So let's start with her father Thomas Dixon Sneath, or at times I think he was know as Dixon Sneath. He was so named because many of the first born Sneath boys were called William or Thomas. His second forename Dixon, was in fact the surname of his father's first wife. My father always told me that his Sneath relations came for a small village in Lincolnshire called Brant Broughton.
When I first started researching the Sneath family I was living in Cleethorpes, and so so I joined the Lincolnshire Family History Society. They have a magazine that comes out monthly and in is a section where members can put in their search interests, so I submitted the fact that I was researching the Sneath Family of Brant Broughton, just to see what would happen. I was really pleased to then be contacted by another Sneath researcher called Deidre Sneath from Cambridgeshire who was married to a Michael Sneath. We made contact with each other and went to visit her. I was shown a family bible in which were kept birth, marriages & burial dates of many Sneath relations. I made a copy of this record, and publish it below.
EXTRACTS from SNEATH Family Bible
2. Charles Cartwright born June 3-1824 ( son of Chas. Cartwright died June 1st 1890 aged 63)
3. Mr.. Sneath Senior died January 3 1814 aged 77
4. Charles Sneath July 11 1811 aged 13
5. Mr. Sneath died March 23 – 1820 aged 55
6. Mrs Sneath died 1826 aged 71
7. Elizabeth Cartwright born March 6-1849
8. Charles Henry Born April 2-1856
9. John Wesley born November 22 – 1858
10. William Charles born June 5 1852
11. Thomas Dixon born June 11 1853
12. Robert Newton born November 21 1855 died 8 July 1855
13. Charles Cartwright 28 March 1798
14. Elizabeth Cartwright 22 May 1796 died 15 Feb 1858
15. William Sneath born 18th Dec. 1821
16. Elizabeth Sneath nee Cartwright, born 23rd Oct. 1820 Married ? April 1849
17. John Wesley born 22nd Nov 1850 quarter past 3 pm Friday
18. William Charles born 5th June 1852 quarter past 10am Saturday
19. Thomas Dixon born 11th June 1853 half past 10am Saturday
20. Robert Newton born 2nd Nov 1855 3pm Friday
21. “ “ died 4th November 1856 half past 2am Tuesday
22. Richard Harvey born 24th April, 1859 quarter past 9am Sunday
23. “ “ died 19th May, 1859 4am Thursday
24. Edwin Cartwright born 21st Oct. 1860 half past 12am Sunday
25. a Boy still born 7th July 1863 half past 9am Thursday
26. Martha Harvey born 8th Dec 1864 6am Thursday
27. “ “ died May 6th 1913 (at ? )
28. Thos. Dixon Sneath & Clara Rowbotham married 27th Sept 1877
29. Wm. Chas Sneath & Mary Jane Dunn married 10th Sep 1878
30. John Wesley Sneath & Lucy Maria Quibell married 30th Sep 1879 Lucy died Xmas 1911 & J W Sneath married again Xmas 19? & J. W. Sneath died January 1922
31. Wm Sneath senior died Aug 2nd 1868
32.
So this particular record formed the basis of my early family history research
of the Sneath family. I also used the archives in Lincoln to research further
back, and made copies of wills of the Sneath farmers going back to about
1735.
Okay so you can see that Thomas Dixon SNEATH was born on 11 June 1853 at
10.30am on a Saturday morning. His father was William Sneath, and his mother
was Elizabeth Sneath nee Cartwright. William Sneath, his father, was born 18
December 1821 in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire. I have used Lincstothepast website
to determine his baptism date, so that website has this record:-
Caythorpe Parish Records - Baptisms (1821-1822)
Register No. 189: 2 January 1822, William, son of William & Mary SNEATH,
of Caythorpe, Farmer, by G. Woodcock, Curate.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=512742&iid=124955
This William, born 1821 then married an Eliza Dixon on 2nd April, 1845
at Grantham St Wulfram Church, Grantham.
As you can see from the copy of their marriage certificate above, William was already a draper, when he married Eliza Dixon. It records that his father, William was a farmer, and that Eliza's father Thomas was a cabinet maker. How these two came to meet I don't rightly know, after all, Brant Broughton & Grantham are quite some distance away from each other. Thomas did have a business for some time in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Eliza was the daughter of a cabinet maker called Thomas Dixon, who had a shop & business in Grantham. A devout Christian and member of the Methodist Church, Thomas Dixon was a local preacher and kept a diary which has been published. Then tragedy came to the young married couple as on 14 August, 1846 in Grantham, Eliza Sneath died childless, and she was buried in the churchyard of that church in Grantham. Her father, Thomas wrote a long letter to a friend of his called Elizabeth Cartwright telling her of his daughter's death. At the end of his letter dated August 1846 he wrote this: "Please give my kind love to your dear affectionate Mother. Also to our Father and brothers. From yours deeply afflicted but very affectionately, Thos Dixon, Grantham, August 1846.
There is a book about Thomas Dixon which can be read in Google Books: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8WYBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Earnest+Methodist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7t5zO0I3RAhVGrxoKHYwZCUgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Earnest%20Methodist&f=false
This is an exerpt about him and his children: Affliction visited his family. On the 26th June, 1820, his wife gave birth to a son, which to his great grief lived but three weeks. On the 9th February, 1822, his daughter Eliza was born. She grew up a fragile but beautiful and amiable girl. Her gentleness and sweetness of disposition endeared her to all who knew her. With a father’s fondest love did he watch over her, and with a father’s anxiety, too, for many a dark shadow passed over the spirit of his joy, as he perceived the feebleness of her physical strength and the likelihood that her days upon the earth would be but few. She had several attacks of sickness; but recovering, and her health improved, on the 2nd April, 1845, she became the wife of William Sneath. Her married life, however, was but brief. That deceitful and stealthy disease which lurks beneath some many of the fairest forms, began to give unmistakeable evidences of its existence, encroaching more and more rapidly, until on Friday, August 14, 1846, the light of Eliza’s life went out.
So when Thomas Dixon writes "to your dear affectionate mother", then he is referring to Elizabeth Carwright's mother.
As you can see above, in the extracts from the Sneath family Bible, Elizabeth Cartwright was born October 23rd, 1820. The record doesn't say where she was born, but I did find her baptism/christening. This is that record from Lincstothepast:
Lincoln St Swithin: Baptisms: Register No. 487: 26 October 1820, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles & Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT, of Waterside, Butcher, by John Carter.
So Elizabeth was christened just 3 days after her birth-her parents, were Charles & Elizabeth Cartwright, living in Waterside, Lincoln, with Charles's occupation as a butcher. Now in the census of 1851, which was the first census with more detail, it lists that Charles Cartwright was born in Harby, Leicestershire.
The Record states: 1851 census for Leicestershire, Melton Mowbray (all relationships are based on how they are related to the head of the household.
As you can see from the copy of their marriage certificate above, William was already a draper, when he married Eliza Dixon. It records that his father, William was a farmer, and that Eliza's father Thomas was a cabinet maker. How these two came to meet I don't rightly know, after all, Brant Broughton & Grantham are quite some distance away from each other. Thomas did have a business for some time in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Eliza was the daughter of a cabinet maker called Thomas Dixon, who had a shop & business in Grantham. A devout Christian and member of the Methodist Church, Thomas Dixon was a local preacher and kept a diary which has been published. Then tragedy came to the young married couple as on 14 August, 1846 in Grantham, Eliza Sneath died childless, and she was buried in the churchyard of that church in Grantham. Her father, Thomas wrote a long letter to a friend of his called Elizabeth Cartwright telling her of his daughter's death. At the end of his letter dated August 1846 he wrote this: "Please give my kind love to your dear affectionate Mother. Also to our Father and brothers. From yours deeply afflicted but very affectionately, Thos Dixon, Grantham, August 1846.
There is a book about Thomas Dixon which can be read in Google Books: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8WYBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Earnest+Methodist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7t5zO0I3RAhVGrxoKHYwZCUgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Earnest%20Methodist&f=false
This is an exerpt about him and his children: Affliction visited his family. On the 26th June, 1820, his wife gave birth to a son, which to his great grief lived but three weeks. On the 9th February, 1822, his daughter Eliza was born. She grew up a fragile but beautiful and amiable girl. Her gentleness and sweetness of disposition endeared her to all who knew her. With a father’s fondest love did he watch over her, and with a father’s anxiety, too, for many a dark shadow passed over the spirit of his joy, as he perceived the feebleness of her physical strength and the likelihood that her days upon the earth would be but few. She had several attacks of sickness; but recovering, and her health improved, on the 2nd April, 1845, she became the wife of William Sneath. Her married life, however, was but brief. That deceitful and stealthy disease which lurks beneath some many of the fairest forms, began to give unmistakeable evidences of its existence, encroaching more and more rapidly, until on Friday, August 14, 1846, the light of Eliza’s life went out.
So when Thomas Dixon writes "to your dear affectionate mother", then he is referring to Elizabeth Carwright's mother.
As you can see above, in the extracts from the Sneath family Bible, Elizabeth Cartwright was born October 23rd, 1820. The record doesn't say where she was born, but I did find her baptism/christening. This is that record from Lincstothepast:
Lincoln St Swithin: Baptisms: Register No. 487: 26 October 1820, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles & Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT, of Waterside, Butcher, by John Carter.
So Elizabeth was christened just 3 days after her birth-her parents, were Charles & Elizabeth Cartwright, living in Waterside, Lincoln, with Charles's occupation as a butcher. Now in the census of 1851, which was the first census with more detail, it lists that Charles Cartwright was born in Harby, Leicestershire.
The Record states: 1851 census for Leicestershire, Melton Mowbray (all relationships are based on how they are related to the head of the household.
29: Sherrard Street, Charles CARTWRIGHT, Head, Married, 53, Butcher, born
Harby, Leicestershire
Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT, wife, Married, 55, Butcher’s wife, born Silk
Willoughby, Lincolnshire
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, Married, 30, Draper’s Wife, Born Lincoln,
Lincolnshire
John Wesley SNEATH, Grandson, unmarried, 4 months, Born Brant Broughton,
Lincolnshire.
10 years earlier, in 1841, this was the census entry:
1841 Census: Charles Cartwright:
Township of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Sherrard St,
1. Charles Cartwright, 35 years, Butcher, Not born in Leicestershire
2. Elizabeth Cartwright, 35 years, Not born in Leicestershire.
3. Charles Cartwright, 15 years, Not born in Leicestershire
4. Nathaniel DIXON, 75 years, of Independent Means, Not born in
Leicestershire
A bit confusing that for Charles Cartwright, saying he was born out of
Leicestershire when 1851 census says he was born in Leicestershire. Anyway,
he and his wife Elizabeth were married in Silk Willoughby,
Lincolnshire.
Marriage
Silk Willoughby Parish Records - Marriages:
Lincstothepast: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=523721&iid=339366
Register No. 11: Charles CARTWRIGHT of the Parish of St. Swithin in the
City of Lincoln, bachelor, and Elizabeth SNEATH, of this Parish, spinster,
were married in this church by Licence with consent of all necessary
parties 16 November 1819 by Joseph Jowett, Rector. Both parties
signed the record-witnessed by John Singleton & Elizabeth
Newton.
It's interesting when you see this marriage record, a licence was need to get married as opposed to banns, as it seems that one of the parties was under 21, needing consent of their parents to get married. In that census of 1851, Charles was 53, so born about 1797 whilst, Elizabeth was 55, so born about 1796. In the Sneath family Bible records above, Elizabeth Cartwright, nee Sneath was born 22nd May 1796, so in 1819, she was 23 years of age. on There is a record of baptism at Silk Willoughby for Elizabeth Sneath:
Silk Willoughby Parish Records - Baptisms & Burials (1794-1797)
1796:
Baptised Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth SNEATH, 29th May
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=552656&iid=339840
If Charles was 53 in 1851, he would have been 22 or so in 1819.
Note also the witnesses to this marriage;John Singleton & Elizabeth Newton.
Elizabeth's mother & father, were Thomas SNEATH & Elizabeth Ann Sneath, nee Singleton, daughter of John Singleton & his wife Eleanor Elsom. Elizabeth Newton, married Elizabeth Sneath's brother, Thomas at Nocton Parish Church on 22nd July 1823.
Elizabeth benefited from the will of her father, Thomas Sneath, who recorded in his will, made on the 8th January 1820.
"8. And then Upon Further Trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor o their Executors or Administrators do and shall pay and divide all the residue and remainder of the said trust Moneys, Effects and promises that shall remain (after deducting ? the said sums of five hundred pounds so directed to be paid to each of my said Sons William Sneath and Thomas Sneath as aforesaid) and between and amongst my said Sons William Sneath and Thomas Sneath, my Daughter Elizabeth the Wife of Charles Cartwright and my Son John Sneath in equal shares and proportions to whom I give and bequeath the same accordingly to and for their absolute use and benefit."
Thomas died 3rd March 1820 leaving a will valued at £5,000.
Charles Cartwright & his wife Elizabeth, nee Sneath, must have moved from Waterside, Lincoln to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire between 1820 & 1841-that's big gap, but finding records about people's movements is difficult without a census, and when no children are born to them. In point of fact, Charles & Elizabeth had 3 children born to them whilst in Lincoln. Elizabeth, first of all in 1820, then, Charles Singleton Cartwright in March 1822, but he died in August that year being buried at Lincoln St Swithin parish Church as this record states: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=601338&iid=401838
Burials in Parish of St Swithin 1822 Register No. 387: Charles Singleton, son of Charles & Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT, of Waterside, Buried, August 2nd, 1822, aged-an infant by Richard Thomas.
Then they had another son called Charles, born June 3rd, 1824 (as above in Sneath family Bible), but his baptism was recorded at Lincoln St Swithin on Lincstothepast:
Baptisms at Lincoln St Swithin 1824: Register No. 717: Charles son of
Charles & Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT of Waterside, Butcher, by John
Carter.
I did find Charles in Melton Mowbray in 1833-he had a butcher's shop very
near to the Beast Market in that town:
Leicester Journal - Friday 03 May 1833
FREEHOLD PROPERTY
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY BURTON & CLARK
On Tuesday, the 11th day of May, 1833, at the house of Mr. Roberts, the
Black Swan Inn, Melton Mowbray, at 5 o’ clock in the evening subject to such
conditions as will then be produced, in the following lots.
(3 lots altogether)
All that Brick and slated messuage or tenement most desirably situated for
Trade in the Beast Market, in Melton Mowbray aforesaid, with the
outbuildings attached thereof, in the occupation of
Mr. Charles Cartwright, butcher.
Melton Mowbray, 30th April, 1833.
So Charles rented a shop in Melton Mowbray in 1833.
Anyway, Thomas Dixon's letter to Elizabeth Carwtright seems to have worked, because she was at that time unmarried, but soon she and William Sneath met at her home in Melton Mowbray, where they married on April 9, 1849, at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, as this announcement was made in the Lincolnshire Chronicle on April 13, 1849.
• Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
MARRIED: At Melton Mowbray on Monday last, Mr. William Sneath, draper, of Brant Broughton, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. Charles Cartwright, butcher, of the former place.
So in 1849, William Sneath was working as a draper at Brant Broughton, and in the 1851 census, he was living there, in the High Street, the record states:-
1851 Census 2136 270
18 High St, Brant Broughton
William Sneath, Head, Married, 29 years, Grocer & Draper & Druggist, born Caythorpe, Lincs
Martha Sneath, unmarried, 19 years, farmer’s daughter, born, Caythorpe, Lincs
Jane Singleton, servant, unmarried, 18 years, Servant, Stragglethorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, is back at home on census day, with her parents in Melton Mowbray, with her 11 month old son John Wesley Sneath. She is shown to be a draper's wife, but then her husband, William was a draper.
So by 5 April, 1851, William & his wife Elizabeth have 1 son by the name of John Wesley Sneath, born on " 22nd Nov 1850 quarter past 3 pm Friday" as above in the Sneath Family Bible. I think that you can tell by their son's name they are Methodists. Certainly there is no record at the parish church of his baptism, so maybe he was christened in the Methodist Church. Other children soon follow as you can see from the records in the Sneath Family Bible:
1. John Wesley born 22nd Nov 1850 quarter past 3 pm Friday
2. William Charles born 5th June 1852 quarter past 10am Saturday
3. Thomas Dixon born 11th June 1853 half past 10am Saturday
4. Robert Newton born 2nd Nov 1855 3pm Friday
4a. “ “ died 4th November 1856 half past 2am Tuesday
5.. Richard Harvey born 24th April, 1859 quarter past 9am Sunday
5a “ “ died 19th May, 1859 4am Thursday
6. Edwin Cartwright born 21st Oct. 1860 half past 12am Sunday
7. a Boy still born 7th July 1863 half past 9am Thursday
8. . Martha Harvey born 8th Dec 1864 6am Thursday
So by the census of 1861, this was the Sneath family:
1861 Census: RG 2477
53, High St, Brant Broughton
William Sneath, Head, Married, Grocer, Draper and Farmer, Caythorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, Wife, Married, 40 years, Lincoln, Lincs
John Wesley Sneath, Son, 10 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Charles William Sneath, Son, 8 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Thomas Dixon Sneath, Son, 4 years, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Edwin Cartwright Sneath, 6months, Brant Broughton, Lincs
John Dunn, Apprentice Grocer & Draper, born Leadenham
Mary Ann Blackburn, Servant, 19 years, Caythorpe, Lincs
Maybe you notice something different about William's occupation-he is a
farmer.
Well this is 1861 Census Entry:
So William born 1821 is living on High Street, Brant Broughton, whilst round the corner in Church Lane is his father, the entry reads:
Church Lane:
1 Sneath, William, senr., Head, Married, 66, years, Retired farmer, born Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire.
2. Sneath, Mary, wife, 69, years, born Carlton-le Moorland, Lincolnshire.
3. Sneath, Martha, Daughter, unmarried, 29, years, born Caythorpe, Lincolnshire.
4. Sowerby, Clara, grand daughter, 3 years, born Darlington, County Durham.
So now it looks like young William, the draper & druggist has taken over the family business and is now a farmer too, whilst his father William, is living nearby with his wife &, daughter & grand daughter.
I suppose that William must have known that eventually he would become a farmer as he was the eldest son so expected to carry on with the family business.
I did wonder where the Sneath family farm was in 1861-it appears that it was in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, about 5 miles from Brant Broughton. Evidence for this comes from the will of William SNEATH, young William Sneath the draper & druggist's father.
Here is a copy of that will, which I obtained from Lincolnshire Archives:
Will of William Sneath of Brant Broughton
On the 27th day of October, 1868, the will of William Sneath late of Brant Broughton in the County of Lincoln Farmer.
The deceased who died on the second day of August 1868, at Brant Broughton aforesaid, was proved in the District Registry attached to her Majesty’s Court of Probate at Lincoln by the oath of William Sneath of Brant Broughton aforesaid, farmer the son of the said deceased and John Martin of Grantham in the said County Ironmonger the Executors therein named they having sworn duty to administer.
Re-sworn the Stamp Offices under £5000 July 1870
Effects under £4000 no leasehold
Extracted by Charles Steel, Solicitor, New Sleaford
This is the last Will and Testament of one William Sneath of Brant Broughton in the County of Lincoln Farmer as follows:-
I give and devise all my Messuages or Tenement Lands and Hereditaments situated at Caythorpe in the said County of Lincoln unto and to the use of my son William Sneath, his heirs and assigns for ever and I give and devise all my Messuages Or Tenement buildings, gardens Hereditaments and premises situate at Darlington in the County of Durham unto and to the use of my daughter Susannah Sowerby Widow her heirs and assigns for ever I bequeath my household furniture, plate, linen, china, books, prints, pictures, and consumable household stores unto my dear wife Mary Sneath for her absolute benefit.
And I also bequeath to her my said Wife the sum of fifty pounds to be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease.
And I bequeath unto my said daughter Susannah Sowerby the legacy of fifty pounds to be paid at the expiration of Twelve calendar months after my decease and to be in addition to the property above. And to her I bequeath the sum of Eight hundred Pounds unto my Son the William Sneath and my son in law John Martin of Grantham in the said County of Lincoln, Ironmonger their executors, administrators and assigns Upon trust to invest the same in their or his names or name in Parliamentary Stocks or public funds of Great Britain or on the Government or real securities in England or Wales and periodic from time to time and at their or his discretions to or any such several securities for others of or like nature.
And upon further Trust to pay the annual income thereof to my said Wife and her assigns for her life and decease the same sum of Eight Hundred Pounds and the stocks funds and securities thereof shall be in trust for my children William Sneath, Charles Sneath, John Sneath, Elizabeth the wife of John Watson, Mary Ann the Wife of the said John Martin, and Martha the Wife of Jabez Marratt in equal shares for their respective and absolute benefit, But as to the shares of my said daughters such shares shall be upon the Trustees herein after expressed concerning the same that is to say I direct that my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall stand professed of the share in the said Trust monies of each of my daughters upon the Trusts following that is to say I direct my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall stand professed of the shares in the said ? of each of my daughters upon the Trusts following that is to say Upon trust to invest the same and with power from time to time to vary the securities thereof the manner hereinbefore mentioned and to pay the annual income thereof and each such daughter respectively during her life so that same may be for her separate use, free from control, debts, interference and any arguments of any husband. And from soon after the decease of each such daughter respectively the said share in the said trust monies shall be in trust for such person or persons and in such manner as such daughters whether ? or ? shall by her last Will or Testament or any codicils thereto direct or appoint and in default of such direction or appointment and subject thereto in trust for the child or children of such daughter who shall attain of twenty one years or be married and if more than one in equal shares and to be paid as he ? they shall respectively all attain such age or marry. And if there shall be no such children who shall attain such age or be married the same share in the said Trust monies shall be in Trust for such persons exclusive of a husband as shall at her death be her next of kin entitled as such to her personal estate under Statutes for the Distribution of the personal Estates or Intestator and in the proportions in which they could be so entitled.
I bequeath the residue of all my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto William Sneath and John Martin their executors administrators and assigns Upon Trust as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to sell and dispose of the same either by Public auction or private contract in such manner as my said Trustees or Trustee shall think proper and thereout pay my debts and any testamentary expenses and the legacies hereby bequeathed and subject thereto , all the said residuary personal estate and trust monies hereinbefore bequeathed Upon Trust for my said children William Sneath, Charles Sneath, John Sneath, Elizabeth Watson, Mary Ann Martin, and Martha Marratt in equal shares for their respective and absolute benefit. But subject as do the shares of such of my children as are daughters to the Trust hereinbefore declared concerning the shares of my said daughters in the said sum of eight hundred pounds hereinbefore bequeathed.
And I declare that any sum or sums of money which I have advanced to any of my said Sons or to any of my three last named daughters shall be deemed as part of given to him or her respectively by this Will but if such advances shall be found to be equal or more than such shares the same shall be in full for the whole of such shares respectively. And I give and devise all mortgaged and trust estates which I have to dispose by this my Will unto and to the use of William Sneath and John Martin their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns upon the equities and trusts affecting the same.
And I appoint William Sneath and John Martin Executors of this my Will. And I hereby revoke all my former wills and other testamentary dispositions In Witness whereof I the said William Sneath the Testator have to each sheet of this my Will contained in three sheets set my hand this Ninth day April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight. William Sneath.
Signed and declared by the said William Sneath the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request and in the presence of each other here have undersubscribed our names as Witnesses to the execution thereof.
So this will proves where William Sneath, the younger was working-going to and from Caythorpe everyday. Well that's what it appears anyway, but I still wonder if the farm at Caythorpe was in fact owned by someone else or wasn't all that big because of these advertisements earlier about the land in Caythorpe:
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 24 August 1838
To be sold by Auction: at the Red Lion, Caythorpe, on Wednesday 5th September
All that piece of exceeding rich pasture land being the Western Portion of a close called Masthills as the same is now staked out from the remainder bounded by lands on the west of mr. Weatherill, and by a road leading from Caythorpe to Sleaford on the North. Also another piece of land of Arable Land adjoining the last piece and bounded lands on the west by Earl Brown and Mr. Bemrose on the south, and another piece of land Pastureland. All these are in the occupation of Mr. William Sneath. Mr. William Sneath will show the several lots.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 04 November 1842
Game Notice: J H Atkin, 13, Cursitor St, London:
Notwithstanding the decision of the Magistrates at Sleaford Sessions, on the 19th day of October 1842, confirming the conviction of Mr. Bemrose of Caythorpe by Mr. Allix, on the information of Mr. Packe, of Caythorpe, in the penal sum of £1 14shillings for trespassing on lands (the freehold of which is vested solely in me), Mr. Bemrose having had leave from me to shoot over the same lands, I hereby request all persons to refrain from shooting in several farms in Caythorpe aforesaid (being lands in question), in the several occupations of William SNEATH, Francis HENSON and William Pickworth ATKIN; and also Fox-cover, called Beacon Covert, having given the exclusive right of sporting and killing game thereon to the said William Bemrose; and I hereby give Notice that any persons whatever found trespassing over the same after this notice will be prosecuted.
So it appears that William SNEATH senior, father of William the draper &
druggist merely occupied the land in Caythorpe, and that someone in London
owned its freehold.
So in the census of 1871,
Note all persons on census are related to the Head of the Household
1871 Lincolnshire: Brant Broughton, District 4: Page 19 of 31: RG10/3540
Church Lane:
Number on schedule: 6: Farm House: William SNEATH, Head, Married, 49,
Farmer of 238 acres, Employs 6 labourers, 1 boy & land owner, born
Caythorpe, Lincolnshire
Elizabeth SNEATH, Wife, Married, 50, Born Lincoln
Edwin Cartwright SNEATH, son, Unmarried, 10, Scholar, Born Brant
Broughton, Lincolnshire
Martha H SNEATH, daughter, unmarried, 6, Born Brant Broughton,
Lincolnshire
Mary SNEATH, mother, widow, 78, Annuitant, Born Carlton-le-Moorland,
Lincolnshire.
Annie Wright, Servant, Unmarried, 18 , General Servant, Born Balderton,
Notts.
Next door is St Helen’s Church
But now note this census entry that says that William SNEATH, now the farmer
owns the land.
So by the census of 1871, quite a few of the children who were in Brant
Broughton in 1861 are elsewhere now.
1. John Wesley SNEATH: (born November 22, 1858, in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.
1. John Wesley SNEATH: (born November 22, 1858, in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.
John Wesley SNEATH, attended a private school in Spalding, Lincolnshire, called Gosberton Hall. I found this article written by John in 1905 "
After serving the day school articles, Mr. Bavin secured an appointment as assistant master at a private boarding school, conducted by Mr. C. Boyer, at Gosberton Hall, Spalding. To this school I was sent through Mr. Bavin's influence with my father. It was the occasion of my first leaving home, but the strangeness was modified by the presence of a teacher friend- to whom I could with certainty look for sympathy. Upon one occasion a number of us were spending Saturday afternoon skating, and, coming round a bend in the river, not noticing a gap in the ice, I had the misfortune of a severe ducking. Mr. Bavin came to the rescue, saw me to safe quarters, a warm bath, and to bed. (The Methodist (Sydney, NSW(Saturday 12 August 1905)
aged 10 in 1861 census, a scholar and then in 1871 is living in Sleaford at the home of an Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT a retired farmer's widow & working as a banker's clerk for the Lincoln & Lindsey Bank-the proof of which is in this newspaper article. In that same census, his younger brother Dixon Sneath was an apprentice at a chemist's shop in Stodman Street, Newark. The chemist was called Thomas Oliver Quibell.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 30 April 1875
Sleaford Petty Sessions: April 26:
William TEAT was charged by Mr. E. Law with altering an order with
intent to defraud at New Sleaford on the 19th inst.
Mr. Law said he was an auctioneer residing at Sleaford. On Monday
last he signed about 20 cheques on the Lincoln and Lindsey Bank. He
signed one for the prisoner (William TEAT), to the amount of £4 17s
6d.; he had on that day sold for him a store beast for £5. After
deducting 2s 6d for commission the prisoner would have due to him £4
17s 6d, but before presenting the cheque, he altered the word “four”
to “forty”. On the following Friday when making up his bank book, he
found that £40 17s 6d had been withdrawn instead of £4 17s
6d.
William Flint Turner said he was a clerk in the employ of Mr. Law. He
confirmed that the prisoner had come into the office for payment, he
checked that the beast had been sold for £5. And gave him a cheque for
it after deducting the commission of 2s 6d. The cheque produced was
the same. Supt Stevenitt said he went to Ancaster and asked the
prisoner if he had sold a beast at Mr. Law’s on the previous Monday,
and when he replied “Yes”, and after some hesitation he admitted
cashing the cheque. When searching him he said “You will not find any
money on me, as it is in the house” They found on him a key which
unlocked the door and going upstairs his mother unlocked a drawer and
gave them seven £5 notes, a florin, a half-sovereign, and 6d. John
SNEATH, clerk at the bank, deposed to cashing the cheque. The Chairman
said he was very sorry to see a man in his position charged with such
a grave offence. In his lifetime he could remember when such an
offence was punishable with death, but in the present case it would be
their painful duty to commit him to the next Lincoln Assizes, bail
being refused.
So John Wesley SNEATH worked as clerk for the Lincoln &
Lindsey Bank, the Bank his father had shares in.
William appeared before the Crown Court on Friday 13th July and was
sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.
So in 1875, John Sneath was working as a clerk in the Lincoln & Lindsey Bank.
According to a document to do with a Wesleyan Chapel at Brant Broughton, John Wesley Sneath is named as an accountant at Sleaford. This is in 1878 on 27th April.
William Charles Sneath, who in the census of 1871 is working as an apprentice grocer in Sleaford, joins with his brother John Wesley Sneath to run a grocery business in Stamford. Clearly they are following their father's footsteps who if you remember was a grocer & draper in Brant Broughton before becoming a farmer. I found this advertisement in the Stamford Mercury in 1877:
Stamford Mercury - Friday 26 October 1877
MANTLE HUBBARD, Wholesale and family Grocer, wine agent, Tallow Chandler, Hop and cake merchant, Market Place, Uppingham begs to return his sincere thanks to the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and inhabitants generally of Uppingham and its extensive surrounding district for the liberal share of their patronage and confidence continued to him for upwards of 15 years.
In retiring from the trade, M. Hubbard confidently recommends to his friends and patrons Messrs. SNEATH BROTHERS of STAMFORD, who have had considerable experience in some of our leading houses, and will carry on the business in all its branches. NB Accounts may be paid to Messrs Sneath Brothers, or into any Branches of the Leicestershire Banking Company.
MESSRS SNEATH BROTHERS beg to inform the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and inhabitants of Uppingham and its vicinity that, having succeeded to the old established Grocery Business carried on by MR MANTLE HUBBARD and his predecessors in the Market Place Upwards of 50 years, they hope by strict personal attention to every branch of the trade to merit and respectfully solicit the continued support and confidence of their customers. Special Care will be given to the execution of all orders entrusted to them.
Gents for Huntley & Palmer’s Reading Biscuits, Crosse and Blackwell’s Pickles’, Sauces, Jams, Jellies &c, W. and A. Gilbey’s Foreign and Beaufoy’s British Wines. PS The large stock of Brushes of all kinds will be sold at cost price. Uppingham October 1877.
Then these advertisements: Stamford Mercury - Friday 09 November 1877
Wanted: At once, a young man, as good Second, for counter orders, Apply Messrs. Sneath Bros., grocers, Uppingham.
Wanted at Once: a man as Porter, who can drive, and to make himself useful, Apply Messrs Sneath Bros., Grocers, Uppingham.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 27 September 1878
Stamford UNION One ex officio and 13 elected guardians were present at the Board Meeting on Monday. Mr. Paradise was in the chair.
The following tenders were accepted: Messrs Sneath BROTHERS: oatmeal, 5s 9d, bushel, cheese, 6d, 1lb, candles 4s 8d. doz.,
Stamford Mercury - Friday 16 May 1879
To one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Uppingham, and to the Superintendent of Police of the County of Rutland.
We, William Charles SNEATH & John Wesley SNEATH, (trading under the firm of Sneath Brothers) now residing at Uppingham, in the parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, do hereby give you notice, that it is our intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the County of Rutland, to be holden at the Castle of Oakham, in the said County, on the first day of September next ensuing for a Certificate of Justices for the grant of a LICENCE to sell by Retail Wine, in pursuance of the Wine and Beehouse Act, 1869, and the Wine and Beerhouse Amendment Act 1870, to be drunk or consumed off the premises, at a shop situate in the High Street in Uppingham aforesaid, in the occupation of the said William Charles Sneath and John Wesley Sneath. Given under our hands this 19th day of August, 1879.
Wm. Chas. SNEATH & John W. Sneath
1881 Census for John Wesley Sneath
All Saints Stamford Rutland
No. 40: 9 All Saints Place, Grocers Shop: John W Sneath, Head, Married, 30, Grocer, Born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.
Lucy Maria Sneath, wife, married, 27, Born Walkeringham, Lincolnshire.
Susan Redmill, servant, Unmarried, 18, Domestic Servant, born Stamford, Lincolnshire.
William & his brother John Wesley continue to work in their shop, they make alterations to their home, tender for supply of goods to the Stamford Workhouse, advertise for more staff. They sell alcohol in their grocers shop-just as good Wesleyans should do!
Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 January 1882
Stamford Union: The following tenders were accepted: Sneath Bros: Tea, 7s 6d, per bushel, salt, 1s 9d, and soda 5s per cwt., fresh butter, 1s 7d per 1lb.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 31 March 1882
Stamford Union: 14 guardians were present at the Board meeting:
The following Tenders were for the quarter ending Midsummer 1882 were accepted: Sneath Bros:
Yellow Soap, 29s per cwt., Mottled soap 31s per cwt., salt 1s 9d per cwt..
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 August 1882
To one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Uppingham, and to the Superintendent of Police of the County of Rutland.
We, William Charles SNEATH & John Wesley SNEATH, now residing at Uppingham, in the parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, do hereby give you notice, that it is our intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the County of Rutland, to be holden at the Castle of Oakham, in the said County, on the fourth day of September next ensuing for a Certificate of Justices for the grant of a LICENCE to sell by Retail Wine, in pursuance of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, and the Wine and Beerhouse Amendment Act 1870, to be drunk or consumed off the premises, at a shop situate in the Market-place in Uppingham aforesaid, in the occupation of the said William Charles Sneath and John Wesley Sneath. Given under our hands this sixth day of July, 1882.
So in 1875, John Sneath was working as a clerk in the Lincoln & Lindsey Bank.
According to a document to do with a Wesleyan Chapel at Brant Broughton, John Wesley Sneath is named as an accountant at Sleaford. This is in 1878 on 27th April.
William Charles Sneath, who in the census of 1871 is working as an apprentice grocer in Sleaford, joins with his brother John Wesley Sneath to run a grocery business in Stamford. Clearly they are following their father's footsteps who if you remember was a grocer & draper in Brant Broughton before becoming a farmer. I found this advertisement in the Stamford Mercury in 1877:
Stamford Mercury - Friday 26 October 1877
MANTLE HUBBARD, Wholesale and family Grocer, wine agent, Tallow Chandler, Hop and cake merchant, Market Place, Uppingham begs to return his sincere thanks to the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and inhabitants generally of Uppingham and its extensive surrounding district for the liberal share of their patronage and confidence continued to him for upwards of 15 years.
In retiring from the trade, M. Hubbard confidently recommends to his friends and patrons Messrs. SNEATH BROTHERS of STAMFORD, who have had considerable experience in some of our leading houses, and will carry on the business in all its branches. NB Accounts may be paid to Messrs Sneath Brothers, or into any Branches of the Leicestershire Banking Company.
MESSRS SNEATH BROTHERS beg to inform the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and inhabitants of Uppingham and its vicinity that, having succeeded to the old established Grocery Business carried on by MR MANTLE HUBBARD and his predecessors in the Market Place Upwards of 50 years, they hope by strict personal attention to every branch of the trade to merit and respectfully solicit the continued support and confidence of their customers. Special Care will be given to the execution of all orders entrusted to them.
Gents for Huntley & Palmer’s Reading Biscuits, Crosse and Blackwell’s Pickles’, Sauces, Jams, Jellies &c, W. and A. Gilbey’s Foreign and Beaufoy’s British Wines. PS The large stock of Brushes of all kinds will be sold at cost price. Uppingham October 1877.
Wanted: At once, a young man, as good Second, for counter orders, Apply Messrs. Sneath Bros., grocers, Uppingham.
Wanted at Once: a man as Porter, who can drive, and to make himself useful, Apply Messrs Sneath Bros., Grocers, Uppingham.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 27 September 1878
Stamford UNION One ex officio and 13 elected guardians were present at the Board Meeting on Monday. Mr. Paradise was in the chair.
The following tenders were accepted: Messrs Sneath BROTHERS: oatmeal, 5s 9d, bushel, cheese, 6d, 1lb, candles 4s 8d. doz.,
Stamford Mercury - Friday 16 May 1879
GROCERY: Wanted an Apprentice, indoors, Premium moderate, Wesleyan
preferred. Apply Sneath Brothers, wholesale and retail grocers,
Uppingham and Stamford.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 29 August 1879To one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Uppingham, and to the Superintendent of Police of the County of Rutland.
We, William Charles SNEATH & John Wesley SNEATH, (trading under the firm of Sneath Brothers) now residing at Uppingham, in the parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, do hereby give you notice, that it is our intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the County of Rutland, to be holden at the Castle of Oakham, in the said County, on the first day of September next ensuing for a Certificate of Justices for the grant of a LICENCE to sell by Retail Wine, in pursuance of the Wine and Beehouse Act, 1869, and the Wine and Beerhouse Amendment Act 1870, to be drunk or consumed off the premises, at a shop situate in the High Street in Uppingham aforesaid, in the occupation of the said William Charles Sneath and John Wesley Sneath. Given under our hands this 19th day of August, 1879.
Wm. Chas. SNEATH & John W. Sneath
Then this announcement: Stamford Mercury - Friday 03 October 1879
MARRIED: At the Wesleyan Chapel, Newark, on the 30th ult., John W.
SNEATH, Stamford, to Lucy Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. W. Quibell
of the above place.
