Son of Henry James and Susan, nee Oxford, Dolton,  He was born on Portsea Island Portsmouth.

He served with the RIfle Brigade  and was a musician. 

He married Elizabeth copas in 1880, their 1st daug. , Mary Elizabeth,died aged 7 months, and twins bied at birth in 1887.    Their son Henry James was born in 1889

Henry was a Street Musician, he was paralysed in 1901 and died inn the Union Workhouse, Newbury, on 16/6/1904 aged 49

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