Roberts, George Bedford George Bedford Roberts – 4 West End Villas Thomas Roberts, a joiner and his wife Rebecca had 5 children all born in Stamford and the family were living at 2 Ladysmith Cottages (between 9 & 11 Empingham Road) in 1901. By 1911 their eldest son has died and their eldest daughter was living at Browne’s… Read More
Pepper, Robert Henry Robert Henry Pepper was born in and lived with parents Robert and Margaret, younger brother Percy Cecil and two sisters in The Cottage, the gamekeeper’s cottage at the Pilsgate end of Burghley Park where all the children were born. Father Robert was a gamekeeper on the estate like his father before him. An assistant gamekeeper… Read More
Pepper, Percy Cecil Percy Cecil Pepper was born in 1898 and lived with his family in the gamekeeper’s cottage in Burghley Park. Like his elder brother Robert, he was at school in 1911 and there is no record of him serving in WWI. He lived in Burghley Park in The Cottage all his life, following his father and… Read More
Moody, Vincent Reginald Vincent was born in 1899 in Smethwick, Staffordshire, now in the West Midlands, 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre. His father, Corbet Legh Moody, was a commercial clerk, born in Shropshire and his mother, Annie was from Birmingham. Vincent Reginald was one of four children all born in Smethwick but around 1910 the family… Read More
Nickerson, John Leo Born 8th November 1995 in Stamford to father John Charles, a brewer’s labourer and mother Lucy Caroline. Both parents were Londoners but lived in Stamford for many years, at first in Emlyn’s Court, All Saints’ parish. By 1911 they were living in 1 Belle Vue Terrace, with eight children and a lodger who was John’s… Read More
Lanham, William William Lanham was born in 1895 and in 1911 was living at 8 Church Lane, St Martin’s, Stamford with the family of William Henry Bradshaw, a house-painter. He worked as a ‘domestic houseboy’ for Bradshaw’s wife, Lillian Clarice, and their only son John. Although in 1911 he said he came from Wothorpe, in 1901 he… Read More
Harding, Leonard Leonard Harding was born on November 5th 1895 in Rockingham Northamtonshire. In 1901 his father Mark worked as a gardener on the Rockingham estate. Both Mark and his wife Eliza were born in Sussex. By 1911 they had moved to Stamford and were living at 7 Cooch’s Court. Leonard had an older brother James aged… Read More
Holmes, John Thomas John Thomas Holmes – 13 Foundry Road John Thomas’ parents were Frederick Holmes of Tinwell and Harriet Newbon of Easton-on-the-Hill who married in 1897. John was born in Easton and his sister Gertrude Emma in Tinwell. A younger sister, Constance, was born in Stamford in 1909 and they were all living at 13 Foundry Road… Read More
Jackson, Edward Edward Jackson Edward was born in Stamford in 1900 and lived at 6 Newtown with father John Edward, mother Matilda and three younger siblings (all born in Stamford) as well as George, his father’s brother. His father worked at Blackstone’s as a blacksmith’s striker but in 1911 Eddie was still at school. No record has… Read More
Johnson, Kenneth Bertie Kenneth Bertie Johnson Kenneth was 15 in 1911. He was born in Ketton, Rutland in 1895. His mother was Sarah Ann Brinsley (nee Johnson). She married George Brinsley in 1900. He was an Examiner for the Great Northern Railway. Kenneth was a gardener at a Nursery. In 1901 they were living at 8 Adelaide Street… Read More