1881 aged 4, living in Pirton with his widowed mother, Sarah Males, and brothers Abraham Wilshire and Joseph Males.
1891 aged 14, living on Holwell Road with his widowed mother Sarah, brother Joseph and uncle William Wilshire.
1894 Leicester Chronicle, Saturday 20 January 1894 - "An inquest was held on Monday on the body of a boy named James Males, aged sixteen, living at Pirton, Hertfordshire, who was found on Saturday afternoon hanging from a beam in a cow-house at Wellbury, about four miles from Hitchin, where he worked. No reason was given for the suicide. It was shown that the boy must have climbed up the side of the shed, tied the two ends of a cord to a hook in a beam eight feet from the ground, put his head in the loop thus formed, and swung off. His mother said he was bright and cheerful at home. A verdict of suicide during temporary insanity was returned."
James MALES |
father a labourer
James Males of Pirton buried - suicide by hanging, aged 16