Newman, John The Newman Family – 38 North Street William Arthur Newman and Annie Clarke married at Peterborough in July 1886. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Neither of them was born in the Stamford area and the elder children were all born in Peterborough but the family had moved to Stamford by the time the… Read More
Lee, Cyril Bernard In 1901 Cyril Bernard Lee was living in an orphanage in Wantage. By 1911 he was aged 15 was back living with his mother Eliza and sisters Ida 16 and Winifred 13 at 5 Barn Hill. He was working as a solicitor’s clerk for Phillips, Evans and Dalton. In October 1915 he enlisted and joined… Read More
Miles, Sidney Sydney Miles Sydney Miles was born in October 1899 in Stamford, the son of Thomas and Mary Miles. In 1901 they lived at 1 Cooch’s Court. Neither parent had been born in Stamford, Thomas was born in Wansford and Mary in Godmanchester. Thomas was a wood sawyer. In 1911 they were living at 7 Cooch’s… Read More
Newman, Sidney James The Newman Family – 38 North Street William Arthur Newman and Annie Clarke married at Peterborough in July 1886. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Neither of them was born in the Stamford area and the elder children were all born in Peterborough but the family had moved to Stamford by the time the… Read More
Lock, John John Lock – 9 Cemetery Road In 1911 John, aged 13 years, is listed as the youngest child of John and Mary Lock. They lived at 9 Cemetery Road, a 4-roomed house. His father was a wheelwright. His parents had been married for 25 years and had had 8 children, one of whom had died.… Read More
Minton, William George William George Minton was born in 1896 in Newport, Monmouthshire. In 1901 he was living in Kidderminster with his father George Henry, manager of a clothiers shop, his mother Edith and sister Doris. His mother died and his father married Leonora, born in Bombay and they had three more children. Only the youngest born in… Read More
Newton, Charles Charles Newton – Borderville Cottages Charles Newton was born in 1897 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. In 1901 he was living in Hereward Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire, with his father William, aged 32, and his mother Emma, aged 25, and his paternal grandparents. There was a baby, Alfred, a few months old, but he died before the… Read More
Hill, George Webster George Webster Hill George, born in July 1899, was the son of John and Fanny Hill. In 1901 John and Fanny were living at the Dairy Farm at Burghley where John was working as a horseman. His father, a farm foreman, and his mother were also living there. By 1911 Fanny was a widow living… Read More
Ingram, Edward Edward Ingram Edward was born in Stamford but his parentage is uncertain and no-one else called Ingram was in the workhouse in 1911. In 1901 Edward was 3 years old living with his grandparents and 4 of their younger children at 10 Malting Yard. Samuel, his grandfather was a builder’s labourer. His grandmother died in… Read More
Kent, Alfred John Alfred was born in Stamford in 1896, in 1911 he was 15 and living at 4 St Leonard’s Street with his mother Emma Elizabeth (nee Berry ) Kent , his sister Annie Catherine (22) and a domestic servant, Clara Jane Perrins (24). His mother was born in Creeting St Mary, Suffolk. In 1911 she was… Read More