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ALFRED HEYWOOD HOWARD 1869 - 10th August 1915 Alfred Heywood Howard, J.P. was the manager of the Haverfordwest branch of the London NS Midland City Bank at the outbreak of war, a Justice of Peace and Captain of the local Territorial Army Battalion of the Welsh Regiment. In the 1901 census, Alfred 31 years old Born in Longsight, is working as a bank clerk, living with his parents, Joseph Howard, retired prison governor, and Fanny Howard at 29 Westbourne Road, Penarth. Also there was their grandaughter Catherine Ashton, who was 23 years and born in Longsight, Lancs. Alfred’s father, Joseph Howard, was born in 1828 in Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire. He married Fanny Howard (nee Dale) in St Johns, Manchester. They had a daughter, Ada Anna Howard, born in 1854, then a son, Henry Robert, in 1856, another daugher, Annie Louisa, in 1858, another son, Frederic Joseph in 1860, a daughter, Jessie May in 1863 and finally Alfred Heywood Howard in 1869. Their son Frederic Joseph died in 1904 in Sale, Cheshire. Then in 1909, Alfred’s mother Fanny died in Penarth aged 77. They had been married for 57 years. Joseph died on 31st March 1916 in Penarth, less than a year after Alfred died in the Dardenelles. In the 1891 census Joseph was Prison Governor of Cardiff Prison in Gaol Lane, Adamsdown, Cardiff and a full census of everyone in the Prison that day was taken;