So on 30th September 1879 he marries Lucy Maria Quibell, in
the Wesleyan Chapel in Newark. She was the sister of Thomas Oliver
Quibell, a chemist in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where John's brother
Dixon Sneath was an apprentice in 1871. They go to live in the grocer's
shop in Market Place in Uppingham-John Sneath becomes one of the
overseers of a Workhouse-most likely that at Stamford
Stamford Mercury - Friday 01 April 1881
Stamford Petty Sessions: Saturday 25 March 1881
A poor rate of 6d in the pound was signed-Appointment of
overseers were made: Parish of All Saints: G P Burrell & John
Wesley SNEATH
So in the 1881 Census, John Wesley Sneath & his wife Lucy are
living in Uppingham, in the County of Rutland.
1881 Census for John Wesley Sneath
All Saints Stamford Rutland
No. 40: 9 All Saints Place, Grocers Shop: John W Sneath, Head, Married, 30, Grocer, Born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.
Lucy Maria Sneath, wife, married, 27, Born Walkeringham, Lincolnshire.
Susan Redmill, servant, Unmarried, 18, Domestic Servant, born Stamford, Lincolnshire.
William & his brother John Wesley continue to work in their shop, they make alterations to their home, tender for supply of goods to the Stamford Workhouse, advertise for more staff. They sell alcohol in their grocers shop-just as good Wesleyans should do!
Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 January 1882
Stamford Union: The following tenders were accepted: Sneath Bros: Tea, 7s 6d, per bushel, salt, 1s 9d, and soda 5s per cwt., fresh butter, 1s 7d per 1lb.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 31 March 1882
Stamford Union: 14 guardians were present at the Board meeting:
The following Tenders were for the quarter ending Midsummer 1882 were accepted: Sneath Bros:
Yellow Soap, 29s per cwt., Mottled soap 31s per cwt., salt 1s 9d per cwt..
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 August 1882
To one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Uppingham, and to the Superintendent of Police of the County of Rutland.
We, William Charles SNEATH & John Wesley SNEATH, now residing at Uppingham, in the parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, do hereby give you notice, that it is our intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the County of Rutland, to be holden at the Castle of Oakham, in the said County, on the fourth day of September next ensuing for a Certificate of Justices for the grant of a LICENCE to sell by Retail Wine, in pursuance of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, and the Wine and Beerhouse Amendment Act 1870, to be drunk or consumed off the premises, at a shop situate in the Market-place in Uppingham aforesaid, in the occupation of the said William Charles Sneath and John Wesley Sneath. Given under our hands this sixth day of July, 1882.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 20 April 1883
Wanted, a strong youth, accustomed to driving Must be able to
read and write well. Apply Sneath Bros, grocers, Uppingham
Stamford Mercury - Friday 26 September 1884
Suicide: An inquest was held in the Reading room touching the
death of Ada Baines of Uppingham, who drowned herself in a pond at
Ayston the previous day. Charles Edward Manton, apprenticed to
Messrs. Sneath Bros., grocers at Uppingham said. Deceased was a
servant in the employ of Mr. J. W. SNEATH. During the alterations
to the house in the market-place I have been living in Mr. J. W.
Sneath’s house. About a month ago deceased asked one night whether
I knew of a nice quiet pond where she could drown herself. I told
her not to talk so soft, thinking she was joking. She said no more
then, but next evening she began again in a similar strain,
suggesting Rockingham or Stamford as a likely place. I again told
her not to talk rubbish, and the third night she again began in
the same way. I asked her about a week after whether she had
thought of it again and she said “ No, the feeling has gone
off”
His brother William Charles Sneath leaves the business and becomes a
Commission agent in Lincoln as you will see below.
So in 1891 the census reads thus:
1891 Census: Rutland, Uppingham, District 2
Market Place:
No. 5: John W. SNEATH, Head, Married, 40, Grocer & Provision
Dealer, born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
L M SNEATH: Wife, married, 37, born Walkeringham,
Nottinghamshire
J F Maples: Boarder, Single, 22 Grocer’s apprentice, born
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
A. W. Millard, Boarder, single, 17, Grocer’s apprentice, born
Leicester, Leicestershire
A. Laughton, Boarder, single, 15, Grocer’s apprentice, born
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Nellie Southwell, servant, single, Domestic Servant, born
Uppingham, Rutland.
On 18 December 1891, his father William Sneath died in Brant Broughton,
leaving a will worth £2,500.
The executors of the will were: John Wesley Sneath of Uppingham in
the County of Rutland Grocer and William Charles Sneath of Lincoln in
the County of Lincoln Commission Agent.
In the will, William's money is divided between his wife & children.
"The rest of the estate was to be shared between the sons of William
Sneath confirmed in the will as
John Wesley Sneath, William Charles Sneath, Edwin Cartwright Sneath
and Thomas Dixon Sneath
However: I do not bequeath to my son Thomas Dixon Sneath any share of
my estate as I have during my life paid to and for his benefit large
sums of money.
So maybe this will prompted John Wesley Sneath to make some
decisions as regards his life.
Then this advertisement:
Leicester Chronicle - Saturday 06 August 1892
MARKET-PLACE, UPPINGHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF RUTLAND
RE JOHN WESLEY SNEATH, GROCER AND PROVISION MERCHANT
Under a deed of Assignment TO SELL BY AUCTION
On Wednesday and Thursday August 10 and 11, 1892, commencing each
day at twelve o’ clock prompt,
The Excellent STOCK-TRADE OF GROCERY AND PROVISIONS, 24½ Dozens
of Wines and SPRITS; the SHOP FIXTURES, TRADE Utensils, iron safe,
candle making plant, large copper, iron boiler, two spring
delivery carts, light spring van, with tilt; light spring trap,
four sets harness, riding saddle, core of old hay, stack of well
got new hay, off about 5 acres; bay nag mare, 14 hands, quiet to
ride and drive; and valuable brown van mare, 8 years old about 16
hands.
Also the whole of the Household Furniture, Walnut cottage Piano,
Metzler and Co., and other effects.
So far I can't find John Wesley Sneath in the census of 1901, but I do
know now that in 1905, he was resident in Australia.
I think he must have gone to Australia sometime prior to the summer 1896. His wife was Lucy Marie Quibell; the Quibell family had a chemical business in Newark, Nottinghamshire Information about that company can be found here. http://www.themeister.co.uk/hindley/british_glues_chemicals.htm#Quibell_Brothers
I found this article in Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal (NSW Tue 1 Sep 1896 Page 3 Advertising
Quibell's Dip on Show In pursuance of the vigorous policy pursued by Mr. Sneath in bringing
Quibell's Dip before the notice of Australian stockowners he had his specific for skin parasites on Exhibition at the Brisbane Show ; and here is what the ' The Queenslander ' of August 15th has to say about it : Associated with the sheep sections were samples of liquid and powder sheep dips and disinfectants manufactured by Quibell Brothers, Newark, England, and shown by Mr. J. W.
Sneath, travelling representative for Australia. This dip is claimed to be one of the most effective yet introduced and to be specially valuable to owners of sheep studs in Queensland. It effectually destroys ticks and parasites of all descriptions, besides adding lustre to the fleece.'
The show took place in Brisbane from about 7 August 1896. Advertisement above & report of the show & J. W. Sneath's appearance at it as Quibells representative.
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld) Sat 15 Aug 1896, Page 330
SHEEP.
Associated with the sheep sections were samples of liquid and powder sheep dips and disinfectants manufactured by Messrs. Quibell Bros., Newark, England, and shown by Mr J. W. Sneath, travelling representative for Australia. This dip is claimed to be one of the most effective yet introduced, and to be specially valuable to owners of sheep-studs in Queensland. It effectually destroys ticks and parasites of all descriptions, besides adding, lustre to the fleece. Since his arrival in Brisbane Mr. Sneath has arranged for supplies of the dip to be delivered through the Unlon Mortgage and Agency Company, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited; Further particulars can be obtained from our advertising columns.
So John now has a new career, as a travelling representative for his brother-in-law's chemical company, later he became their Australian manager. His background certainly would have helped him, he had grown up in a farming community, his grandfather & father worked with animals including sheep, He had worked in a bank, in the retail business, mixed with the farming community in Lincolnshire & Rutland & was a devout Wesleyan Methodist. Certainly in his life in Lincolnshire &Uppingham he played a large part in the local churches, presiding over meetings. He also quite musical, playing the harmonium in the local church as this article in the Grantham Journal of 1883 illustrates: The Wesleyan Chapel & Anniversary and Harvest Thanksgiving Service were held on Sunday & Monday last ( 1 October & 2nd October, 1883)
In order to make the sanctuary additionally attractive, a committee was formed, consisting of the following ladies and gentlemen:- Mrs. W. C. SNEATH, Mrs. J. W. SNEATH, and others(long list), who came forward and displayed considerable artistic taste in the decorations, which consisted of a choice assortment of evergreens, flowers, and fruits. Tow sermons were preached on the Sunday by the Rev. J. Cartwright. An efficient choir rendered valuable service in the singing of hymns befitting the occasion, together with the following anthems:-“Cantate Domino”, Deus Miserateur, and “Lord, what is man”? Mr. J. W. Sneath presided at the harmonium”
By 1900, he was working for the Wool Exchange, as Quibell’s represantive, in fact he was their manager in Australia. In July 1901 he went to Mount Gambier for race week.
The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal (NSW Fri 4 Sep 1903 Page 16 THE TARIFF AGAIN.
THE TARIFF AGAIN.
HIGH-HANDED PROCEEDINGS
The Sydney representative of Quibell Bros., Ltd., the well-known sheep dip and disinfectant manufacturers of Newark, England, Mr. J. W. Sneath, has brought under our notice one of those tyrannical acts of the Federal authorities which too frequently hamper the operations of the
genuine trading community. The facts, as represented to us, are that Quibell Bros., Ltd., are in the habit of forwarding a circular to old constituents every year thanking them for past and soliciting renewed support. This has been their custom for many years, and the circulars, to the number of ,8,000, were duly despatched from London this year with the postage pre-paid. Mr. Sneath has now received a notification from the. Postmaster-General stating that the circulars are lying at the
(General Post Office, and will not be de-livered until 3d per lb is paid as duty on matter printed outside the Commonwealth. The position at present is that the postal authorities; notwithstanding that postage has been paid in England refuse to deliver the circulars until the claim has been settled.
The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal (NSW) Fri 30 Jun 1905 Page 11
QUIBELL'S SHEEP DIP.
The representative of Qiibell Bros., Ltd. (Mr. J W Sneath) arranged a very attractive stand in the main pavilion at the sheep show. Among the new features was a display of the improved powder dip, which is a guaranteed preventive of the maggot fly attack. There was also an exhibit of the newly imported fly powder. Another feature was the paste dip, which has had such a marvellous run of success in South Africa in combating the cattle tick. These two latter lines were exhibited for the first time in Australia. The display of the liquid sheep dip completed the stand, and the popularity of Quibells dip was fully demonstrated by the large number of orders booked.
In 1905, John lived in Waverley, in New South Wales, near the coast, about 7 or 8 miles south of Sydney.
The Methodist (Sydney, NSW(1892 - 1954) Saturday 12 August 1905
An Account by John Wesley SNEATH about The Late Rev. Rainsford Bavin. 'TO THE EDITOR. By
Sir, — It was with sorrow and regret I read the announcement of our friend's decease, and on reading the press biography and the addresses by ministers at, the large funeral service I noticed that very little was mentioned of the early career of our departed friend. Upon reflection it occurred to me that, owing to early settlement in New Zealand and Australia, marrying here, family all born here, there was not anyone in the position to report beyond what was related.by the late actor himself, who would be too modest to record his early experiences. It was the writer's privilege, and pleasure to be associated closely, with Mr. Bavin when, a boy; and up to early manhood. The Bavin family were of the true Methodist type strongly established in the Lincolnshire villages of the last century. Mr. Bavin's parents had somewhat degenerated, but, the grandmother was determined that in Rainsford there was an opportunity not to be lost and she used her influence by encouraging his studies and finally securing his appointment as teacher at the Wesleyan Day School at Metheringham. It was during this term of apprenticeship, as the vacations came round, he frequently spent the time with, his relations in my native village of Brant Broughton, the home being the nearest to that of my father's homestead. Young Bavin, at that time, being older than his cousins, myself, and brothers, he was an acceptable addition to our circle. Being of a very musical turn also, as we all were, we had some grand times mastering the old Methodist tunes with their time-worn runs and repeats. Upon one of these visits when gathered for service, at our chapel of no mean order, or congregation, the minister did not turn up. The stewards invited young Bavin from the pew to take the service, which he conducted in a most creditable manner, then only 17 years of age, clearly demonstrating the correctness of the grandmother's view, and indicating the natural calling for his future usefulness. I also remember that some of the usual sleepers during sermon time kept awake, and the event was a subject of discussion for many years. I have met a schoolmate since residing in Australia, and when the Rev. R. Bavin's name was introduced, he also referred to the event. After serving the day school articles, Mr. Bavin secured an appointment as assistant master at a private boarding school, conducted by Mr. C. Boyer, at Gosberton Hall, Spalding. To this school I was sent through Mr. Bavin's influence with my father. It was the occasion of my first leaving home, but the strangeness was modified by the presence of a teacher friend- to whom I could with certainty look for sympathy. Upon one occasion a number of us were spending Saturday afternoon skating, and, coming round a bend in the river, not noticing a gap in the ice, I had the misfortune of a severe ducking. Mr. Bavin came to the rescue, saw me to safe quarters, a warm bath, and to bed. This and many other kind acts could be related not of me only, but in the interest and well-being of the boarders, of whom there were seventy, and some of them very rough and difficult to manage, but discipline was the rule. Mr. Bavin- at this time was a tall, slim, young man, with a profusion of raven black hair, delicate in physique as compared to some of the stalwart sons of the yeoman type. Upon one occasion during the absence of the Principal, a spirit of revolution was manifest, and I feared ruptions and the desk being stormed. Mr. Bavin recognised the seriousness of his position, took his stand for right against might, and in a commanding voice and style insisted upon obedience and order. It had the effect, and the position was saved. After leaving school I learned that the year following Mr. Bavin had entered the Methodist ministry for Foreign Service, and we did not meet again until a few years ago upon my arrival in Sydney. Referring to school days Mr. Bavin also referred to this incident, and many others, interesting only to those who were parties in the acts. Trusting these few links in the early chain of a useful life may be of interest to your readers, and those who of necessity must know much more of his Australian career than the writer, I shall be pleased if you can find space for their insertion, and remain, Yours faithfully, John W. Sneath.
Waverley, August 5, 1905.
Lots of articles about John appeared in the local newspapers
working for Quibells.
Then his wife Lucy Marie died in 1912-this article appeared:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) Mon 1 Jan 1912 Page 6 Family Notices
SNEATH.—In loving memory of Lucy M. Sneath, who died December 31, 1910, at the Home of Peace, Marrickville, wife of J. W. Sneath, of 92 Douglas-street, Stanmore.
It appears that the home of peace was a sort of hospice, sited in Petersham & Marrickville suburbs of Sydney. The article does confirm that by 1912, John was living at 92 Douglas Street, Stanmore, New South Wales. John certainly married again, but at this stage I am not sure who. Anyway John died in 1922:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) Mon 30 Jan 1922 Page 7 Family Notices
The Remains of the late Mr. JOHN WESLEY SNEATH, late of the Wool Exchange, will be laid to rest THIS AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock, in the Vault section of the Methodist Cemetery, Waverley. A short service will be held at the residence, Consett, Fairmount-street, Dulwich Hill, prior to the Funeral leaving promptly at 2 p.m. Modern Funerals, 'Phone, U2740, etc. Newtown, Ashfield, and Burwood.
SNEATH. — The Friends of Mrs. ELIZABETH SNEATH are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of her late loved HUSBAND, John Wesley, which is appointed to leave Consett, Fairmount-street, Dulwich Hill, THIS DAY, at 2 p.m., for Vault section, Methodist Cemetery, Waverley.
SNEATH. — The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. WHITE, Mr. T. WHITE, and Miss WHITE are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of their late BROTHER-IN-LAW, John Wesley Sneath, which is appointed to leave Consett, Fairmount-street, Dulwich Hill, THIS DAY, at 2 p.m., for the Vault section of the Methodist Cemetery, Waverley.
Okay so that's as much as I can find about J W Sneath for the moment, if anyone knows anymore please get in touch.
Now for his brother, William Charles Sneath, named after his father I suppose for his first forename, his second must have come from his mother's side if the family were following Victorian Naming practices; yes his mother's father was called Charles.William Charles was born on June 5 1852 at 10-15 am on a Saturday morning according the Sneath Family Bible. At the time of his birth his family were living in High Street, Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire where his father William was the grocer & draper for the village. The family attended the local Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the village so no doubt that was where William was taken to as a small baby and christened, but so far I can't find a record of when. When William Charles Sneath was born on June 5, 1852, in Broughton, Lincolnshire, his father, William, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 31.
Soon he was joined by his brother Thomas Dixon was born on 11 June 1853 in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, when William Charles was 1 year old, then by his brother Robert Newton who was born on 2 November 1855 in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, when William Charles was 3 years old, but died a year later on 4 November 1856. Maybe he went to the burial service at the parish church on 5 November 1856, as he was 4 years old then. Then his brother Richard Harvey was born on 24 April 1859 when William Charles was 6 years old, but he died a month or so later on 19 May 1859, when William was 6 years old. So already he had seen quite a lot of death. Then on 21 October, 1860, his brother Edwin Cartwright was born and a year later the census of 1861 took place on 5th April.
1861 Census: RG 2477
53, High St, Brant Broughton
William Sneath, Head, Married, Grocer, Draper and Farmer, Caythorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, Wife, Married, 40 years, Lincoln, Lincs
John Wesley Sneath, Son, 10 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Charles William Sneath, Son, 8 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Thomas Dixon Sneath, Son, 4 years, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Edwin Cartwright Sneath, 6months, Brant Broughton, Lincs
John Dunn, Apprentice Grocer & Draper, born Leadenham
Mary Ann Blackburn, Servant, 19 years, Caythorpe, Lincs
So his father William was still a grocer & draper; the census shows that William Charles was also called Charles William! I know now that his elder brother John Wesley was at Gosberton Hall School, so I wonder if William was there as well-I have no information about that.
In the same year, his grandfather William was a retired farmer, living 2 doors away.
His only sister Martha Harvey was born on 8 December 1864 in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, when William Charles was 12 years old. Now at some time before the next census of 1871, William becomes a grocer's apprentice. That meant he would have to remain with the same master until his apprenticeship was complete. In 1871, on 5 April he was living in Grocers Assistant at North Street, Sleaford. The grocer is a William Charles Allen, born Sleaford in 1856, so a young grocer, named as a son with a house keeper called Elizabeth Cargill. William in 1871 is 19 years of age, so probably been with Mr. Allen since he was 14 years of age. So he is following the trade of his father, William who in the same year has become a farmer, living at a Farm House in Brant Broughton, because his father & William Charles's grandfather has died in 1868 leaving the family some money. Anyway in 1877, William teams up with his elder brother John and opens a grocery business in Stamford, Lincolnshire-known as the Sneath Brothers. They they move to Uppingham, and take over a grocery business there. As well as being in the grocery business, William play a large part in the Wesleyan Church there. There are frequent newspaper accounts of his contribution in the local Methodist church.and his marriage at the age of 26 to Mary Jane Dunn.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 13 September 1878
At the Wesleyan Chapel, Brant Broughton, on the 10th inst., William C. Sneath of Uppingham, to Mary Jane Dunn, second daughter of Mr. Charles Dunn, of Brant Broughton. You will notice that in the census of 1861, her brother John was the grocer's apprentice at the family home.
145: Joseph Clayworth, Head, Married, 51, Farmer, Born
Stapleford, Lincolnshire
Lucy Clayworth, Wife, Married, 43, Born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Joseph E Clayworth, son, single, 11, Scholar, born Stapleford, Lincolnshire
Ethel Clayworth, daughter, single, 8, Scholar, born Broughton Clays,
Marian Clayworth, daughter, single, 6, Scholar, Born Broughton Clays
Constance Denby, Governess, single, 26, Governess, born Swinestead, Lincs
Mary Cargill, Servant, single, 19, Domestic, born ? Derbyshire
George Cottam, servant, 19, single, Horseman, Born Besthorpe, Lincs
Haines Henton, servant, 15, single, Groom, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Number 147: John Pinder, head, married, 36, Farmer, born
Torrington, Lincs
Susan Pinder, wife, married, 49, born Handworth, Lincolnshire
Amelia Pinder, daughter, single, 23, ditto, ditto.
Kate Pinder, daughter, single, 20, ditto, ditto.
Walter Pinder, son, single, 17, ditto, ditto.
Florence Pinder, daughter, single, 16, ditto, ditto,
Laura Marian, daughter, single, 13, ditto, ditto.
Elsie Pinder, daughter, single, 8, scholar, ditto, ditto
Cecil Pinder, son, single, 7, Scholar, born Broughton Clays, Lincs
Annie Pinder, niece, single, 17, scholar, born Fulstow, Lincs
The next two entries are for a servant on the John Pinder’s farm and a foreman’s family, maybe living in rented cottages with the farm.
The next entry is for another farm Foreman and his family-all the entries have the address as “The Clays” in the 1891 census.
I think he must have gone to Australia sometime prior to the summer 1896. His wife was Lucy Marie Quibell; the Quibell family had a chemical business in Newark, Nottinghamshire Information about that company can be found here. http://www.themeister.co.uk/hindley/british_glues_chemicals.htm#Quibell_Brothers
I found this article in Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal (NSW Tue 1 Sep 1896 Page 3 Advertising
Quibell's Dip on Show In pursuance of the vigorous policy pursued by Mr. Sneath in bringing
Quibell's Dip before the notice of Australian stockowners he had his specific for skin parasites on Exhibition at the Brisbane Show ; and here is what the ' The Queenslander ' of August 15th has to say about it : Associated with the sheep sections were samples of liquid and powder sheep dips and disinfectants manufactured by Quibell Brothers, Newark, England, and shown by Mr. J. W.
Sneath, travelling representative for Australia. This dip is claimed to be one of the most effective yet introduced and to be specially valuable to owners of sheep studs in Queensland. It effectually destroys ticks and parasites of all descriptions, besides adding lustre to the fleece.'
The show took place in Brisbane from about 7 August 1896. Advertisement above & report of the show & J. W. Sneath's appearance at it as Quibells representative.
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld) Sat 15 Aug 1896, Page 330
SHEEP.
Associated with the sheep sections were samples of liquid and powder sheep dips and disinfectants manufactured by Messrs. Quibell Bros., Newark, England, and shown by Mr J. W. Sneath, travelling representative for Australia. This dip is claimed to be one of the most effective yet introduced, and to be specially valuable to owners of sheep-studs in Queensland. It effectually destroys ticks and parasites of all descriptions, besides adding, lustre to the fleece. Since his arrival in Brisbane Mr. Sneath has arranged for supplies of the dip to be delivered through the Unlon Mortgage and Agency Company, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited; Further particulars can be obtained from our advertising columns.
So John now has a new career, as a travelling representative for his brother-in-law's chemical company, later he became their Australian manager. His background certainly would have helped him, he had grown up in a farming community, his grandfather & father worked with animals including sheep, He had worked in a bank, in the retail business, mixed with the farming community in Lincolnshire & Rutland & was a devout Wesleyan Methodist. Certainly in his life in Lincolnshire &Uppingham he played a large part in the local churches, presiding over meetings. He also quite musical, playing the harmonium in the local church as this article in the Grantham Journal of 1883 illustrates: The Wesleyan Chapel & Anniversary and Harvest Thanksgiving Service were held on Sunday & Monday last ( 1 October & 2nd October, 1883)
In order to make the sanctuary additionally attractive, a committee was formed, consisting of the following ladies and gentlemen:- Mrs. W. C. SNEATH, Mrs. J. W. SNEATH, and others(long list), who came forward and displayed considerable artistic taste in the decorations, which consisted of a choice assortment of evergreens, flowers, and fruits. Tow sermons were preached on the Sunday by the Rev. J. Cartwright. An efficient choir rendered valuable service in the singing of hymns befitting the occasion, together with the following anthems:-“Cantate Domino”, Deus Miserateur, and “Lord, what is man”? Mr. J. W. Sneath presided at the harmonium”
By 1900, he was working for the Wool Exchange, as Quibell’s represantive, in fact he was their manager in Australia. In July 1901 he went to Mount Gambier for race week.
The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal (NSW Fri 4 Sep 1903 Page 16 THE TARIFF AGAIN.
THE TARIFF AGAIN.
HIGH-HANDED PROCEEDINGS
The Sydney representative of Quibell Bros., Ltd., the well-known sheep dip and disinfectant manufacturers of Newark, England, Mr. J. W. Sneath, has brought under our notice one of those tyrannical acts of the Federal authorities which too frequently hamper the operations of the
genuine trading community. The facts, as represented to us, are that Quibell Bros., Ltd., are in the habit of forwarding a circular to old constituents every year thanking them for past and soliciting renewed support. This has been their custom for many years, and the circulars, to the number of ,8,000, were duly despatched from London this year with the postage pre-paid. Mr. Sneath has now received a notification from the. Postmaster-General stating that the circulars are lying at the
(General Post Office, and will not be de-livered until 3d per lb is paid as duty on matter printed outside the Commonwealth. The position at present is that the postal authorities; notwithstanding that postage has been paid in England refuse to deliver the circulars until the claim has been settled.
The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal (NSW) Fri 30 Jun 1905 Page 11
QUIBELL'S SHEEP DIP.
The representative of Qiibell Bros., Ltd. (Mr. J W Sneath) arranged a very attractive stand in the main pavilion at the sheep show. Among the new features was a display of the improved powder dip, which is a guaranteed preventive of the maggot fly attack. There was also an exhibit of the newly imported fly powder. Another feature was the paste dip, which has had such a marvellous run of success in South Africa in combating the cattle tick. These two latter lines were exhibited for the first time in Australia. The display of the liquid sheep dip completed the stand, and the popularity of Quibells dip was fully demonstrated by the large number of orders booked.
In 1905, John lived in Waverley, in New South Wales, near the coast, about 7 or 8 miles south of Sydney.
He wrote this article in "The Methodist" from his home address
concerning a childhood friend called Rainsford Bavin
An Account by John Wesley SNEATH about The Late Rev. Rainsford Bavin. 'TO THE EDITOR. By
Sir, — It was with sorrow and regret I read the announcement of our friend's decease, and on reading the press biography and the addresses by ministers at, the large funeral service I noticed that very little was mentioned of the early career of our departed friend. Upon reflection it occurred to me that, owing to early settlement in New Zealand and Australia, marrying here, family all born here, there was not anyone in the position to report beyond what was related.by the late actor himself, who would be too modest to record his early experiences. It was the writer's privilege, and pleasure to be associated closely, with Mr. Bavin when, a boy; and up to early manhood. The Bavin family were of the true Methodist type strongly established in the Lincolnshire villages of the last century. Mr. Bavin's parents had somewhat degenerated, but, the grandmother was determined that in Rainsford there was an opportunity not to be lost and she used her influence by encouraging his studies and finally securing his appointment as teacher at the Wesleyan Day School at Metheringham. It was during this term of apprenticeship, as the vacations came round, he frequently spent the time with, his relations in my native village of Brant Broughton, the home being the nearest to that of my father's homestead. Young Bavin, at that time, being older than his cousins, myself, and brothers, he was an acceptable addition to our circle. Being of a very musical turn also, as we all were, we had some grand times mastering the old Methodist tunes with their time-worn runs and repeats. Upon one of these visits when gathered for service, at our chapel of no mean order, or congregation, the minister did not turn up. The stewards invited young Bavin from the pew to take the service, which he conducted in a most creditable manner, then only 17 years of age, clearly demonstrating the correctness of the grandmother's view, and indicating the natural calling for his future usefulness. I also remember that some of the usual sleepers during sermon time kept awake, and the event was a subject of discussion for many years. I have met a schoolmate since residing in Australia, and when the Rev. R. Bavin's name was introduced, he also referred to the event. After serving the day school articles, Mr. Bavin secured an appointment as assistant master at a private boarding school, conducted by Mr. C. Boyer, at Gosberton Hall, Spalding. To this school I was sent through Mr. Bavin's influence with my father. It was the occasion of my first leaving home, but the strangeness was modified by the presence of a teacher friend- to whom I could with certainty look for sympathy. Upon one occasion a number of us were spending Saturday afternoon skating, and, coming round a bend in the river, not noticing a gap in the ice, I had the misfortune of a severe ducking. Mr. Bavin came to the rescue, saw me to safe quarters, a warm bath, and to bed. This and many other kind acts could be related not of me only, but in the interest and well-being of the boarders, of whom there were seventy, and some of them very rough and difficult to manage, but discipline was the rule. Mr. Bavin- at this time was a tall, slim, young man, with a profusion of raven black hair, delicate in physique as compared to some of the stalwart sons of the yeoman type. Upon one occasion during the absence of the Principal, a spirit of revolution was manifest, and I feared ruptions and the desk being stormed. Mr. Bavin recognised the seriousness of his position, took his stand for right against might, and in a commanding voice and style insisted upon obedience and order. It had the effect, and the position was saved. After leaving school I learned that the year following Mr. Bavin had entered the Methodist ministry for Foreign Service, and we did not meet again until a few years ago upon my arrival in Sydney. Referring to school days Mr. Bavin also referred to this incident, and many others, interesting only to those who were parties in the acts. Trusting these few links in the early chain of a useful life may be of interest to your readers, and those who of necessity must know much more of his Australian career than the writer, I shall be pleased if you can find space for their insertion, and remain, Yours faithfully, John W. Sneath.
Waverley, August 5, 1905.
Then his wife Lucy Marie died in 1912-this article appeared:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) Mon 1 Jan 1912 Page 6 Family Notices
SNEATH.—In loving memory of Lucy M. Sneath, who died December 31, 1910, at the Home of Peace, Marrickville, wife of J. W. Sneath, of 92 Douglas-street, Stanmore.
It appears that the home of peace was a sort of hospice, sited in Petersham & Marrickville suburbs of Sydney. The article does confirm that by 1912, John was living at 92 Douglas Street, Stanmore, New South Wales. John certainly married again, but at this stage I am not sure who. Anyway John died in 1922:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) Mon 30 Jan 1922 Page 7 Family Notices
The Remains of the late Mr. JOHN WESLEY SNEATH, late of the Wool Exchange, will be laid to rest THIS AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock, in the Vault section of the Methodist Cemetery, Waverley. A short service will be held at the residence, Consett, Fairmount-street, Dulwich Hill, prior to the Funeral leaving promptly at 2 p.m. Modern Funerals, 'Phone, U2740, etc. Newtown, Ashfield, and Burwood.
SNEATH. — The Friends of Mrs. ELIZABETH SNEATH are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of her late loved HUSBAND, John Wesley, which is appointed to leave Consett, Fairmount-street, Dulwich Hill, THIS DAY, at 2 p.m., for Vault section, Methodist Cemetery, Waverley.
SNEATH. — The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. WHITE, Mr. T. WHITE, and Miss WHITE are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of their late BROTHER-IN-LAW, John Wesley Sneath, which is appointed to leave Consett, Fairmount-street, Dulwich Hill, THIS DAY, at 2 p.m., for the Vault section of the Methodist Cemetery, Waverley.
His wife Elizabeth continues to live in New South Wales until
1940:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)Friday 6 September 1940 p 6 Family
Notices
SNEATH- September 4, 1940, at her residence, 4 Fairmount Street,
Summer Hill, Elizabeth, widow
of the late John Wesley Sneath, and beloved sister of John, Sue
and Dellie. No flowers, by request.
Okay so that's as much as I can find about J W Sneath for the moment, if anyone knows anymore please get in touch.
Now for his brother, William Charles Sneath, named after his father I suppose for his first forename, his second must have come from his mother's side if the family were following Victorian Naming practices; yes his mother's father was called Charles.William Charles was born on June 5 1852 at 10-15 am on a Saturday morning according the Sneath Family Bible. At the time of his birth his family were living in High Street, Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire where his father William was the grocer & draper for the village. The family attended the local Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the village so no doubt that was where William was taken to as a small baby and christened, but so far I can't find a record of when. When William Charles Sneath was born on June 5, 1852, in Broughton, Lincolnshire, his father, William, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 31.
Soon he was joined by his brother Thomas Dixon was born on 11 June 1853 in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, when William Charles was 1 year old, then by his brother Robert Newton who was born on 2 November 1855 in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, when William Charles was 3 years old, but died a year later on 4 November 1856. Maybe he went to the burial service at the parish church on 5 November 1856, as he was 4 years old then. Then his brother Richard Harvey was born on 24 April 1859 when William Charles was 6 years old, but he died a month or so later on 19 May 1859, when William was 6 years old. So already he had seen quite a lot of death. Then on 21 October, 1860, his brother Edwin Cartwright was born and a year later the census of 1861 took place on 5th April.
1861 Census: RG 2477
53, High St, Brant Broughton
William Sneath, Head, Married, Grocer, Draper and Farmer, Caythorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, Wife, Married, 40 years, Lincoln, Lincs
John Wesley Sneath, Son, 10 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Charles William Sneath, Son, 8 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Thomas Dixon Sneath, Son, 4 years, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Edwin Cartwright Sneath, 6months, Brant Broughton, Lincs
John Dunn, Apprentice Grocer & Draper, born Leadenham
Mary Ann Blackburn, Servant, 19 years, Caythorpe, Lincs
So his father William was still a grocer & draper; the census shows that William Charles was also called Charles William! I know now that his elder brother John Wesley was at Gosberton Hall School, so I wonder if William was there as well-I have no information about that.
In the same year, his grandfather William was a retired farmer, living 2 doors away.
His only sister Martha Harvey was born on 8 December 1864 in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, when William Charles was 12 years old. Now at some time before the next census of 1871, William becomes a grocer's apprentice. That meant he would have to remain with the same master until his apprenticeship was complete. In 1871, on 5 April he was living in Grocers Assistant at North Street, Sleaford. The grocer is a William Charles Allen, born Sleaford in 1856, so a young grocer, named as a son with a house keeper called Elizabeth Cargill. William in 1871 is 19 years of age, so probably been with Mr. Allen since he was 14 years of age. So he is following the trade of his father, William who in the same year has become a farmer, living at a Farm House in Brant Broughton, because his father & William Charles's grandfather has died in 1868 leaving the family some money. Anyway in 1877, William teams up with his elder brother John and opens a grocery business in Stamford, Lincolnshire-known as the Sneath Brothers. They they move to Uppingham, and take over a grocery business there. As well as being in the grocery business, William play a large part in the Wesleyan Church there. There are frequent newspaper accounts of his contribution in the local Methodist church.and his marriage at the age of 26 to Mary Jane Dunn.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 13 September 1878
At the Wesleyan Chapel, Brant Broughton, on the 10th inst., William C. Sneath of Uppingham, to Mary Jane Dunn, second daughter of Mr. Charles Dunn, of Brant Broughton. You will notice that in the census of 1861, her brother John was the grocer's apprentice at the family home.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 02 April 1880
UPPINGHAM-The Wesleyan annual tea meeting was held on Good
Friday in the Commercial school, when a good number sat down.
After the tea there was a sale of goods from the ladies’ work
basket, and an entertainment consisting of readings and
recitations, interspersed with music by the choir, who were led
by Mr. J. J. Drake, the harmonium was played by Mr. Jon
Spendlove. Mr. W. C. Sneath presided.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 17 December 1880
The Wesleyan Foreign Missionary’s Society’s Services were held
in the chapel, Uppingham, on Sunday, when sermons were preached
by the Rev. R. Lickness. At the annual meeting the next day, the
chair being occupied by Mr. W. C. Sneath.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 April 1881
On 25th March, 1881, he was elected as one of the overseers of
the poor for the Poor laws.
William & his wife Mary remain in Uppingham until about 1890,
those articles above for his elder brother John often have his
name included. "
Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 January 1882
Stamford Union: The following tenders were accepted: Sneath Bros: Tea, 7s 6d, per bushel, salt, 1s 9d, and soda 5s per cwt., fresh butter, 1s 7d per 1lb.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 31 March 1882
Stamford Union: 14 guardians were present at the Board meeting:
The following Tenders were for the quarter ending Midsummer 1882 were accepted: Sneath Bros:
Yellow Soap, 29s per cwt., Mottled soap 31s per cwt., salt 1s 9d per cwt..
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 August 1882
To one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Uppingham, and to the Superintendent of Police of the County of Rutland.
We, William Charles SNEATH & John Wesley SNEATH, now residing at Uppingham, in the parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, do hereby give you notice, that it is our intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the County of Rutland, to be holden at the Castle of Oakham, in the said County, on the fourth day of September next ensuing for a Certificate of Justices for the grant of a LICENCE to sell by Retail Wine, in pursuance of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, and the Wine and Beerhouse Amendment Act 1870, to be drunk or consumed off the premises, at a shop situate in the Market-place in Uppingham aforesaid, in the occupation of the said William Charles Sneath and John Wesley Sneath. Given under our hands this sixth day of July, 1882.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 20 April 1883
Wanted, a strong youth, accustomed to driving Must be able to read and write well. Apply Sneath Bros, grocers, Uppingham
Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 January 1882
Stamford Union: The following tenders were accepted: Sneath Bros: Tea, 7s 6d, per bushel, salt, 1s 9d, and soda 5s per cwt., fresh butter, 1s 7d per 1lb.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 31 March 1882
Stamford Union: 14 guardians were present at the Board meeting:
The following Tenders were for the quarter ending Midsummer 1882 were accepted: Sneath Bros:
Yellow Soap, 29s per cwt., Mottled soap 31s per cwt., salt 1s 9d per cwt..
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 August 1882
To one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Uppingham, and to the Superintendent of Police of the County of Rutland.
We, William Charles SNEATH & John Wesley SNEATH, now residing at Uppingham, in the parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, do hereby give you notice, that it is our intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the County of Rutland, to be holden at the Castle of Oakham, in the said County, on the fourth day of September next ensuing for a Certificate of Justices for the grant of a LICENCE to sell by Retail Wine, in pursuance of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, and the Wine and Beerhouse Amendment Act 1870, to be drunk or consumed off the premises, at a shop situate in the Market-place in Uppingham aforesaid, in the occupation of the said William Charles Sneath and John Wesley Sneath. Given under our hands this sixth day of July, 1882.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 20 April 1883
Wanted, a strong youth, accustomed to driving Must be able to read and write well. Apply Sneath Bros, grocers, Uppingham
Leicester Chronicle - Saturday 15 December 1888
UPPINGHAM
Extraordinary Turnips: Messrs. Sneath Bros., of the market-place, have on show a number turnips grown on the farm of Hon. W. C. Evans-Freke, of Glaston, six of which weigh 141lbs, the largest weighing 26½lbs!
