Parents: Harold & Daisy Deacon. Harold worked in the Derby railway works as a skilled turner. Both parents were over 90 when they died.
Wife: Sheila, born 1928, married 22nd December 1949. Died 2011.
Children: Jill (born 1953) and Cherry ( born 1955).
Jill and husband Don live in Gastard, Corsham.
Children:
Laura lives in The Azores with husband Andy and son George.
Russell lives in Oklahoma, USA with wife Cara and daughter Paytin.
Cherry and husband Paul lived in Keynsham. They both died in 2015.
Children:
Louise lives in Switzerland, with husband Tom, daughter Ella and son Callum.
William lives in Keynsham, Bristol, with wife Nicky and daughters Isabella, Lucy and Florence.
Helen lives in Exeter, Devon, with husband Andy and new baby expected in June.
Robert lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with wife Rachel and daughters Rebecca and Alice.