Wigginton, Walter Wilfred

Doughty Street, Stamford

He was born in early 1898 at 1 Doughty Street, Stamford. His father James (agricultural engineer) and mother Sarah lived in Stanley Street when they were first married where four children were born. Two died in infancy leaving Alfred and Percy. The family moved to Doughty Street before Walter, the fifth child, was born. Two… Read More

Thorold, William

6 Doughty Street, Stamford

William was born in the summer of 1896 in Bourne, Lincolnshire. He lived there at 12 Stanley Street with his parents William(fitter) and Elizabeth (dressmaker), brother Albert, 14 (sodawater factory worker) and younger sister Louisa. In 1902 another daughter, Marjory, was born and after that the family moved to 6 Doughty Street, Stamford. Albert stayed in… Read More

Brown, Frederick C

14 Doughty Street, Stamford

He was born 1897 in the village of Tempsford near Woburn, Bedfordshire, the youngest of five children, Harold, Robert, Hilda, Winifred and Fred. His father Edward was a self-employed builder from Lincolnshire. He was not very successful, moving to Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and Bedfordshire in search of work. In 1901 the family was living temporarily in… Read More