John Howard Barratt was born abt. 1912. He married Dorothy Freda Simmons abt. 1947 in Dudley, Worcestershire. He died abt. 1980. Dorothy Freda Simmons, daughter of Samson Simmons and Mary Jane Jones , was born in September, 1908 in Burnt Tree, Staffordshire. She died 1996 in Sandwell, West Midlands.