Advertisements in local newspapers for the Sneath brothers end in December 1888, and the name of W C Sneath in Uppingham ends in October 1885 when William Charles is decorating the Wesleyan Church there. As far as newspaper entries is concerned the name "W C Sneath" starts appearing in 1893, giving his home address as Hamilton Road, Lincoln, which is where he and his wife Mary are living on Census day 1891, with William's occupation shown as Commission Agent. So his partnership with his brother John has broken, and William & John are now working independently. No doubt they both benefit from their father's will-he died on 18 December 1891, & John & William acted as the executors of the estate-the probate record shows William Charles's occupation then as Commission Agent. Various advertisements in the local papers in 1893 give William's address as "Brant House" Hamilton Road, Lincoln.
It seems a Commission Agent earned his living by getting commission on sales, so it's not surprising then seeing his name in the local newspapers selling items. I wonder if he named his house after the village of his birth?
In April 1896 “W C Sneath, Hamilton-road, Lincoln, presented some magazines to the Lincoln County Hospital”
In October 1896, his mother, Elizabeth Sneath died and was buried on 11 October at Brant Broughton Parish Church-a service was held by a Wesleyan minister, so I am sure William woud have attended the service. His father, William died on 18 December 1891, so I am sure William & his wife would have attended the burial service held at Brant Broughton Parish Church.
So I thought from then onwards that Edwin was living in a farm house called "The Clays".so in this research I wanted to discover when he moved from the village of Brant Broughton to "The Clays".
So is "Broughton Clays" the same as "The Clays"?
Using a search name as "Broughton Clays", I found quite a lot of farmers selling livestock & hiring staff, and even holding tea parties at Broughton Clays. There seemed to be to main farmers with different names doing the selling-a John Pinder & a Joseph Clayworth.
Note number 145:
Extraordinary Turnips: Messrs. Sneath Bros., of the market-place, have on show a number turnips grown on the farm of Hon. W. C. Evans-Freke, of Glaston, six of which weigh 141lbs, the largest weighing 26½lbs!
Advertisements in local newspapers for the Sneath brothers end in December 1888, and the name of W C Sneath in Uppingham ends in October 1885 when William Charles is decorating the Wesleyan Church there. As far as newspaper entries is concerned the name "W C Sneath" starts appearing in 1893, giving his home address as Hamilton Road, Lincoln, which is where he and his wife Mary are living on Census day 1891, with William's occupation shown as Commission Agent. So his partnership with his brother John has broken, and William & John are now working independently. No doubt they both benefit from their father's will-he died on 18 December 1891, & John & William acted as the executors of the estate-the probate record shows William Charles's occupation then as Commission Agent. Various advertisements in the local papers in 1893 give William's address as "Brant House" Hamilton Road, Lincoln.
It seems a Commission Agent earned his living by getting commission on sales, so it's not surprising then seeing his name in the local newspapers selling items. I wonder if he named his house after the village of his birth?
Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 16 March 1934
LOSS TO METHODISM IN LINCOLN: Funeral at St Catherine’s of
Mr. W. C. Sneath
St.Catherine’s Methodist Church, Lincoln, has sustained a
loss by the death of Mr. William Charles Sneath of Brant
House, 17, St. Catherines, who died at the age of 83, and
whose funeral took place at St Catherine’s today. Mr. Sneath
was for many years before his retirement a trustee of the
church, a Sunday School superintendent and secretary of the
choir in the days when St. Catherine’s was notable for its
musical activities. He was also for many years circuit steward
in the High-street Methodist Circuit. When in business as the
proprietor of the Lincoln Oil and Star and Lubrication
Company, he was a familiar figure up and down the county. The
funeral service took place at Canwick-road cemetery.
The above article in the Lincolnshire Echo is an obituary for
William Charles Sneath-it describes in brief his 83 years of
life, about 43 years of it he spent in Lincoln, in his house in
Hamilton Road. In the early days, William seems to have worked
from home, placing advertisements into the local newspapers
advertising goods for sale and employment opportunities.
Here are 3 examples of the sort of advertisements he placed in
1893:
Wanted, to Apprentice a respectable, well-educated YOUTH to
either of the following trades: Saddler, Cabinet maker, or
Plumber and Gasfitter. Indoors, good home-Address, W. C.
SNEATH, Brant House, Hamilton-road, Lincoln. (Advert repeated
all the way through September)
Lincolnshire Echo - Tuesday 14 November 1893
FOR SALE, a very good Carpenter-made TANK, will hold 1,000
gallons, with bell metal tap-W C Sneath, Hamilton-Road,
Lincoln (repeated all the way through November & into
December)
All through April and 1895 the rest of that year the same
newspapers have the advert about the wooden tank holding 1,000
gallons of water for sale.
Lincolnshire Echo - Saturday 23 March 1895-this advert appeared,
repeated all the time.
TRAVELLER WANTED for Lincolnshire, for oil, Soap and
candles-Address W. C. Sneath, Hamilton-road, Lincoln.
He also sold potatoes: - Lincolnshire Echo Monday 13 November
1899
Potatoes for sale, about half an acre situated in
Bardney, very good; what offers Apply W. C. Sneath,
Hamilton-road, Lincoln.
William was also a member & supporter of the Lincoln Chamber
of Commerce, attending it’s social activities held at the
Saracen’s Head in Lincoln and serving on its committee from
1910.
Then in 1901, I found this article which gave me a clue to a
change in his business activities.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 07 June 1901
On Monday an outbreak of fire occurred in the oil stores in
Gibbeson-street of Mr. W. C. Sneath, damage being done to the
extent of about £5. The fire seems to have originated from a
gas stove melting some India rubber piping which set fire to
some bees-wax on the stove. A workman on the place, Edward
Smith, in trying to subdue the flames by throwing a bag on the
stove upset the wax which set the stores on fire.
This as I found out later was the address of his business called
Lincoln Oil and Star and Lubrication Company. However as a
result of the fire the business moved its headquarters to
Brayford Wharf on Brayford Water as these subsequent articles
explain.
Lincolnshire Echo - Saturday 12 October 1901
TO LET 2 convenient WAREHOUSES, on ground floor, open into
front street, lately occupied by the Star Lubricating oil
Company siuate No 1 and 2 Gibbeson-street,
But business wasn’t always so good-William had good times and
bad: Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 17 July 1903
The Star Lubricating Oil Company had a stand at the
Lincolnshire Agricultural Show.
Then he was prosecuted for poor storage, making his place of
business a dangerous site and a considerable fire risk.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 24 July 1903
Mr W. Chas Sneath of the Star Lubricating Oil Company,
Brayford, was summoned for having 120 gallons in excess of the
80 gallons he was licensed..-The Chief Constable said that in
this case the spirit was in tanks of 40 gallons each. They
were leaking, and gave off a vapour which was highly
dangerous. He had had them buried in sand. He did not know how
the defendant had got them, as he understood the railway
company refused to carry petrol in such quantities. A letter
from the defendant seemed to indicate that the spirit had been
consigned by rail, and he explained that he had licenses for
two stores, one of which had been pulled down, as the land was
being built upon, and it had not been re-erected when the
petrol arrived and was delivered at Brayford. Now it had been
re-built. In each case the Chief Constable emphasised the
responsibility thrown upon himself as Captain of the Fire
Brigade, by quantities of such inflammable materials being
stored in places which were not licensed. He ought to have
knowledge of every place in the city where such things were
stored, as it might lead to disaster in case of an outbreak of
fire.
William was fined £1 10shillings.
In November 1907, the Star Oil Lubricating Company was
advertising offices in Cornhill Street, Lincoln to let. William
now had stopped working from home, but instead worked from his
business address in Brayford Water as in 1911 & 1912
considerable number of advertisements in papers letting property
in city of Lincoln from Brayford Wharf office of Star
Lubricating Oil company. In December 1912 he advertised for a
smart youth to deliver oil in the city.
During the war his company continued advertise for people
to work for it and for sale of oil products. By 1919, the
company is selling all number of oils-Oil and grease
manufacturers, Tractor Oils, Tractor Gear Oils, Motor Oils, High
Grade Lubricants, Reaper oils, Harness and Leather oils. His
company made an oil called OVOLINE.
In his personal life, as the obituary explains, William
& his wife were much involved with St Catherine’s Wesleyan
Church:
In 1894, 2 articles explained their life in that church:
Lincolnshire Chronicle
Friday 23 March 1894
In this newspaper above there was a long item about a bazaar
being held at St Catherine’s Wesleyan Church on Tuesday 20th
March 1894, which was opened by the Sheriff of Lincoln a man
called J W Ruddock. The bazaar was held to raise funds for
alterations & improvements to the school-room. Amongst the
list of persons present is W.C. Sneath who is treasurer of the
Church and his wife who with other ladies of the church have a
Committee stall-so both man & wife have positions within
this church.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 06 April 1894
The newspaper on this date reported the choir of the St
Catherine’s Wesleyan Church performing at the Odd fellow’s Hall
in Lincoln on Monday 1 April-W C Sneath was present & he
made a presentation on behalf of the choir, so it looks like he
was a member of the choir of St. Catherine’s Wesleyan Church,
but as the obituary explains he was their secretary. He also
played the organ both at the church and at the Wesleyan Chapel
in Brant Broughton.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 11 August 1900
On Thursday 9 August, 1900, a wedding took place at Brant
Broughton Wesleyan Church-a W C Sneath presided at the
organ.
Lincolnshire Echo - Tuesday 22 March 1904
ORGANIST and CHOIRMASTER for vacancy at St. Catherine’s
Wesleyan Church, Lincoln-apply W C Sneath, Hamilton-Road,
Lincoln.
As for his church activities, this article appeared in 1894,
giving evidence for the Sneath’s support for this church.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 23 March 1894
In this newspaper above there was a long item about a bazaar
being held at St Catherine’s Wesleyan Church on Tuesday 20th
March 1894, which was opened by the Sheriff of Lincoln a man
called J W Ruddock. The bazaar was held to raise funds for
alterations & improvements to the school-room. Amongst the
list of persons present is W.C. Sneath who is treasurer of the
Church and his wife who with other ladies of the church have a
Committee stall-so both man & wife have positions within
this church.
He also played the organ there and at other places-he was still
loyal to his old Wesleyan Chapel in Brant Broughton: Grantham
Journal - Saturday 11 August 1900
On Thursday 9 August, 1900, a wedding took place at Brant
Broughton Wesleyan Church-a W C Sneath presided at the organ.
In April 1896 “W C Sneath, Hamilton-road, Lincoln, presented some magazines to the Lincoln County Hospital”
In October 1896, his mother, Elizabeth Sneath died and was buried on 11 October at Brant Broughton Parish Church-a service was held by a Wesleyan minister, so I am sure William woud have attended the service. His father, William died on 18 December 1891, so I am sure William & his wife would have attended the burial service held at Brant Broughton Parish Church.
As Circuit Steward he had involvements with other churches: Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 19 June 1903
On Wednesday 17th June, W C Sneath, as Circuit
Steward was present with others at the laying of a foundation
stone of a new Wesleyan Chapel at Eagle, Lincolnshire
Then a heavy fall! Stamford Mercury - Friday 04 January 1907
Several mis-haps occurred on Sunday-Mr. W. C. Sneath, of
Hamilton-road, was scattering salt on his garden paths when he
slipped heavily and sustained a severe cut on his head. He was
treated by Dr. F. B. Cooper.
Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 01 February 1907
Mind you he was okay to attend the Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce evening at the Saracen’s Head, Lincoln on Thursday
31st January.
In May 1910 he was one elected to the committee of the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce. In December of that year he was still
involved with the Newark Road Primitive Methodist Church.
In 1911 in the summer much involved with Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce, in July 1912 was present when the Chamber of Commerce
opened Bracebridge Heath new reservoir.
During the next few years up to 1914 he is much involved with
the Chamber of Commerce.
On 8 May 1921, his wife Mary Jane died aged 70-probably buried
in Canwick Road, Cemetery.
On 10th December 1925, his brother Edwin Cartwright Sneath died at his home in West Parade, Lincoln. No doubt William attended the funeral, and the burial. I don't have any details of that event as yet, no doubt he was buried in Canwick Road, Cemetery, Lincoln. There had been a lot of financial problems in his brother's life, more of this to be discovered. His brother's widow Susan Louisa and her daughter Martha Louise lived in Lincoln at the time.
On 10th December 1925, his brother Edwin Cartwright Sneath died at his home in West Parade, Lincoln. No doubt William attended the funeral, and the burial. I don't have any details of that event as yet, no doubt he was buried in Canwick Road, Cemetery, Lincoln. There had been a lot of financial problems in his brother's life, more of this to be discovered. His brother's widow Susan Louisa and her daughter Martha Louise lived in Lincoln at the time.
At the end of his life in 1934, he left a will of over £5,000,
but because he and his wife had had no children, his estate was
divided up amongst his nephews & nieces.
The photograph had the following caption: "THE CLAYS", BRANT
BROUGHTON. EDWIN CARTWRIGHT SNEATH, with Louise & Baby John,
Farm worker in background.
Life of Edwin Cartwright SNEATH
According to the Sneath family bible Edwin Cartwright Sneath
was born on 21st October 1860 at half past 12 a.m.
Clearly his second forename comes from his mother’s surname
before she married his father William Sneath.
When Edwin Cartwright Sneath was born on 21 October 1860 in
Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, his father, William, was 38
and his mother, Elizabeth, was 40.
His brothers John, William & Thomas were probably at
school, they had seen their two brothers born & die at
an early age. Edwin Cartwright Sneath lived in Brant
Broughton, Lincolnshire, in 1861, in the High Street, where
his father William was the village grocer & draper, and
also working on his father’s farm at Caythorpe. No doubt
Edwin would have met his grandfather; when he was four years
old his sister Martha Harvey Sneath was born on 8 December
1864. On 2 August 1868, his grandfather, William Sneath died
at the farm house in Church Lane, Brant Broughton leaving
the farm to his father. The family put an announcement in
the Lincolnshire Chronicle:
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 14 August 1868:
DEATHS: At Brant Broughton, on the 2nd inst.,
Wm. Sneath, late of Caythorpe, aged 73.
Edwin probably attended the funeral on 4 August 1868, when
his grandfather was buried in St Helen’s churchyard. In the
census of 1871, aged 11, Edwin Cartwright Sneath lived in
Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, in the Farm House, next to
the parish church, Brant Broughton. His father now was a
farmer full-time. There was a Wesleyan School in the village
which he may have attended. 10 years later, in the census of
1881, his father William is still a farmer, but now
Cartwright is a farmer too. I can’t find out much about
Cartwright as he was known in those 10 years before the 1881
census. In the next 20 years however, he does appear in them
sometimes. It looks like he is working for his father,
William, so not the farmer in his own right. Certainly in
the 1891 Census, he is still at the farm house in Church
Lane/Road in Brant Broughton, his sister Martha Harvey is
there too.
Schedule: 137: Church Rd,
William Sneath, married, 69, Farmer, Born Caythorpe,
Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, married, 70, Born Lincoln, Lincs
Edwin C Sneath, son, Single, 30, Farmer’s son, born B
Broughton, Lincs
Martha H Sneath, Daughter, single, 26, Born B Broughton,
Lincs
Mary Savage, servant, single, Servant, born B Broughton,
Lincs
In the next decade all sorts of changes occur to his life.
The first of these was the death of his father William
Sneath which occurred at the family home on the 18th
December 1891. Then there was the funeral too, probably at
the local church. So then Cartwright becomes the farmer of
the farm in his own right, inheriting from his father.
His father’s estate was valued as £2,536 16 shillings and
7d. His mother, Elizabeth, was still alive, and she received
all the furniture from the house and an income of £50 a
year, plus income from a parcel of land he had bought in
1856 called “The Southings”, in Brant Broughton. After his
wife’s death his sister Martha Harvey was to receive the
land. Cartwright himself was to receive more than his
brothers Wesley & Dixon Sneath, & William Charles
Sneath-in fact he was to receive £500 more than them because
they had loans from their father whilst he was alive.
His father forgave his son’s loans, but not those of
his son Dixon Sneath.
Then there was this rather curious paragraph
“I declare that my said trustees shall not sell my real
estate or any part thereof until the same shall have been
offered by my said trustees in writing under their hands
to the said Edwin Cartwright Sneath at a valuation to be
made by two valuers, one to be named by my said trustees
and the other by my said son Edwin Cartwright Sneath, or
if such valuers shall disagree then to be made by a third
valuer to be named by the said valuers appointed by my
said son. Before they shall enter upon the valuation as
their umpire now until my said son shall have refused or
neglected to notify in writing under his hand to my said
trustees this acceptance of the offer within ten days
after the making thereof but no purchasers under my Will
shall be obliged to take notice of this direction”
So it appears that Cartwright was given the option to buy
his father’s property at a price that was valued by on the
one hand by the two trustees-that’s Wesley & William
Charles Sneath-executors and by Cartwright himself-he then
had 10 days to decide if he wanted to buy the
property.
Well it certainly looks like that’s just what he did,
because in November 1891 he was selling one of the sheep
dogs, and in March hiring new staff.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 13 & 20 November 1891
WAGGONER-A single man on a six-horse farm-Apply E. C.
Sneath, Brant Broughton, Newark.
Stamford Mercury -
Friday 29 January 1892
FOR SALE: good shepherd Dog, there years old, E C.
SNEATH, Brant Broughton.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 18 March 1892
Wanted: a good man, for general Farm work, Milking etc.,
House and Garden, apply E. C. Sneath, Brant Broughton.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 25 November 1892
For sale, a promising SHEPHERD Bitch, 18 months old-Apply
E C Sneath, Brant Broughton, Newark.
Then in 1893, another change occurs. In the early part of the
year he is selling stock & hiring staff as before, however
later on in the year he is doing the same thing but this time
he gives his address as Broughton Clays Brant Broughton.,
Newark. Now when I first started researching the Sneath family
with Deidre Sneath, she gave some photographs of Sneath people
including one of Edwin Cartwright Sneath with his wife and two
children at a property called "The Clays", Brant
Broughton.
So I thought from then onwards that Edwin was living in a farm house called "The Clays".so in this research I wanted to discover when he moved from the village of Brant Broughton to "The Clays".
So is "Broughton Clays" the same as "The Clays"?
Using a search name as "Broughton Clays", I found quite a lot of farmers selling livestock & hiring staff, and even holding tea parties at Broughton Clays. There seemed to be to main farmers with different names doing the selling-a John Pinder & a Joseph Clayworth.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 27 March 1891
YARDMAN WANTED A man as Yardman, a Lady, Good
milker and stacker. Wife would be required as charwoman,
with one or two working boys preferred. Good cottage and
potatoes found: Apply Jos. Clayworth, Broughton Clays,
Beckingham, Newark.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 08 August 1891
T
he Annual Tea in connection with the Wesleyan Day School
was held last Monday (Bank Holiday), at Broughton Clays,
when over 90 friends from Broughton and neighbouring
villages sat down to an excellent tea which was provided
by Mr. and Mrs. Pinder.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 16 May 1891
A Mrs Clayworth of Broughton Clays won a prize for
dressed fowls.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 25 September 1891
WAGGONER wanted a married man as Waggoner, Wife to milk.
House and garden found. Apply John Pinder, Broughton
Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 November 1891
YARDMAN WANTED: Wanted a Married man as Yardman. To
stack, drill nad used to all kinds of farm work. Wife as
charwoman, and help with milking. House rent free. Joseph
Clayworth, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 04 March 1892
FOREMAN and SHEPHERD wanted at once, or at
Lady-day. Must be able to stack and thatch, and used to
all kinds of farmwork. Wife to rear poultry. Good house
and garden-Apply Jos. Clayworth, Broughton Clays,
Beckingham, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday
22 April 1892
WANTED BUTCHERS: An improver, Reference: Abstainer
aged 19, W Pinder, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 06 August 1892
Annual Wesleyan Day School picnic held on Monday (Bank
Holiday) to a tea provided by Mr. and Mrs. Pinder at
Broughton Clays.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 21 October 1892
WAGGONER Wanted Wanted a married man, House and Garden
found. Wife to Milk. John Pinder, Broughton Clays,
Newark.
Then in early February 1893, this advertisement appears,
which gives a clue as to which farmer at Broughton Clays was
selling up and leaving the area. Remember at this time Edwin
is still living a7 working from his farm in Brant
Broughton.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 03 February 1893
Edward Bailey and Son beg to announce that the following
Spring sales have already been arranged.
Thursday March 30th, Mr. Jos. Clayworth’s Live
Stock and Implements, at Broughton Clays.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 24 February 1893
Edward Bailey and Son beg to announce that the following
Spring sales have already been arranged.
Wednesday March 8th: Grass Keeping at Mr. Jos.
Clayworth’s farm at Broughton Clays to let at 7, Kirkgate,
Newark.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 10 March 1893
Edward Bailey and Son beg to announce that the following
Spring sales have already been arranged.
Tuesday March 30th:Mr. Jos. Clayworth’s Live
stock and Implements at Broughton Clays.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 25 March 1893
BROUGHTON CLAYS. EDWARD BAILEY & SON
Are instructed by Mr. Jos. Clayworth, to sell by Auction,
the whole of the Live and Dead Farming stock, on his
premises at Broughton Clays, on Thursday Next, March
30th, 1893 comprising:- Brown Horse “Prince”, 9
years old, Grey Horse, “Punch”, 10 years old,Black mare,
“Beauty”, 4 years old, Grey Mare “Bonny”, 3 years old,
Brown three-year old Filly; 2 Cart colts, Bay Nag Mare, 7
years.
46 Beast: 4 fat heifers, 2 in calf cows, 1 ditto, (due
May 1st), dars Cow, 28 two and half years old
Bullocks, 4 one and half years ditto, 2 ditto
Heifers, 4 one one and half years ditto, 2 ditto heifers,
2 yearling calves, 2 reared calves.
15 couples Fowls, 2 dozen pigeons, Tack for Four
Horse, 3 tons Magnum Bonum Potatoes, 1 ton seed
ditto, Farm Implements: Also a Summer House, 6ft 6inches
by 9ft, in good condition, with a slated roof, and
suitable for an office. Sale to commence at
One-o’clock.
I can't any record as to what happened at the sale but then I
did wonder if either of these two farmers were there in the
1891 census, when William was in Brant Broughton.
Firstly this is Edwin in 1891 Census-number 137 in left hand
margin.
Schedule: 137: Church Rd,
William Sneath, married, 69, Farmer, Born Caythorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, married, 70, Born Lincoln, Lincs
Edwin C Sneath, son, Single, 30, Farmer’s son, born B Broughton,
Lincs
Martha H Sneath, Daughter, single, 26, Born B Broughton, Lincs
Mary Savage, servant, single, Servant, born B Broughton, Lincs
Note number 141, address Broughton Clays: Edward Topps,
farmer and his wife Eliza.
The next page of the census is this one, should be 141
contd and 142.
The Clays: Eliza Parker & Richard Parker living on
the farm of Edward Topps.
Lucy Clayworth, Wife, Married, 43, Born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Joseph E Clayworth, son, single, 11, Scholar, born Stapleford, Lincolnshire
Ethel Clayworth, daughter, single, 8, Scholar, born Broughton Clays,
Marian Clayworth, daughter, single, 6, Scholar, Born Broughton Clays
Constance Denby, Governess, single, 26, Governess, born Swinestead, Lincs
Mary Cargill, Servant, single, 19, Domestic, born ? Derbyshire
George Cottam, servant, 19, single, Horseman, Born Besthorpe, Lincs
Haines Henton, servant, 15, single, Groom, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
In the same census on the next page is this entry:
Susan Pinder, wife, married, 49, born Handworth, Lincolnshire
Amelia Pinder, daughter, single, 23, ditto, ditto.
Kate Pinder, daughter, single, 20, ditto, ditto.
Walter Pinder, son, single, 17, ditto, ditto.
Florence Pinder, daughter, single, 16, ditto, ditto,
Laura Marian, daughter, single, 13, ditto, ditto.
Elsie Pinder, daughter, single, 8, scholar, ditto, ditto
Cecil Pinder, son, single, 7, Scholar, born Broughton Clays, Lincs
Annie Pinder, niece, single, 17, scholar, born Fulstow, Lincs
The next two entries are for a servant on the John Pinder’s farm and a foreman’s family, maybe living in rented cottages with the farm.
The next entry is for another farm Foreman and his family-all the entries have the address as “The Clays” in the 1891 census.
So after the sale, clearly John Pinder was still at his farm at
Broughton Clays, & so was an Edward Topps
Stamford Mercury - Friday 21 April 1893
WAGGONER Wanted at May-Day. Good House and Garden, J Pinder, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 28 April 1893
CONFECTIONERY: Young lady requires Situation, apply F Pinder, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 30 June 1893
DEATHS: TOPPS at Broughton Clays, on June 13th, Ellen Topps, aged 59 years.
But there are no advertisements for Joseph Clayworth, but there is these one for Edwin Cartwright Sneath.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Tuesday 11 July 1893
Wanted Single Labourer, one used to hedges; good lodgings found, E C SNEATH Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 13 October 1893
FOR SALE Black Minorca COCKERELS : a few birds early hatched. Moderate price. E C SNEATH Broughton Clays, Newark.
From other records it appears that Joseph Claywoth continued to be a farmer but at Long Bennington, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Tuesday 15 May 1894
WANTED SINGLE LABOURER, 15s. a week; good lodgings; Ref_ E C SNEATH, Broughton Clays, Newark. (same advert put in paper for 4 weeks)
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 02 November 1894
COLLINGHAM FARMERS CLUB-54th Annual ploughing match and agricultural show took place at Collingham on Tuesday
E C Sneath entered some colt foals, and was awarded a second prize-his address given as Broughton Clays.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 04 April 1896
PARISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS: BRANT BROUGHTON
E.C. Sneath was one of 7 persons elected to serve on the parish Council.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Tuesday 28 July 1896
WANTED Handy Farm man to go with Binder; thatch, etc, to live in: Apply E C Sneath, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 27 March 1897
E C Sneath re-elected for a second year on the Parish Council.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 08 October 1897
WANTED, STRONG GIRL, for farm house; two in the family; two men kept-Apply E C Sneath, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 22 April 1898
LINCOLNSHIRE RED SHORTHORN ASSOCIATION: Sale of upwards of 260 Young red Bulls. Lincoln Fair: 28th April
E C Sneath was one of many farmers who attended the above sale.
All this time, Edwin remained a single man, but then I found this entry:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 July 1898
Marriage of Susan Louisa Hind & Edwin Cartwright SNEATH: 23rd June 1898
WAGGONER Wanted at May-Day. Good House and Garden, J Pinder, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 28 April 1893
CONFECTIONERY: Young lady requires Situation, apply F Pinder, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 30 June 1893
DEATHS: TOPPS at Broughton Clays, on June 13th, Ellen Topps, aged 59 years.
But there are no advertisements for Joseph Clayworth, but there is these one for Edwin Cartwright Sneath.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Tuesday 11 July 1893
Wanted Single Labourer, one used to hedges; good lodgings found, E C SNEATH Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 13 October 1893
FOR SALE Black Minorca COCKERELS : a few birds early hatched. Moderate price. E C SNEATH Broughton Clays, Newark.
From other records it appears that Joseph Claywoth continued to be a farmer but at Long Bennington, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Tuesday 15 May 1894
WANTED SINGLE LABOURER, 15s. a week; good lodgings; Ref_ E C SNEATH, Broughton Clays, Newark. (same advert put in paper for 4 weeks)
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 02 November 1894
COLLINGHAM FARMERS CLUB-54th Annual ploughing match and agricultural show took place at Collingham on Tuesday
E C Sneath entered some colt foals, and was awarded a second prize-his address given as Broughton Clays.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 04 April 1896
PARISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS: BRANT BROUGHTON
E.C. Sneath was one of 7 persons elected to serve on the parish Council.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Tuesday 28 July 1896
WANTED Handy Farm man to go with Binder; thatch, etc, to live in: Apply E C Sneath, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 27 March 1897
E C Sneath re-elected for a second year on the Parish Council.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 08 October 1897
WANTED, STRONG GIRL, for farm house; two in the family; two men kept-Apply E C Sneath, Broughton Clays, Newark.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 22 April 1898
LINCOLNSHIRE RED SHORTHORN ASSOCIATION: Sale of upwards of 260 Young red Bulls. Lincoln Fair: 28th April
E C Sneath was one of many farmers who attended the above sale.
All this time, Edwin remained a single man, but then I found this entry:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 July 1898
Marriage of Susan Louisa Hind & Edwin Cartwright SNEATH: 23rd June 1898
The Village (Morton, near Bourne, Lincolnshire), was en fete on Thursday, the 23rd ult., on the occasion of
the marriage of Miss HIND, eldest daughter of Mr. John HIND,
Parish Councillor and Vice-Chairman to the School Committee, to
Mr. E. C. SNEATH, of Broughton Clays, who is Chairman of the
Parish Council and a School Manager. This being the first
marriage solemnised in the Wesleyan Chapel, a great number of
spectators were attracted. The service was choral, Mr. H. Mower
acting as organist-a position which the bride had filled. The
officiating ministers were the Rev. H. Brown, Bourne, and the
Rev. A. Holland, Navenby. The Chapel was decorated with plants,
ferns, and cut flowers. The guests began to assemble at 9.30,
the bride arriving about 9.45, accompanied by her father, who
gave her away. She looked exceedingly nice in her travelling
costume of grey trimmed with white, wearing a white hat and veil
and carrying a choice bouquet of lovely white flowers (the gift
of the bridegroom). There were four bridesmaids:- Miss A. S.
HIND (sister), Miss Mary HIND (sister), Miss Miriam HIND
(sister), Miss Jessie Butler, who were gowned in creamy white;
the two elder bridesmaids carried bouquets of white flowers, and
the two younger had baskets of white flowers, decorated with
white ribbons, all the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr. T. A.
Oliver, of Sutton-cum-Beckingham, was in attendance on the
bridegroom as best man.
After the service, the bridal party drove to Mr. Hind’s
residence, where a large number of guests sat down to a
sumptuous breakfast. After the usual speeches had been made, the
newly-married pair left for Llandudno, where the honeymoon is
being spent. Among the guests were-Mr. and Mrs. T. D. SNEATH
(Grimsby), Mr. and Mrs. W. SNEATH (Lincoln), Miss SNEATH,
(Broughton Clays), Mr. Oliver (Sutton-cum-Beckingham), Alderman
Bacon (Rippingale), Rev. H and Mrs. Brown (Bourne), Rev. A.
Holland (Navenby), Mrs HIND (Dyke), Mr. , Miss, and Mr. J. T.
Drewery (Donington), Mr. and Mrs. H. SNEATH, (Thurlby), Mr. and
Mrs Garwood (Thurlby), Mr. and Mrs. Sommerfield (Dyke), Miss and
Mr. G. Sommerfield (Dyke), Mr. and Mrs. Dennis (Loughborough),
Miss Woods (Gosberton Clough), Miss Upton (Alvaston, Derby),
Miss Sommerfield (Blackwell), Miss E. Horn (Manthorpe), Mrs.
Williamson (Rippingale), Mr. and Mrs. Butler (Bulby), Mr. and
Mrs. Elvidge (Hanthorpe), Mr and Misses Creasy (Hanthorpe), Mrs
Knott (Morton), Mr and Miss Mower (Horton), Miss Clarke (Morton)
and Miss Jackson (Hanthorpe)
The presents, from a large circle of friends and acquaintances
of the contrasting parties, included the following:- A Bible,
presented by the Trustees of the Morton Wesleyan Chapel; a
silver tea-set, silver tea-pot, silver coffee-pot, three cake
knives, melon knife, half dozen egg-spoons, silver biscuit
canister, two bread-forks, three butter-knives, six jam-spoons,
silver cruet, half-a-dozen fish-knives and forks, four
jam-dishes, honey-jar, pickle-fork, two silver salt cellars, two
pair sugar-tongs, sugar-sifter, two sets carvers, half-dozen
dessert knives, afternoon tea-tray, two oak trays, seven
plaques, album, glass epergne, three pair china vases, pair of
ornaments, pair of candlesticks, two pair glass vases, glass
water-jug, jug, four salt-cellars, mirror, china breakfast
cruet, china sardine dish, two fruit dishes, tea-pot stand,
trinket set, moustache cup and saucer, marble timepiece,
table-lamp, pair of scissors, crumb-brush and tray, work-basket,
dress-basket, white counterpane, damask tablecloth, pair
pillow-covers, four chamber towels, eight doyleys, dozen
serviettes, three afternoon tea-cloths, one carving-cloth, two
tray-cloths, silk cushion, antimacassar, brush and comb, dress
length of black silk, Bristol Tune-book, three books,
letter-rack, etc. From bridegroom to bride, a gold locket; from
bride to bridegroom, a diamond scarf pin; from bridegroom to
first bridesmaid, a watch chain, from bridegroom to second
bridesmaid, a gold brooch. During the afternoon, the wedding
party drove to Grimsthorpe Castle, and after obtaining
permission from Mr. Binns, went over that noble mansion,
inspecting the various treasures it contains. After tea, the
Rev. H. Brown referred to this visit in eulogistic terms and
made the proposition-“That Mr. Thomas HIND be asked to convey to
Lord Ancaster, through Mr. Binns, the thanks of the party for
the great pleasure the visit had given them.
The above OS map in my ownership shows Bourne in Lincolnshire,
with Morton just to the north of it, a small village called
Rippingale north of Morton, and to the left hand side of the map
(to the east) is Grimsthorpe castle, where the wedding party
attended after their marriage. Just near the bottom of the map is
a village called Thurlby.
So quite a lot of wedding presents weren't there, just wonder if
the couple put out a list to make sure they weren't
duplicated?
I did wonder how Edwin Cartwright Sneath of Broughton Clays, met
Susan Louisa Hind of Morton, near Bourne. According to Google
maps, the two places are 40 miles apart. Okay Edwin was a parish
councillor, elected chairman & so was John Hind, the father of
the bride, in Rippingale as parish councillor, but I have found
now how these two met each other. Apparently both were at a
wedding of a friend-the story was put together as a poem, written
by the Rev. Jabez Marratt, uncle of Edwin, married to Martha
Sneath, Edwin's aunt. She was his father's sister-born in
Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, in 1832, and married Jabez Marratt at
Grantham in 1864
Nottinghamshire Guardian Friday, November 11, 1864; pg. 8;
Issue 982. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
At the Wesleyan Chapel, Finkin-Street, Grantham, on the 1st
inst., by the Rev John Rossell, assisted by the Rev. John
Hooton, the Rev. Jabez Marratt, Wesleyan Minister, Barking,
Essex, to Miss Martha Sneath, of Grantham, daughter of William
Sneath of Brant Broughton, near Newark.
Jabez Marratt wrote:
GOLDEN LINES
A marriage; and Cartwright Sneath was there,
Looking on maidens with features fair,
And adding to their own loveliness
The chastened splendour of bridal dress.
He saw them in charming cluster stand,
The roses and lilies of the land,
And one of them, in that gladsome hour,
Won his heart as by magic power-
Susan Louisa HIND her name,
And her presence there was a living flame,
Which threw, though the month was November dim,
A summer-like radiance over him.
He saw her intent on sweet service beside
The inly-rejoicing yet tremulous bride;
And thought what a glory would come in his life
Could he on some happy day claim her as wife.
His heart with great love was then astir,
And cunningly he stole close to her,
And talked as if in a blissful dream
Of two lives afloat on a placid stream,
And O’er them the music of wavering palms
Like softened echoes of rapturous psalms.
The feast was o’er, but at Broughton Clays
Love gave a new light to toiling days,
And back to the favoured scene he went
And won from the maiden glad consent
To the union perfected in June,
When two hearts sang to the joyful tune
Of marriage vows, and when Henry Brown
Gave them his blessing as spousal crown.
Now that's a lovely story isn't? In fact the poem was read out not
at Edwin's marriage, but at Susan Louisa Hind's sister Alberta
Sophia Hind's marriage a year later to a Thomas Alfred Oliver on
20 April, 1899, at the same Wesleyan Chapel in Morton,
Lincolnshire.
So I wonder at which wedding both Susan Louisa Hind & Edwin
Cartwright Sneath attended in that area in November 1897. Well I
did find this marriage:
Lincolnshire Free Press - Tuesday 16 November 1897
WEDDING:- An interesting and pretty wedding took place at
Morton Church on Monday 8th inst., the bridegroom being Mr.
Stephen LAXTON, youngest son of Mr. John LAXTON, postmaster at
Rippingale. The bride was Miss Kate Judson, eldest daughter of
Mr. W Judson of Morton. The Rev. W W Layng, rector of
Rippingale, performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. W.
Stockdale, rector of Morton. The happy couple were recipients of
many useful and handsome presents amongst others being a copper
kettle from the Rev., W.W. Layng, a cruet from Mr. T L
Bainbridge, who was best man, and a marble timepiece from Mr.
Bacon and G. Henson. The bridegroom is well-known in Rippingale
having been postman of this village for the last six years. The
happy pair have the good wishes of everyone in the village.
Now Stephen Laxton’s father was John Laxton who married Mary Hind,
nee Williamson on 3 September 1838 in Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Stephen Laxton's mother wasn't Mary Hind nee Williamson, as
she died before 11 October 1856-she was buried on that date
in the graveyard of Rippingale Parish Church. At the time she was
a widow, her first husband being Thomas Hinds, with whom she had a
son called John Hind, who was the father of Susan Louisa HIND and
Alberta Sophia Hind, with his wife Louisa Summerfield. John Laxton
then married Jane Howe on 21 April 1862, and had 5 children
together, between 1863 & 1874, with Stephen being the last in
the October quarter of 1874.
So Stephen Laxton was Susan Louisa Hind’s cousin, so no doubt she
was at the wedding in Rippingale in November 8th, 1897.
As to how or if Edwin Cartwright Sneath knew any of the guests I
don't know, but the marriage seems to fit at least one of the
parties.
So now I can research the Hind Connections before going back
to research Edwin Cartwright Sneath further.
The Hind family originated in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, then moved to Lincolnshire. The forenames of John & Robert keep cropping up, so that makes it easier to link names and research them.
