Hudson, Frederick Joe Frederick Joe Hudson Frederick was born in 1896 at Littleport, Cambridgeshire and moved around East Anglia with father James ( a journeyman baker), mother Selina and a growing number of siblings until they settled in a bakers’ shop at 21 Water Street, Stamford. Aged 15 in 1911, Fred was an apprentice reporter then one evening… Read More
Hudson, Walter Victor James Walter Victor Hudson – Wally Walter was born in Peterborough in 1898 and lived at 21 Water Street in 1911 where his father James ran a baker and confectioners’ shop. Walter helped his father in the bakery and was the middle child of 7 children all living at home. His brothers Frederick and Alfred… Read More
Hudson, Alfred Redvers Alfred Redvers Hudson Alfred was born in 1900 at Sawtry, Huntingdonshire and was Frederick and Walter‘s younger brother. The Hudson family had several different addresses in Rutland, Cambridge and Huntingdon until in 1910 father James took on the bakery business in Water Street Stamford. Alfred went to school in Stamford and lived with his father,… Read More
Fryer, John William John William Fryer John was born in Stamford in 1897, the third child of John Henry (a groom and horseman) and Annie (see photo) of 17 High Street Street, St. Martin’s. In 1911 Annie was living at 23 Water Street with 6 children but John Henry was in Rauceby Asylum with mental illness. Discharged after… Read More
Foxon, Charles James Charles James Foxon Born in Stamford in 1899, Charles was still at school in 1911, the eldest of 6 children of Charles (railway carman) and Alice. When Charles was a baby he, his younger brother William (see below) and his parents lived with his maternal grandparents, James and Jane Stafford, in Milners Row, 3 Gas… Read More
Foxon, William Walter William Walter Foxon Born 1900 in Stamford, the younger brother of Charles, moved with his family from 3 Gas Street to 8 Lumby’s Terrace whilst he was at school. No record has been found of his war service. In 1920 he married Gladys Dooley in Thorne, West Yorkshire so he may have left Stamford to… Read More
Cole, Bertie Bertie Cole Betie was born Stamford in the autumn of 1899 and was still at school in 1911. He lived with father Robert (a brewery labourer at Phillips Brewery) and mother Ann at 7 Phillips Yard, the row of cottages rented to Phillips’ Brewery workers. He was the youngest of nine children, one of whom… Read More
Day, John John born in Stamford on 27th January 1895 was the son of Mary Ann Day. They lived with Mary’s parents, William, a Great Northern railway platelayer and Jane, who was born in Deeping St. James, Lincolnshire. Jane gave birth to 17 children, 9 of whom died in infancy. In 1905 Mary, aged 39, married… Read More
Day, George George was born in Stamford in the autumn of 1896, he was the second son of his mother Mary Ann Day. In 1911 he was living with his grandparents, William and Jane Day and three boys, uncle Ernest and brothers John and William at 14 Lumby’s Terrace. He was unemployed. At the outbreak of WWI,… Read More
Boyden, Walter Walter Boyden Walter was born in Stamford in July 1899, he lived at first in St Michael’s parish at 12 Cecil Court with mother Matilda, elder brother George, (an apprentice cabinet-maker) and father Arthur who was a newspaper compositor/printer. By 1911 George had left home and Walter, with younger brother Bertie and parents had moved… Read More