Whilst researching Millership thread I came across John Sims Reeves the cousin of Hannah Reeves who married Richard Millership
http://www.bcconnections.tribalpages.co ... =596573935
Various references to him on Google and photographs
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Enc ... _John_Sims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sims_Reeves
the Wilkipedia article notes he is of Yorkshire origins but my research and detail on bcc proves he was of West Bromwich Staffs. Origin
The song " Come into the Garden Maud " was written for him