When Susan Louisa Hind was born on 21 October 1873 in, Rippingale, Lincolnshire, her father, John, was 31, and her mother, Louisa, maiden name Summerfield, was 26. She was the third child, but the first daughter, of the family, the first being her elder brother Robert Hind, who was born in Rippingale, Lincolnshire in the July quarter of 1871. Without having his birth record, nor his baptism record, it's hard to know his exact date of birth. He was probably named after his great grandfather who was called Robert Hinds, born in Melton Mowbray in 1785.
Robert Hinds, his great-grandfather married Martha Mewkill at Melton Mowbray on 1 February 1807.
Year 1807: No. 367: Robert HIND of this Parish Bachelor, &
Martha Mewkill of the Parish of Whissendine, Rutland, spinster,
were married in this church by Licence on 1 February 1807 by me
Phil Ford, Vicar in presence of Elizabeth Bass & Ann Hinds
& Thomas Bass. Notes by Gerald Calver state that Ann Hinds is
Robert's sister and she married Anthony HACK in 1808, Thomas
Bass was husband of Elizabeth Bass nee HIND. (so sister to Ann
HIND & Robert HIND.)
Now isn't this often the problem, trying to read old records; on the second line, the surname Menkill, in the bottom line is spelt Mewkill, so which is it? The name is MEWKILL, not MENKILL. Gerald Calver has provided me with this information. .
Robert Hind says he was from Melton Mowbray, he and his wife ended up in Rippingale, near Bourn in Lincolnshire, with Robert being a butcher by trade. He died before his wife Martha on the 23rd January, 1866, and was buried 3 days later in the graveyard of the Parish Church in Rippingale as this record on LincstothePast states: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1864-1866) NO. 679: Robert HIND, of Rippingale, buried January 25th, 1866, aged 81, by Wm . Cooper, Rector.
His wife Martha, went to live with her married daughter Sarah, who was married to an Edward Williamson a local farmer, and she died aged 90 on the 25th April, 1878 as this newspaper article states: Grantham Journal - Saturday 04 May 1878
Hind. —At Rippingale, on the 25th ult., Martha Hind, aged 90years.
Robert Hind & Martha appear to have had at least 7 children, the first being John, born in 1808-I have found a baptism of a John HIND on 28 August, 1808 at Whissendine, Rutland, as son of Robert & Martha HIND. Well that makes sense, that was where John & Martha married as above.
This is the record & Source:
Child Number 1: John Hind
England Births and Christenings
Name John Hind
Gender Male
Christening Date 28 Aug 1808
Christening Place Whissendine, Rutlandshire,England
Father's Name Robert Hind
Mother's Name Martha
Citing this Record
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQNX-C4H : 6 December 2014), John Hind, 28 Aug 1808; citing WHISSENDINE,RUTLAND,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,234,421.
Child Number 2: Thomas HINDS: Now sometime after, 1808, Robert & Martha, move from Whissendine to Little Bytham, In Lincolnshire, because their next child, Thomas is born there in 1812, and christened in the church on 7 June, 1812.
Little Bytham: Baptisms and burials 1812: June 7, 1812, Thomas, son of Robert & Martha Hynes, baptised by J R Deverell, curate.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=724696&iid=397630
So now let me look at the life of this young man, born in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire a few miles
The two places, Whissendine & Little Bytham are about 13 miles apart,
Neither of the above sources state the occupation of Robert Hinds whose name becomes to be Hind. In a baptism of a child in 1815, he is shown as a butcher.
Child number 3:
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1815) Register No. 46: 7 May, 1815, Robert, son of Robert & Martha HINDS, of this parish (Rippingale), Butcher, by Benn Cracroft, Rector.
This record comes from the resource called Lincstothepast-this is online source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320561
Child number 4: Elizabeth HINDS
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1819) Register No: 136: 10 October 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert & Martha HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher by Kings Foster, Officiating Minister
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320573
Child Number 5: Samuel HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1822) Register No: 198: 13 December, 1822, Samuel, son of Robert & Martha HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Charles Douglas, Rector Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320582
Child Number 6.: Mary Anne: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1825-1826)
No.280: February 26, 1826, Mary Anne, daughter of Robert & Patty HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by John Bonham, Officiating Minister.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320593
Child number 7:
Now it looks like Robert's wife Martha has died, because throughout the above records she is called Martha, now she is called Patty. No, that's not true, because here's the christening of child number 7, Sarah: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1828-1829)
No. 344: April 12th, 1829, Sarah, daughter of Robert & Martha HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm Waters, Rector: Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320602, so maybe Martha's nickname was Patty!
So by 1829, Robert is firmly established as a butcher in Rippingale, with a wife & 7 children, which by 1829, their first son John was 21, so probably married. Well, no he wasn't, but here is his marriage to Elizabeth SANDALL:
Rippingale Parish Records - Marriages (1831)
John HINDS, of this parish, Bachelor & Elizabeth Sandall, of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by Banns with consent of both parties on 22nd March, 1831, by me Wm. Waters, Rector, in presence of William SANDALL & Eliza SANDALL.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=568785&iid=320434
CENSUS entries for Robert & Marthar HIND
1841 census & the Hind/Hinds Family in Rippingale area.
So this is mum and dad, Robert & Martha Hinds, now grandparents as well. So lets see how many grandchildren they had by 1841.
So by 1841, the first census with any real information no matter how brief with ages estimated & rounded up, Robert & Martha HINDS, live in Rippingale, with Robert not an agricultural labourer, with just 2 daughters at home with them, Mary Ann & Sarah.
1841 CENSUS for Robert & Martha HIINDS
Rippingale:
Robt. HINDS, 50, Agl (crossed through), Not born in Lincs.
Martha HINDS, 50, Not born in Lincs,
Mary Ann HINDS, 15, Born in Lincs.
Sarah HINDS, 12, born in Lincs.
1851 Census for Robert & Martha HINDS.
In the 1851 Census which was taken on the 30th March, 1851, persons putting their names on it had to state on a census entry the name of the place where they were born.
So looking at this entry, it states this:
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
16, High Street,
Robert HIND, Head, Married, Age, 64, Butcher, Sysonby, Leicestershire.
Martha HIND, Wife, Married, 62, Born Whissindine, Rutland.
Elizabeth HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 31, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Mary Ann HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 25, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Sysonby or something similar, looking for a place near Melton
Mowbray spelt like that might bring up where he was born &
christened.
In the 1861 Census, days later, he told the enumerator, a different place where he was born.
The entry reads:
1, Robert HINDS, Head, Married, 74, Family Butcher, born Melton, Leicestershire
Martha HINDS, Wife, Married, 75, Wife, born Whissidine, Rutland.
So Robert now says he was born in Melton, or maybe that means Melton Mowbray.
Certainly he was christened in Melton Mowbray, so the family either lived there or nearby.
Elizabeth HINDS, 25, Born in Lincs
William HINDS, 10, Born in Lincs
John HINDS, 9, Born in Lincs.
Catharine HINDS, 4, Born in Lincs
Sarah HINDS, 2, Born in Lincs
Samuel HINDS, 15, Apprentice to Shoemaker, Born in Lincs.
So you can see the Census of 1841 doesn't tell half the story, with John & his wife Elizabeth having children born and christened only to have them die and be buried, all in Rippingale.
So John, has followed in his father's footsteps and become a butcher in Rippingale, just wonder if they both work in the same shop together, hardly see there would be two Hind's butchers shops in the village in 1841.
John Hinds is married to Elizabeth HINDS nee Sandall, with 4 children, the fifth listed, Samuel, the apprentice shoemaker is John's nephew, his father is John's brother Samuel.
So John Hinds is a butcher, aged 30 in 1841, so let's see what happened to him. Well the first thing that happened to him was rather sad, because his wife Elizabeth died on 19 June 1842 at their home in Rippingale, and was buried in the graveyard of the parish church .
Source: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1841-1842) No. 391: Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, buried June 21st 1842, aged 30, By Wm. Waters, Rector.
www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?
oid=542712&iid=320965
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1841-1842)
Register No. 391: Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, buried June 21st 1842 aged 30 years by Wm. Waters, Rector
So at that time, his children then were called William, born 1831, John born 1832, Catharine born 1837, and Sarah born 1839. No doubt the children went to their mother's funeral.
Then on 14 April, 1845, John married a Susanna Palmer at Rippingale Parish Church. Here's the record from Lincolnshire Marriages: 14 April 1845, John Hinds, son of Robert HINDS, married Susanna PALMER daughter of Thomas PALMER at Rippingale. Source: http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Bourne spreadsheet.
So here was John's chance to start another family.
1. Susanna Frances HINDS Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1846-1847)
Register No. 735, July 1st 1846, Susanna Frances, daughter of John & Susanna HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector
The 1851 Census has the family like this:
John HINDS 1851 Census
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
26: High Street,
John HIND, Head, Married, 42, Butcher, born Whissendine, Rutland
Sussanna HIND, Wife, Married, 26, born, Rippingale, Lincs.
John HIND, Son, Unmarried, 19, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Catherine HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 14, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, Daughter, unmarried, 12, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sussanna HIND, daughter, un., 5, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, un., 3, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, un., 1, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Then 10 years later the family looked like this:
John HINDS in 1861 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Entry 22:
John HIND, Head, Married, 52, Butcher, Born Whissendine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 35, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Susanna HIND, 15, Scholar, born Rippinglae, Lincs.
Mary A HIND, Daughter, 13, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert T. HIND, son, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 2, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Pilgrim, Servant, Unmarried, 17, House servant, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Arthur Millar, servant, Unmarried, 16, Butcher’s apprentice, born Falkingham, Lincs.
So in both census, young Susanna Frances was at home with her parents.
So the children of John HIND & Susanna Palmer are the following:
1. Susanna Frances 1 July 1846.
2. Mary Ann Hind born December 1847, registered 1848, christened 2 January 1848, Rippingale.
3. Jane Hinds, christened at Rippingale 10 August 1849.
3a Eliza HINDS, Born June 1851 died 11 March 1855.
4. Robert Thomas Hind born January 1856 in Rippingale.
5. Alfred Palmer HIND born October 1858 in Rippingale.
6. Lizzie Martha. HIND born October 1861, in Rippingale.
7. Amelia HIND born April 1865, in Rippingale.
So quite a gap between Jane Hinds in 1849 & Robert Thomas in 1856.
HIND Births in Bourne Registration Area between 1849 & 1856
Births Sep 1849 Hind Jane Bourn 14 290 (daughter of John & Susanna)
Births Mar 1850 Hind Mary Elizabeth Bourn 14 303
Births Jun 1850 Hind John Bourn 14 327
Births Jun 1851 Hind Eliza, Bourn, 14, 306 Dies March 1855 (buried 11 March 1855 aged 4 years)
Hind George Bourn 14 310
Births Jun 1852 Hind Herbert Bourne 7a 212
Hind Herbert Bourn 7a 282
Births Jun 1854 Hind George Bourn 7a 304
HIND George Bourn 7a 364
Births Mar 1856 HIND, Robert Thomas Bourn 7a 279 (son of John & Susanna)
There were 3 Hind deaths in the Bourne area between 1850 & 1856
Death June 1850, HIND John, Deaths June 1851: George HIND
Deaths March 1855, Eliza HIND But only Eliza Hinds is listed as being buried in Rippingale.
Child Number 1. Susanna Frances HINDS Rippingale Parish
Records - Baptisms (1846-1847)
Register No. 735, July 1st 1846, Susanna Frances, daughter of John & Susanna HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector
No doubt Susanna Frances would have attended the local National School in Rippingale-the census says she was a scholar in 1861, and with John, her father being a tradesman ( a butcher), he would have had to pay 9d. a week for Susanna to attend that school in Rippingale. Information about the school can be found here: http://www.rippingalevillage.co.uk/School.htm
In 1865, a new young man was appointed at the school as the new headmaster. he was called John CAUNCE. He died in 1929 and the Grantham Journal reported his funeral service. There is some history about Mr. Caunce in that article below. By 1865, Susanna Frances was 19 years of age, and she no doubt met this young man. Anyway, in October, 2 years later, she married John Caunce:
On 22 October 1867, Susanna married John Caunce a schoolteacher. The marriage was reported in the Lincolnshire Chronicle: Lincolnshire Chronicle - Saturday 02 November 1867: At Rippingale, on the 22nd ult., Mr. John CAUNCE, to Miss Susan HIND.
Together they had 3 children, Thomas John in the October quarter of 1868, Ada Gertrude in 1870 & Lily Beatrice in 1874.
The Census of 1871 gives this information about the family:
Susanna Frances CAUNCE nee HIND in 1871 Census
1871 census for Susanna F CAUNCE: Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 10:
Entry 7:
John CAUNCE, Head, Married, 25, Schoolmaster, born Golborne, Lancashire
Susanna F. CAUNCE, Wife, Married, 24, Wife, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Thomas J. CAUNCE, Son, single, 2, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Ada G. CAUNCE, daughter, 11 months, born Rippingale Lincolnshire.
So not much about where they lived is there?
10 years later this was the census entry:
1881 census for Susanna F CAUNCE nee HIND
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 10
High Street: Entry 23:
John CAUNCE, Head, Married, 35, Certificated School Teacher, 1st class born Golborne, Lancashire
Susanna F CAUNCE, wife, married, 34, Wife, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Ada G. CAUNCE, daughter, 11, scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Lily B. CAUNCE, daughter, 6, born Ripiingale, Lincs.
So at least now we know they were living in the High Street, Rippingale.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 10 September 1904
Marriage of Mr. John CAUNCE: On Tuesday, August 30th, the marriage took place at St George’s Church, Forest Hill, London, S. E., of Mr. John CAUNCE, schoolmaster, Rippingale, and Miss Emma Leigh SAUNDERS, late schoolmistress of the Twenty School, Bourne. The bride wore a cream silk alpaca dress, trimmed with old lace, wreath of orange blossoms, and veil of old Brussels lace. She was attended by three bridesmaids, namely Miss Maud Saunders (sister of the bride), Miss Ettie Tills, and Miss Clara Louisa Pipe (Nieces of the bride); they wore very pretty gold safety-pin brooches, the gift of the bridegroom, and carried baskets of flowers. J. Lovett Esq., H. M. I., attended the bridegroom as best man. The happy couple have been the recipients of many valuable and useful presents, including the a handsome marble timepiece from the choir of St. Andrew’s Church, Rippingale, a token of esteem and regard for their much-respected organist on his marriage. The parishioners heartily unite in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Caunce long life and happiness. They are spending their honeymoon in Bournemouth.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 September 1929
DEATH OF MR JOHN CAUNCE: FORMER RIPPINGALE SCHOOLMASTER
We much regret to announce the death of Mr. John Caunce, the Headmaster of the school for many years. The late Mr. Caunce was born at Golbourne, Lancs, in October 1845, and when he became of School age he was sent to St. Barnabas School, Manchester. From there he went to Diocesan Training College, York, for two years-1864-65. In the latter year, Mr. G. Marsh, then Headmaster of Rippingale School, left, and Mr. Caunce was chosen to fill the vacancy, celebrating his 21st birthday here. He retained the position of Headmaster until 1912-a period of forty-six years-when advancing age made it necessary for him to retire. When he first took up his duties at the School, the number of scholars was 75, but this he was instrumental in increasing until the scholars reached 120. Parents of adjacent villages soon heard of his ability to impart knowledge, and they sent their children to him from Dunsby, Dowsby, Kirkby Underwood and Haconby and Rippingale School became full to overflowing. This was when parents had to PAY for The Teaching of their own children, and the payments were fixed according to a scale arranged by the Managers. For labourer’s children the fee was 3d. per week; for tradesmen’s and farmers it was 6d., and 9d. a week per child. With his duties of Headmaster, Mr. Caunce combined that of organist at the Church. That was one of the conditions of employment, so that the Headmaster had to prove his musical ability when applying for the post, as well as his teaching proficiency. He continued to act as paid organist for many years, and then he became voluntary organist, and carried on for a year after he retired from the School. In 1910 a new organ was placed in the Church, and three years later Mr. Caunce as organist retired owing to advancing years. In 1912 he was presented with a long-service certificate in recognition of his forty-seven years- service in the Church Sunday School, and regarded it as one of his most cherished possessions. For many years he made it a practice to put in a full day on Sunday6s, by attending Sunday-School in the morning and then to Church. In the afternoon he had either a children’s service at Sunday-School to attend, and in the evening he officiated in his usual capacity at the organ. He saw service UNDER THREE RECTORS-the late Rev. W. Cooper and Canon Layng and the present Rector Rev. J. E. Williams. To all he has been a true and trusted friend. Some of the scholars who have passed through his hands have won for themselves place of eminence. Mr. Robert HIND, who at one of the Jubilees represented the South African Government at one of the Colonial Conferences that were held at that time was one of them; others were Joseph Laxton, Headmaster of a School at Redbourne, St. Albans; Mr. George Marsh, the present Headmaster of Donington Elementary School. While acting as organist, the Rippingale Choir became very prominent in the district. On May 10th, 1878 the Choir won first prize at competition at Grimsthorpe. The population in the 70’s numbered 591 against 450 today, but, in spite of the larger population, the attendance at Church was not as large as it is now. In those days there was what was known as the “Row” of ten houses, which sheltered no less than one hundred people. When deceased needed a holiday, he had to walk eight miles To Corby to board a train. Prior to the line from Bourne to Sleaford being made, he had to walk to Bourne when necessity demanded, and back again, or put up with the inconvenience of the old carriers carts. Presentation on Retirement. When he retired after forty-six years of service as Headmaster of Rippingale National School, he was presented with a cheque for £22 4s., a handsome Berkeley armchair, and Mrs. Caunce was given a pair of silver candlesticks. He was for fifty years secretary of the local Lodge of the Loyal Gladstone Benefit Society. During last February the health of the deceased was severely taxed, but with devoted attention of Mrs. Caunce he survived. During the summer his feeble condition was noticeable, but he always managed to get the Church he had loved so sincerely and so long. In addition to the widow (who was his second wife), he leaves two daughters and a son.
The Funeral
There is a long list of local people who attended including a Mrs. HIND (no initial), two Mrs. Williamson’s.
Family mourners were Mrs. CAUNCE, (widow), Mr. T. CAUNCE (son), Mrs. T. SPRIDGEON and Miss Caunce (daughters), Mr. H. CAUNCE (brother), Mr. Jacks (Manchester), Miss Saunders (sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, Mr. H. Gibbons and Mr. T. Gibbons (Nottingham). As the cortege entered the church Mr. W. B. Williamson played “Ave Verum” (Gounod), the service was fully choral. As the cortege left the church, Mr. Williamson played “Adagio” by Beethoven.The Rev. J. E. Williams, in the course of his address, said that the words “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”, were very appropriate with regard to the comrade they were mourning that day. He had been good and faithful both to God and man. He had been among them as Headmaster in the School for close on fifty years, careful, thoughtful, kindly, enthusiastic in his teaching. The children had always been dear to him because he realised their preciousness, and thought of their souls as well as their bodies, their moral equipment as well as mental. All who came under his influence became better men and women for it. He (the speaker) thought of his record as A Glorious One He thought of deceased’s work in that church, which he loved, as organist, choirmaster, and Sunday-School teacher. Success always attended any effort he made, because he was so sincere as well as so capable. Although age stopped him working, he would not let anything keep him away from God’s house, and they could always count upon the deceased and his wife being present at Communion. Only a fortnight before his death he was worshipping with them. He was a wonderful example both to the old and the young. He lived as a Christian to the very end. Continuing the Rev. Williams said it had been a privilege to be with the deceased on the day he passed on, and he had gripped his hand as a brother Mason, and joined with him in simple prayers, and then he turned to his dear wife. They were there that afternoon to pay their last tribute to One they would all Remember but that was not a service of hopelessness, it was one of wonderful hope. They wanted more men and women in the Church, like the deceased, to see that the work did not suffer now he had passed away to a higher service. In conclusion, the Rev. gentleman offered a message of sympathy, love, and affection to those who mourned. To the wife who had the knowledge of the great respect in which her husband was held to console her, to the daughters and brothers. It was an honour to belong to such a good and faithful father, wonderful brother, sincere and humble-minded friend and a Christian Gentleman.
Register No. 449: Robert Thomas HIND, of Rippingale buried January 21st, 1847 aged Infant, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Child Number 2. Mary Anne HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1847-1848)
Register No. 763: January 2nd, 1848, Mary Anne, daughter of John & Susanna HIND, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Note in this record, his daughter is called Mary Ann, his third daughter with that name, with 2 having died, and her surname in the record is HIND not HINDS.
Mary Ann Hinds stays to live with her parents in all the census. The census of 1891 explains why, as it describes her as an imbecile.
1891 Census for Mary Ann HIND: Lincolnshire, All Saints: District 2
05 November 1897 • Stamford, Lincolnshire
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 November 1897 DEATHS: HIND At Stamford, on the 5th inst., Susanna, wife of the late John HIND, formerly of Rippingale.
In the census of 1901, Mary Ann is in the Kesteven County Asylum, which was in Grantham,
Lincolnshire.Rauceby Hospital, originally called Kesteven County Asylum, is a now-defunct mental institution in the parish of Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England. Building work was commenced in 1897, the facility was completed and opened in 1902.[1] After changing hands and names several times the main hospital building was closed in 1998 and abandoned for several years. From 2004 parts of the site underwent redevelopment to convert it into private housing.
I can't seem to find what happened to Mary Ann Hind after the census of 1901, but certainly another factor as to why it was she ended up where she did must have been the fact that her brother Alfred had died in December 1891.
Child Number 3. Jane HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1849) Register No. 795: 10 August 1849, Jane daughter of John & Susanna HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Jane seems to remain unmarried throughout her life. So far the last entry for her is in the 1911 census when she is acting as a companion for a lady in Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Then I found this newspaper entry for a Jane Hind, the date seems to fit okay.
Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 01 March 1930
Deaths:
Spilsby: February 21st Jane HIND, 80.
Child Number 3a: 3a Eliza HINDS, Born June 1851 died 11 March 1855.
I found the following birth in the Bourne area: So I wondered if it was a child of John & Susanna HINDS.
Births Jun 1851 Hind Eliza, Bourn, 14, 306, but without having the baptism. I am not sure yet as to whose child she was, but there is a burial recorded at Rippingale Parish Church in Lincstothepast website
Dies March 1855 (buried 11 March 1855 aged 4 years) Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1855-1856) No. 571: Eliza HINDS, of Rippingale, buried March 11th 1855, aged 4 years, by Wm. Cooper, Rector.
Child number 4: Robert Thomas Hind born January 1856 in Rippingale.
Robert was named after his grandfather Robert Hinds, father of his father John HINDS & grandfather Thomas PALMER, father of his mother, Susanna Palmer. It looks like he was John & Susanna's first son, so his future would be clear, he would become a butcher, like his father. So five years after his birth, the family had to complete the 1861 Census-this is that entry. Robert is listed as being a scholar, and as his father was a butcher, so a tradesman he would be expected to pay 8d per week for his son's education.
Robert Thomas HIND in 1861 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Entry 22:
John HIND, Head, Married, 52, Butcher, Born Whissendine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 35, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Susanna HIND, 15, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary A HIND, Daughter, 13, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert T. HIND, son, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 2, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Pilgrim, Servant, Unmarried, 17, House servant, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Arthur Millar, servant, Unmarried, 16, Butcher’s apprentice, born Falkingham, Lincs.
10 years later in 1871,Robert T Hind is 15, years of age & a scholar.
10 years later in 1881 Census, Robert Thomas is still living with
his parents but working as a butcher & Jobber so the census of
that year states.
John HINDS in 1881 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Schedule No. 5, High Street, Rippingale
John HIND, Head, Married, 72, Cottager & Grazier, born Whissindine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 55, Cottager & Grazier’s wife, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, single, 33, Cottager & Grazier’s daughter, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Robert T. HIND, son, Single, 25, Butcher & Jobber, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, Single, 19, Cottager & Grazier’s daughter, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Amelia HIND, daughter, single, 16, Cottager & Grazier’s daughter, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
In the next ten years Robert certainly had his problems as a butcher. no longer in Rippingale, but in Bourn.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 21 April 1882
Robert Hind, butcher, was charged with selling meat unfit for the food of man. The Magistrates decided that they had no jurisdiction, but granted case for superior court
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 September 1885
Re: ROBERT THOMAS HIND, butcher & cattle dealer, Rippingale, a bankrupt-This was the adjourned public examination of the debtor-Mr. W. F. LAW, of Stamford, appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. G. Barnett, of Sleaford, the trustee, attended. After some questions the debtor was allowed to pass his examination.
Then on 7th January, 1886, Robert had some beef stolen from him whilst he was in the King's Head pub at Morton. The whole incident is covered in the below article.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 16 January 1886
BOURN PETTY SESSIONS. January 14th, the Rev. G. Carter (in chair), Lieut.-Col. Parker, Capt. Smith, and W. E. Welby, Esq.
Edward Fowler, labourer, was brought up in custody charged with stealing six pounds of beef, the property of Robert Thomas Hind, Morton, on the 7th inst.—Prisoner pleaded not guilty.—Prosecutor said was butcher, and lived at Rippingale. About seven o'clock the night Jan. 7th, bought a quarter of beef from Mr. Edward Smith, of Morton, weighing thirteen four pounds, which cut into two pieces and put Into his cart. afterwards drove to the "King's Head," Morton, with Mr. Smith, and saw the prisoner standing in the yard. Prosecutor said to him, "Will you hold horse, whilst I go into the house?" Prisoner said that he would, and prosecutor accordingly went into the house, where he stayed about ten minutes. On again going into the yard, he did not see the defendant standing by the horse, so he shouted, and prisoner came from behind the cart. He paid for glass of beer for the prisoner, and then drove home to Rippingale. On reaching home, he took the meat out of the cart, and found that six pounds had been cut off the round—apparently with a small knife. He immediately gave information to the police, and the same night accompanied P.c. Wicks to the prisoner's house, and saw four plates with beef gravy upon them. On one of the plates were two pieces of beef, which had come from the round. He watched the prisoner being searched, and saw pocket-knife, which was found upon him. Near the handle of which adhered small piece of raw beef. His clothes ware also bloody. Prosecutor valued the stolen meat at 6/-.—P.c. Wicks said Thursday, January about ten o'clock night, prosecutor informed him that piece beef had been stolen from his cart. Witness went to the prisoner's house, but found him in bed. He could not gain admittance the house for about quarter hour, and, on entering, he asked the prisoner whether he knew anything of a piece of round of beef. Prisoner indignantly denied that knew anything of the meat, and asked whether Mr. Hand thought that he had robbed him? Witness then called prisoner's attention to several plates that were on the table, with beef gravy on them, and asked him where he had got the beef from? Prisoner said bought it at Bourn the week before Christmas. Witness then charged him with stealing the beef, and took him into custody. On arriving at Bourn Police-station, he searched the prisoner, and found upon him a pocket-knife, with small piece of beef adhering to the blade. The blade was greasy, as if it had recently been need for cutting raw meat. Prisoner's clothes were also bloody, and the left-hand pocket of his top coat was covered with damp blood.—Fowler made a rambling statement in defence, stating that bought the beef at Bourn.—The Chairman said that this was very bad case against the prisoner, and magistrates could send him to prison without the option of a fine. They would, however, by fining him, give him an opportunity of redeeming his character. He would have to pay £3 fine, or, in default of payment, to go to prison for one month's hard labour.
However on 13 December 1887, Robert Thomas HIND married Sarah Elizabeth Williamson at Rippingale-she was the daughter of William & Sarah Williamson a labourer both born in Rippingale. They went to live in West Street, Bourn, where Robert had his butcher's shop. However things still went wrong:-
Stamford Mercury - Friday 07 February 1890
Bourn Petty Sessions, Jan. 30, before Lieut. -Col. Parker and Capt. Smith
Robert Hind, butcher, Bourn, was summoned for using unjust spring balances. Fined 10s. and costs 9s. 6d.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 01 March 1890
We understand that Mr. Clements solicitor, attended before Bourn justices on Thursday, behalf of Mr. Robert Hind, butcher, Bourn, to appeal against judgment given against him at a previous court for failing to produce his certificate for the weights used in his business, when called upon to do so. The certificate duly signed, attesting the accuracy of weights and scales, had since been found, and was produced. The court accepted fully the explanation.
The census of 1891, show him & his wife Sarah Elizabeth and their 2 children, Nellie Stafford & Alfred Morley, living in West Street, Bourn as a butcher.
In the next ten years, Robert Thomas and his wife Sarah Elizabeth continued to have children born to them, so that in 1901 this was the family then.
You will note that Nellie Stafford HIND isn't with her parents & family in 1911, she is in fact living & working in Reigate at 39, Station Road, Reigate as an assistant. She married Harold Asher Wade PORTER on 18 January 1914 at St Saviour's Paddington.
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser - Saturday
24 January 1914
Marriages
PORTER : HIND—On January 19th. St. Saviour’s Parish Church, Paddington, by Rev. Canon H.S. Syers. Harold Asher Wade, son of the late Mr. Henry F. D. Porter, and Mrs. Porter of The Limes. Redhill, to Nellie Stafford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hind. of Bourne, Lincs.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 24 January 1914
Marriage Miss Hind. —An interesting wedding was solemnised at St. Saviour's Parish Church, Paddington, London, on Monday, when Miss Nellie S. Hind, of Bourne, was married to Mr. Harold A. W. Porter, of Redhill, Surrey. Miss Hind well-known in Bourne the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hind, and has also large circle of friends at Redhill, the residence of the bridegroom, whose parents, the late Mr. H. F. D. Porter and Mrs. Porter, have for many years been connected with the control of " The Surrey Mirror and County Post" series of newspapers, which is published from Rodhill. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Canon H. S. Syers, and the bride, who was married in her travelling-dress, was given away by her father. A large number of handsome presents were received. The honeymoon is being spent in London, and subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Harold Porter will live at Redhill, where Mr. Porter holds a position in the office of "The Surrey Mirror"
Surrey Mirror - Friday 29 July 1938
Deaths:
PORTER.—On July 26th, 1938. at Lowestoft, Harold Asher Wade Porter, husband of Nellie Porter, and son of the late Mr. H F. D. Porter and Mrs. Porter. The Driftway. Copthorne, aged 47 years.
Nellie Stafford Porter nee Hind died
on
Her main executive for her will was Harry Hind, her brother, who had been at one time a butchers manager according to the Probate Calendar.
So meanwhile, Robert Thomas stayed in
business as a butcher until his death on
Saturday 12th July, 1935 as this newspaper
article states.
ONE OF BOURNE’S OLDEST TRADERS Death of Mr.
R. T. Hind By the death of Mr. Robert Thomas
Hind, of West-street. Bourne, on Sunday, at
the age of 79years, the town has lost one of
its oldest tradesmen. Deceased had a siezure
some two years ago, but he subsequently
recovered, to again take part in his business
affairs. About six weeks ago, however he had
to take his bed and his condition became
gradually worse, death taking place on Sunday
night. The late Mr. Hind was a native of
Rippingale and a butcher by trade. He had been
resident in Bourne for nearly 50 years, and
was assisted in his West-street business by
two of his three sons. The funeral at the
cemetery on Wednesday was preceded by a
service in the Abbey church, conducted Canon
Grinter. The family mourners were the widow;
Mr. Morley Hind, Northampton, Mr. H. Hind, and
Mr. L. Hind, sons; Mrs. M. Hind, Northampton,
and Mrs ,H. Hind, daughters-ln-law; Mrs.
Caunce, Rippingale, sister-in-law. Others
present at the church were Mrs. Ingoldby. Mrs.
H. W. Pick Mrs. B, A. Pick, Miss V. Pick. Mr.
J. North, R. H Homer. Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield
Mr. C. Smith, Mr. Melton Smith (Morton) Miss
M. Carter. Mrs Maxon, Miss Sherwin, Mrs.
Almond. Mr. J. H. Mays, Mrs. Archer and Mr.
Schmetzer.
Note who was present at his funeral at the Abbey Church in Bourne, his wife, Sarah Elizabeth HIND, son Mr. Morley HIND, son Henry HIND, son, Robert Leonard HIND (known as Leonard HIND), and his daughters-in-law, Mrs M. HIND of Northampton (maiden name Elsie Miller), Mrs. H. HIND of Bourne, maiden name Elsie Bloodworth,
Next came the death of Sarah Elizabeth HIND, nee Williamson on Tuesday 30 April, 1940.
Grantham Journal - Friday 03 May 1940
AROUND BOURNE New* the Week in Brief
The Funeral takes place this afternoon of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hind. Austerby, widow of Mr. R. T. Hind, who for many years carried on a butcher's business in West-street. She died at St. George's home. Stamford, on Tuesday, in her 81st year. Before ill-health overtook her she was an active member of the Mothers' Union. Her death is mourned by three sons and one daughter.
Grantham Journal - Friday 10 May 1940
The Funeral Service at the Abbey church, on Friday, of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hind, widow of Mr. R. T. Hind, a former butcher, was conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. C. W. E. Home. The Immediate mourners were Mr. and Mrs. M. Hind, son and daughter-in-law: (Morley HIND), Mr. H. (Harry) and Mr. L. Hind,(Leonard) sons; Mr. Williamson, Rippingale, brother; Miss Caunce. Rippingale and Miss M. Carter. Floral tributes were sent by Elsie and Morl. (Elsie & Morley HIND: Len and Phill. Leonard & : Harry. Tet and boys: Leslie, Peter and Michael: Nell: Ted. Lizzie and family; E. L. Caunce: Betty and Mary Lovell: Mrs. North, sen.: Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield: Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Pick: Gertie: members the Mothers' Union, Bourne; late Swift and Co staff. Northampton: Mrs. Wade and family: neighbours, 40. 42. 44 46 and 52. Austerby.
Later that year Robert Leonard or Leonard as he seems to have been known by married Frances Muriel Carter on 9 November, 1940 in Bourne.
Grantham Journal - Friday 15 November 1940
Children of John Hinds & Suzanne Palmer
Number 5: Alfred Palmer HIND
I don't know much about Alfred Palmer HIND apart from the fact that throughout his relatively short life he worked as a draper's assistant. The Census of 1881, shows him living & working in St Marylebone, London, living in Harewood Street and working as a draper's assistant & ten years later he is still doing the same job but living at St Peter's Terrace, Stamford, Lincolnshire with his widowed mother Susannah HIND and his 2 siblings, Mary Ann Hind who in the census is shown as an imbecile.and Lizzie M. HIND.
Entry 127: Stamford All Saints: 3, St. Peter Terrace
Susannah HIND, Head, Widow, Seamstress, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary A. HIND, daughter, single, 43, Born Rippingale, Lincs, Imbecile
Alfred P. HIND, son, Single, 32, Draper (Assistant), born Rippingale, Lincs
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, single, 29, born Rippingale, Lincs
The next entry I have for Alfred is an announcement of his death:
Stamford Mercury - Friday 08 January 1892
DEATHS
STAMFORD— December 31, in S. Peters-terrace, Alfred Palmer Hind, draper's assistant, 38;
His sister, Lizzie Martha HIND, who was born in the October quarter of 1861, as the 7th child of John Hinds & Susanna Palmer and lives at home with her parents & family right up to the 1891 census, when her father John has died and her mother, brother and sister Mary Ann live in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Prior to that the family have always lived in Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
With her mother dying in 1897, little is known about Lizzie-her sister Mary Ann went into an asylum after the death of her mother.
Lizzie's sister was Amelia HIND born April 1865 in Rippingale. For the first 20 years of her life she remained at home with her parents, but the 1891 census finds her living in Paddington area of London at 8, Westbourne Grove Terrace working as a millinery's assistant, so making hats.
She must have moved from London to Stamford-her mother had been living there with her sister Mary Ann & brother Alfred Palmer Hind. Her mother, Susanna, died in Stamford on 5th December 1897. There is this record of Amelia's marriage to an Alfred KEY, a stoker in a railway engine.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 18 December 1896
Marriages: Dec. 13, Alfred Key, Lincoln, to Amelia Hind, of Stamford.
Register No. 799: 10 October 1849, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Sarah HIND of Rippingale, Spinster, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
You will note that I have been using as a source Lincstothepast, but records of baptisms after 1849 are not on the website, so I am reliant now on other sources. This couple then stop having children, so in the 1851 Census this is the family
John HINDS 1851 Census
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
26: High Street,
John HIND, Head, Married, 42, Butcher, born Whissendine, Rutland
Sussanna HIND, Wife, Married, 26, born, Rippingale, Lincs.
John HIND, Son, Unmarried, 19, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Catherine HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 14, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, Daughter, unmarried, 12, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sussanna HIND, daughter, un., 5, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, un., 3, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, un., 1, born Rippingale, Lincs.
On 5th December 1851 this was reported in the Stamford Mercury: An extraordinary pig was slaughtered at Rippingale on the 1st Inst., by Mr. HINDS, butcher: it weighed 50 stones, the head, 51 lbs, and the leaf 70lbs. It was fed by Mr. H., and was only 18 months old.
1841 Census for Thomas HINDS, Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 7
Thomas HINDS, 25, Shoe M, born in Lincs.
Mary HINDS, 22, Born in Lincs
Sarah Ann HINDS, 1, Born in Lincs.
Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church, Rippingale, Lincolnshire Register No. 5, September 3rd, 1838, Thomas HINDS, of full age, Cordwainer, of Rippingale, son of Robert HINDS, Butcher & Mary Williamson, Nineteen, spinster, Servant, of Rippingale, daughter of John Williamson, Labourer were married the Parish Church by banns by Wm. Waters, Rector in presence of Thomas Briggs & Elizabeth HINDS
Gerald Calver sent me this marriage record, showing Thomas HINDs getting married to Mary WILLIAMSON.
So young Thomas in 1841 is a shoemaker, a very necessary skill in a small village where everyone used boots to work in.
Now for Robert HINDs, the son not the father in 1841:
In 1841 census, the only one I can find is an entry in Corby Lincolnshire where a Robert Hind, born in Lincolnshire is working as a man servant on a farm.
