On 20 June 1905 Mary Jane Colwell was born to Frederick Samuel and Jane Colwell, and she was baptised on 6 August at Birkenhead St. Peter. Abode was 41 Midland Street, father’s occupation Slater. Birth date from Birkenhead St. John Church of England School register dated 1910.

In 1911 they were living at 26 Collingwood Street. Frederick Samuel Colwell was a Mond Gas Stoker aged 29 and born in about 1882 in Liverpool. Jane was 27, Mary Jane was 5 and Martha May 2.

On 15 September 1928 Mary Jane Colwell married George Redhead aged 29, father William Fred Redhead, at Birkenhead St. John.

In Q2 1929 the birth of Rosemary Redhead was registered in Birkenhead, parents George and Mary Jane Colwell. She was baptised (transcribed as Rose Mary) at Birkenhead St. Matthew on 27 March 1929.

In Q2 1935 the birth of Hilary Redhead was registered in Birkenhead, parents George and Mary Jane Colwell. She was baptised at Birkenhead St. Matthew on 29 May 1935.

In Q4 1935 the death of a George Redhead aged 36 was registered in Birkenhead.

In Q1 1943 the marriage of a Mary J. Redhead and Arthur Thornton was registered in Birkenhead.

Mary Jane Thornton’s death was registered in Q3 1983 in Birkenhead.