I wonder if the two brothers may be intertwined some way too regarding the disappearance of Giovanni? I suppose we will have to wait and see if anything else emerges.
There is an article in the Shields Daily News - 8 November 1906 regarding Lily Spence having been a witness at an inquest of her friend Jane Elizabeth Robson. A Norwegian seaman 'Lyder Martin Larsen seems to have been implicated in the death and it seems he was the boyfriend of the latter. He appears to have been a violent person. They all seemed to have gone out together to the theatre with a man called William Sullivan. I think this article might show that the Battistas (or at least Lily) may not have been mixing with the most safest of people.
May be linked - in 1905 a William Sullivan assaults a Francis Spence - this appears in Shields Daily News 12 July 1905.
Regarding the unmarried wife of John George - who has been mentioned - Isabella Griffiths Wilson. An address is given of 70 Waterloo Rd, Blyth. There is also a guardian of the child named - 'Elizabeth Robson'. I do not know anything about this guardian, but I do wonder if this Elizabeth might be John George's sister Elizabeth Ann Battista who left the workhouse with her son John? She may not be of course, but I am just wondering if there is a link.
I cannot access the Ward's Directories for Blyth but there may have been someone recorded in them under this address at that time - payments appear to have been started 1928/29.
Also, I have recently heard a suggestion that Vincent Battista may have possibly served in the Great War as Frank Vincent Spence. Possibly having taken on the name is his sister's husband.
https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results?firstName=Frank&initial=F%2BV&lastName=Spence&war=1However, this is not confirmed as yet.
Added: I think this must be him as this Georgina I think seems to be his sister, shown in link.
. Perhaps Georgina may have chosen his inscription.
This is very puzzling as this is different from the date of death of Vincent Battista who is commemorated in the Memorial Garden at Linskill - see photo I put up on post 168. That gives date of death as 24.9.16.