So the next child of Robert HINDS is Elizabeth, who as we have seen above was christened at Rippingale in 1819, as child number 4. Now I have now discovered that Elizabeth never married, but lived to the age of 102, dying on 24 January 1921 in Rippingale. I know that she was born on 7 October 1819, as she celebrated her 101st birthday on 7 October 1920-I have a couple of newspaper articles about her which I have now published as seen below: I know at present I can't find her in the 1841 Census, she was probably a servant somewhere.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 09 October 1920 HER 101st BIRTHDAY.— Miss Elizabeth Hind, who resides at Rippingale, celebrated her 101st birthday on Thursday. She resides in a typical rustic cottage, opposite the Rectory, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Broughton, who tend her with loving care and kindness. She is the only person in the village to have attained such a wonderful age; but some years ago, another old lady, named Mrs. Gale, died there who would have been, 100 had she lived two months longer. Although Miss Hind is blind and rather deaf, she has a remarkable memory, and delights in talking of the times when she was a girl. She remembers quite well the day when she was confirmed. "We went to Folkingham Church in a waggon, and had dinner afterwards at the Greyhound Hotel, including some good roast beef," she declared. Her memory, too, is very good regarding her ancestry. "My grandfather was a fine business gentleman," she said, " and lived at Sysonby Lodge, Melton Mowbray. He married late in life, and my father was the youngest son." Amongst Miss Hind's most cherished possessions is a letter from the King, which she received last year. Another is a tiny silver teaspoon (300 years old), one of a set left by her grandmother. "It is the only one left." she declared with lament, and observed- It would make some money now." On Thursday, Miss Hind received many congratulations, and one caller observed. " I feel just as well as I did last year at this time." She likes the newspapers read to her, and takes interest in topical events, frequently remarking how different, things are to what they were in her girlhood. The old lady has lived in six reigns, viz., George 111., George IV.. William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. Another example of this lady's birthday was published in another newspaper: Grantham Journal - Saturday 11 October 1919 CAMPANOLOGY.—The ringers rang a peal of Grand desire doubles in honour of the 1OOth birthday of Miss Hind on Oct. 7th. Those taking part in the peal were. Messrs. J. Gibbons. T. Herriman, T. Bryan, J. Wand, and W. B. Gibbons. A CENTENARIAN—The great desire of Miss Elizabeth Hind of Rippingale, was that she might live see her hundredth birthday, and this she did on Tuesday, when she was the recipient of numerous congratulations-personally and by letter and telegram. A correspondent who called during the morning to see this remarkable old lady found her very comfortably lying in bed amidst snowy white. draperies, but she was well enough to sit up and converse freely on a variety of topics. She was born at. Rippingale on Oct. 7th, 1819, and was the eldest of six children. Her father was the late Mr. Robert Hind, who carried on a butchering business in the village, and her memory is so good that she can carry one back to the days of her girlhood. She well remembers, when about 15 or 16 years of age, going with others in a waggon to Folkingham, where she was confirmed in the Parish Church, and after the ceremony, she said the candidates were entertained to a dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding at the Greyhound Hotel. During her career, Miss Hind has held various situations as housekeeper, and for several years resided in such a capacity with the late Mr. Brown, and afterwards with his son at Haconby. The old lady has lived in six reigns, viz., George 111., George IV., William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. This is a proud boast. Although Miss Hind has been blind for eight of nine years, and is slightly deaf, retains other faculties to a remarkable degree. She has resided with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boughton in a prim cottage opposite the Rectory for three years, and Mrs. Boughton is most assiduous in looking after the care and comfort of "Granny,*' as she is familiarly called. The Rector (Canon Laving) has taken the greatest interest in her, and has been a frequent visitor. He called early on Tuesday to personally convey his congratulations, and promised to send her a dinner of a roast partridge, which the old lady was eagerly looking forward to, and humorously hoped her benefactor "would not forget the bread sauce." Other friends in the village sent her eggs, butter, cakes, and sugar, and when told of these and other birthday offerings, she replied. "How nice of them all." and "The gift of sugar is very nice, and especially welcome in times like these." All through the trying period of the war, Miss Hind evinced the keenest interest, and would have the newspapers read to her whenever opportunity occurred. The fact, of a centenarian living in our midst has come to the knowledge of the King, and on Tuesday a message was received from his Majesty's secretary, asking for full particulars to be sent. After a quarter-of-an-hour's chat with, this interesting old lady, she told her interviewer that sitting up resting on her arms made them ache, otherwise she had no aches or pains; and so, she nestled down in bed again her enjoy her morning repose. Sunday Mirror - Sunday 30 January 1921 Lived to 101.—Miss Elizabeth Hind has died at Rippingale, Lincolnshire, at the age of 101. Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday 27 January 1921 Miss Elizabeth Hind has died at Rippingale, Lincolnshire, the age of 101. A brass tablet was erected at Rippingagle Parish Church in memory of Elizabeth HIND, and mentioned in some more newspaper articles-eg Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 April 1921 RIPPING ALE. A Brass TABLET has been erected in the Church to the memory Mrs. Elizabeth Hind, who died recently in her 102nd year. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 04 April 1921 A brass tablet has been fixed in Rippingdale Church to the memory of Miss Elizabeth Hind, the first centenarian of the village, who died recently in her 102nd year.
Child Number 5, Samuel HINDS born 1822-in the 1841 Census, he is shown as being an apprentice shoemaker and on census day is visiting his uncle John:-
1841 Census for John HINDS: born Whissendine, Rutland: Rippingale, Lincolnshire, District 7
John HINDS, 30, Butcher, not born in Lincs.
Elizabeth HINDS, 25, Born in Lincs
William HINDS, 10, Born in Lincs
John HINDS, 9, Born in Lincs.
Catharine HINDS, 4, Born in Lincs
Sarah HINDS, 2, Born in Lincs
Samuel HINDS, 15, Apprentice to Shoemaker, Born in Lincs.
So on Census Day, 1841, Samuel HINDS aged 15, is an apprentice to a shoemaker, at his parent's house in Rippingale. Eight years later, he marries Elizabeth Williamson, daughter of John Williamson at Rippingale on 23 April, 1849. The source below is Lincolnshire Marriages Bourne Spreadsheet
http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
1849 23-Apr Hind Samuel Robert Williamson Elizabeth John Rippingale
However, two other sources, both Newspaper articles have a different month for the wedding day.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 10 December 1847
Also: Name: Samuel Hind
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 23 Apr 1849
Marriage Place: Rippingale, Lincolnshire, England
Father: Robert Hind
Spouse: Elizabeth Williamson
FHL Film Number: 1450471
Well, that's strange isn't? I wonder which is correct, unless of course I have the wrong people. Anyway, in the first few months of 1850, their first child is born, Mary Elizabeth Hind(s), But as the HINDs are certainly members of the Non-Conformist Church, her baptism is not recorded in the local parish church of Rippingale,
So in the 1851 Census, 10 years after he was with his uncles's family, he has his own business & family too.Note he calls himself HIND now not HINDS.
1851 census for Samuel HINDS
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 11d
Entry 74: Bridge Street,
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 28, Foreman Shoemaker, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Elizabeth HIND, wife, married, 28, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Elizabeth HIND, daughter, unmarried, 1, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Now sometime after the birth of their daughter Mary
Elizabeth, and the census day,Samuel & his family move to
Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire. where in the September quarter of
1851 their daughter Sarah Ann HIND is born: Births Sep 1851
Hind Sarah Ann Newark 15 587 (Brant Broughton is in the Newark Registration area.)
They have son called Thomas HIND, born in the January quarter of 1857 in Brant Broughton, but again no baptism took place in the Parish Church.
Everything was okay, but on 10 January, 1859, Elizabeth HIND, nee Williamson, died in Brant Broughton; There was an announcement in the local newspaper, & she was buried in the local graveyard of the Parish Church as these records show.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 04 February 1859: At Brant Broughton, on the 10th ult., Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Samuel HIND, shoemaker, aged 36.
Brant Broughton Parish Records - Burials (1858-1859) Entry 580: Elizabeth HIND, of Broughton, Buried January 12th, aged 36, by H Harman?, Rector (source)
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Brant-Broughton-Parish-Records---Burials--1858-1859-/563003.record?ImageID=85715&pt=T
Samuel needed a new wife, and soon he was married again to a Sarah Lamb; the marriage probably took place in Brant Broughton, in the Registration area of Newark as this record shows.
Marriages Jun 1860
Hind Samuel Newark 7b 437 & Lamb Sarah Newark 7b 437
Ah yes it did-here's the marriage:
10 May 1860, Samuel Hind son of Robert Hind & Sarah Lamb daughter of Thomas Lamb were married at Brant Broughton. Source: http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ (Newark spreadsheet-downloaded and searched it).
Sarah Lamb was the daughter of Thomas Lamb and Sarah Briggs who married at Claypole, Lincolnshire on 18 March 1807. (Source:Claypole Parish Records - Marriages (1806-1808) Banns of Marriage between Thomas Lambe of the Parish of Fulbeck, and Sarah Briggs of the North Parish of Claypole were published March 1st, 8th & 15th, and no impediment alleged. No. 245: Thomas Lamb of the Parish of Fulbeck & Sarah Briggs of the Parish of Claypole were married in this church by Banns on 16th March 1807 by John Horton, assistant curate in presence of John Heble & W. Preston.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=558899&iid=131327
So the census of 1861 for this family is thus:
1861 Census : for Samuel HIND
Lincolnshire, Brant Broughton, District 4
Entry27: Rector House:
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 39, Cordwainer, Born Rippingale Lincs.
Sarah HIND, Wife, Married, 44, Born Fulbeck, Lincs.
Mary Elizabeth HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs
Sarah Ann HIND, Daughter, Um, 9, Scholar, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Thomas HIND, son, UM, 4, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
William Hey, Apprentice, Um, 15, Cordwainer, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
BRANT BROUGHTON
SAD ACCIDENT:-Thos. HIND, an apprentice of Messrs, Battle and Son, and Maltby, chemists, Lincoln, was drowned whilst bathing in the Fosdyke at Lincoln, about seven o’ clock on Wednesday morning. It is supposed that he was seized with cramp, as he suddenly cried out and then sank. Efforts were made to rescue him, but without success. The police dragged the river for several hours, and about eleven O’ clock a sawyer named Matthew Wicks, of Victoria Street, dived and brought the body back to the bank. The deceased was the son of Mr. Samuel HIND of Brant Broughton, and was within six weeks of the end of his apprenticeship.-Mr. Coroner Lowe held an inquiry touching the melancholy event at the Guildhall Hotel, Lincoln in the evening, when the following evidence was tendered:- Herbert Street, seventeen, stated that he was bathing with HIND, when he shrieked, on which he (witness), caught hold of his hair and held him up for about a minute. He then felt himself being pulled down, and remembered no more till he himself was pulled out. Hind could swim. He was in the middle of the river, near Jekyll and Co’s chemical manure works. They had been in the river about ten minutes. There were several more on the bank who had been bathing, and some tried to rescue the deceased.-Matthew Wicks deposed to diving into the river and fetching out the body, which was in a semi-erect position, with the arms raised. The depth of the river in the middle was 7½ feet.-Fred Cockett, assistant to Mr. Trotter, deposed to seeing Hind fall back and sink; went to his assistance, but could not rescue him. A pleasure boat was passing at the time, and the young man in it dived out of it with his clothes on, but could not see him.-Chas Hy. Golland, eighteen, who was also bathing with HIND, heard him cry out and got hold of his hair. Cockett then joined in and another young man, and then they joined hands, and formed a line to the bank and got out, when they found that HIND was missing.-A verdict of “Accidental Drowned” was returned.
1841 CENSUS for Robert & Martha HIINDS
Rippingale:
Robt. HINDS, 50, Agl (crossed through), Not born in Lincs.
Martha HINDS, 50, Not born in Lincs,
Mary Ann HINDS, 15, Born in Lincs.
Sarah HINDS, 12, born in Lincs.
Okay, lets look at these 2 children, Mary Ann Hinds & Sarah HINDS, both with their parents in the 1841 census and again with them in the 1851 Census as below, although they are now called HIND, not HINDS.
1851 Census for Robert HIND: Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11D
Entry 16: High Street,
Robert HIND, Head, Married, 64, Butcher, born Sysonby, Leicestershire
Martha HIND, wife, Married, 62, Born Whissindine, Rutland
Elizabeth HIND, daughter, Unmarried, 31, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, unmarried, 25, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Note their father Robert in this census is still a butcher, and the address in the 1851 census is a butcher's shop in the main street of Rippingale.
After the census of 1851, Mary married John Barber on 1st May 1851. He was the son of Mark Vickers & Ann BARBER, before that couple got married in 1827.
This is the source & record for that marriage: 1851,1-May, Barber,John son of Mark VICKERS & Hind, Mary Anne daughter of Robert HIND -the marriage took place at Rippingale.
http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ and the Bourne spreadsheet.
Mark Vickers & Ann Barber married at Helpringham, Lincolnshire on 11 October 1827. At the time of his marriage, Mark was a minor, aged 19, so under 21, so needed the consent of his father, William before he married Ann Barber.
This is the marriage of John's parents, Thomas Hind & Mary Williamson.
So before I proceed further with Susan Louisa HIND, I ought to start with her father, John HIND. Since my contact with Gerald Calver (see below), he has sent me quite a few records & photographs which I can now add to this blog about the Hind Family. So here is a photograph of John HIND's birth certificate with Gerald obtained from the General Record Office in 2013.
The record reads Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church,
Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Register No. 5, September 3rd, 1838, Thomas HINDS, of full age, Cordwainer, of Rippingale, son of Robert HINDS, Butcher & Mary Williamson, Nineteen, spinster, Servant, of Rippingale, daughter of John Williamson, Labourer were married the Parish Church by banns by Wm. Waters, Rector in presence of Thomas Briggs & Elizabeth HINDS (sister of the bride has been added by Gerald Calver)
You will note that on this record, John HIND's father Thomas is called Thomas HINDS, not Hind.
She was born into a terrace house on Station Street,Rippingale called Gladstone Villa. This house is still in Rippingale-on Google Maps this is the reference: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8393566,-0.3625442,3a,75y,163.65h,83.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUdom6nRElysVYtr40Hn7vw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en
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Her sister Alberta Sophia was born in October 1874 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 1 year old.
So between the census day of 1871-7 April, and the birth of her
brothers Robert, 1871, Thomas, 1872 & her birth, Susan &
her family move from Rippingale, to Hanthorpe, not too far, but
then Susan's father John has changed his job-when she was born he
was a shoemaker, but when her sister Alberta Sophia was born in
1874 the family were living in Hanthorpe, with John a farmer. John
Hind moved to Hanthorpe to take over his uncle's farm, though my
source says it was his father-in-law.
The source for this information is an obituary & funeral report of John HIND, Susan's father, who died in 1901, at the age of 58. This is that article taken from the Grantham Journal Saturday 4 May 1901
DEATH OF MR JOHN HIND
We regret to announce that Mr. John HIND, a very prominent parishioner, died at the comparatively early age of fifty-eight, at 6-45 last Sunday evening, The deceased had been in failing health for the last ten years, and a great sufferer, but had up to the last few months taken much interest both in public and private matters, except at intervals, when his affliction was too severe. Mr. HIND was a native of Rippingale, bur removed to Hanthorpe some twenty-five years ago, to his father-in-law’s farm, where he lived for several years. From Hanthorpe he came to Morton, where he had since resided. The ceased gentleman took great interest in all public affairs, both parliamentary and parochial, and was well-known for miles around. He had filled most of the parochial offices-overseer of the highways, overseer of the poor, member of the Board of Guardians, Parish Councillor, and only so recently as the Thursday prior to his death he was appointed a Trustee of the Parish property, which entitled him to become a manager of the School. He was a prominent member of the Primitive Methodist Church, with which he had been connected for forty-one years as a local preacher and class leader, but ceased to undertake this work in 1899. He was also an enthusiastic worker of the temperance Society, and also of the Band of Hope, which for many years found their location on his premises. For a long period, he had a men’s Bible Class in the Baptist Chapel, and during the winter months held an adult’s Bible Class during the week.
The funeral took place on Thursday. Mr. Henry SNEATH conducted the service in the Wesleyan Chapel, where he gave a brief sketch of the life of the deceased gentleman. At the graveside, Mr. SNEATH was assisted by the Rev. A. Atkinson (Primitive Methodist, Donnington Circuit). Amongst the immense number of mourners, we noticed:- The Widow and family, Mr. T. HIND, (Brant Broughton), Mrs. HIND Senr., (Morton), Mrs Green, (Morton), Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Sommerfield, (Dyke), Mr. E. C. SNEATH (Brant Broughton), Mr. Wm. Sommerfield (Castle Donnington), Mr. Geo. Sommerfield (Dyke), Mr. T. A. Oliver (Evedon), Mr. J. R. Williamson (Rippingale), Mr. Rob HIND (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Williamson (Rippingale), Mr. and Mrs. R. Williamson (Spalding), Col. And Mrs. W. Parker (Grantham), Mr. and Mrs. R. Pinder (Stainfield), Mrs. Butler (Bulby), Mr. and Mrs. Holland (Billingborough), Mr. and Mrs. Sly (Spalding), Mr. and Mrs. Kelby (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs. Carlton (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs Garwood (Thurlby), Mr. and Mrs Elvidge (Hanthorpe), Mr. Downes (Bourne), Mr. Wm. Smith, Mr. T. Rickard, Mr. and Mrs. H. SNEATH, (Thurlby), and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver (Sutton).
A correspondent supplies us with the following additional notes in reference to the deceased:- Born at Rippingale in 1842, he early identified himself with the Primitive Methodist Church in that village, and for forty years was “Instant in season and out of season” in all good works. Beginning to preach in 1860, for many years he walked long distances to his appointments, most of the places he visited being from twelve to twenty miles away from the village where he lived. His love for teetotalism took him many journeys away from home and the Band of Hope at Rippingale and Morton were largely the result of his earnest Temperance effort. At camp-meetings he was perfectly at home, and he had, in all probability addressed more outdoor meetings than any man in South Lincolnshire. His generosity was unbounded, and even when only an apprentice he always found one penny a week and a shilling a quarter that his Church expects each member to pay. The help he has given to the poor in the district will never be known, but no needy case ever went unrelieved from his presence. He was an Earnest Liberal and the Association loses a good helper by his death. He loved Morton, and was never happy except when he some scheme of improvement on hand. His work on the Parish Council resulted in many improvements, notably supplying of the village with pure water, and the covering of the Open Drain from the cross to the station. For many years he had acted as steward to Colonel Parker, who attended the funeral, and also sent a wreath as a token of respect from the family. His later life was full of pain, and for months his friends had been expecting that he would not rally but again and again his strength of will triumphed over his weakness, and he was once more seen down the fen, along with his old pony .But on Sunday last the end came-so quietly that his friends scarce knew when he passed away. His funeral, at his own special request, was conducted by a layman friend of his who in an address given in the Chapel, to a large and representative congregation, said that Mr. Hind was first, a friend of the poor. They were his especial charge, and for all his public strivings were for their benefit and blessing. Secondly he was a friend of Morton. His busy brain was always framing some plan of improvement, and for many schemes that he had supported during his residence had helped to brighten village life, and make it easier for all classes to live happily together. Thirdly, he was the friend of Methodism. A Dissenting Protestant, he was ever in the front ranks of the battle for truth and equality. When the Baptist and Methodist Chapels were built in the village, he was a most liberal subscriber, and his hospitality to the local preachers who visited them was of the kindest type. Especially to the Wesleyan friends was he kind, and by their presence and sympathy that afternoon they desired to show they appreciated the same. He was no angel (said the speaker), not even a perfect man, but just one of ourselves. We at time blamed him for his eager strenuous life; but now that is gone, we feel we shall look upon his like no more, so patient of our shortcomings, so anxious to see the best of those whom he loved, so full of tenderness towards the children, the frail and the erring. We must part with him who has so often made life happy and bright for us, but has gone to a place prepared for him by One whose every word of promise is true, and on those Shores he will be welcomed, not only by his own personal friends, but by numbers of those whom he helped to a higher nobler life, and who owe their conversion to his eager, anxious care of their souls.
This congregation was greatly moved during the address, and the funeral was one of the largest in the village, the streets being lined with sympathetic spectators.
The previous owner of the farm, was Robert Hind, his father's brother, who died on 16 August 1872. at the Bull Inn, where had been landlord for a number of years. My source for his death, and subsequent testimonials, is below:
The Hind family originated in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, then moved to Lincolnshire. The forenames of John & Robert keep cropping up, so that makes it easier to link names and research them.
When Susan Louisa Hind was born on 21 October 1873 in, Rippingale, Lincolnshire, her father, John, was 31, and her mother, Louisa, maiden name Summerfield, was 26. She was the third child, but the first daughter, of the family, the first being her elder brother Robert Hind, who was born in Rippingale, Lincolnshire in the July quarter of 1871. Without having his birth record, nor his baptism record, it's hard to know his exact date of birth. He was probably named after his great grandfather who was called Robert Hinds, born in Melton Mowbray in 1785.
Robert Hinds, his great-grandfather married Martha Mewkill at Melton Mowbray on 1 February 1807.
Now isn't this often the problem, trying to read old records; on the second line, the surname Menkill, in the bottom line is spelt Mewkill, so which is it? The name is MEWKILL, not MENKILL. Gerald Calver has provided me with this information. .
Robert Hind says he was from Melton Mowbray, he and his wife ended up in Rippingale, near Bourn in Lincolnshire, with Robert being a butcher by trade. He died before his wife Martha on the 23rd January, 1866, and was buried 3 days later in the graveyard of the Parish Church in Rippingale as this record on LincstothePast states: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1864-1866) NO. 679: Robert HIND, of Rippingale, buried January 25th, 1866, aged 81, by Wm . Cooper, Rector.
His wife Martha, went to live with her married daughter Sarah, who was married to an Edward Williamson a local farmer, and she died aged 90 on the 25th April, 1878 as this newspaper article states: Grantham Journal - Saturday 04 May 1878
Hind. —At Rippingale, on the 25th ult., Martha Hind, aged 90years.
Robert Hind & Martha appear to have had at least 7 children, the first being John, born in 1808-I have found a baptism of a John HIND on 28 August, 1808 at Whissendine, Rutland, as son of Robert & Martha HIND. Well that makes sense, that was where John & Martha married as above.
This is the record & Source:
Child Number 1: John Hind
England Births and Christenings
Name John Hind
Gender Male
Christening Date 28 Aug 1808
Christening Place Whissendine, Rutlandshire,England
Father's Name Robert Hind
Mother's Name Martha
Citing this Record
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQNX-C4H : 6 December 2014), John Hind, 28 Aug 1808; citing WHISSENDINE,RUTLAND,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,234,421.
Child Number 2: Thomas HINDS: Now sometime after, 1808, Robert & Martha, move from Whissendine to Little Bytham, In Lincolnshire, because their next child, Thomas is born there in 1812, and christened in the church on 7 June, 1812.
Little Bytham: Baptisms and burials 1812: June 7, 1812, Thomas, son of Robert & Martha Hynes, baptised by J R Deverell, curate.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=724696&iid=397630
So now let me look at the life of this young man, born in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire a few miles
Looking at the map above, Little Bytham is just north of Careby,
in the centre is Grimsthorpe, above Hawthorpe is Keisby, right
on the right hand side at the top of the map is Rippingale.
Thomas HINDS married a Mary WILLIAMSON on 3 September 1838 at
Rippingale. His father, Robert HIND was the butcher in
Rippingale at that time. The whole family had been in Rippingale
for all their lives prior to his marriage to a local girl in the
village called Mary WILLIAMSON-she was the daughter of John
Williamson & Hannah Franks. Mary wasn't born in Rippingale,
but in Keisby, that place on the map above Hawthorpe. In fact it
took me and Gerald quite a bit to find where she was born,
because the Ancestry record says "Heresby", and there is no such
place. It was only a very small place, and didn't have a church
at all, so she was christened in the village church of Lenton,
just north of Keisby. Her parents were John WILLIAMSON &
Hannah WILLIAMSON nee FRANKS. Although John WILLIAMSON was from
Rippingale, his fiancee Hannah FRANKS was born in the next door
village of Morton, just near Bourne, which is the large place,
not named to the right of the map. Morton is to the right of
Hanthorpe. So that's why John Williamson & Hannah FRANKS
married in Morton on 3 April 1816-I found the marriage in
Lincstothepast:
www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?
oid=520882&iid=381389
Marriages solemnized in the Parish of Morton Lincolnshire, 1816:
No. 16 John WILLIAMSON of the Parish of Rippingale, Bachelor
& Hannah FRANKS of this Parish, spinster, were married in
this church by Banns on 3 April 1816 by me Samuel Hopkinson, in
presence of Mary Franks & James Pearson.
Children of Thomas HINDS & Mary Williamson
1. Sarah Ann HIND born 1839 in Rippingale, Lincolnshire,
christened 21 September 1839
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1839) Register Number:
580: 21 September 1839, Sarah Anne, daughter of Thomas &
Mary HINDS, of Rippingale, Shoemaker, by Wm. Waters, Rector
2. Charles HINDS born 1841 in Rippingale, christened on 4
July 1841, Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1841)
Register No. 622: 4 July 1841, Charles son of Thomas &
Mary Hinds of Rippingale, Cordwainer, by Wm. Waters,
Rector.
3. John HIND, born October 1842, christened on 20 October
1842 • Rippingale, Lincolnshire, England -Baptisms: 1842-1843
Register Number: 653 October 20th 1842,John son of Thomas
& Mary Hinds, of Rippingale, Shoemaker, by Wm. Waters,
Rector (the story of John is in detail below as he was the
father of Susan Louisa HIND)
4. Samuel HIND, born before his christening
date: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1843-1844)
Register No. 674: January 14th, 1844, Samuel, son of Thomas
& Mary HIND, of Rippingale, Cordwainer, by Wm. Waters
Rector
5. Elizabeth HIND, born before her christening
date: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1844-1845)
Register No. 705: 18 April, 1845, Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas & Mary Hinds of Rippingale, Shoemaker, by Wm.
Waters, Rector
Thomas HINDS, these children's father died before his burial
date which was: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials
(1844-1846) Register No. 431 Thomas HINDS, of Rippingale, Buried
February 20th 1845, aged 32 years, by Wm Waters Rector. So he
was quite young when he died. All the time you can see from
those baptisms above he was a cordwainer or shoemaker.
Mary HINDS nee Williamson was left a widow, caring for those
children above, so she then went on to marry John
LAXTON
20-May 1851 John Laxton
son of Samuel Laxton married Mary HIND, daughter of John
Williamson widow, married on 20 May 1851 at Rippingale.
(Source http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/-Bourne
spreadsheet)
Children of Mary & John LAXTON:
1. Robert LAXTON born March quarter of 1852 in Rippingale.
2. Mary LAXTON born in March quarter of 1854 in
Rippingale.
3. Hannah Maria LAXTON born October 1855 in
Rippingale.
Their mother Mary LAXTON nee Williamson died before her
burial date: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials
(1856-1858) Register No. 585: Mary LAXTON, of Rippingale,
buried October 11th 1856 aged 37 years, by Wm. Cooper,
Rector.
So let's look at these children starting with those born to
Thomas HINDS & Mary Williamson.
Child Number 1: Sarah Ann HIND, born 1839: christened 21
September 1839
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1839) Register Number:
580: 21 September 1839, Sarah Anne, daughter of Thomas &
Mary HINDS, of Rippingale, Shoemaker, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Sarah remains with her parents then her mother as a widow and
then with her new husband John Laxton.
In 1841 she is a baby in Rippingale with her father a shoemaker
& mother.
1841 England Census for Sarah Ann Hinds
Lincolnshire Rippingale District 7
Thomas HIND, 25, Shoemaker, Born in Lincolnshire,
Mary HIND, 22, born in Lincolnshire.
Sarah Ann HIND, 1, born in Lincolnshire
10 years later as an eleven year old she is with her mother and
her siblings.
1851 England Census for Mary Hind
Lincolnshire Rippingale 11d
High Street, Rippingale, Lincolnshire:
Mary HIND, widow, 32, Cordwainer’s widow, born Keisby, Lincs.
Sarah Ann HIND, daughter, Unmarried, 11, born Rippingale,
Lincs.
In the next ten years, her mother married John LAXTON
1861 England Census for Sarah Ann Hind
Lincolnshire Rippingale District 10
Schedule Number: 21:
John LAXTON, Head, Widower, 35, Shoemaker & Grocer, born
Sawtry, Huntingdonshire
Sarah A. HIND, House Keeper, Unmarried, 21, born Rippingale,
Lincs.
Robert LAXTON, son, unmarried, 9, Scholar, born Rippingale,
Lincs.
Mary LAXTON, daughter, 7, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Hannah LAXTON, Daughter, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale,
Lincs.
There is a death recorded for a Sarah Ann HIND in the
December quarter of 1861:
Looking at Lincstothepast burial records at Rippingale this
is the result:
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1861-1862) Number 638:
Sarah Ann HIND, of Rippingale, buried December 10, 1861, aged 22
years by T. M. Mauney, Officiating Minister.
Child number 2: Charles HINDS born 1841 in
Rippingale, christened on 4 July 1841, Rippingale Parish Records
- Baptisms (1841) Register No. 622: 4 July 1841, Charles son of
Thomas & Mary Hinds of Rippingale, Cordwainer, by Wm.
Waters, Rector.
Charles remains unmarried all his life, being born in Rippingale
and living there most of his life, and working on the land as a
labourer.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 04 May 1912
RIPPINGALE. The LATE MR. Charles Hinds—An inquest was held
Thursday week on the body of Mr. Charles Hinds by the
Coroner (Dr. Greenwood, Corby). The foreman of the jury was
Mr. John Thompson.' Death was attributed to hemmorahage of the
brain.On Friday afternoon the funeral took place. The
first part of the service was held in the Parish Church,
conducted by the Rev. T. Barker (Rector of Dunsby), in the
unavoidable absence of Canon Layng. There was a large
gathering of friends. Blinds were drawn on the route to the
Cemetery. The coffin, which was oak with black furniture, was
supplied by Mr. W. Nicholls (Dunsby). Beautiful wreaths were
sent by Mrs. E. D. Sands, Mr. and Mrs. Cauuce, Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Wells, Miss Bainbridge, Master Glenn Howard, Mr. and Mrs.
A. Baines and Family. On Sunday evening. Canon Layng made very
touching reference to Mr. Hind's decease. Reference was also
made to him at the Wesleyan Church, and deceased’s favourite
hymn, "Brief life is bore our portion,” was sung.
Death
Grantham Journal - Saturday 06 July 1912
The May Queen then descended from her throne, and as the new
Queen (Miss Dora Laxton), came forward with her six small train
bearers in white, with wreaths of white flowers, the crown was
removed from the head of "the old Queen to hers, and the Fairy
Queen waved her silver wand. The Rose Queen presented her with
basket of roses, and then she ascended her throne. Canon Layng
introduced the new Queen, and said he was pleased to see so many
present on such a wet day. The Queen afterwards made her speech,
as follows:-
My dear friends and subjects,—l am very pleased to be
chosen as your May Queen for the coming year. I hope I shall
remember my favoured position, and set you all a good
example
We have lost one of our old friends, Mr. Charles Hinds, who
for many years has carried the Maypole round the the
village.
Child Number 3: John HINDS-well he was the father of Susan
Louisa HIND-I started of finding all about him below.
Child Number 4: Samuel HIND was born in 1844, and his
father died a year later in 1845-here is Samuel in the 1851
Census.
1851 England Census for Mary Hind
Lincolnshire Rippingale 11d
High Street, Rippingale, Lincolnshire:
Mary HIND, widow, 32, Cordwainer’s widow, born Keisby,
Lincs.
Sarah Ann HIND, daughter, Unmarried, 11, born Rippingale,
Lincs.
Charles HINDS, son, 9, born Rippingale, Lincs.
John HINDS, son, 8, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Samuel HINDS, son, aged 7, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Elizabeth HINDS, daughter, 6, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Ebenezer Kitchen, servant, unmarried, Journeyman
Cordwainer, born, Rippingale, Lincs.
10 years later in 1861, Samuel is an inmate in the Bourne
workhouse-the record says he was an idiot, and then in October
1863 he dies in the workhouse and was buried in Rippingale
churchyard: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials-1863 Number
654: Samuel HIND, of the Bourne Union buried October 15 1863 by
K. B. Forster, officiating minister.
Child Number 5:Elizabeth HIND, born before her
christening date: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms
(1844-1845) Register No. 705: 18 April, 1845, Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas & Mary Hinds of Rippingale, Shoemaker, by
Wm. Waters, Rector
Elizabeth is with her parents & family in 1851, but I can't
find her in the 1861 census 10 years later, but I have found her
marriage date: 1 October 1866 at West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire,
Frederick Wanty son of John Wanty & Elizabeth HIND daughter
of Thomas HIND. In the Census of 1871, Elizabeth & her
husband Frederick are living in Sibsey, near Boston,
Lincolnshire-the census shows that since their marriage in West
Pinchbeck, they had lived in 3 places, Podehole, Billingboro
& Donington and now Sibsey.
1871 England Census for Elizabeth Wanty
Lincolnshire Boston Sibsey District 12
Entry No. 49:
Frederick WANTY, Head, Married, 30, Brick maker, born
Swineshead, Lincs.
Elizabeth WANTY, wife, Married, 26, born Rippingale, LINCS
Mary A. WANTY, daughter, 7, born Podehole, Lincs.
Martha WANTY, daughter, 3, born Billingboro’, Lincs
Sarah WANTY, daughter, 1, born Donington, Lincs.
Sibsey is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the East
Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated at the
junction of the A16 and B1184 roads, 4 miles north from Boston.
Sibsey Northlands is to the north of the village. All the places
are close to each other about 20 miles altogether.
Elizabeth died 2 years later and was buried in West Pinchbeck:
West Pinchbeck Parish Records - Burials (1872) Elizabeth Mrs.
WANTY, of West Pinchbeck, Buried on February 8th 1873 aged 28
years, by P. Wilson
Source:
www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?
oid=531617&iid=170593
LAXTON Family History:
Children of Mary & John LAXTON:
1. Robert LAXTON born March quarter of 1852 in Rippingale.
2. Mary LAXTON born in March quarter of 1854 in Rippingale.
3. Hannah Maria LAXTON born October 1855 in Rippingale.
Their mother Mary LAXTON nee Williamson died before her burial date: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1856-1858) Register No. 585: Mary LAXTON, of Rippingale, buried October 11th 1856 aged 37 years, by Wm. Cooper, Rector.
1861 England Census for Sarah Ann Hind
Lincolnshire Rippingale District 10
Schedule Number: 21:
John LAXTON, Head, Widower, 35, Shoemaker & Grocer, born Sawtry, Huntingdonshire
Sarah A. HIND, House Keeper, Unmarried, 21, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert LAXTON, son, unmarried, 9, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary LAXTON, daughter, 7, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Hannah LAXTON, Daughter, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
So lets start with Robert LAXTON, eldest son of John Laxton & Mary LAXTON nee Williamson.
Robert Laxton & Sarah LAXTON nee WARRINGTON.
In the 1871 census, Robert LAXTON is shown living in Heckington, Lincolnshire as an apprentice brazier working for the Lupton Family.
Also living in Heckington in that same census was a young woman called Sarah Warrington, born to George & Hannah Warrington. This census says about Sarah
George M WARRINGTON, Head, Married, 61, Ag. Lab., born Burton
Pedwardine, Lincs.
Hannah WARRINGTON, wife, Married, 55, Born, Heckington, Lincs.
Sarah WARRINGTON, daughter, Unmarried, 26, Nil, born Heckington, Lincs.
Frederick WARRINGTON, son, Unmarried, 20, Railway Lab., born Burton Pedwardine, Lincs.
John H. WARRINGTON, son, Unmarried, 11, born Heckington, Lincs.
Joseph WARRINGTON, son, Unmarried, 8, born, Heckington, Lincs.
Charles W. WARRINGTON, Grandson, 1, born, Heckington, Lincs
Sarah WARRINGTON was born in Heckington, Lincolnshire, in the July quarter of 1844, the daughter of George & Hannah WARRINGTON. She was christened at Heckington Parish Church on the 18 August 1844.The source of this information is a website called Lincstothepast.
This is that record: https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=551305&iid=378620
Baptisms: No. 104: 18 August, 1844, Sarah, daughter of George & Hannah WARRINGTON, of Heckington, Labourer, by C De la Cour, Vicar.
3 years earlier, in the 1841 Census, her family are living in Heckington on the High Street.
The Census of 1841 took place on 6 June 1841, and shows the
following :
George WARRINGTON, 39, Ag Lab, born in Lincolnshire
Ann WARRINGTON, 36, born in Lincolnshire.
Martha WARRINGTON, 5, born in Lincolnshire.
Ann WARRINGTON, 3, born in Lincolnshire.
Joseph WARRINGTON, 2, born in Lincolnshire.
Mary WARRINGTON, 3 months, born in Lincolnshire.
and on 16 March 1841, there is mention in a local newspaper in British Newspaper Archive of an auction of land in Heckington including a public house & brewery called the White Horse Inn. The article in the Stamford Mercury includes the name of George WARRINGTON.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 12 March 1841
BUILDING LAND.at HECKINGTON. To be SOLD by Auction by Mr. John SMITH On Tuesday the 16th day of March, 1841, at Five O' clock in the afternoon, at the White Horse in Heckington, subject such conditions of sale there produced, unless the same be previously disposed of by private Contract.
A Most desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE, the shop and Wholesale Brewery, known as the White Horse most advantageously situated m the centre of the populous village of Heckington. The house is large and brick and tiled building comprising of two front parlours, large taproom, good cellar, pantry, and seven sleeping rooms: the brewery is plentifully supplied with excellent water, and is capable of brewing two quarters of malt at a time: adjoining is a roomy Store Cellar with Granary over, also a very good brick and tiled barn, . Stabling for 7 horses, with large Yard, Garden: Crew-yard. Cart-shed, and other conveniences. The above is now in full possession of a well- established, very extensive, and lucrative wholesale and retail beer trade: and is in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Pell. The whole is in excellent repair. .
Lot 2. Six brick and tiled cottages or tenements situate at the West end of Heckington aforesaid in the occupation of Richard Weightman, William Wright, Thomas Burrell, Mary Coulson, Thomas Medley, and Thomas Richardson.
Lot 3. Two newly erected brick and tiled Cottages, or Tenements, situated near to lot 2 and now in the occupation of George Warrington and —- Cart.
