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
Blades, Charles Robert Charles Robert Blades Charles Robert, born in 1895, was the only child of Robert and Caroline Blades. Robert was a printer compositor working on a newspaper. In 1901 they lived at 2 All Saints Place and in 1911 they had moved to 1 Coronation Villas, 15 Vine Street. In 1915 Charles was working as a… Read More
Baker, William Henry In 1911 William Henry, who was born in Stamford in 1898, was living at 4 Welland Street with his father also William Henry and his stepmother Ruth (nee Scott) Baker and his younger siblings George William (11), Harrold (5), Doris (3) and Lucy (10 months). His father, a railway checker, was born in Lyddington in… Read More
Baxter, Arthur Ewart Arthur Ewart Baxter Arthur Ewart Baxter was born in Stamford in April 1894 to parents Jesse Baxter, a labourer in the Iron Foundry who was born in Thornaugh, and his wife, Salome, a Cornish woman. They lived at 6 Milner’s Row but had moved to 46 High St by 1911. At that time Arthur was… Read More
Baker, George George was born in Sheffield in 1899 and was probably William Henry’s stepmother’s (Ruth Scott’s) son. In 1901 George and his mother were living in the Gas Works Cottage, Burghley, Pilsgate at the home of his grandmother (Mary Ann Goodliff) and her second husband ( John Goodliff) who was a gas stoker on the Burghley… Read More
Bell, Thomas Thomas Bell Thomas was born in Stamford in 1898, he had left school but was unemployed in 1911. His father John William and mother Sophia were both born in Stamford and father worked as a painter’s labourer at Pick’s Motor Manufacturing Works. The family lived at 4 Boyden Court, a group of two tenements with… 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
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
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