I don't know if you have got any further with your Spowage family research, but I have just come across John William b. 1868 at Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottingham. He married Sarah Hannah Surgey in Dec 1892. Her brother John married Ada Mahala England who was a relative of my Great Grandmother Sylvia England. If I can help any more, my e-mail is
a.r.nelson@ntlworld.comSue