Mark junior was born on 5 October 1891, in Smith Street, Shoeburyness, Essex; he was baptised on 17 December 1891 at St Dunstan’s, at which time his parents were noted as living at 1 Beaumont Street. He married Elizabeth Spooner of 30 Park Avenue on 17 July 1920, his occupation being “secretary”; the marriage was witnessed by A E Denne, Mark’s brother, and E Spooner, believed to be Elizabeth’s sister Edie. From 1920, they lived at 408 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, and were still there when their only child, Mark James, was born in 1924; in 1929 they moved to Casita, Nelmes Way, Hornchurch. In 1932 they moved again, buying a new house in Spareleaze Hill, Loughton, which they called Greengates and which was to be their family home for the next 30 years. Mark (born 1891) died in May 1960 and Elizabeth in March 1966.