William was in fact the only child in his family with the surname MORSE; as an illegitimate child he carried his mother's maiden name. His brothers and sisters were surnamed HOWELLS.
William lived for the St John's Ambulance. During World War II he was in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Later he was offered the position of superintendent of the St John's Ambulance for all Somerset. In 1926 there was an explosion in the Welsh mine at Cwm, and William was called to assist in the rescue, a rescue which took four days and nights. There were 21 miners killed, mostly by gas. A busload of mourners coming to the funeral went off the road, and many more were killed (1/3/1926). After the death of Lottie's father, William Abel SCOTT in 1927, William and Lottie and the boys went to live with Mary SCOTT at Ivy Cottage in Bilbrook. William took a position as a weigh-bridge clerk for the Gas Company. William died in Minehead on the 14th October 1944, and is buried with Lottie in the Minehead cemetery. [Ern MORSE]

Birth: Headstone; Ern MORSE. Death: Headstone.