This is beginning to read like a Catherine Cookson novel!! I went on to the 1911 Census and found Denver(e)s. I wasn't 100% sure that this was the Martha Denvers (nee Howarth) at first but I gave it a shot and purchased the transcript. It showed her being married for 10 years and having 3 children. I wondered about the 10 years as she was married to John Ambrose Brown prior to his 1907 passing. Then I scrolled down the list and found a William Henry Howarth aged 43 living at the same boarding house. This was Martha's oldest brother so it must be her. It appears Wally Denver(es) was the Proprietor of a Music Hall in Manchester at the time (William Howarth and some other lodgers are listed as "Music Hall Artiste"). Martha died back in Barnsley early Oct 1911. She returned to be with her family. We had always heard that she died at her sister's (Emma Wadsworth) pub, the Gardner's Arms. The "Barnsley Streets" book has the Gardner's Arms listed on Castleraugh Street so that didn't fit. Martha's death was listed at 18 Nelson Street, Barnsley. I went back to the 1911 Census and looked up 18 Nelson street, and founf that it was in fact the Gardner's Arms and the Wadsworth's are listed as proprietors. So the last piece of the puzzle has been completed. The story in the family goes that her husband, Wally Denvers showed up at the Gardner's Arms one night with a shotgun demanding the return of his wife. It is apparent that they had a falling out as she not only returned to die there, but was buried in the family plot alongside her first husband John Ambrose Brown, under the name Martha Brown. One last footnote, I did some checking on Wally Denvers - I couldn't find any death record for him (nor do I really care to be honest) BUT I did find a Military record - he deserted in 1918.