Lot 4. Piece of Garden Ground, now the in the occupation of William Cock and others, abutting on the South upon the turnpike-road and upon lot 3,, on the West and North on lands of Richard Godson, Esq-, and on the East upon a sewer or drain.
Lot 5.. One other Piece of Garden Ground, now the in the occupation of Z. Hilton, abutting on the South upon lot 2, on the West the aforesaid sewer or drain, on the North on lands of R Godson, Esq., and on the East on lands of Mrs. Almond. This lot will be sold with a right of road to the turnpike. The four last-mentioned lots adjoin each other: lots 4 and 5 are exceedingly well adapted for building ground. For further particulars apply to Mr. Edward Picker, of Ruskington, the owner; or to Auctioneer, Sleaford. Sleaford. Feb. 27, 1841
It looks like from the census that George Marshall and his family moved to Burton Pedwardine in early 1851 because it shows that they had a son called Frederick aged 3 months on that census day which was taken on 30th March 1851.
In the Census of 1851, Sarah, aged 6, is living with her
parents & family in a village called Burton Pedwardine in
Lincolnshire, where her father George is shown as a farmer of
6 acres. The place is transcribed as being Penwardine, not
Pedwardine. Heckington & Burton Pedwardine are only about
a mile away from each other.
10 years later in 1861, she was working as a maid of all work for a John Hallam a tailor in a place called Timberland, Lincolnshire,
On 25 March 1872, Robert married Sarah Warrington at the register office in Sleaford. The marriage was announced in a local newspaper.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 05 April 1872
At the Register-office, Sleaford, on the 25th ult, Mr. Robert Laxton, brazier, to Miss Sarah Warrington, both of Heckington.
LAXTON Family History:
Children of Mary & John LAXTON:
1. Robert LAXTON born March quarter of 1852 in Rippingale.
2. Mary LAXTON born in March quarter of 1854 in Rippingale.
3. Hannah Maria LAXTON born October 1855 in Rippingale.
Their mother Mary LAXTON nee Williamson died before her burial date: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1856-1858) Register No. 585: Mary LAXTON, of Rippingale, buried October 11th 1856 aged 37 years, by Wm. Cooper, Rector.
Lincolnshire Rippingale District 10
Schedule Number: 21:
John LAXTON, Head, Widower, 35, Shoemaker & Grocer, born Sawtry, Huntingdonshire
Sarah A. HIND, House Keeper, Unmarried, 21, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert LAXTON, son, unmarried, 9, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary LAXTON, daughter, 7, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Hannah LAXTON, Daughter, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
So lets start with Robert LAXTON, eldest son of John Laxton & Mary LAXTON nee Williamson.
Robert Laxton & Sarah LAXTON nee WARRINGTON.
In the 1871 census, Robert LAXTON is shown living in Heckington, Lincolnshire as an apprentice brazier working for the Lupton Family.
Also living in Heckington in that same census was a young woman called Sarah Warrington, born to George & Hannah Warrington. This census says about Sarah
Hannah WARRINGTON, wife, Married, 55, Born, Heckington, Lincs.
Sarah WARRINGTON, daughter, Unmarried, 26, Nil, born Heckington, Lincs.
Frederick WARRINGTON, son, Unmarried, 20, Railway Lab., born Burton Pedwardine, Lincs.
John H. WARRINGTON, son, Unmarried, 11, born Heckington, Lincs.
Joseph WARRINGTON, son, Unmarried, 8, born, Heckington, Lincs.
Charles W. WARRINGTON, Grandson, 1, born, Heckington, Lincs
Sarah WARRINGTON was born in Heckington, Lincolnshire, in the July quarter of 1844, the daughter of George & Hannah WARRINGTON. She was christened at Heckington Parish Church on the 18 August 1844.The source of this information is a website called Lincstothepast.
This is that record: https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=551305&iid=378620
Baptisms: No. 104: 18 August, 1844, Sarah, daughter of George & Hannah WARRINGTON, of Heckington, Labourer, by C De la Cour, Vicar.
3 years earlier, in the 1841 Census, her family are living in Heckington on the High Street.
George WARRINGTON, 39, Ag Lab, born in Lincolnshire
Ann WARRINGTON, 36, born in Lincolnshire.
Martha WARRINGTON, 5, born in Lincolnshire.
Ann WARRINGTON, 3, born in Lincolnshire.
Joseph WARRINGTON, 2, born in Lincolnshire.
Mary WARRINGTON, 3 months, born in Lincolnshire.
and on 16 March 1841, there is mention in a local newspaper in British Newspaper Archive of an auction of land in Heckington including a public house & brewery called the White Horse Inn. The article in the Stamford Mercury includes the name of George WARRINGTON.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 12 March 1841
BUILDING LAND.at HECKINGTON. To be SOLD by Auction by Mr. John SMITH On Tuesday the 16th day of March, 1841, at Five O' clock in the afternoon, at the White Horse in Heckington, subject such conditions of sale there produced, unless the same be previously disposed of by private Contract.
A Most desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE, the shop and Wholesale Brewery, known as the White Horse most advantageously situated m the centre of the populous village of Heckington. The house is large and brick and tiled building comprising of two front parlours, large taproom, good cellar, pantry, and seven sleeping rooms: the brewery is plentifully supplied with excellent water, and is capable of brewing two quarters of malt at a time: adjoining is a roomy Store Cellar with Granary over, also a very good brick and tiled barn, . Stabling for 7 horses, with large Yard, Garden: Crew-yard. Cart-shed, and other conveniences. The above is now in full possession of a well- established, very extensive, and lucrative wholesale and retail beer trade: and is in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Pell. The whole is in excellent repair. .
Lot 2. Six brick and tiled cottages or tenements situate at the West end of Heckington aforesaid in the occupation of Richard Weightman, William Wright, Thomas Burrell, Mary Coulson, Thomas Medley, and Thomas Richardson.
Lot 3. Two newly erected brick and tiled Cottages, or Tenements, situated near to lot 2 and now in the occupation of George Warrington and —- Cart.
Lot 4. Piece of Garden Ground, now the in the occupation of William Cock and others, abutting on the South upon the turnpike-road and upon lot 3,, on the West and North on lands of Richard Godson, Esq-, and on the East upon a sewer or drain.
Lot 5.. One other Piece of Garden Ground, now the in the occupation of Z. Hilton, abutting on the South upon lot 2, on the West the aforesaid sewer or drain, on the North on lands of R Godson, Esq., and on the East on lands of Mrs. Almond. This lot will be sold with a right of road to the turnpike. The four last-mentioned lots adjoin each other: lots 4 and 5 are exceedingly well adapted for building ground. For further particulars apply to Mr. Edward Picker, of Ruskington, the owner; or to Auctioneer, Sleaford. Sleaford. Feb. 27, 1841
It looks like from the census that George Marshall and his family moved to Burton Pedwardine in early 1851 because it shows that they had a son called Frederick aged 3 months on that census day which was taken on 30th March 1851.
10 years later in 1861, she was working as a maid of all work for a John Hallam a tailor in a place called Timberland, Lincolnshire,
In that census of 1871 above, her father, George M.
WARRINGTON is shown to have a grandson called Charles
William WARRINGTON aged 1, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Sarah is shown as not working, probably because she is a
single mother with a young son. Her father George is shown
with another initial, an "M" and that he was born in Burton
Pedwardine about 1810. He was in fact Christened at
Heckington Parish Church-Heckington Parish Records -
Baptisms (1809)
Heckington Parish Records - Baptisms (1809)
George MARSHALL, Son of Robert WARRINGTON, Labourer, and Ann
his Wife, baptised February 23.
Again this is from LincstothePast
website https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=527153&iid=377862
So the "M" stand for a second forename called
MARSHALL.
Much later on in another census, that Charles William
WARRINGTON was named as Charles William BANKS. That census
says he was born in Heckington, so maybe christened there as
well, but not available on LincstothePast online but maybe
at that Lincolnshire Archives in Lincoln. It would be
doubtful if the boys father was named. Certainly, when Sarah
married Robert LAXTON, it wasn't at a church but at a
Register office.
On 25 March 1872, Robert married Sarah Warrington at the register office in Sleaford. The marriage was announced in a local newspaper.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 05 April 1872
At the Register-office, Sleaford, on the 25th ult, Mr. Robert Laxton, brazier, to Miss Sarah Warrington, both of Heckington.
The 1881 Census for Robert LAXTON & Sarah
WARRINGTON
Bedfordshire Biggleswade District 8
Schedule Number: 61: Cemetery Street, Biggleswade:
Robert LAXTON: Head, Married, 29, Tinman, born
Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Sarah LAXTON, wife, Married, 36, Tinman’s Wife, born
Heckington, Lincolnshire,
Charles William BANKS, step-son, 11, Born Heckington,
Lincolnshire
Annie LAXTON, daughter, 8, scholar, born Sheffield,
Yorkshire.
George Robert LAXTON, son, 5, Scholar, born Bourne,
Lincolnshire.
Emily LAXTON, daughter, 1, born Biggleswade,
Bedfordshire.
Ellen LAXTON, daughter, 2months, born Biggleswade,
Bedfordfordshire.
The Census of 1881, shows that Sarah, Robert's wife, was
some 7 years older than her husband, and that in 1870, she
had had a son born to her that she named Charles William
BANKS. In the census of 1871, Charles William is aged 1 year
and named Charles Wm. Warrington, grandson of George
Warrington, Sarah's father. Charles William's birth was
registered in the October quarter of 1869 in Sleaford
Registration district-the census of 1871 says he was born at
Heckington, as does the 1881 census. Judging by the name of
this young child, who remained as with a surname Banks as
opposed to LAXTON, maybe his father was a person of the same
name. Probably only a marriage record of Charles William
would give a clue as to whom the father was.
So looking at the census above, Robert & Sarah's
first child was Annie LAXTON, born in Sheffield, in the
October quarter of 1872, Yorkshire-so Robert & Sarah
must have lived in Sheffield first. Their next child was
George Robert LAXTON born in 1876 at Bourne, Lincolnshire,
then came their daughter Emily born about 1880 in
Biggleswade, Bedforshire, followed by her baby sister
Ellen born about 1881 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Trying
to keep track of all these young children is quite
difficult.
Ten years later the family are in Sheffield-I did look and see
if I could find out anything about the family when they were
living in Biggleswade but so far nothing at all.
1891 England Census for Robert & Sarah LAXTON
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow District 13
Schedule 126: 10 Helen Terrace, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield:
Robert LAXTON, Head, married, aged 39, Clothier/draper-Insurance Agent, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah LAXTON, wife, married, 46, born Heckington, Lincs.
Annie LAXTON, daughter, single, 18, Dressmaker, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
George Robert LAXTON, son, single, 15, Collector, Born Bourne, Lincolnshire
Emily LAXTON, daughter, single, 12, Scholar, born Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Ellen LAXTON, daughter, single,10, scholar, born Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Jane LAXTON, daughter, single, 5, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
1891 England Census for Robert & Sarah LAXTON
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow District 13
Schedule 126: 10 Helen Terrace, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield:
Robert LAXTON, Head, married, aged 39, Clothier/draper-Insurance Agent, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah LAXTON, wife, married, 46, born Heckington, Lincs.
Annie LAXTON, daughter, single, 18, Dressmaker, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
George Robert LAXTON, son, single, 15, Collector, Born Bourne, Lincolnshire
Emily LAXTON, daughter, single, 12, Scholar, born Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Ellen LAXTON, daughter, single,10, scholar, born Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Jane LAXTON, daughter, single, 5, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Charles William BANKS, Boarder, single, 21, Garden tool maker,
born Heckington, Lincs.
So it seems that Robert has ceased being a tinman and has
moved to Sheffield where he is a clothier-looks like they moved
about 1886, judging on the birth of their daughter Jane.
So between 1891 & 1901, the family are living at 10 Helen Terrace, Rock Street, Sheffield Brightside Bierlow. Their son George Robert LAXTON appeared in the local newspapers quite a lot, mostly because of his criminal behaviour. George Robert was clearly a troubled person; in January 1893, he stole a watch from a lady's house whilst working as a snow cleaner. He was sentenced to 14 days hard labour.(Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 10 January 1893)
Meanwhile back in Heckington, George WARRINGTON, Sarah's father died before March 23, 1892, as he was buried on that day at Heckington Parish Church, Lincolnshire as this newspaper article refers.
Boston Guardian - Saturday 26 March 1892
FUNERAL—Another of the Inhabitants of Heckington who had long since reached the allotted span of three score years and ten was buried on Wednesday. Mr. George Warrington has lived in Heckington all his- life and scarcely ever knew what it was to be ill. It is over fifty seven years since he was married and he has been a hard-working man all his life and worked until the end of February. There was a large attendance at the funeral.
Then on 12 June 1899, George Robert married Ethel Edith Parson at Sheffield Register Office. They went to live in Birley Street, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Then on 10 July, 1899, whilst drunk he visited his former home address in Rock Street, Pitsmoor, Sheffield & caused a disturbance, assaulting a couple of people there including a man called William Dixon, who was staying at his parent's house. The cause of the trouble, according to the son, is that the father thinks too much of a stepson, who lives with him, but the father’s reply to this is that while his son has gone wrong altogether, and has caused a good deal of trouble, the stepson has done all he could to make a position for himself, and assist the father his business. (Details of the incident I found in a local newspaper article, Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 12 July 1899, which I don't want to publish here.) He was sentenced to 6 weeks hard labour.
Then by 1901, according to the census of that year only Jane LAXTON(known as Jennie), was with her father on census day. Sarah LAXTON, Robert's wife was in Thornaby on Tees, visiting her daughter Ellen who had recently married a man called William Dixon, an electrician.
1901 England Census for Robert Laxton
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow West Brightside District 25
Schedule No. 107: 105, Rock Street:
Robert LAXTON, Head, Married, 49, Clothier-Dealer, Own account, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Jennie LAXTON, Daughter, single, 13, Born Sheffield, Yorks.
1901 England Census for Emily Tipple
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow West Brightside District 02
2ct, 6 house, Kilton Street:
Charles TIPPLE, Head, widower, 63, Joiner, born Lynn Norfolk.
So between 1891 & 1901, the family are living at 10 Helen Terrace, Rock Street, Sheffield Brightside Bierlow. Their son George Robert LAXTON appeared in the local newspapers quite a lot, mostly because of his criminal behaviour. George Robert was clearly a troubled person; in January 1893, he stole a watch from a lady's house whilst working as a snow cleaner. He was sentenced to 14 days hard labour.(Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 10 January 1893)
Meanwhile back in Heckington, George WARRINGTON, Sarah's father died before March 23, 1892, as he was buried on that day at Heckington Parish Church, Lincolnshire as this newspaper article refers.
Boston Guardian - Saturday 26 March 1892
FUNERAL—Another of the Inhabitants of Heckington who had long since reached the allotted span of three score years and ten was buried on Wednesday. Mr. George Warrington has lived in Heckington all his- life and scarcely ever knew what it was to be ill. It is over fifty seven years since he was married and he has been a hard-working man all his life and worked until the end of February. There was a large attendance at the funeral.
Heckington Parish Records - Burials (1891-1893)
No. 624: George WARRINGTON, of Heckington, Buried on March
23, 1892, aged 83, by Geo Turner, Vicar.
Her mother died in the April quarter of 1899 in the Doncaster
area.
Then on 12 June 1899, George Robert married Ethel Edith Parson at Sheffield Register Office. They went to live in Birley Street, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Then on 10 July, 1899, whilst drunk he visited his former home address in Rock Street, Pitsmoor, Sheffield & caused a disturbance, assaulting a couple of people there including a man called William Dixon, who was staying at his parent's house. The cause of the trouble, according to the son, is that the father thinks too much of a stepson, who lives with him, but the father’s reply to this is that while his son has gone wrong altogether, and has caused a good deal of trouble, the stepson has done all he could to make a position for himself, and assist the father his business. (Details of the incident I found in a local newspaper article, Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 12 July 1899, which I don't want to publish here.) He was sentenced to 6 weeks hard labour.
Then by 1901, according to the census of that year only Jane LAXTON(known as Jennie), was with her father on census day. Sarah LAXTON, Robert's wife was in Thornaby on Tees, visiting her daughter Ellen who had recently married a man called William Dixon, an electrician.
1901 England Census for Robert Laxton
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow West Brightside District 25
Schedule No. 107: 105, Rock Street:
Robert LAXTON, Head, Married, 49, Clothier-Dealer, Own account, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Jennie LAXTON, Daughter, single, 13, Born Sheffield, Yorks.
1901 England Census for Ellen Dixon nee LAXTON
Yorkshire Thornaby District 12
Schedule No.: 33, 121, Thornaby Road, Thornaby:
Jonas DRAKE, Head, Married, 30, Coach Painter’s Labourer,
worker, born born Thornton, Yorks.
Mary E. DRAKE, wife, married, 32, born Bradford, Yorks.
Lilian DRAKE, daughter, single, 5, born Bradford, YORKS.
William DIXON, Married, Boarder, 24, General
Electrician, worker, born Whitby, Yorks.
Ellen DIXON, boarder, married, born Biggleswade,
Lincs.
Sarah LAXTON, visitor, Married, 25, born N.K., Lincs
Ivy Middleton DIXON, visitor, 11 months, born
Sheffield, Yorks.
So there is Sarah, Robert's wife-her age is well out, and her
no one knew where she was born either. William & Ellen's
daughter Ivy Middleton was born in Sheffield in 1900, so the
family had only just recently moved to Thornaby on Tees.
we know George Robert was in Birley Street.
1901 England Census for George Robt Laxton
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow West Brightside District
21
Schedule No. 218: 4 Court, 4, House, Birley Street:
George Robert LAXTON, Head, Married, 26, Electric Car Driver
(tram), a worker, born Bourne, Lincs.
Ethel Edith LAXTON, wife, married, 20, born Sheffield,
Yorks.
Robert James LAXTON, son, 1, born Sheffield, Yorks. (born 19
March 1900.)
Annie LAXTON is the mystery, can't find her at all.
As for Emily LAXTON, well she married a James TIPPLE in the July
quarter of 1897 at Sheffield so that in the 1901 Census this was
the entry.1901 England Census for Emily Tipple
Yorkshire Brightside Bierlow West Brightside District 02
2ct, 6 house, Kilton Street:
Charles TIPPLE, Head, widower, 63, Joiner, born Lynn Norfolk.
James TIPPLE, son, Married, 22, Steam Jack Fitter, born
Sheffield, Yorks.
Emily TIPPLE, daughter-in-law, married, 22, born
Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
William TIPPLE, grandson, 4, born Sheffield, Yorks.
Elizabeth TIPPLE, granddaughter, 2, born Sheffield,
Yorks.
Albert TIPPLE, grandson, 2, born Sheffield, Yorks.
So between 1901 & 1911, Robert & Sarah LAXTON stay in
Pitsmoor at 105 Rock Street.
Yorkshire-West Riding Sheffield West Brightside 24
105 Rock Street, Sheffield a six roomed house containing
3 people:
Robert LAXTON, Head, 59, Married for 39 years having had 6
children, one of whom has died, a Credit Clothier, working on
his own means from home, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah LAXTON, wife, 67, married for 39 years having had 6
children, one of whom has died, born Heckington, Lincs.
Winifred Violet COWHAM, granddaughter, aged 3 years, born
Sheffield, Yorks.
A newspaper article confirmed his home address & occupation
in 1904: Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 04 June 1904
SHEFFIELD PLUMBER'S BIGAMY. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS "WIFE'S "
DEBT'S. Robert Laxton, clothier, 105, Rock Street, Sheffield,
sued Henry Sissons, plumber, 22, Boyland Street, Sheffield, for
£6 9s., , goods supplied to a woman who was living with
defendant as his wife.
So in 1911, one of their daughters has married a man called
Cowham, because they have a granddaughter at their house on
Census day 1911.It turns out that the daughter was Jane LAXTON
who married Richard COWHAM in the January quarter of 1908.
Daughter Ellen LAXTON & her husband William DIXON have moved
to Willesden, Middlesex by 1911:
1911 England Census for Ellen Dixon nee LAXTON
Middlesex Willesden 63
103, Denzil Road, Willesden, Middlesex a 3 roomed house
with 6 people inside it.
William DIXON, Head, 34, Married, Electrician, for an electric
railway company as a worker, born Whitby, Yorkshire
Ellen DIXON, wife, 29, married for 10 years with 3 children,
born Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
Edward HAMILTON, Boarder, 24, Single, Electrician for an
electric railway company born Bermuda, a British Subject
Ivy Middleton DIXON, daughter, 10, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Gladys Jane DIXON, daughter, 8, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Olive May DIXON, daughter, 5, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
As for George Robert DIXON, well in the next 10 years, he and
his wife Ethel Edith had 4 children, Robert James in 1900, John
Samuel in 1901, Harriet Alice in 1908 and Nellie in 1910. He
still remained a troubled young man causing much anguish to his
loyal wife. Records in Ancestry & newspapers show that those
10 years he was in custody on 3 occasions, including the date of
the 1911 Census where he was recorded in that census at
Wakefield Prison for unlawful wounding.His long suffering wife
Ethel Edith was on her own with the 4 children at New Street
Lane, Sheffield. The record states she and her four children
lived in 2 roomed house, and that she had borne 8 children, 4 of
whom had died. In fact this newspaper article in 1907 shows then
they had 4 children. Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 08 June
1907
BURTON (BOROUGH).-MONDAY (Before S. Briggs. Esq. and Dr. Bridgeman. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN-—George Robert Laxton, electrician, was charged by Inspector Sly, N.S.P.C.C., with cruelty to his four children. On Saturday afternoon, together with his wife and the children, he was in Station-street playing a tin whistle. The children were well nourished, but they had been tramping from the Rhondda Valley for five weeks, and they were all footsore. Prisoner was committed to prison for three weeks.
BURTON (BOROUGH).-MONDAY (Before S. Briggs. Esq. and Dr. Bridgeman. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN-—George Robert Laxton, electrician, was charged by Inspector Sly, N.S.P.C.C., with cruelty to his four children. On Saturday afternoon, together with his wife and the children, he was in Station-street playing a tin whistle. The children were well nourished, but they had been tramping from the Rhondda Valley for five weeks, and they were all footsore. Prisoner was committed to prison for three weeks.
Emily Laxton between 1901 & 1911 had a change of life too.
In the April quarter of 1902, her husband James TIPPLE died,
leaving her a widow with 3 children. However a year later she
married again to John Samuel PEARSON in the June quarter of 1903
and between then and 1911 she and John had 5 children between
them, so in the 1911 Census they have 8 children in the
family.
1911 England Census for Emily Pearson nee Laxton.
Yorkshire-West Riding Sheffield West Brightside 01
4, Bramber Place, off Spittal Hill, a house consisting of just 3
rooms with 10 people occupying it.
John Samuel PEARSON, Head, 34, Married, Locomotive Engine Driver
for Grand Central Railway, worker born Sheffield, Yorks
Emily PEARSON, wife, 32, Married for 7 years, 5 children-one
died, born Biggleswade.
William TIPPLE, step-son, 14, Butchers Errand Boy, born
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Elizabeth TIPPLE, step-daughter,12, at school, , born Sheffield,
Yorkshire
Albert TIPPLE, step-son, 10, at school, born Sheffield,
Yorkshire
John Charles PEARSON, son, 6, at school, born Sheffield,
Yorkshire
Mary PEARSON, daughter, 4, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Robert PEARSON, son, 3, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Doris PEARSON, daughter, 1, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Gladys PEARSON, daughter, 3 months, born Sheffield,
Yorkshire.
George Robert Laxton fought in the First World War, though he was 40 years of age in 1914 so was discharged as a recruit on 5th September 1914. He was living at the time at 7court, 4 house, Solly Street, Sheffield. He rejoined the Territorial Army in 1915, then living at 5 Court, 3 house in Solly Street. In November 1915 he was serving with the 3/4th York and Lancaster Regiment, but on 5th November, absented himself without leave because of his ill health and to care for his 3 children at home whilst his wife was in hospital. He asked the court to let him off his absence saying he would report everyday at the police station, but unfortunately because his previous poor behaviour the court did not believe him. (details in Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 22 November 1915). He survived the war okay ending it in Rhyl, North Wales, when these two events occurred:
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 10 February 1919
A NOVEL FORM OF GAMING. A novel case as regards gaming was investigated by the Rhyl justices. on Saturday, when George Robert Laxton, of Solly Street, Sheffield was charged with gaming at Kinmel Camp, Rhyl, where the Canadians are demobilising. Corporal Mlyler, of the military police, stated that he saw the prisoner at a table in the canteen, on which was displayed cutlery, and 15 piles of playing cards. About 20 soldiers were around, and the prisoner invited them to put 6d.on each pack, stating that the highest card turned would win a razor, and the lowest a pocket knife. There were several packs covered. The prisoner contended that the goods he was disposing of were excellent value, and much used by the Canadians. He considered he was not gaming, but running a raffle, which was done all over the country. He was a cutler by trade, and had served in the Yorkshire Light Infantry. After examining the goods, the Magistrates expressed the opinion that the prisoner was giving good value for the money he would receive supposing the 15 packs of cards were covered by 6d each, but, as no doubt there was gaming within the law, they would require him to pay the Costs of the case, and discharge him, provided be left the district at once.
Lancashire Evening Post - Monday 23 August 1920
TIN WHISTLE EXPERT AT BLACKPOOL. George Robert Laxton was charged at Blackpool, this morning, with begging. A constable stated that the man was playing a tin whistle in the street, and had a card in front of him intimating that he was an ex-Service man. Laxton was very loquacious, and told the Bench that he could play any music, even that written by Sousa. No music was too difficult for him to play, and he could play it in any key. Mr. Bancroft, the chairman, cut the man’s story short by remarking that if he could play half as well as he could talk he was good musician. Promising to leave Blackpool, he was discharged.
George Robert Laxton fought in the First World War, though he was 40 years of age in 1914 so was discharged as a recruit on 5th September 1914. He was living at the time at 7court, 4 house, Solly Street, Sheffield. He rejoined the Territorial Army in 1915, then living at 5 Court, 3 house in Solly Street. In November 1915 he was serving with the 3/4th York and Lancaster Regiment, but on 5th November, absented himself without leave because of his ill health and to care for his 3 children at home whilst his wife was in hospital. He asked the court to let him off his absence saying he would report everyday at the police station, but unfortunately because his previous poor behaviour the court did not believe him. (details in Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 22 November 1915). He survived the war okay ending it in Rhyl, North Wales, when these two events occurred:
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 10 February 1919
A NOVEL FORM OF GAMING. A novel case as regards gaming was investigated by the Rhyl justices. on Saturday, when George Robert Laxton, of Solly Street, Sheffield was charged with gaming at Kinmel Camp, Rhyl, where the Canadians are demobilising. Corporal Mlyler, of the military police, stated that he saw the prisoner at a table in the canteen, on which was displayed cutlery, and 15 piles of playing cards. About 20 soldiers were around, and the prisoner invited them to put 6d.on each pack, stating that the highest card turned would win a razor, and the lowest a pocket knife. There were several packs covered. The prisoner contended that the goods he was disposing of were excellent value, and much used by the Canadians. He considered he was not gaming, but running a raffle, which was done all over the country. He was a cutler by trade, and had served in the Yorkshire Light Infantry. After examining the goods, the Magistrates expressed the opinion that the prisoner was giving good value for the money he would receive supposing the 15 packs of cards were covered by 6d each, but, as no doubt there was gaming within the law, they would require him to pay the Costs of the case, and discharge him, provided be left the district at once.
Lancashire Evening Post - Monday 23 August 1920
TIN WHISTLE EXPERT AT BLACKPOOL. George Robert Laxton was charged at Blackpool, this morning, with begging. A constable stated that the man was playing a tin whistle in the street, and had a card in front of him intimating that he was an ex-Service man. Laxton was very loquacious, and told the Bench that he could play any music, even that written by Sousa. No music was too difficult for him to play, and he could play it in any key. Mr. Bancroft, the chairman, cut the man’s story short by remarking that if he could play half as well as he could talk he was good musician. Promising to leave Blackpool, he was discharged.
Charles William BANKS in 1911 is living in Neepsend Terrace,
Sheffield. He is a married man, saying he was married for 19
years with no children. I did find a marriage for a Charles
William BANKS in 1907 in Dover to a Mary May Styles-so whether
this is his marriage I don't know. There is another marriage in
Sheffield in September 1892 for a Charles Banks & Mary
Russell, so that might be this marriage.
1911 England Census for Charles W Banks
Yorkshire-West Riding Sheffield West Brightside 14
Neepsend Lane, Sheffield, a 3 roomed house with 3 people living
in it.
Charles W. BANKS, Head, 41, Married, for 19 years, no natural
children, Collector for Draper, a worker, born Heckington,
Yorks, but they did have an adopted child called Nellie
HALL aged 9, born Sheffield.
Mary BANKS, wife, 44, Married, born Sheffield
Nellie HALL , adopted child, aged 9, at school, born
Sheffield.
As for Robert LAXTON's siblings, his first sister was Mary LAXTON born in March quarter of 1854 in Rippingale. I did find that in 1871 she was a servant in Pinchbeck Lincolnshire but after that nothing immediately.
I have now found that a Mary LAXTON married a William WARRINGTON, born Heckington in the April quarter of 1875 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. I found this marriage by first searching in Free BMD for a marriage for a Mary Laxton between 1872 & 1881 and found these marriages
Marriages Jun 1875 (>99%)
BOWER John Sheffield 9c 540
FARNILL Mary Sheffield 9c 540
LAXTON Mary Sheffield 9c 540
Warrington William Sheffield 9c 540
Then looking in the 1881 Census for a William Warrington I found this result.
Sheffield, Brightside Bierlow, 20, Pickering Road:
William WARRINGTON, head, Married, aged 32, Railway Checker, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Mary WARRINGTON, Wife, Married, aged 27, Born Repping, Lincolnshire,
William WARRINGTON, son, aged 4, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Herbert WARRINGTON, son, aged 2, born Sheffield, Yorkshire,
Arthur WARRINGTON, son , aged 4 months, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
So looking at Mary WARRINGTON's birth place Repping, made me think it could have been that she told the researcher Rippingale, but the word Repping was put in the census instead.
Looking in the census of 1891, I found that in this census Mary's birthplace was properly recorded.
83, Wallace Road, Wm. WARRINGTON, Head, married, aged 44, Railway Goods Checker, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Mary WARRINGTON, Wife, Married, aged 39, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Wm. WARRINGTON, son, 14, Errand Boy, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Herbert WARRINGTON, son, 12, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Arthur WARRINGTON, son, 10, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Fred E. WARRINGTON, son 8, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Eva WARRINGTON, daughter, 6, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
L. M. WARRINGTON, daughter, 1, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
But then in the 1901 census for this family I found this entry.
Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield,
83, Wallace Road, William WARRINGTON, Head, widower, 53, Railway Goods Porter, Worker, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Arthur WARRINGTON, Son single, aged 20, Bakery Carter, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Frederick WARRINGTON, son, Single, 18, Railway Porter, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Eva Mary WARRINGTON, daughter, single, 16, at home as the housekeeper, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Lilian WARRINGTON, daughter, 11, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
His other sister, Hannah Maria married a Joseph Warren.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 01 August 1879
At the Abbey church, Bourn, on the 28th inst., Mr. Joseph Warren, to Hannah Maria Laxton.-2 years later they are in Bourne, Lincolnshire & ten years later in 1891 in Sheffield. In 1895 Joseph died, leaving Hannah a widow in the 1901 census and still the same in 1911, where she is the matron of children's day nursery. She died 30 December 1927 in Sheffield.
I started this Laxton Family History within my blog on the Hind & Sneath family when I discovered that a John LAXTON married Mary HINDS nee WILLIAMSON the widow of Thomas HINDS whom she’d married in 1838 & had five Hinds children, 2 daughters & 3 sons including John HIND, the father of Susan Louisa HIND. Thomas HINDS died about 20 February 1845-that was the date he was buried in the churchyard at Rippingale, leaving his widow Mary HINDS nee WILLIAMSON to cope with their 5 children. Fortunately she met & married this John LAXTON,
Today I discovered that John LAXTON died on 28 March 1905.
As for Robert LAXTON's siblings, his first sister was Mary LAXTON born in March quarter of 1854 in Rippingale. I did find that in 1871 she was a servant in Pinchbeck Lincolnshire but after that nothing immediately.
I have now found that a Mary LAXTON married a William WARRINGTON, born Heckington in the April quarter of 1875 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. I found this marriage by first searching in Free BMD for a marriage for a Mary Laxton between 1872 & 1881 and found these marriages
Marriages Jun 1875 (>99%)
BOWER John Sheffield 9c 540
FARNILL Mary Sheffield 9c 540
LAXTON Mary Sheffield 9c 540
Warrington William Sheffield 9c 540
Then looking in the 1881 Census for a William Warrington I found this result.
William WARRINGTON, head, Married, aged 32, Railway Checker, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Mary WARRINGTON, Wife, Married, aged 27, Born Repping, Lincolnshire,
William WARRINGTON, son, aged 4, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Herbert WARRINGTON, son, aged 2, born Sheffield, Yorkshire,
Arthur WARRINGTON, son , aged 4 months, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
So looking at Mary WARRINGTON's birth place Repping, made me think it could have been that she told the researcher Rippingale, but the word Repping was put in the census instead.
Looking in the census of 1891, I found that in this census Mary's birthplace was properly recorded.
83, Wallace Road, Wm. WARRINGTON, Head, married, aged 44, Railway Goods Checker, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Mary WARRINGTON, Wife, Married, aged 39, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Wm. WARRINGTON, son, 14, Errand Boy, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Herbert WARRINGTON, son, 12, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Arthur WARRINGTON, son, 10, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Fred E. WARRINGTON, son 8, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Eva WARRINGTON, daughter, 6, Scholar, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
L. M. WARRINGTON, daughter, 1, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
But then in the 1901 census for this family I found this entry.
83, Wallace Road, William WARRINGTON, Head, widower, 53, Railway Goods Porter, Worker, born Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Arthur WARRINGTON, Son single, aged 20, Bakery Carter, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Frederick WARRINGTON, son, Single, 18, Railway Porter, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Eva Mary WARRINGTON, daughter, single, 16, at home as the housekeeper, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
Lilian WARRINGTON, daughter, 11, born Sheffield, Yorkshire
So then I looked for the death of Mary WARRINGTON, nee LAXTON
on Free BMD and found this result.
Deaths Sep 1898 (>99%)
Warrington Mary
44
Sheffield, 9c,368
So Mary died in the September quarter of 1898 aged 44, so that
would mean she was born in 1854, which fits with her birth
record.
If we could find her marriage record it would prove the father
of her husband William Warrington.
The surname WARRINGTON from Heckington has appeared before in
this LAXTON family.
Robert LAXTON married a Sarah WARRINGTON in 1881, the daughter of George Marshall Warrington & Hannah WARRINGTON nee Wright of Heckington, Lincolnshire.
George Marshall WARRINGTON was the son of Robert WARRINGTON & Ann
Burton Pedwardine Parish Records - Marriages & Banns (1805-1812)
Robert WARRINGTON of this Parish and Ann COOPER of the Parish of Heckington were married in this church by banns on 19th June 1806 by me Lewis Jones, Vicar in presence of John Pitts Taylor & Wm. Foster. Robert Warrington signed the register, & Ann Cooper her mark.
Robert LAXTON married a Sarah WARRINGTON in 1881, the daughter of George Marshall Warrington & Hannah WARRINGTON nee Wright of Heckington, Lincolnshire.
George Marshall WARRINGTON was the son of Robert WARRINGTON & Ann
Burton Pedwardine Parish Records - Marriages & Banns (1805-1812)
Robert WARRINGTON of this Parish and Ann COOPER of the Parish of Heckington were married in this church by banns on 19th June 1806 by me Lewis Jones, Vicar in presence of John Pitts Taylor & Wm. Foster. Robert Warrington signed the register, & Ann Cooper her mark.
His other sister, Hannah Maria married a Joseph Warren.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 01 August 1879
At the Abbey church, Bourn, on the 28th inst., Mr. Joseph Warren, to Hannah Maria Laxton.-2 years later they are in Bourne, Lincolnshire & ten years later in 1891 in Sheffield. In 1895 Joseph died, leaving Hannah a widow in the 1901 census and still the same in 1911, where she is the matron of children's day nursery. She died 30 December 1927 in Sheffield.
I started this Laxton Family History within my blog on the Hind & Sneath family when I discovered that a John LAXTON married Mary HINDS nee WILLIAMSON the widow of Thomas HINDS whom she’d married in 1838 & had five Hinds children, 2 daughters & 3 sons including John HIND, the father of Susan Louisa HIND. Thomas HINDS died about 20 February 1845-that was the date he was buried in the churchyard at Rippingale, leaving his widow Mary HINDS nee WILLIAMSON to cope with their 5 children. Fortunately she met & married this John LAXTON,
Today I discovered that John LAXTON died on 28 March 1905.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 08 April 1905 (British
Newspaper Archive)
Obituary.—lt is with deep regret we have to record the death of another of our old and much-respected tradesmen and late postmaster of Rippingale viz., Mr. John Laxton (father Mr. Stephen Laxton with whom had resided), who departed this life on Tuesday, March 28th at the age of seventy-nine. Mr. Laxton had been a great sufferer for the past two or three years. He was postmaster at Rippingale for a period of twenty-seven years, and gained the respect and esteem of everyone. He was a member of the Church of England, a staunch member of the Temperance Society, and a very regular Sunday School teacher. On Sunday, March 26th, although very ill, he did not forget his class of boys, sending books, etc., through the Rector, for distribution amongst them. His funeral, which took place on Friday, 31st was very largely attended by relations, friends, and many parishioners, also by his Sunday School Class and members of the choir, which, in former years, Mr. Laxton took a very active part. There were some splendid wreaths from the family and friends. The solemn ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. W. Layng, by whom a very impressive sermon was preached on Sunday morning, touching on the life and character of the deceased.
