 children. He died by drowning on 15 April 1891, aged 48. He…

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Retired in 1961 after 49 years & 9 months

A landscape and marine painter who had a studio in the Lamorna Valley at Trethinnick.

The back of the photograph has the name John Warneford Scobell-Armstrong. His dates were 1877 - 1960.

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Captain John Willis pictured after he had recovered from the ordeal of the wreck of the Liverpool ship Khyber. The ship wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthloe Cove near Tol Pedn Coastguard station on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from…