Son of Amelia Josephine & Fredrick George Thomas Mason of 30 Beech Hill Terrace, Pellon Lane, Halifax. George and Ellen were buried at South Parade Methodist Chapel, Halifax. It was built in 1857. The concert hall could accommodate seven-hundred. It turned the Gem, the 1st cinema in Halifax. He was a bell ringer at St Paul's Church, Cross Stone / a signalman at Stansfield Hall for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company.