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
Healey, James William In 1911 James was 16, he was born in 1894 in Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire. He was living with his widowed father, also called James, at 21 St George’s Street. His father was a labourer at the Gas Works and a lamp lighter. James was employed by a tailor as an assistant shop hand.… Read More
George, John Leslie John Leslie George John was born on 9 May 1895 – he was the son of John and his wife Lizzie Anne. The family lived in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where John Leslie and his five sisters were born. His father was a railway clerk, then a goods manager and his final promotion to station-master of Stamford… Read More
Greenwood, Walter Reginald Alfred William Greenwood In 1911 Alfred lived in 15 Sheepmarket with his father Alfred James and his mother Eliza . Alfred James was a foreman and he was a grocer’s errand boy. He had 2 brothers Walter aged 10 , George aged 7and a sister Susan. All three boys would go to war. Alfred was… Read More
Gutteridge, Frederick Frederick Gutteridge Born in Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire 1899, Frederick moved to Stamford in 1910 with father James (a farm labourer), mother Elizabeth and 11 siblings. In Deenethorpe they lived with Elizabeth’s brother and his wife but came to live at 12 Lumby’s Terrace, Stamford when the twelfth child was a few months old. Frederick was still at… Read More
Foster, Alfred Lewis Alfred Lewis Foster Alfred was born in Stamford in1898. His parents were Alfred and Melinda (nee Tinkler) Foster. His Father was a painter/paperhanger. The family lived in 3 Albert Road in 1901 and were still there in 1911. Alfred was the sixth child. He had 4 elder brothers (Frank, Harry, John, William Thomas), Louisa was… Read More
Greenaway, Charles William Charles was born 1n 1895 in Hornsey, Middlesex. His parents were George & Julia Louisa (nee Pritchard) Greenaway. His father was a cheesemonger in1895 when he married, in 1901 he was a carman in London and in 1911 he and Charles’ mother were caretakers at Tickencote Hall in Rutland. In 1911 Charles and his brother… Read More
Greenaway, George George was born in 1896 in Hornsey Middlesex. His parents were George and Julia Louise Greenaway. His father was a cheesemonger in 1897, a carman in 1901 and a caretaker at Tickencote Hall, Rutland in 1911. In 1901 George was living with his parents in Marylebone , London. His brother Charles was staying with his… Read More