Trafford

Born during the September quarter 1879 in the Altrincham R.D. - ref:
8a/167, the son of John & Sarah Catanach (nee Noble).

1881 Census - Town Lane, Mobberley.   Son - aged: 1 - born: Mobberley.  
Head of household - John Catanach - Married - aged: 32 - occ: Elementary
School Teacher - born: Rochdale.   Also - Sarah Catanach -  Wife - aged: 30
- born: Huddersfield, Yorkshire.   Plus 2 elder siblings.

1891 Census - Town Lane, Mobberley.   Son - aged: 11 - occ: Occasional
Messenger - born: Mobberley.   Head of household - John Catanach - Married
- aged: 42 - occ: Elementary School Teacher - born: Rochdale.   Also -
Sarah Catanach -  Wife - aged: 40 - born: Huddersfield, Yorkshire.  Plus 5
siblings.

1901 Census - 26 Temple Road, Sale.   Boarder - aged: 21 - occ: Grocer's
Assistant - born: Mobberley.   Boarding with Caleb & Edith M. Eden.  Caleb
was a Gardener at a Nursery.   His parents and family were then residing at
109 Roundthorn Road, Oldham.

His father - John Catanach, died at Oldham in 1909, aged: 60.

1911 Census - No Trace.   His widowed mother - Sarah Catanach and 3
siblings were then resisding at 22 Osmond Street, Oldham.

Married - Florence Swingler during the September quarter 1914 in the Louth
R.D. - ref: 7a/1371.

Enlisted at Louth in 1914.

Listed as Catanack on SDGW.   CWGC - Son of John &  Sarah Catanach of
Oldham; husband of Florence Catanach of Louth, Lincolnshire.

Florence never remarried and died at Louth in 1973, aged: 94.

Commemorated in The Mobberley Parish Council's Booklet - "1914-2014,
Remembering the Men from Mobberley who went to War for their Country" - per
Alistair MacLeod.