Percy Cotterell Bytheway b. 13 April 1871 at The Budge, Walsall, Staffordshire. d. 15 March 1949 at Kilmarnock, Scotland. Married Louise Hogg 27 September 1897.

Children:
Ernest Bytheway b. 1901
William Henry Bytheway b. 25 March 1906
Jack Cecil Bytheway b. 30 April 1902
Percy Fereday Bytheway b. 25 March 1906
Margaret Gertrude Bytheway b. 20 April 1898

Percy Cotterell Bytheway was an Electrical Engineer in charge of the engine room, General Post Office, Ingram Street, Glasgow

Did his Apprenticeship with Messrs Fowler Lancaster & Co started 1888, completed 20th June 1891 in Electrical Engineering, Cost £100.
Lived in Birmingham and in Glasgow later, moving to Glasgow in December 1894. He refused promotion to London and remained in Glasgow as an Electrical Engineer to manage the engine room of the General Post Office, Ingram Street. He had a major hand in installing the first ever conveyor belt for letters - post box to sorting room. On retirement he received many tokens of affection and appreciation. Easy going and unambitious he was jolly and liked by most. Fond of sport, he was an enthusiastic cricketer - emulating Grace in winning a tea-drinking contest at his club. He enjoyed cycling: riding a 'penny-farthing' he fell from it saluting a lady friend and on an occasion, benighted on Loch Lomond side and stopped by a policeman, he evaded being booked for having no lights when he innocently gave his name as 'P.C. Bytheway'. Other interests were athletics, football, sea-fishing, band music and gardening. Artistic, he catalogued the early films - actors & actresses - for easy reference, this inspired by the establishment of a cinema near to his retirement home.
He was non-church going and having an uncertain philosophy which could have resulted from the death, in his infancy, of his mother - no mother love.
Like his father, William Henry, he never understood illness. he took to some serious reading latterly in the ten years he lived with his daughter after a world war II bomb dropped near his home where he had lived alone for some years after his wifes death.

Stephen Roy Bytheway has a copy of Percy Cotterell Bytheway's Birth Certificate, Copy dated 10 February 1899.

If you have any further information about Percy Cotterell Bytheway please let me know.

PERCY COTTERELL BYTHEWAY'S SCRAPBOOK

I am very fortunate to have 3 scrapbooks that belonged to Percy and then his son Jack. You can see some of the entries in the scrapbook in the photo album.