Mr John Henry and his wife Agatha Henry (née Lake) on their wedding day. He met his wife Agatha through a friend after relocating to Saint Kitts from Antigua. The couple wed in Saint Kitts in the 1950s.

Mr Henry later travelled to the UK in 1959 and sent for his wife two months after arriving. In Newport, it was hard to find new lodgings if you had children, so the family moved to Wednesbury in the West Midlands where they stayed for two years before returning to Newport.