Obituary.—lt is with deep regret we have to record the death of another of our old and much-respected tradesmen and late postmaster of Rippingale viz., Mr. John Laxton (father Mr. Stephen Laxton with whom had resided), who departed this life on Tuesday, March 28th at the age of seventy-nine. Mr. Laxton had been a great sufferer for the past two or three years. He was postmaster at Rippingale for a period of twenty-seven years, and gained the respect and esteem of everyone. He was a member of the Church of England, a staunch member of the Temperance Society, and a very regular Sunday School teacher. On Sunday, March 26th, although very ill, he did not forget his class of boys, sending books, etc., through the Rector, for distribution amongst them. His funeral, which took place on Friday, 31st was very largely attended by relations, friends, and many parishioners, also by his Sunday School Class and members of the choir, which, in former years, Mr. Laxton took a very active part. There were some splendid wreaths from the family and friends. The solemn ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. W. Layng, by whom a very impressive sermon was preached on Sunday morning, touching on the life and character of the deceased.
The two places, Whissendine & Little Bytham are about 13 miles apart,
Neither of the above sources state the occupation of Robert Hinds whose name becomes to be Hind. In a baptism of a child in 1815, he is shown as a butcher.
Child number 3:
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1815) Register No. 46: 7 May, 1815, Robert, son of Robert & Martha HINDS, of this parish (Rippingale), Butcher, by Benn Cracroft, Rector.
This record comes from the resource called Lincstothepast-this is online source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320561
Child number 4: Elizabeth HINDS
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1819) Register No: 136: 10 October 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert & Martha HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher by Kings Foster, Officiating Minister
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320573
Child Number 5: Samuel HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1822) Register No: 198: 13 December, 1822, Samuel, son of Robert & Martha HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Charles Douglas, Rector Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320582
Child Number 6.: Mary Anne: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1825-1826)
No.280: February 26, 1826, Mary Anne, daughter of Robert & Patty HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by John Bonham, Officiating Minister.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320593
Child number 7:
Now it looks like Robert's wife Martha has died, because throughout the above records she is called Martha, now she is called Patty. No, that's not true, because here's the christening of child number 7, Sarah: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1828-1829)
No. 344: April 12th, 1829, Sarah, daughter of Robert & Martha HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm Waters, Rector: Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320602, so maybe Martha's nickname was Patty!
So by 1829, Robert is firmly established as a butcher in Rippingale, with a wife & 7 children, which by 1829, their first son John was 21, so probably married. Well, no he wasn't, but here is his marriage to Elizabeth SANDALL:
Rippingale Parish Records - Marriages (1831)
John HINDS, of this parish, Bachelor & Elizabeth Sandall, of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by Banns with consent of both parties on 22nd March, 1831, by me Wm. Waters, Rector, in presence of William SANDALL & Eliza SANDALL.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=568785&iid=320434
CENSUS entries for Robert & Marthar HIND
1841 census & the Hind/Hinds Family in Rippingale area.
So this is mum and dad, Robert & Martha Hinds, now grandparents as well. So lets see how many grandchildren they had by 1841.
So by 1841, the first census with any real information no matter how brief with ages estimated & rounded up, Robert & Martha HINDS, live in Rippingale, with Robert not an agricultural labourer, with just 2 daughters at home with them, Mary Ann & Sarah.
1841 CENSUS for Robert & Martha HIINDS
Rippingale:
Robt. HINDS, 50, Agl (crossed through), Not born in Lincs.
Martha HINDS, 50, Not born in Lincs,
Mary Ann HINDS, 15, Born in Lincs.
Sarah HINDS, 12, born in Lincs.
1851 Census for Robert & Martha HINDS.
In the 1851 Census which was taken on the 30th March, 1851, persons putting their names on it had to state on a census entry the name of the place where they were born.
So looking at this entry, it states this:
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
16, High Street,
Robert HIND, Head, Married, Age, 64, Butcher, Sysonby, Leicestershire.
Martha HIND, Wife, Married, 62, Born Whissindine, Rutland.
Elizabeth HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 31, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Mary Ann HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 25, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
A photograph of the entry,
The place where he says he was born, was read as Sysonby,
Leicestershire, but looking at the entry, that name looks a bit
different.
In the 1861 Census, days later, he told the enumerator, a different place where he was born.
The entry reads:
1, Robert HINDS, Head, Married, 74, Family Butcher, born Melton, Leicestershire
Martha HINDS, Wife, Married, 75, Wife, born Whissidine, Rutland.
So Robert now says he was born in Melton, or maybe that means Melton Mowbray.
Certainly he was christened in Melton Mowbray, so the family either lived there or nearby.
So here's their eldest son John, him born soon after their
marriage in that church in Whissendine
John married Elizabeth Sandall on 22 March 1831.
John HINDS, of this parish, Bachelor & Elizabeth Sandall, of
this parish, spinster, were married in this church by Banns with
consent of both parties on 22nd March, 1831, by me Wm. Waters,
Rector, in presence of William SANDALL & Eliza SANDALL.
1.Their first child was named William:
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1830-1831)
1831: No. 384: April 2nd, William, son of John & Elizabeth
HINDS of Rippingale, Labourer by Wm. Waters, Rector: Source:
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320614
William is in the 1841 Census with his family, but not in the
1851 Census with his family.
2. John HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms
(1831-1832)
1832: Entry 409: June 27th, John son of John & Elizabeth
HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector. Source:
www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?
oid=513748&iid=320614
Note that between the date 2 April, 1831 & June 27th
1832, John HINDS stops being a labourer and becomes a
butcher.
John HINDS?HIND followed his father's trade as a butcher. I
found him in the 1861 census as a butcher & Inn Keeper of
the "Horse & Jockey Public House in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
with his wife Elizabeth. I looked on Free BMD and found
this record:
Marriages Jun 1860: Hind, John & Shelton, Elizabeth
at Spalding 7a, 583. So now
knowing that John Hind married a lady called Elizabeth SHELTON I
looked on Lincolnshire Marriages, a website run and contributed
by Lincolnshire Family History
Society http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ and
downloaded the Spalding spreadsheet. Then searched for John HIND
& found this record:
1860, 17-May, John Hind son of John HIND &
Elizabeth SHELTON, daughter of William Shelton married at West
Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.
In the 1871 census he is in West Barnack, Northamptonshire, just
a labourer with his wife Elizabeth, and in 1881 10 years later
he is still a labourer living in Peterborough. Then in 1891, he
and his family are living at 2 Heath Houses., Peterborough, with
John working as a porter. So he has been very much a person
using their body to work, in 1891 he was 54 years of age. He
died in the first quarter of 1898 in Peterborough, aged 65. His
wife Elizabeth said she was born in London, Middlesex about 1839
daughter of William Shelton. She was a widow in 1911 census with
2 children living with her, John Hind her son, also called
Robert, a painter & her daughter Mary Holdsworth HIND
employed as a servant. She herself was also a servant somewhere
in Peterborough. This family has some interesting second
forenames.Albert Edward Chappell HIND, Mary Goldsworth HIND
& John Robert HIND. Not that they used these names of
course.
3. Mariann HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms
(1833-1834)
Entry no. 448: March 17th 1833, Mariann, daughter of John &
Elizabeth HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, rector.
Source:
4. Mary Ann HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms
(1836)
Entry 489: February 7th, 1836, Mary Ann, daughter of John &
Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Source:
However Mary Ann died very young too:
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1835-1836)
Register No. 307: Mary Ann HINDS, of Rippingale, buried March
3rd, 1836, aged an infant(no age given), by Wm. Waters. Rector.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=542712&iid=320950
Now that suggests that the Mary Ann/Mariann born in 1833 died so
that they named their next child which was a daughter Mary
Ann.Yes here's the burial record: Rippingale Parish Records -
Burials (1834-1835)
Entry 281: Marianne HINDS, of Rippingale, was buried November
19th, 1834, aged an Infant 8 mths by Wm. Waters, Rector
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=542712&iid=320947
5. Catherine HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms
(1836-1837)
Register no. 515: February 2nd, 1837, Catherine, daughter of
John & Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm.
Waters, Rector.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320631
Catharine is with the family as a youngster in 1841, and 10
years older in the 1851 census.
Then in 1857, she marries an Andrew CORNEY, in April, 1897, at a
church in the Bourne area, probably in Rippingale-lets see if
Lincolnshire Marriages has a record. yes here it is:
14 May, 1857 at Aslackby, Andrew CORNEY, , son of John CORNEY
married Catherine HIND, daughter of John HIND 1857
Source Lincolnshire Marriages, Bourne
spreadsheet: http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
,
6. Sarah HINDS
Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1838-1839)
Register No. 567: April 6th, 1839, Sarah, daughter of John &
Elizabeth HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=513748&iid=320638
Ten years later he and his wife & family are recorded
in the 1841 Census at Rippingale.
1841 Census for John HINDS: born Whissendine, Rutland:
Rippingale, Lincolnshire, District 7
John HINDS, 30, Butcher, not born in Lincs.Elizabeth HINDS, 25, Born in Lincs
William HINDS, 10, Born in Lincs
John HINDS, 9, Born in Lincs.
Catharine HINDS, 4, Born in Lincs
Sarah HINDS, 2, Born in Lincs
Samuel HINDS, 15, Apprentice to Shoemaker, Born in Lincs.
So you can see the Census of 1841 doesn't tell half the story, with John & his wife Elizabeth having children born and christened only to have them die and be buried, all in Rippingale.
So John, has followed in his father's footsteps and become a butcher in Rippingale, just wonder if they both work in the same shop together, hardly see there would be two Hind's butchers shops in the village in 1841.
John Hinds is married to Elizabeth HINDS nee Sandall, with 4 children, the fifth listed, Samuel, the apprentice shoemaker is John's nephew, his father is John's brother Samuel.
So John Hinds is a butcher, aged 30 in 1841, so let's see what happened to him. Well the first thing that happened to him was rather sad, because his wife Elizabeth died on 19 June 1842 at their home in Rippingale, and was buried in the graveyard of the parish church .
Source: Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1841-1842) No. 391: Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, buried June 21st 1842, aged 30, By Wm. Waters, Rector.
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Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1841-1842)
Register No. 391: Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, buried June 21st 1842 aged 30 years by Wm. Waters, Rector
So at that time, his children then were called William, born 1831, John born 1832, Catharine born 1837, and Sarah born 1839. No doubt the children went to their mother's funeral.
Then on 14 April, 1845, John married a Susanna Palmer at Rippingale Parish Church. Here's the record from Lincolnshire Marriages: 14 April 1845, John Hinds, son of Robert HINDS, married Susanna PALMER daughter of Thomas PALMER at Rippingale. Source: http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Bourne spreadsheet.
So here was John's chance to start another family.
1. Susanna Frances HINDS Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1846-1847)
Register No. 735, July 1st 1846, Susanna Frances, daughter of John & Susanna HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector
The 1851 Census has the family like this:
John HINDS 1851 Census
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
26: High Street,
John HIND, Head, Married, 42, Butcher, born Whissendine, Rutland
Sussanna HIND, Wife, Married, 26, born, Rippingale, Lincs.
John HIND, Son, Unmarried, 19, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Catherine HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 14, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, Daughter, unmarried, 12, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sussanna HIND, daughter, un., 5, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, un., 3, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, un., 1, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Then 10 years later the family looked like this:
John HINDS in 1861 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Entry 22:
John HIND, Head, Married, 52, Butcher, Born Whissendine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 35, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Susanna HIND, 15, Scholar, born Rippinglae, Lincs.
Mary A HIND, Daughter, 13, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert T. HIND, son, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 2, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Pilgrim, Servant, Unmarried, 17, House servant, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Arthur Millar, servant, Unmarried, 16, Butcher’s apprentice, born Falkingham, Lincs.
So in both census, young Susanna Frances was at home with her parents.
So the children of John HIND & Susanna Palmer are the following:
1. Susanna Frances 1 July 1846.
2. Mary Ann Hind born December 1847, registered 1848, christened 2 January 1848, Rippingale.
3. Jane Hinds, christened at Rippingale 10 August 1849.
3a Eliza HINDS, Born June 1851 died 11 March 1855.
4. Robert Thomas Hind born January 1856 in Rippingale.
5. Alfred Palmer HIND born October 1858 in Rippingale.
6. Lizzie Martha. HIND born October 1861, in Rippingale.
7. Amelia HIND born April 1865, in Rippingale.
So quite a gap between Jane Hinds in 1849 & Robert Thomas in 1856.
HIND Births in Bourne Registration Area between 1849 & 1856
Births Sep 1849 Hind Jane Bourn 14 290 (daughter of John & Susanna)
Births Mar 1850 Hind Mary Elizabeth Bourn 14 303
Births Jun 1850 Hind John Bourn 14 327
Births Jun 1851 Hind Eliza, Bourn, 14, 306 Dies March 1855 (buried 11 March 1855 aged 4 years)
Hind George Bourn 14 310
Births Jun 1852 Hind Herbert Bourne 7a 212
Hind Herbert Bourn 7a 282
Births Jun 1854 Hind George Bourn 7a 304
HIND George Bourn 7a 364
Births Mar 1856 HIND, Robert Thomas Bourn 7a 279 (son of John & Susanna)
There were 3 Hind deaths in the Bourne area between 1850 & 1856
Death June 1850, HIND John, Deaths June 1851: George HIND
Deaths March 1855, Eliza HIND But only Eliza Hinds is listed as being buried in Rippingale.
Register No. 735, July 1st 1846, Susanna Frances, daughter of John & Susanna HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector
No doubt Susanna Frances would have attended the local National School in Rippingale-the census says she was a scholar in 1861, and with John, her father being a tradesman ( a butcher), he would have had to pay 9d. a week for Susanna to attend that school in Rippingale. Information about the school can be found here: http://www.rippingalevillage.co.uk/School.htm
In 1865, a new young man was appointed at the school as the new headmaster. he was called John CAUNCE. He died in 1929 and the Grantham Journal reported his funeral service. There is some history about Mr. Caunce in that article below. By 1865, Susanna Frances was 19 years of age, and she no doubt met this young man. Anyway, in October, 2 years later, she married John Caunce:
On 22 October 1867, Susanna married John Caunce a schoolteacher. The marriage was reported in the Lincolnshire Chronicle: Lincolnshire Chronicle - Saturday 02 November 1867: At Rippingale, on the 22nd ult., Mr. John CAUNCE, to Miss Susan HIND.
Together they had 3 children, Thomas John in the October quarter of 1868, Ada Gertrude in 1870 & Lily Beatrice in 1874.
The Census of 1871 gives this information about the family:
Susanna Frances CAUNCE nee HIND in 1871 Census
1871 census for Susanna F CAUNCE: Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 10:
Entry 7:
John CAUNCE, Head, Married, 25, Schoolmaster, born Golborne, Lancashire
Susanna F. CAUNCE, Wife, Married, 24, Wife, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Thomas J. CAUNCE, Son, single, 2, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Ada G. CAUNCE, daughter, 11 months, born Rippingale Lincolnshire.
So not much about where they lived is there?
10 years later this was the census entry:
1881 census for Susanna F CAUNCE nee HIND
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 10
High Street: Entry 23:
John CAUNCE, Head, Married, 35, Certificated School Teacher, 1st class born Golborne, Lancashire
Susanna F CAUNCE, wife, married, 34, Wife, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Ada G. CAUNCE, daughter, 11, scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Lily B. CAUNCE, daughter, 6, born Ripiingale, Lincs.
So at least now we know they were living in the High Street, Rippingale.
Susanna his wife died 29 November 1885 at their home
in Rippingale
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 December 1885 DEATHS: Rippingale, November 29 Susanna Frances Caunce, aged 39. Without having a death certificate I wont know of what she died. There isn't a record of her funeral in the press as yet-maybe there was but not online.
1891 Census for John CAUNCE
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 9
Entry 77: School House:
John CAUNCE: Head, Widower, 45, Elementary Schoolmaster, Born Golborne, Lancs.
Ada G. CAUNCE: Daughter, single, 21, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Emma L. SAUNDERS: Boarder, Single, 31, Elementary Schoolmistress, born St. Bedwells, Exeter, Devon.
So in 1881, although John was a schoolteacher, he lived in a house in the High Street, but 10 years later, with his wife dead, he now lives in a school house, as a widower, but also in the same house was another teacher at the school, an Emma L. Saunders, from Exeter, Devon. So I wonder if the school of 1881 has been changed to allow for a house to be built to house the headmaster & members of staff. Emma in that year was living in Lambeth, Surrey, with her parents and working as an assistant schoolmistress. So in 1891, she was working in Rippingale Village School, but sometime later she moved to the Twenty School in Bourne, because she is recorded there in the 1901 census. So she was quite a bit younger than John Caunce.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 December 1885 DEATHS: Rippingale, November 29 Susanna Frances Caunce, aged 39. Without having a death certificate I wont know of what she died. There isn't a record of her funeral in the press as yet-maybe there was but not online.
1891 Census for John CAUNCE
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 9
Entry 77: School House:
John CAUNCE: Head, Widower, 45, Elementary Schoolmaster, Born Golborne, Lancs.
Ada G. CAUNCE: Daughter, single, 21, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Emma L. SAUNDERS: Boarder, Single, 31, Elementary Schoolmistress, born St. Bedwells, Exeter, Devon.
So in 1881, although John was a schoolteacher, he lived in a house in the High Street, but 10 years later, with his wife dead, he now lives in a school house, as a widower, but also in the same house was another teacher at the school, an Emma L. Saunders, from Exeter, Devon. So I wonder if the school of 1881 has been changed to allow for a house to be built to house the headmaster & members of staff. Emma in that year was living in Lambeth, Surrey, with her parents and working as an assistant schoolmistress. So in 1891, she was working in Rippingale Village School, but sometime later she moved to the Twenty School in Bourne, because she is recorded there in the 1901 census. So she was quite a bit younger than John Caunce.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 10 September 1904
Marriage of Mr. John CAUNCE: On Tuesday, August 30th, the marriage took place at St George’s Church, Forest Hill, London, S. E., of Mr. John CAUNCE, schoolmaster, Rippingale, and Miss Emma Leigh SAUNDERS, late schoolmistress of the Twenty School, Bourne. The bride wore a cream silk alpaca dress, trimmed with old lace, wreath of orange blossoms, and veil of old Brussels lace. She was attended by three bridesmaids, namely Miss Maud Saunders (sister of the bride), Miss Ettie Tills, and Miss Clara Louisa Pipe (Nieces of the bride); they wore very pretty gold safety-pin brooches, the gift of the bridegroom, and carried baskets of flowers. J. Lovett Esq., H. M. I., attended the bridegroom as best man. The happy couple have been the recipients of many valuable and useful presents, including the a handsome marble timepiece from the choir of St. Andrew’s Church, Rippingale, a token of esteem and regard for their much-respected organist on his marriage. The parishioners heartily unite in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Caunce long life and happiness. They are spending their honeymoon in Bournemouth.
DEATH OF MR JOHN CAUNCE: FORMER RIPPINGALE SCHOOLMASTER
We much regret to announce the death of Mr. John Caunce, the Headmaster of the school for many years. The late Mr. Caunce was born at Golbourne, Lancs, in October 1845, and when he became of School age he was sent to St. Barnabas School, Manchester. From there he went to Diocesan Training College, York, for two years-1864-65. In the latter year, Mr. G. Marsh, then Headmaster of Rippingale School, left, and Mr. Caunce was chosen to fill the vacancy, celebrating his 21st birthday here. He retained the position of Headmaster until 1912-a period of forty-six years-when advancing age made it necessary for him to retire. When he first took up his duties at the School, the number of scholars was 75, but this he was instrumental in increasing until the scholars reached 120. Parents of adjacent villages soon heard of his ability to impart knowledge, and they sent their children to him from Dunsby, Dowsby, Kirkby Underwood and Haconby and Rippingale School became full to overflowing. This was when parents had to PAY for The Teaching of their own children, and the payments were fixed according to a scale arranged by the Managers. For labourer’s children the fee was 3d. per week; for tradesmen’s and farmers it was 6d., and 9d. a week per child. With his duties of Headmaster, Mr. Caunce combined that of organist at the Church. That was one of the conditions of employment, so that the Headmaster had to prove his musical ability when applying for the post, as well as his teaching proficiency. He continued to act as paid organist for many years, and then he became voluntary organist, and carried on for a year after he retired from the School. In 1910 a new organ was placed in the Church, and three years later Mr. Caunce as organist retired owing to advancing years. In 1912 he was presented with a long-service certificate in recognition of his forty-seven years- service in the Church Sunday School, and regarded it as one of his most cherished possessions. For many years he made it a practice to put in a full day on Sunday6s, by attending Sunday-School in the morning and then to Church. In the afternoon he had either a children’s service at Sunday-School to attend, and in the evening he officiated in his usual capacity at the organ. He saw service UNDER THREE RECTORS-the late Rev. W. Cooper and Canon Layng and the present Rector Rev. J. E. Williams. To all he has been a true and trusted friend. Some of the scholars who have passed through his hands have won for themselves place of eminence. Mr. Robert HIND, who at one of the Jubilees represented the South African Government at one of the Colonial Conferences that were held at that time was one of them; others were Joseph Laxton, Headmaster of a School at Redbourne, St. Albans; Mr. George Marsh, the present Headmaster of Donington Elementary School. While acting as organist, the Rippingale Choir became very prominent in the district. On May 10th, 1878 the Choir won first prize at competition at Grimsthorpe. The population in the 70’s numbered 591 against 450 today, but, in spite of the larger population, the attendance at Church was not as large as it is now. In those days there was what was known as the “Row” of ten houses, which sheltered no less than one hundred people. When deceased needed a holiday, he had to walk eight miles To Corby to board a train. Prior to the line from Bourne to Sleaford being made, he had to walk to Bourne when necessity demanded, and back again, or put up with the inconvenience of the old carriers carts. Presentation on Retirement. When he retired after forty-six years of service as Headmaster of Rippingale National School, he was presented with a cheque for £22 4s., a handsome Berkeley armchair, and Mrs. Caunce was given a pair of silver candlesticks. He was for fifty years secretary of the local Lodge of the Loyal Gladstone Benefit Society. During last February the health of the deceased was severely taxed, but with devoted attention of Mrs. Caunce he survived. During the summer his feeble condition was noticeable, but he always managed to get the Church he had loved so sincerely and so long. In addition to the widow (who was his second wife), he leaves two daughters and a son.
The Funeral
There is a long list of local people who attended including a Mrs. HIND (no initial), two Mrs. Williamson’s.
Family mourners were Mrs. CAUNCE, (widow), Mr. T. CAUNCE (son), Mrs. T. SPRIDGEON and Miss Caunce (daughters), Mr. H. CAUNCE (brother), Mr. Jacks (Manchester), Miss Saunders (sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, Mr. H. Gibbons and Mr. T. Gibbons (Nottingham). As the cortege entered the church Mr. W. B. Williamson played “Ave Verum” (Gounod), the service was fully choral. As the cortege left the church, Mr. Williamson played “Adagio” by Beethoven.The Rev. J. E. Williams, in the course of his address, said that the words “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”, were very appropriate with regard to the comrade they were mourning that day. He had been good and faithful both to God and man. He had been among them as Headmaster in the School for close on fifty years, careful, thoughtful, kindly, enthusiastic in his teaching. The children had always been dear to him because he realised their preciousness, and thought of their souls as well as their bodies, their moral equipment as well as mental. All who came under his influence became better men and women for it. He (the speaker) thought of his record as A Glorious One He thought of deceased’s work in that church, which he loved, as organist, choirmaster, and Sunday-School teacher. Success always attended any effort he made, because he was so sincere as well as so capable. Although age stopped him working, he would not let anything keep him away from God’s house, and they could always count upon the deceased and his wife being present at Communion. Only a fortnight before his death he was worshipping with them. He was a wonderful example both to the old and the young. He lived as a Christian to the very end. Continuing the Rev. Williams said it had been a privilege to be with the deceased on the day he passed on, and he had gripped his hand as a brother Mason, and joined with him in simple prayers, and then he turned to his dear wife. They were there that afternoon to pay their last tribute to One they would all Remember but that was not a service of hopelessness, it was one of wonderful hope. They wanted more men and women in the Church, like the deceased, to see that the work did not suffer now he had passed away to a higher service. In conclusion, the Rev. gentleman offered a message of sympathy, love, and affection to those who mourned. To the wife who had the knowledge of the great respect in which her husband was held to console her, to the daughters and brothers. It was an honour to belong to such a good and faithful father, wonderful brother, sincere and humble-minded friend and a Christian Gentleman.
The floral tributes were from the following in addition to the
family: Mr. and Mrs. J. Thompson and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Lambon, Mr. and Mrs. Minns, Mr and Mrs. W. R. Jacks, Mr.&
Mrs. Hind and family, Mr. and Mrs. Garner: All at Brook House,
Morton : Jenny Hind, His Godson, Peter Wells: plus many
others,
Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 20 September 1930
Schoolmaster’s Memorial
A brass lectern has been fixed in St Andrew’s Church, Rippingale, as a memorial to the late Mr. John CAUNCE, voluntary organist for 40 years and village schoolmaster for a longer period, who died last year. A voluntary subscription list for a memorial was supported not only by local residents, but by many at a distance, particularly old scholars and friends, and the fund reached a total of about £50. The lectern is beautifully designed and is a handsome addition to the church. It bears a suitable description.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 September 1930
The Brass Lectern in memory of Mr. CAUNCE was dedicated by the Rector, the Rev. J. E. Williams, on Sunday morning. The eagle is most beautiful, and is a great improvement to the Church. The Inscription is:- To the Glory of God, in affectionate memory of John CAUNCE-called to higher service, September, 1929. Voluntary organist for 40 years”
The children of John & Susanna CAUNCE nee Hind, were Thomas John, Ada Gertrude & Lily Beatrice. Thomas John married Amy Carden from Titchfield, Hampshire-he was a grocer's assistant. they 3 daughters & a son. Ada Gertrude lived with her parents most of her life until they both died, John, her father in 1929 & her step-mother in 1943. Lily Beatrice married Tom Spridgeon and had one son and 2 daughters.
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1846-1847)Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 20 September 1930
Schoolmaster’s Memorial
A brass lectern has been fixed in St Andrew’s Church, Rippingale, as a memorial to the late Mr. John CAUNCE, voluntary organist for 40 years and village schoolmaster for a longer period, who died last year. A voluntary subscription list for a memorial was supported not only by local residents, but by many at a distance, particularly old scholars and friends, and the fund reached a total of about £50. The lectern is beautifully designed and is a handsome addition to the church. It bears a suitable description.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 September 1930
The Brass Lectern in memory of Mr. CAUNCE was dedicated by the Rector, the Rev. J. E. Williams, on Sunday morning. The eagle is most beautiful, and is a great improvement to the Church. The Inscription is:- To the Glory of God, in affectionate memory of John CAUNCE-called to higher service, September, 1929. Voluntary organist for 40 years”
The children of John & Susanna CAUNCE nee Hind, were Thomas John, Ada Gertrude & Lily Beatrice. Thomas John married Amy Carden from Titchfield, Hampshire-he was a grocer's assistant. they 3 daughters & a son. Ada Gertrude lived with her parents most of her life until they both died, John, her father in 1929 & her step-mother in 1943. Lily Beatrice married Tom Spridgeon and had one son and 2 daughters.
Register No. 449: Robert Thomas HIND, of Rippingale buried January 21st, 1847 aged Infant, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Child Number 2. Mary Anne HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1847-1848)
Register No. 763: January 2nd, 1848, Mary Anne, daughter of John & Susanna HIND, of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Note in this record, his daughter is called Mary Ann, his third daughter with that name, with 2 having died, and her surname in the record is HIND not HINDS.
Mary Ann Hinds stays to live with her parents in all the census. The census of 1891 explains why, as it describes her as an imbecile.
1891 Census for Mary Ann HIND: Lincolnshire, All Saints: District 2
Entry 127: Stamford All Saints: 3, St. Peter Terrace
Susannah HIND, Head, Widow, Seamstress, Born Rippingale,
Lincs.
Mary A. HIND, daughter, single, 43, Born Rippingale, Lincs,
Imbecile
Alfred P. HIND, son, Single, 32, Draper (Assistant), born
Rippingale, Lincs
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, single, 29, born Rippingale, Lincs
So now Mrs. Hind has moved to Stamford, Lincolnshire-her
husband, John has died so she is having to work to maintain her
family.
John Hinds had died in 1883, on 3rd June at Rippingale: This
newspaper article covers this fact.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 23 June 1883
DEATHS
HIND-At Rippingale, on the 8th inst., Mr. John
HIND, aged 75.
Looking for his probate record I cant find one at all, so that's
why his widow, Susannah was having to work. She seems to have
moved from Rippingale where her husband had his business and
they had lived for several years to a new home in
Stamford.
The next event that would have affected Mary Ann Hind's
life was the death of her mother in 1897 as this article shows:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 November 1897 DEATHS: HIND At Stamford, on the 5th inst., Susanna, wife of the late John HIND, formerly of Rippingale.
In the census of 1901, Mary Ann is in the Kesteven County Asylum, which was in Grantham,
Lincolnshire.Rauceby Hospital, originally called Kesteven County Asylum, is a now-defunct mental institution in the parish of Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England. Building work was commenced in 1897, the facility was completed and opened in 1902.[1] After changing hands and names several times the main hospital building was closed in 1998 and abandoned for several years. From 2004 parts of the site underwent redevelopment to convert it into private housing.
I can't seem to find what happened to Mary Ann Hind after the census of 1901, but certainly another factor as to why it was she ended up where she did must have been the fact that her brother Alfred had died in December 1891.
Child Number 3. Jane HINDS: Rippingale Parish Records - Baptisms (1849) Register No. 795: 10 August 1849, Jane daughter of John & Susanna HINDS of Rippingale, Butcher, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
Jane seems to remain unmarried throughout her life. So far the last entry for her is in the 1911 census when she is acting as a companion for a lady in Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Then I found this newspaper entry for a Jane Hind, the date seems to fit okay.
Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 01 March 1930
Deaths:
Spilsby: February 21st Jane HIND, 80.
Child Number 3a: 3a Eliza HINDS, Born June 1851 died 11 March 1855.
I found the following birth in the Bourne area: So I wondered if it was a child of John & Susanna HINDS.
Births Jun 1851 Hind Eliza, Bourn, 14, 306, but without having the baptism. I am not sure yet as to whose child she was, but there is a burial recorded at Rippingale Parish Church in Lincstothepast website
Dies March 1855 (buried 11 March 1855 aged 4 years) Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1855-1856) No. 571: Eliza HINDS, of Rippingale, buried March 11th 1855, aged 4 years, by Wm. Cooper, Rector.
Child number 4: Robert Thomas Hind born January 1856 in Rippingale.
Robert was named after his grandfather Robert Hinds, father of his father John HINDS & grandfather Thomas PALMER, father of his mother, Susanna Palmer. It looks like he was John & Susanna's first son, so his future would be clear, he would become a butcher, like his father. So five years after his birth, the family had to complete the 1861 Census-this is that entry. Robert is listed as being a scholar, and as his father was a butcher, so a tradesman he would be expected to pay 8d per week for his son's education.
Robert Thomas HIND in 1861 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Entry 22:
John HIND, Head, Married, 52, Butcher, Born Whissendine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 35, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Susanna HIND, 15, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary A HIND, Daughter, 13, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert T. HIND, son, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 2, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Pilgrim, Servant, Unmarried, 17, House servant, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Arthur Millar, servant, Unmarried, 16, Butcher’s apprentice, born Falkingham, Lincs.
10 years later in 1871,Robert T Hind is 15, years of age & a scholar.
John HINDS in 1871 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Schedule No. 27:
John HIND, Head, Married, 62, Butcher & Cottager, born Whissindine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 46, Butcher & Cottager’s wife, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Mary A. HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 23, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Jane HIND, daughter, Unmarried, 21, Schoolmistress, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Robert T. HIND, son, Unmarried, 15, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 12, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, 9, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Amelia HIND, daughter, 6, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Schedule No. 27:
John HIND, Head, Married, 62, Butcher & Cottager, born Whissindine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 46, Butcher & Cottager’s wife, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Mary A. HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 23, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Jane HIND, daughter, Unmarried, 21, Schoolmistress, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Robert T. HIND, son, Unmarried, 15, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 12, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, 9, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Amelia HIND, daughter, 6, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
John HINDS in 1881 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Schedule No. 5, High Street, Rippingale
John HIND, Head, Married, 72, Cottager & Grazier, born Whissindine, Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 55, Cottager & Grazier’s wife, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, single, 33, Cottager & Grazier’s daughter, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Robert T. HIND, son, Single, 25, Butcher & Jobber, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, Single, 19, Cottager & Grazier’s daughter, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
Amelia HIND, daughter, single, 16, Cottager & Grazier’s daughter, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
In the next ten years Robert certainly had his problems as a butcher. no longer in Rippingale, but in Bourn.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 21 April 1882
Robert Hind, butcher, was charged with selling meat unfit for the food of man. The Magistrates decided that they had no jurisdiction, but granted case for superior court
Stamford Mercury - Friday 11 September 1885
Re: ROBERT THOMAS HIND, butcher & cattle dealer, Rippingale, a bankrupt-This was the adjourned public examination of the debtor-Mr. W. F. LAW, of Stamford, appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. G. Barnett, of Sleaford, the trustee, attended. After some questions the debtor was allowed to pass his examination.
Then on 7th January, 1886, Robert had some beef stolen from him whilst he was in the King's Head pub at Morton. The whole incident is covered in the below article.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 16 January 1886
BOURN PETTY SESSIONS. January 14th, the Rev. G. Carter (in chair), Lieut.-Col. Parker, Capt. Smith, and W. E. Welby, Esq.
Edward Fowler, labourer, was brought up in custody charged with stealing six pounds of beef, the property of Robert Thomas Hind, Morton, on the 7th inst.—Prisoner pleaded not guilty.—Prosecutor said was butcher, and lived at Rippingale. About seven o'clock the night Jan. 7th, bought a quarter of beef from Mr. Edward Smith, of Morton, weighing thirteen four pounds, which cut into two pieces and put Into his cart. afterwards drove to the "King's Head," Morton, with Mr. Smith, and saw the prisoner standing in the yard. Prosecutor said to him, "Will you hold horse, whilst I go into the house?" Prisoner said that he would, and prosecutor accordingly went into the house, where he stayed about ten minutes. On again going into the yard, he did not see the defendant standing by the horse, so he shouted, and prisoner came from behind the cart. He paid for glass of beer for the prisoner, and then drove home to Rippingale. On reaching home, he took the meat out of the cart, and found that six pounds had been cut off the round—apparently with a small knife. He immediately gave information to the police, and the same night accompanied P.c. Wicks to the prisoner's house, and saw four plates with beef gravy upon them. On one of the plates were two pieces of beef, which had come from the round. He watched the prisoner being searched, and saw pocket-knife, which was found upon him. Near the handle of which adhered small piece of raw beef. His clothes ware also bloody. Prosecutor valued the stolen meat at 6/-.—P.c. Wicks said Thursday, January about ten o'clock night, prosecutor informed him that piece beef had been stolen from his cart. Witness went to the prisoner's house, but found him in bed. He could not gain admittance the house for about quarter hour, and, on entering, he asked the prisoner whether he knew anything of a piece of round of beef. Prisoner indignantly denied that knew anything of the meat, and asked whether Mr. Hand thought that he had robbed him? Witness then called prisoner's attention to several plates that were on the table, with beef gravy on them, and asked him where he had got the beef from? Prisoner said bought it at Bourn the week before Christmas. Witness then charged him with stealing the beef, and took him into custody. On arriving at Bourn Police-station, he searched the prisoner, and found upon him a pocket-knife, with small piece of beef adhering to the blade. The blade was greasy, as if it had recently been need for cutting raw meat. Prisoner's clothes were also bloody, and the left-hand pocket of his top coat was covered with damp blood.—Fowler made a rambling statement in defence, stating that bought the beef at Bourn.—The Chairman said that this was very bad case against the prisoner, and magistrates could send him to prison without the option of a fine. They would, however, by fining him, give him an opportunity of redeeming his character. He would have to pay £3 fine, or, in default of payment, to go to prison for one month's hard labour.
This article in the Grantham Journal gives us some more
information about how Robert T Hind carried on his business as a
butcher.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 March 1886
DUNSBY. Runaway Horse.—On Saturday, March 6th, Mr. R. T. Hind, butcher, of Rippingale was serving meat on his "rounds "at Dunsby. Leaving the mare and cart on the roadside, while taking a joint to a customer, the animal galloped away. She was stopped at some fencing on the Fen-road, but, not before smashing the cart and distributing the meat about the road. Though very fresh and spirited, the mare was uninjured.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 March 1886
DUNSBY. Runaway Horse.—On Saturday, March 6th, Mr. R. T. Hind, butcher, of Rippingale was serving meat on his "rounds "at Dunsby. Leaving the mare and cart on the roadside, while taking a joint to a customer, the animal galloped away. She was stopped at some fencing on the Fen-road, but, not before smashing the cart and distributing the meat about the road. Though very fresh and spirited, the mare was uninjured.
So Robert did a butcher's round, travelling around the area
taking orders and delivering meat to his customer's doors.
Dunsby is a small village just north of Morton,
Lincolnshire.
However on 13 December 1887, Robert Thomas HIND married Sarah Elizabeth Williamson at Rippingale-she was the daughter of William & Sarah Williamson a labourer both born in Rippingale. They went to live in West Street, Bourn, where Robert had his butcher's shop. However things still went wrong:-
Stamford Mercury - Friday 07 February 1890
Bourn Petty Sessions, Jan. 30, before Lieut. -Col. Parker and Capt. Smith
Robert Hind, butcher, Bourn, was summoned for using unjust spring balances. Fined 10s. and costs 9s. 6d.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 01 March 1890
We understand that Mr. Clements solicitor, attended before Bourn justices on Thursday, behalf of Mr. Robert Hind, butcher, Bourn, to appeal against judgment given against him at a previous court for failing to produce his certificate for the weights used in his business, when called upon to do so. The certificate duly signed, attesting the accuracy of weights and scales, had since been found, and was produced. The court accepted fully the explanation.
The census of 1891, show him & his wife Sarah Elizabeth and their 2 children, Nellie Stafford & Alfred Morley, living in West Street, Bourn as a butcher.
1891 England census for Robert T HIND
Lincolnshire, Bourn, District 5
Schedule No. 54: West Street: Bourn
Robert T. HIND, Head, Married, 35, Butcher, Born
Sarah E. HIND, Wife, Married, 31, Born Rippingale,
Lincolnshire
Nellie S. HIND, daughter, unmarried, 2, Born Bourn,
Lincolnshire
Alfred M. HIND, son, 5 months, born Bourn,
Lincolnshire.In the next ten years, Robert Thomas and his wife Sarah Elizabeth continued to have children born to them, so that in 1901 this was the family then.
