c.1809 Born, son of Edward Marratt, wireworker.
c1822 Apprenticed to John Bayard, blacksmith[1]
1832 Married Ann Hull in Horselydown, Surrey[2]
1851 John S Marratt 41, optician, lived in London City, with Ann Marratt 36[3]
1861 John S Marratt 51, optician, lived in Norwood with Ann Marratt 40[4]
1867 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore existing between us the undersigned, John Symonds Marratt and Thomas Watling Short, at No. 63, King William-street, in the city of London, as Opticians and Mathematical Instrument Makers, under the firm of Marratt and Short, was this day dissolved by mutual consent, ...'[5]
1881 John S. Marratt 71, retired optician, lived in Wandsworth with Anne Marratt 63[6]
1888 Died in Wandsworth[7]