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
Huddstone, Albert George Victor Albert George Victor Huddstone was born in 1896 and was a Room Steward in Burghley House in 1911, one of 30 indoor staff. Said to be born in Wymondham, Leicestershire he knew nothing of his father and mother. At the time the Burghley estate belonged to the 5th Marquess of Exeter who lived in the… Read More
Branston, John John Branston was born in 1899 in Oakham, his mother Ada’s home town. The family lived in Collyweston in 1901 and father Richard was an agricultural worker. Later he became a gamekeeper on the Burghley estate and John and his older sister Ellen moved with their parents to a cottage in The Maltings, Burghley Park.… Read More
Brown, Arthur Fred Arthur Fred Brown Arthur Fred Brown was born in 1900 and lived with his parents Fred (born South Luffenham) and Maria (born Walpole St Peter) and three sisters in The Maltings in Burghley Park where the four children were all born. His father worked on the estate as a shepherd and later, a butcher.Arthur was… Read More