Person:John Moffat (42)

John Valpy MOFFAT was b. 1890 (registered at scotlandspeople) at Edinburgh, worked in insurance, and d. 1950, Surrey (clanmoffat). John (nov1889-1950) was an insurance official (D. Elfick). John Valpy Moffat married Elsie Margaret Emily SPENCER (b. 2nd qtr 1896 Woolwich, Kent, d. 1966 Bromley, Kent) 3rd qtr 1921, Wandsworth (clanmoffat, bm). In 1911 son, John Valfy Moffat (1891 Edinburgh, insurance clerk), daughter Marion Elise Sophia Pelham Moffat (1895 Bedford Pk., London, stage student), cousin Flora Gertrude Valpy (1865 London, independent), all single, were at Tooting, London (census). John Valpy Moffat (b. abt 1890 Edinburgh, height 5 ft, 7 inches), 54 Lessar Ave., Clapham Common, clerk, distinctive mark: scar under lip, was enlisted 1915 and discharged 1919 from army; father was Arthur Moffat, 15 Haselrigge Rd., Clapham; trade on enlistment was storekeeper; later address was 11 Warwick Mansions, Earls Ct (service record, ancestry.com).

1. ↑ National Records of Scotland. Scotlandspeople.
2.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
3.   England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.).
4.   England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.)).