John Dainty

  General Notes:

Resident at 93 Conduit Street, Leicester in 1891. Corn merchant. Elizabeth Gilbert (65)was visiting. She was born in Scuttlethorpe, Lincs.

Resident at 43, Hawkesbury Road, Aylestone, Leicester in 1901. Corn commission agent

  Research Notes:

Taken from 'Leicester Lyrics'

From BMD. Is this him?

Deaths Dec 1907
DAINTY John 58 Leicester 7a 1[23_]6

  Noted events in his life were:

• He resided at Welland House in 1849 in Duddington, Northamptonshire. ¹

• He resided at the house of Alfred Mason from 1873 to 1878 in Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. ¹

• He resided at 93, Conduit Street after 1878 in Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. ¹

• He resided at Churchill Villa, 43 Montague Road, Aylestone Park on 10 Aug 1893 in Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. ¹ Afterwards Aylestone Park was renamed Hawkesbury Road

• He had a residence about 1901 in Gloucester,. ¹ He went to live with Thomas Dainty Esq of Richmond Lawn, Gloucester who was ill, and expected to send the rest of his life there.

• He was educated at Boarding school in Sleaford from 8 Apr 1862 to 14 Oct 1863 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. ¹ Kept by Mr Charles Boyer

• He was educated at Kegworth from 1 Feb 1864 to 7 Jun 1864 in Kegworth, Leicestershire. ¹ The school was kept by Rev W. Jarrom, who had been a missionary in China. It was a nice house and garden, the same in which Thomas Moore the poet lived for a time.

• He worked as a doing a little business, hunting, cricketing, and assisting his father with his farms from 1864 to 1873 in Duddington, Northamptonshire. ¹

• He worked as a Hay and Corn merchant from 1873 to 1878 in Granby St, Leicester. ¹ He worked for his brother in law, Alfred Mason

• He worked as a Hay and Corn Merchant in 1878 in Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. ¹ First in Station Street then at Campbell Street. But after a wile conducted business from his house in 93 Cinduit Street.

• He worked as a Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. ¹

• He offiated at churches in Leicestershire, UK. At Wickliffe Church, Oxford Street, Belgrave Road Tabernacle, and many others, and almost all the Liecestershire villages, including Syston, Burton Overy and Ullesthorpe.

John married Sarah Dainty. (Sarah Dainty was born about 1845.)