John R. C. Horne and Winifred A. Horne were listed at No. 7 Malta Terrace in the electoral registers of 1951, 1952 and 1953. The couple had previously lived at 37 Melville Street.[1]
John Renton Cameron Horne married Winifred Alice Stanton at Bournemouth on 24 December 1938.[2] He was born in Glasgow on 11 July 1900, son of William Renton Horne, a journeyman brass moulder, and his wife Jeanie Dickson.[3] In the 1920s he lived at 134 Cardross Street, Glasgow with his mother and siblings.[4] When he married his first wife, Sheila Dorothy Goodman, in 1929 he was a dance hall manager in Glasgow.[5] In 1939, when he was living in Poole, Dorset, his occupation was refrigeration engineer[6] and in 1960, together with his second wife, he established the company Clyde Refrigeration Ltd., in Glasgow. John R. C. Horne died at Largs in 1989.[7]
Winifred Alice Stanton was born 12 November 1910 at Mortlake, Surrey, daughter of William George Stanton, a motor cab driver, and Alice Reeve.[8] She died in Edinburgh in 1999.[9]
[1] Electoral register 1946.
[2] Marriage announcements. England. Hastings and St Leonards Observer. 31 December 1938. CAMERON-HORNE – STANTON. p. 17, col. 6. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 18 October 2024.
[3] Births (SR) Scotland. Hutchesontown, Glasgow. 30 July 1900. HORN, John Renton Cameron. 644/11 1681. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 October 2024.
[4] Glasgow electoral registers 1923 to 1929.
[5] Marriages (SR) Scotland. Blythswood, Glasgow. 01 May 1929. HORNE, John Renton Cameron and GOODMAN, Sheila Dorothy. 644/10 741. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 October 2024.
[6] Census records. England. Poole, Dorset. 29 September 1939. HORNE, John R. C. RG 101/6920. Ancestry collection ‘1939 England and Wales Register.’ https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 17 October 2024.
[7] Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Largs, Ayrshire. 1989. HORNE, John Renton Cameron. 660/ 169. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 October 2024.
[8] Baptisms (PR) England. Mortlake, Surrey. 05 March 1911. STANTON, Winifred Alice. 2397/1/10. Surrey History Centre. Ancestry collection ‘Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921.’ https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 18 October 2024.
[9] Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Edinburgh. 1999. HORNE, Winifred Alice. 738/ 954. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 October 2024.