Baxter, George Purcell George Purcell Baxter– 10 Scotgate, the Star and Garter George Baxter, born in 1898, was the son of Charles and Catherine. He had four brothers – Charles, Harry, Alfred and Albert – and two sisters Nellie and Mabel. In 1901 the family were living at 6 Eight Acres; George’s father, Charles, was a plumber and… Read More
Blades, Christopher William Christopher William Blades – 3 Wellington Lane Christopher William was born in 1896 and in 1911 lived at 3 Wellington Lane, a narrow passageway between High Street and Broad Street. He may have lived here all his life but certainly the family were dwelling there by 1900. His father, William Blades, was a chimney sweep… Read More
Baker, Charles Cecil Charles Cecil Baker In 1911 Charles was 15. He was born in 1896 in Stamford. He was living at 17 Adelaide Street Stamford with his parents Nugent & Gertrude (nee Chapman) Baker and his elder brother Arthur . All the family members had been born in Stamford. His father was a tailor’s cutter. Charles was… Read More
Baxter, Arthur Arthur Baxter – 7 Hope’s Terrace Arthur Baxter is something of a mystery. In 1911, he was 15 years old and living at 7 Hope’s Terrace with his parents, his sister Ethel 13 years and his maternal grandfather. His father was an iron moulder at an oil engineering works and Arthur was an apprentice iron… Read More
Blades, Charles Robert Charles Robert Blades Charles Robert, born in 1895, was the only child of Robert and Caroline Blades. Robert was a printer compositor working on a newspaper. In 1901 they lived at 2 All Saints Place and in 1911 they had moved to 1 Coronation Villas, 15 Vine Street. In 1915 Charles was working as a… Read More
Baker, William Henry In 1911 William Henry, who was born in Stamford in 1898, was living at 4 Welland Street with his father also William Henry and his stepmother Ruth (nee Scott) Baker and his younger siblings George William (11), Harrold (5), Doris (3) and Lucy (10 months). His father, a railway checker, was born in Lyddington in… Read More
Baxter, Arthur Ewart Arthur Ewart Baxter Arthur Ewart Baxter was born in Stamford in April 1894 to parents Jesse Baxter, a labourer in the Iron Foundry who was born in Thornaugh, and his wife, Salome, a Cornish woman. They lived at 6 Milner’s Row but had moved to 46 High St by 1911. At that time Arthur was… Read More
Baker, George George was born in Sheffield in 1899 and was probably William Henry’s stepmother’s (Ruth Scott’s) son. In 1901 George and his mother were living in the Gas Works Cottage, Burghley, Pilsgate at the home of his grandmother (Mary Ann Goodliff) and her second husband ( John Goodliff) who was a gas stoker on the Burghley… Read More
Bell, Thomas Thomas Bell Thomas was born in Stamford in 1898, he had left school but was unemployed in 1911. His father John William and mother Sophia were both born in Stamford and father worked as a painter’s labourer at Pick’s Motor Manufacturing Works. The family lived at 4 Boyden Court, a group of two tenements with… Read More
Abbott, James Edward James Edward Abbott In 1911 James Edward aged 14 was living at Castle Cottage 8 Sheepmarket with his parents, Thomas and Georgina, brother Norman aged 6 and sister Ivy Louise aged 12. His father was a land agent’s estate clerk. He was 19 when he enlisted with the Territorials in October 1915 in the East… Read More