Holvey, Herbert Herbert Holvey– 42 East Street In the 4 rooms at 42 East St in 1911, there were two bricklayer’s labourers, one with his wife and 11yr old schoolboy Herbert Holvey with his father, Frederick. Frederick was a fitter of engines at an Agricultural Implements Works aged 29 years and married according to the entry however… Read More
Exton, John JOHN EXTON – 4 East Street John William Exton was the eldest surviving child of Harry Exton, born in Easton-on-the-Hill and Mary Ann Jeffries of Stamford who married in 1894. He was born in Grantham on June 1st 1898 but by 1901 they were living at 7 Belgrave Terrace. Harry was working as a builder’s… Read More
Bunn, Harry Harry Bunn – 1 Hope’s Terrace Harry Bunn was born in Lincoln in 1896. His mother died in 1901 leaving seven children aged between 1 and 13 years – Harry was about 5 years old. Although he was listed in Stamford in 1911 as a green grocer’s errand boy, he may only have been visiting.… Read More
Clark, Herbert Herbert Clark – 27 East Street By 1911 Edwin and Elizabeth Clark, Herbert’s parents, had had 13 children of whom only 7 were alive. Of those, 6 of them were living in 4 rooms with their parents at 27 East St. Elizabeth was born in Harrowby, near Grantham, but all the rest of the family… Read More
Baker, Frederick Frederick Baker– 44 East Street Frederick’s parents, Edwin and Ellen, must have married when they were about 16 or 17yrs old. They had 10 children of whom 8 were alive in 1911. Their eldest surviving son, Amos, was born in 1875 and Frederick, the youngest of the family, was born in 1896. Both his parents… 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