Jay lived in various childrens homes and was taken without will from one place to another, up and down the country.

He believes his parents were from Ireland In County Mayo.

He llived in Southport, Sheffield, St John's Wood, Battersea Park, London, Westminster Abbey children's Homes, Dunstable, Hailsham, Luton Bedfordshire, Brighton and Hove, Sussex, Surrey, Carfax, Horsham, South of France in St Maxime, and Wirral where he passed.