2 Park Lane, Stamford

Jack Matthews Jack was born in 1895 at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. In 1901 at the age of six he was living with his father Norman on Eaton Farm, Sedgeford, Norfolk. He never knew who his mother was. The tenant of Eaton Farm was Norman’s brother-in-law, Arthur, who employed Norman as a farm labourer. Arthur’s… Read More


1 Belle Vue Terrace, Barnack Road, Stamford

Vincent  was born in 1899 in Smethwick, Staffordshire, now in the West Midlands, 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre. His father, Corbet Legh Moody, was a commercial clerk, born in Shropshire and his mother, Annie was from Birmingham. Vincent Reginald was one of four children all born in Smethwick but around 1910 the family… Read More