Butcher, William William Butcher William was born in Stamford in 1896 to mother Jane and father James, a farm labourer. In 1901 William was 5 years old and had a brother Charles, 4, sister Jessie, 3, and baby brother Alfred. The family were living at 158 Ryhall Road in St George’s parish, Stamford. By 1911 another four… Read More
Butcher, Charley Charley Butcher Charley was born in Stamford in 1897, the younger brother of William. In 1901 he lived with his family at 158 Ryhall Road, Stamford. In 1911 he moved with his parents and six siblings to 16 Lumby’s Terrace and at that date he was unemployed. No further details of his life are known… 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
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
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
Betts, Edward Two families called Betts lived in Duncombs Yard. Charles and Harry were brothers, both born and brought up in St Martin’s parish. Charles (a jobbing gardener) lived at number 2 with his wife Annie and their seven children: Lilian, Ernest, Thomas, Edward, Charles, Ellen and Mabel. Harry (a stonemason on the Burghley estate) lived at… Read More
Betts, Charles Two families called Betts lived in Duncombs Yard. Charles and Harry were brothers, both born and brought up in St Martin’s parish. Charles (a jobbing gardener) lived at number 2 with his wife Annie and their seven children: Lilian, Ernest, Thomas, Edward, Charles, Ellen and Mabel. Harry (a stonemason on the Burghley estate) lived at… Read More