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Married:
- Winesses to the marriage were Roger Foster, John's cousin, and Ellen Ferguson, Minnie's elder sister.
Minnie was given away by her brother-in-law Will Foster, because her stepfather refused.
John and Minnie started their married life in Lundie Street, Everton.
Immediately after the birth of their 1st child David, they moved to a new house thay had bought at 82 Greystone Road, Stoneycroft. One of John's football idols, Billy Liddell, moved into a new house just round the corner after the war.
In 1947, after living for 6 months with Minnie's sister Lily and her husband Harry in Longview Avenue, Huyton, the family moved into 48 Kremlin Drive, an old Victorian 3 storey house (plus basement) that had seen better days. There was a grid in the path leading up to the front door - when coal was delivered, this grid was removed so that the coal sacks could be emptied straight into the coal store in the basement.
Because money was tight, the family took in lodgers, some of whom became and remained friends for many years. One of these was a German POW, Heinz Holzhauser, who remained in Liverpool, Lancashire, UK after the war.
This remained the family home until 1982, when John and Minnie moved into smaller rented accommodation in Gregory Way Childwall, where they lived near John's brother Sid and his wife Eve, and near John's sister Elsie, who was recently widowed. They lived there until John's death in 1989.
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