He appears to have emigrated in as much as there is a 24 person Ancestry tree that gives date of death for his siblings and not for him. In other words he disappeared even to the family. His brother Peter James went to Australia, as did a sister Edith MAry
1891 Mar 13 Born Lancs
1891 census at Liverpool
1901 census at The Ripley Hospital, Lancaster. This was a school , originally built as a charitable orphanage and school, known as the Ripley Hospital, and was intended particularly for children whose fathers had been lost at sea.
1911 census, he is a boarder at 123 Lambeth Road Liverpool. A Ship's Butcher
1918 Feb 13 Married woman from Lancs (I cannot find this)
1921 Feb 4. Joined with RIC no 78562 & ADRIC no ( 657 ) . Driver . ex-soldier
1921 Feb 7 Resigned, family affairs
1921 Apr 26 Reappointed to RIC
1921 Apr 28 Posted to G Coy
1921 Jul 16 to Jul 30 on Leave
1921 Oct 26 to 8 Nov on Leave
1922 Feb 7 Disbanded Gormanston
1909 Jun Alfred Walker of Knowsley St, Liverpool joined Territorials for 4 years. It gives father as James, so not our man
1924 Dec 24. Died of appendicitis on SS Ascanius at Albany W Aus. He was a ships steward, last address Knowsley St, Liverpool