1901 England Census for Robert Thomas HIND
Lincolnshire Bourne District 2
Schedule Number 92: West Street:
Robert Thos. HIND, Head, Married, 45, Butcher, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah Elizabeth HIND, wife, Married, 41, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Nellie Stafford HIND, daughter, Single, 12, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Alfred Morley HIND, son, Single, 7, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Harry HIND, son, Single, 7, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Robert Leonard HIND, son, single, 4, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Charles HIND, son, single, 3, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Rebecca Kettle, servant, single, 20, General Servant Domestic, born Bourne, Lincs.
William R. Cantrell, apprentice, single, 17, Butcher’s apprentice, Born Horncastle, Lincs.
Lincolnshire Bourne District 2
Schedule Number 92: West Street:
Robert Thos. HIND, Head, Married, 45, Butcher, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah Elizabeth HIND, wife, Married, 41, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Nellie Stafford HIND, daughter, Single, 12, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Alfred Morley HIND, son, Single, 7, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Harry HIND, son, Single, 7, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Robert Leonard HIND, son, single, 4, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Charles HIND, son, single, 3, Born Bourne, Lincs.
Rebecca Kettle, servant, single, 20, General Servant Domestic, born Bourne, Lincs.
William R. Cantrell, apprentice, single, 17, Butcher’s apprentice, Born Horncastle, Lincs.
So in this 10 years, they have 3 more sons, Harry, Robert
Leonard & Charles.
Robert continued to have financial problems:-
Stamford Mercury -
Friday 27 November 1891
Then in June 1902, Robert Thomas and many of the people of
Bourne found themselves in the dock of the magistrates Court
charged with various offences all linked to the Peace
celebrations after the Boer War. On the 2nd June, the welcome announcement that Peace had
been proclaimed reached Bourne, and, during the day, nothing
transpired to call forth in any way the interference of the
police. But later in the evening, and until about 1.30 in
the morning, the condition of things was such to demand
attention
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 June 1902
SEQUEL THE PEACE CELEBRATIONS AT BOURNE. On Tuesday last,
Bourn was on the occasion of a special sitting of the
Magistrates to hear a number of summonses, issued at the
instigation of the police, for various offences alleged to
have been committed on June 2nd, as part the Peace
rejoicings. These offences took the form of rolling lighted
tar-barrels up and down the roads, and assisting in making
bonfires in South-street and the Market-place. The special
sitting was arranged for eleven o'clock, and by 10.30 the
Market-place presented a very animated appearance. A large
crowd awaited the arrival of the defendants, and when the
Court was opened there was a rush for the space allotted to
the public. The magistrates present were—Colonel De Burton
(chairman), E. Smith. G. W. Johnson, W. R. Wherry, T. Pick,
R. A. Gardner, and G. H. Mays, Esqs —Mr. W. T, Page, of
Lincoln, appeared on behalf of the prosecution, whilst Mr.
A. Farr defended.—The defendants were—Robert Hind, butcher; A. W. Minta,
clothier; A. Skinn, chemist's assistant; Samuel Lunn,
labourer; W. H. Smith, clerk; Chas. SNEATH labourer; Wm..
Pick, mineral water drayman; John Pattinson, labourer; Wm.
Parker, labourer; L. M. Thacker, tailor (deaf and dumb);
Jim Bradshaw, labourer; Wm. Stubley, cottager; Henry
Cartledge, labourer; Walter Ramsden, grocer's assistant;
Leonard Christopher, draper's assistant; G. W. Rawding,
grocer's assistant; John Fisher, labourer William
Bannister, labourer; Edward Handley, senr., labourer; Tom
Handley, labourer; John Handley, labourer; and George
Skillinqton, wheelwright. They were all summoned for
assisting to make a oertain fire, called a bonfire, within
fifty feet of the centre of a certain carriage-way there
situate, to the interruption traffic thereon, contrary to
the statute. Chas. Smith was also summoned for throwing
missile at the police; Ernest Spridgeon, painter, throwing
a firework at the police; Thos. Rodgers labourer, assault
on P.O. Kirton; Saml. Rodgers labourer, assault Supt.
Bailey; Jno. Elliott, resisting P.c. Corden the execution
of his duty; Daniel Parker, labourer, assault Sergt.
Pacey; and Chas. Moisky, throwing missile at police.
George Corden said he was a police-constable,
stationed at Morton on the day in question he was
drafted into Bourne on special duty, arriving about
six o'clock, and getting home again at three o'clock
next morning. He knew the defendant Robert Hind, and
saw him that evening under his own archway. There were
some men with him, and they had a soda-barrel, with
quantity of rubbish inside it. Witness went to the
archway to defendant, and told him not to bring the
barrel out into the street. Defendant told witness get
off his premises, which he (witness) did. The barrel
was lighted, but the attempt to get it into the street
was not successful. He subsequently saw defendant
rolling a barrel, about twelve o'clock, towards the
fire in the Market-place. He was then opposite Mr.
Measures' house, about fifteen or twenty yards from
the fire. The barrel was not lighted.—P.C. Orange
stated that he had been stationed Bourne about
four-and-a-half years. He knew the defendant Robert
Hind, and saw him on the evening in question, about
nine o'clock, under his archway in West-street. He had
lighted tar-barrel, and was trying to get it out on
the road. Witness kept it back, and defendant told him
not to interfere, as it was on his own premises.—The
Chairman, referring to the section, said that the case
of lighted tar-barrel it was necessary to prove injury
to the highway, whilst defendant had been summoned for
assisting in making bonfire.
In the end none of the defendants received any
punishment as the offences were not proved
sufficiently.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 27 March 1903
It appears that people could buy bankrupt people’s
book debts.
In the COUNTY COURT of NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, HOLDEN
at PETERBOROUGH iN Bankruptcy. No. 7 OF 1885 Rt.
ROBERT THOMAS HIND, of Rippingale in the county of
Lincoln, Butcher, cattle Dealer, and Farm
Bailiff (Summary Case). Under Receiving Order
made 25th July, 1875 and In Bankruptcy.
SEPARATE TENDERS are Invited in each case for the
Purchase the Outstanding BOOK Debts in the above
matters. A List such book Debts, with full
particulars, can be seen this Office, will sent on
application. Tenders must sent by post, envelopes
marked "Tender," to reach not later lhan 12- o'clock
Noon on the 4th day of APRIL, 1903, Dated this day
24th day of March, 1903 HOWARD W. COX, Official
Receiver in Bankruptcy, 5, Petty Cury, Cambridge.
1911 England Census for Robert Thomas Hind
Lincolnshire Bourne 01
West Street, Bourne
Robert Thomas HIND, Head, 52, Married for 23
years with 6 children born to him & his wife
of which 5 had survived, Butcher by trade, an
employer, born Rippingale, Lincs
Sarah Elizabeth HIND, Wife, 51, married for 23
years,
Alfred Morley HIND, Son, 20, Single, Butcher,
working born Bourne, Lincs
Harry HIND, son, 17, Single, Butcher, working
born Bourne, Lincs
Robert Leonard HIND, son, 14, Ironmonger,
working, born Bourne, Lincs.
Charles HIND, son, 10, at school, born Bourne,
Lincs.
You will note that Nellie Stafford HIND isn't with her parents & family in 1911, she is in fact living & working in Reigate at 39, Station Road, Reigate as an assistant. She married Harold Asher Wade PORTER on 18 January 1914 at St Saviour's Paddington.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 24 January 1914
MARRIAGES. January 19th, at St. Saviour's
Pariah Church, Paddington (by Rev. Canon H. S.
Syers) Harold Asher Wade, son of the late Mr.
Henry P. D. Porter and Mrs. Porter, The Limes,
Redhill, to Nellie Stafford, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. "R. T. Hind, of Bourne,
Marriages
PORTER : HIND—On January 19th. St. Saviour’s Parish Church, Paddington, by Rev. Canon H.S. Syers. Harold Asher Wade, son of the late Mr. Henry F. D. Porter, and Mrs. Porter of The Limes. Redhill, to Nellie Stafford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hind. of Bourne, Lincs.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 24 January 1914
Marriage Miss Hind. —An interesting wedding was solemnised at St. Saviour's Parish Church, Paddington, London, on Monday, when Miss Nellie S. Hind, of Bourne, was married to Mr. Harold A. W. Porter, of Redhill, Surrey. Miss Hind well-known in Bourne the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hind, and has also large circle of friends at Redhill, the residence of the bridegroom, whose parents, the late Mr. H. F. D. Porter and Mrs. Porter, have for many years been connected with the control of " The Surrey Mirror and County Post" series of newspapers, which is published from Rodhill. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Canon H. S. Syers, and the bride, who was married in her travelling-dress, was given away by her father. A large number of handsome presents were received. The honeymoon is being spent in London, and subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Harold Porter will live at Redhill, where Mr. Porter holds a position in the office of "The Surrey Mirror"
Deaths:
PORTER.—On July 26th, 1938. at Lowestoft, Harold Asher Wade Porter, husband of Nellie Porter, and son of the late Mr. H F. D. Porter and Mrs. Porter. The Driftway. Copthorne, aged 47 years.
Surrey Mirror - Friday 29 July 1938
GODSTONE. THE LATE MR. H. A. W. PORTER.
SUDDEN PASSING AT LOWESTOFT. His many friends
in the Borough of Relgate and the surrounding
district will regret to hear of the death of
Mr. Harold Asher Wade Porter, Director of The
Holmesdale Press, Ltd., proprietors of this
journal, who passed away suddenly in a nursing
home Lowestoft, in which town he had been
living for some years, on Tuesday morning, at
the age of 47 years. He leaves a widow and to
her, and his mother (Mrs. H. E. H. Porter) and
sister, who reside at Copthome, much sympathy
will be extended. Mr. Porter, when he lived in
Reigate, associated himself with many
activities in the Borough. He was educated in
Norwich, and under the guidance of his father,
the late Mr. H. P. D. Porter. Governing
Director of the Holmesdale Press, Ltd., was
trained in newspaper work all its branches, at
the offices of this newspaper and in London.
Upon the death of his father, he became a
Director of the Company, and from that time
has served upon the Board. He was in the Army
during the war, going to France with the
Surrey Yeomanry, and later, upon receiving his
commission, he again saw active service in the
Near East and after the Armistice was on the
Reserve of Officers. He took a great interest
in all forms of sport, was a keen sportsman
with the gun, and as a rifle shot at Bisley he
met with many successes. For many years he was
devoted to golf, and here again he excelled
and boating, swimming and motoring found in
him a close adherent. The funeral takes place
to-day (Friday) at Lowestoft.
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JANUARY
1962 •
at
256,
Normanston
Drive,
Lowestoft,
Suffolk,
England
Her main executive for her will was Harry Hind, her brother, who had been at one time a butchers manager according to the Probate Calendar.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 July
1935
Note who was present at his funeral at the Abbey Church in Bourne, his wife, Sarah Elizabeth HIND, son Mr. Morley HIND, son Henry HIND, son, Robert Leonard HIND (known as Leonard HIND), and his daughters-in-law, Mrs M. HIND of Northampton (maiden name Elsie Miller), Mrs. H. HIND of Bourne, maiden name Elsie Bloodworth,
Next came the death of Sarah Elizabeth HIND, nee Williamson on Tuesday 30 April, 1940.
Grantham Journal - Friday 03 May 1940
AROUND BOURNE New* the Week in Brief
The Funeral takes place this afternoon of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hind. Austerby, widow of Mr. R. T. Hind, who for many years carried on a butcher's business in West-street. She died at St. George's home. Stamford, on Tuesday, in her 81st year. Before ill-health overtook her she was an active member of the Mothers' Union. Her death is mourned by three sons and one daughter.
Grantham Journal - Friday 10 May 1940
The Funeral Service at the Abbey church, on Friday, of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hind, widow of Mr. R. T. Hind, a former butcher, was conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. C. W. E. Home. The Immediate mourners were Mr. and Mrs. M. Hind, son and daughter-in-law: (Morley HIND), Mr. H. (Harry) and Mr. L. Hind,(Leonard) sons; Mr. Williamson, Rippingale, brother; Miss Caunce. Rippingale and Miss M. Carter. Floral tributes were sent by Elsie and Morl. (Elsie & Morley HIND: Len and Phill. Leonard & : Harry. Tet and boys: Leslie, Peter and Michael: Nell: Ted. Lizzie and family; E. L. Caunce: Betty and Mary Lovell: Mrs. North, sen.: Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield: Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Pick: Gertie: members the Mothers' Union, Bourne; late Swift and Co staff. Northampton: Mrs. Wade and family: neighbours, 40. 42. 44 46 and 52. Austerby.
Later that year Robert Leonard or Leonard as he seems to have been known by married Frances Muriel Carter on 9 November, 1940 in Bourne.
Grantham Journal - Friday 15 November 1940
The Wedding took place quietly, at
the Abbey church, on Saturday, of
Robert Leonard third son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hind, Bourne, and
Frances Muriel, youngest daughter of
Mrs. Carter, of 63, North-street,
and the late Mr. Carter.
Leonard had gained the Military Medal in
World War 1
Grantham Journal - Saturday 18 January
1919
Grantham Journal - Saturday 15 February
1919
Mr. Macleod raised the question of some
public recognition from the town for two
young fellows who had won military
distinction, viz., Dispatch Rider Leonard
Hind and Corpl. Brown. Mr. Macleod made
reference the public subscription raised
when Lance-Corpl. H. Kelby won the D.C.M,
and suggested that something of similar
character should done now, and that a public
presentation should made by the Chairman of
the Council.—Mr. Holmes proposed that Mr.
Macleod be asked to undertake the matter,
and this he agreed to do, with some
assistance. Mr. Measures and Chairman were
appointed, with Mr. Macleod.
Alfred Morley HIND born 26 July 1890 died
Alfred Morley HIND born 26 July 1890 died
Robert & Sarah's other son was Alfred
Morley HIND born 26 July 1890 in Bourn,
Lincolnshire. He seems to have been known as
Morley HIND. He must have served in World War
1 but I can't find him yet. He married Elsie
Florence Miller on 24 February 1917 at
Wembury, Devon. He attended his father's
funeral in 1935 & his mother's in 1940. He
attended his brother Charles Hind's funeral in
June 1930 as seen below-again shown as Morley
HIND and flowers from Morl & Elsie.
Alfred or Morley Hind died 7 September 1955 at Brixworth, Northamptonshire whilst his wife Elsie Florence died aged 93 in May 1988.
Charles HIND
The below articles tell of the relatively short life of Charles HIND, Robert & Sarah Elizabeth's youngest son.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 June 1930
The Death took place Wednesday morning of Mr. Charles Hind, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hind, of 9, West-street, Bourne. Deceased, who was thirty-three years of age, was taken ill on Sunday evening with a bad throat, which subsequently developed into quinsey and tonsilitis. He was known in the town, having for many years worked at Bourne Motor Co. s Garage in South-street. Later, he went to Boston, where he was a motor mechanic on the Post-office Engineering Staff, at which employment he had remained up to the time of his illness- Having passed the necessary tests, deceased was about be removed to Spalding to be given higher grade appointment. Much sympathy is expressed for all the members of the family and for Miss Brown, deceased’s fiancee.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 June 1930
The Funeral took place on Friday afternoon of Mr. Charles Hind, whose death was recorded in our last issue. The first part of the service was held in the Abbey Church. Canon Grinter officiated, and gave brief and sympathetic address. Mr. Hind was an old choir boy of that Church and was well known in the town, and had been taken at time when his parents and friends were expecting great things of him.* God had some great purpose in calling him early in life. He commended those who were left behind to the tender mercies of Almighty God. The family mourners were- Mr. and Mrs. Hind (father and mother), Mr. and Mrs. Hind (brother and sister-in-law), Mr. Morley Hind (brother), Miss F. Brown (fiancee), Mr. L. Hind (brother), and Mrs. Caunce (aunt), Mr. and Mrs. H. Allen (Spalding). Amongst others in the Church were Mr. and Mrs. G. Brown and Mr. A. Brown, Mr. H. G. Penfold, Mr. Butler, and Mr. Wilding (representing the Post-office Engineering Staff Boston), Messrs. F. G. Smith, J. Woolley, E. W. Judge, F. North, H. S- Gibbs, C. H. Smith, Benge, P. Larkinson, E. T. Woolley (Stamford), B. L. Darnes, J. Walpole, A. Barnett, C. Brinkley, W. Tuck, Bomuine, J. Burchnall, J., Stubley, Miss Wilson, Miss Handley, Miss M. Carter, Miss. Schmetzer, Miss Whitfield, Mesdames B. A. Pick, E. Wyles, A. Palmer, Downes, Sherwin, H. Teat, J. SherwinGarfoot, F. Greenfield, W. Twell, D. H. Horn, E. Brown, L. Bloodworth, Palmer, G Barnett, T. Hall, L. Walker, Cropley, F. Sellars, H. Brighton, W. Handley, Walpole, Carter, G. Robinson, Sibley, C. Jones, H. E. Smith, Frisby, Pickwell, Fisher, A. Baldock, B. Maxon, Thistleton, R. Rodgers, Braithwaite, &c. There was a beautiful array of floral tributes from the following Mother, Dad. and Family; Flo; Elsie and Morl; Post-office Engineering Staff, Boston and Skegness; Engineering Staff, Post-office Telegraphs, Peterborough; Workmates, Spalding Bourne, and Sleaford; Bonnie Town Football Club; All Bourne Butchers, W. Caulton and T. Jones; Fred and Dorothy; Mr. and Mrs. G. Brown and Alf; Muriel; Mr. and Mrs. Baines, Winsover-terrace, Boston: All at 11, West-street; Mr. and Mrs. A. Stubley and Family; Mr. and Mrs. L. Walker and Peter; Mr. and Mrs. Twell, Dick and Tom; Messrs. Swift Co., Ltd.. Northampton; E. L. Caunce, Rippingale: Bill and Kath, Stamford; Mr. and Mrs. Wright; Mr. and Mrs, Jack North; Mr. and Mrs. A. Dunn and Mr. and Mrs. A. Barnett; H. W. Allen and Wife and little Roy; Mrs. Bloodworth and Hilda: Mrs. North and Mrs. Reeves; Barbara; Mat and Doris; Friends West-street; Leslie and Pete; Mr. and Mrs. J. Woolley; Mr, and Mrs. L. Blood worth; Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown; Mr. and Mrs. D. Turner, Gladstone street; Macky, Gen, and Cuggy; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor; Mrs. Sumpter and Dick; Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield; Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Skegness; All at West-street; Mr. and Mrs. Owen, Horbling; Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Gladys and Pen; Mr. and Mrs. E. Smith; A. N. Other. The coffin, which was of plain oak, was borne by four friends of the deceased, namely, Messrs. L. Walker, H. Osborn, C. Brake and T. Twell.
Alfred or Morley Hind died 7 September 1955 at Brixworth, Northamptonshire whilst his wife Elsie Florence died aged 93 in May 1988.
Charles HIND
The below articles tell of the relatively short life of Charles HIND, Robert & Sarah Elizabeth's youngest son.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 June 1930
The Death took place Wednesday morning of Mr. Charles Hind, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hind, of 9, West-street, Bourne. Deceased, who was thirty-three years of age, was taken ill on Sunday evening with a bad throat, which subsequently developed into quinsey and tonsilitis. He was known in the town, having for many years worked at Bourne Motor Co. s Garage in South-street. Later, he went to Boston, where he was a motor mechanic on the Post-office Engineering Staff, at which employment he had remained up to the time of his illness- Having passed the necessary tests, deceased was about be removed to Spalding to be given higher grade appointment. Much sympathy is expressed for all the members of the family and for Miss Brown, deceased’s fiancee.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 June 1930
The Funeral took place on Friday afternoon of Mr. Charles Hind, whose death was recorded in our last issue. The first part of the service was held in the Abbey Church. Canon Grinter officiated, and gave brief and sympathetic address. Mr. Hind was an old choir boy of that Church and was well known in the town, and had been taken at time when his parents and friends were expecting great things of him.* God had some great purpose in calling him early in life. He commended those who were left behind to the tender mercies of Almighty God. The family mourners were- Mr. and Mrs. Hind (father and mother), Mr. and Mrs. Hind (brother and sister-in-law), Mr. Morley Hind (brother), Miss F. Brown (fiancee), Mr. L. Hind (brother), and Mrs. Caunce (aunt), Mr. and Mrs. H. Allen (Spalding). Amongst others in the Church were Mr. and Mrs. G. Brown and Mr. A. Brown, Mr. H. G. Penfold, Mr. Butler, and Mr. Wilding (representing the Post-office Engineering Staff Boston), Messrs. F. G. Smith, J. Woolley, E. W. Judge, F. North, H. S- Gibbs, C. H. Smith, Benge, P. Larkinson, E. T. Woolley (Stamford), B. L. Darnes, J. Walpole, A. Barnett, C. Brinkley, W. Tuck, Bomuine, J. Burchnall, J., Stubley, Miss Wilson, Miss Handley, Miss M. Carter, Miss. Schmetzer, Miss Whitfield, Mesdames B. A. Pick, E. Wyles, A. Palmer, Downes, Sherwin, H. Teat, J. SherwinGarfoot, F. Greenfield, W. Twell, D. H. Horn, E. Brown, L. Bloodworth, Palmer, G Barnett, T. Hall, L. Walker, Cropley, F. Sellars, H. Brighton, W. Handley, Walpole, Carter, G. Robinson, Sibley, C. Jones, H. E. Smith, Frisby, Pickwell, Fisher, A. Baldock, B. Maxon, Thistleton, R. Rodgers, Braithwaite, &c. There was a beautiful array of floral tributes from the following Mother, Dad. and Family; Flo; Elsie and Morl; Post-office Engineering Staff, Boston and Skegness; Engineering Staff, Post-office Telegraphs, Peterborough; Workmates, Spalding Bourne, and Sleaford; Bonnie Town Football Club; All Bourne Butchers, W. Caulton and T. Jones; Fred and Dorothy; Mr. and Mrs. G. Brown and Alf; Muriel; Mr. and Mrs. Baines, Winsover-terrace, Boston: All at 11, West-street; Mr. and Mrs. A. Stubley and Family; Mr. and Mrs. L. Walker and Peter; Mr. and Mrs. Twell, Dick and Tom; Messrs. Swift Co., Ltd.. Northampton; E. L. Caunce, Rippingale: Bill and Kath, Stamford; Mr. and Mrs. Wright; Mr. and Mrs, Jack North; Mr. and Mrs. A. Dunn and Mr. and Mrs. A. Barnett; H. W. Allen and Wife and little Roy; Mrs. Bloodworth and Hilda: Mrs. North and Mrs. Reeves; Barbara; Mat and Doris; Friends West-street; Leslie and Pete; Mr. and Mrs. J. Woolley; Mr, and Mrs. L. Blood worth; Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown; Mr. and Mrs. D. Turner, Gladstone street; Macky, Gen, and Cuggy; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor; Mrs. Sumpter and Dick; Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield; Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Skegness; All at West-street; Mr. and Mrs. Owen, Horbling; Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Gladys and Pen; Mr. and Mrs. E. Smith; A. N. Other. The coffin, which was of plain oak, was borne by four friends of the deceased, namely, Messrs. L. Walker, H. Osborn, C. Brake and T. Twell.
The other sibling was Henry or Harry HIND,
who was born about 1894 in Bourne-he was
named as the executor of his sister Nellie
Stafford Hind who had married Harold Asher
Wade Porter and when she died in January
1962 she named her brother Harry Hind in
July as her chief executor of her will. She
named him as a retired butcher's manager. In
many newspaper articles I found Harry linked
with the Bloodworth family of Bourn-and then
found he had married an Ethel May Bloodworth
in March 1919. Her father died in 1927 and
her mother in 1928, & Harry and his wife
attended both funerals along with that of
his father in 1935 and mother in 1940.
That's about it as far as Harry is
concerned.
I don't know much about Alfred Palmer HIND apart from the fact that throughout his relatively short life he worked as a draper's assistant. The Census of 1881, shows him living & working in St Marylebone, London, living in Harewood Street and working as a draper's assistant & ten years later he is still doing the same job but living at St Peter's Terrace, Stamford, Lincolnshire with his widowed mother Susannah HIND and his 2 siblings, Mary Ann Hind who in the census is shown as an imbecile.and Lizzie M. HIND.
Entry 127: Stamford All Saints: 3, St. Peter Terrace
Susannah HIND, Head, Widow, Seamstress, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary A. HIND, daughter, single, 43, Born Rippingale, Lincs, Imbecile
Alfred P. HIND, son, Single, 32, Draper (Assistant), born Rippingale, Lincs
Lizzie M. HIND, daughter, single, 29, born Rippingale, Lincs
The next entry I have for Alfred is an announcement of his death:
Stamford Mercury - Friday 08 January 1892
DEATHS
STAMFORD— December 31, in S. Peters-terrace, Alfred Palmer Hind, draper's assistant, 38;
His sister, Lizzie Martha HIND, who was born in the October quarter of 1861, as the 7th child of John Hinds & Susanna Palmer and lives at home with her parents & family right up to the 1891 census, when her father John has died and her mother, brother and sister Mary Ann live in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Prior to that the family have always lived in Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
With her mother dying in 1897, little is known about Lizzie-her sister Mary Ann went into an asylum after the death of her mother.
Lizzie's sister was Amelia HIND born April 1865 in Rippingale. For the first 20 years of her life she remained at home with her parents, but the 1891 census finds her living in Paddington area of London at 8, Westbourne Grove Terrace working as a millinery's assistant, so making hats.
She must have moved from London to Stamford-her mother had been living there with her sister Mary Ann & brother Alfred Palmer Hind. Her mother, Susanna, died in Stamford on 5th December 1897. There is this record of Amelia's marriage to an Alfred KEY, a stoker in a railway engine.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 18 December 1896
Marriages: Dec. 13, Alfred Key, Lincoln, to Amelia Hind, of Stamford.
Alfred & Amelia settle in Lincoln and
they have a daughter born to them but it doesn't
mention her on the 1901 Census.Instead it mentions
2 sons, Isaac E. born about 1898 & Alfred R.
born about March 1901.
1901 Census for Amelia KEY nee HIND
Lincolnshire St Peter at Gowts District 17
Schedule Number 352: 16 Kirkby Street, Lincoln
Alfred KEY, Head, Married, 29, Railway Engine Stoker, worker, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Amelia KEY, Wife, 34, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Isaac E. KEY, Son, 3, Born Lincoln, Lincs
Alfred R. KEY, son, 1 month, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
When I looked at the 1911 census for the same family I saw this entry:
1901 Census for Amelia KEY nee HIND
Lincolnshire St Peter at Gowts District 17
Schedule Number 352: 16 Kirkby Street, Lincoln
Alfred KEY, Head, Married, 29, Railway Engine Stoker, worker, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Amelia KEY, Wife, 34, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Isaac E. KEY, Son, 3, Born Lincoln, Lincs
Alfred R. KEY, son, 1 month, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
When I looked at the 1911 census for the same family I saw this entry:
1911 England Census for Ivy Elizabeth Key
Lincolnshire Lincoln 13
16, Kirkby Street, Lincoln, 3 people at the
house.
Alfred KEY, Head, 39, Married, 14 years
married, Locomotive Engine Driver, employed by
the Midland railway company as a worker, born
Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Amelia KEY, Wife, 45, Married for 14 years,
have had 3 children, of which one has died,
and one still living, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Ivy Elizabeth KEY, daughter, 13, at School,
born Lincoln, Lincs.
The record above states that they had 2 children
born to them, one of whom had died, so did they
get the children mixed up on the 1901 Census,
because I cant find the death of an Isaac E. Key
between 1898 & 1911, but I can find the
death of an Alfred Reginald Key in January 1903
and his birth in January 1901.
I can't seem to find mention of the birth of a
son called Isaac E. Key in 1898, but I have
found the birth of a daughter Ivy Elizabeth Key
in the April quarter of 1898. It's strange that
both children have the same initials-I E.
Key.
Certainly Amelia died in Lincoln on 1 March 1920-what happened to Alfred after or before that I am not certain, nor of what happened to Ivy Elizabeth KEY.
So that's it for the children of John Hinds & Susanna Palmer.
Certainly Amelia died in Lincoln on 1 March 1920-what happened to Alfred after or before that I am not certain, nor of what happened to Ivy Elizabeth KEY.
So that's it for the children of John Hinds & Susanna Palmer.
Register No. 799: 10 October 1849, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Sarah HIND of Rippingale, Spinster, by Wm. Waters, Rector.
You will note that I have been using as a source Lincstothepast, but records of baptisms after 1849 are not on the website, so I am reliant now on other sources. This couple then stop having children, so in the 1851 Census this is the family
John HINDS 1851 Census
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
26: High Street,
John HIND, Head, Married, 42, Butcher, born Whissendine, Rutland
Sussanna HIND, Wife, Married, 26, born, Rippingale, Lincs.
John HIND, Son, Unmarried, 19, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Catherine HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 14, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, Daughter, unmarried, 12, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sussanna HIND, daughter, un., 5, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, un., 3, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, un., 1, born Rippingale, Lincs.
On 5th December 1851 this was reported in the Stamford Mercury: An extraordinary pig was slaughtered at Rippingale on the 1st Inst., by Mr. HINDS, butcher: it weighed 50 stones, the head, 51 lbs, and the leaf 70lbs. It was fed by Mr. H., and was only 18 months old.
Well that strange article certainly confirms that John was a
butcher in Rippingale with a surname spelt HINDS as opposed to
HIND.
10 years later in the 1861 Census:
John HINDS in 1861 census:
Lincolnshire: Rippingale, District 10
Entry 22:
John HIND, Head, Married, 52, Butcher, Born Whissendine,
Rutland
Susanna HIND, Wife, Married, 35, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Susanna HIND, 15, Scholar, born Rippinglae, Lincs.
Mary A HIND, Daughter, 13, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Jane HIND, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Robert T. HIND, son, 5, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Alfred P. HIND, son, 2, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Pilgrim, Servant, Unmarried, 17, House servant, born
Rippingale, Lincs.
Arthur Millar, servant, Unmarried, 16, Butcher’s apprentice,
born Falkingham, Lincs.
1841 Census for Thomas HINDS, Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 7
Thomas HINDS, 25, Shoe M, born in Lincs.
Mary HINDS, 22, Born in Lincs
Sarah Ann HINDS, 1, Born in Lincs.
So this is Thomas HINDS born in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire a
few miles from Rippingale.
So by 1841, Thomas has married, a lady called Mary
Williamson-this is the marriage:
3 September 1838, at Rippingale, Thomas Hinds son of Robert Hinds
& Mary Williamson, daughter of John Williamson were
married.Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church, Rippingale, Lincolnshire Register No. 5, September 3rd, 1838, Thomas HINDS, of full age, Cordwainer, of Rippingale, son of Robert HINDS, Butcher & Mary Williamson, Nineteen, spinster, Servant, of Rippingale, daughter of John Williamson, Labourer were married the Parish Church by banns by Wm. Waters, Rector in presence of Thomas Briggs & Elizabeth HINDS
Gerald Calver sent me this marriage record, showing Thomas HINDs getting married to Mary WILLIAMSON.
So young Thomas in 1841 is a shoemaker, a very necessary skill in a small village where everyone used boots to work in.
Now for Robert HINDs, the son not the father in 1841:
In 1841 census, the only one I can find is an entry in Corby Lincolnshire where a Robert Hind, born in Lincolnshire is working as a man servant on a farm.
So the next child of Robert HINDS is Elizabeth, who as we have seen above was christened at Rippingale in 1819, as child number 4. Now I have now discovered that Elizabeth never married, but lived to the age of 102, dying on 24 January 1921 in Rippingale. I know that she was born on 7 October 1819, as she celebrated her 101st birthday on 7 October 1920-I have a couple of newspaper articles about her which I have now published as seen below: I know at present I can't find her in the 1841 Census, she was probably a servant somewhere.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 09 October 1920 HER 101st BIRTHDAY.— Miss Elizabeth Hind, who resides at Rippingale, celebrated her 101st birthday on Thursday. She resides in a typical rustic cottage, opposite the Rectory, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Broughton, who tend her with loving care and kindness. She is the only person in the village to have attained such a wonderful age; but some years ago, another old lady, named Mrs. Gale, died there who would have been, 100 had she lived two months longer. Although Miss Hind is blind and rather deaf, she has a remarkable memory, and delights in talking of the times when she was a girl. She remembers quite well the day when she was confirmed. "We went to Folkingham Church in a waggon, and had dinner afterwards at the Greyhound Hotel, including some good roast beef," she declared. Her memory, too, is very good regarding her ancestry. "My grandfather was a fine business gentleman," she said, " and lived at Sysonby Lodge, Melton Mowbray. He married late in life, and my father was the youngest son." Amongst Miss Hind's most cherished possessions is a letter from the King, which she received last year. Another is a tiny silver teaspoon (300 years old), one of a set left by her grandmother. "It is the only one left." she declared with lament, and observed- It would make some money now." On Thursday, Miss Hind received many congratulations, and one caller observed. " I feel just as well as I did last year at this time." She likes the newspapers read to her, and takes interest in topical events, frequently remarking how different, things are to what they were in her girlhood. The old lady has lived in six reigns, viz., George 111., George IV.. William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. Another example of this lady's birthday was published in another newspaper: Grantham Journal - Saturday 11 October 1919 CAMPANOLOGY.—The ringers rang a peal of Grand desire doubles in honour of the 1OOth birthday of Miss Hind on Oct. 7th. Those taking part in the peal were. Messrs. J. Gibbons. T. Herriman, T. Bryan, J. Wand, and W. B. Gibbons. A CENTENARIAN—The great desire of Miss Elizabeth Hind of Rippingale, was that she might live see her hundredth birthday, and this she did on Tuesday, when she was the recipient of numerous congratulations-personally and by letter and telegram. A correspondent who called during the morning to see this remarkable old lady found her very comfortably lying in bed amidst snowy white. draperies, but she was well enough to sit up and converse freely on a variety of topics. She was born at. Rippingale on Oct. 7th, 1819, and was the eldest of six children. Her father was the late Mr. Robert Hind, who carried on a butchering business in the village, and her memory is so good that she can carry one back to the days of her girlhood. She well remembers, when about 15 or 16 years of age, going with others in a waggon to Folkingham, where she was confirmed in the Parish Church, and after the ceremony, she said the candidates were entertained to a dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding at the Greyhound Hotel. During her career, Miss Hind has held various situations as housekeeper, and for several years resided in such a capacity with the late Mr. Brown, and afterwards with his son at Haconby. The old lady has lived in six reigns, viz., George 111., George IV., William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. This is a proud boast. Although Miss Hind has been blind for eight of nine years, and is slightly deaf, retains other faculties to a remarkable degree. She has resided with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boughton in a prim cottage opposite the Rectory for three years, and Mrs. Boughton is most assiduous in looking after the care and comfort of "Granny,*' as she is familiarly called. The Rector (Canon Laving) has taken the greatest interest in her, and has been a frequent visitor. He called early on Tuesday to personally convey his congratulations, and promised to send her a dinner of a roast partridge, which the old lady was eagerly looking forward to, and humorously hoped her benefactor "would not forget the bread sauce." Other friends in the village sent her eggs, butter, cakes, and sugar, and when told of these and other birthday offerings, she replied. "How nice of them all." and "The gift of sugar is very nice, and especially welcome in times like these." All through the trying period of the war, Miss Hind evinced the keenest interest, and would have the newspapers read to her whenever opportunity occurred. The fact, of a centenarian living in our midst has come to the knowledge of the King, and on Tuesday a message was received from his Majesty's secretary, asking for full particulars to be sent. After a quarter-of-an-hour's chat with, this interesting old lady, she told her interviewer that sitting up resting on her arms made them ache, otherwise she had no aches or pains; and so, she nestled down in bed again her enjoy her morning repose. Sunday Mirror - Sunday 30 January 1921 Lived to 101.—Miss Elizabeth Hind has died at Rippingale, Lincolnshire, at the age of 101. Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday 27 January 1921 Miss Elizabeth Hind has died at Rippingale, Lincolnshire, the age of 101. A brass tablet was erected at Rippingagle Parish Church in memory of Elizabeth HIND, and mentioned in some more newspaper articles-eg Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 April 1921 RIPPING ALE. A Brass TABLET has been erected in the Church to the memory Mrs. Elizabeth Hind, who died recently in her 102nd year. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 04 April 1921 A brass tablet has been fixed in Rippingdale Church to the memory of Miss Elizabeth Hind, the first centenarian of the village, who died recently in her 102nd year.
Child Number 5, Samuel HINDS born 1822-in the 1841 Census, he is shown as being an apprentice shoemaker and on census day is visiting his uncle John:-
1841 Census for John HINDS: born Whissendine, Rutland: Rippingale, Lincolnshire, District 7
John HINDS, 30, Butcher, not born in Lincs.
Elizabeth HINDS, 25, Born in Lincs
William HINDS, 10, Born in Lincs
John HINDS, 9, Born in Lincs.
Catharine HINDS, 4, Born in Lincs
Sarah HINDS, 2, Born in Lincs
Samuel HINDS, 15, Apprentice to Shoemaker, Born in Lincs.
So on Census Day, 1841, Samuel HINDS aged 15, is an apprentice to a shoemaker, at his parent's house in Rippingale. Eight years later, he marries Elizabeth Williamson, daughter of John Williamson at Rippingale on 23 April, 1849. The source below is Lincolnshire Marriages Bourne Spreadsheet
http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
1849 23-Apr Hind Samuel Robert Williamson Elizabeth John Rippingale
However, two other sources, both Newspaper articles have a different month for the wedding day.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 10 December 1847
MARRIED: At RIPPINGALE, lately, Mr. Samuel HIND, shoemaker, to
Miss E. Williamson, dress-maker.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 03 December 1847
At Rippingale, on the 23rd ult., Mr. Samuel HIND, shoemaker, to
Miss E. Williamson, dress-maker., so more likely 23rd November,
1847.
FreeBMD has this date: Marriages Jun 1849
Hind
Samuel
Bourn
14 419
Williamson
Elizabeth
Bourn
14 419Also: Name: Samuel Hind
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 23 Apr 1849
Marriage Place: Rippingale, Lincolnshire, England
Father: Robert Hind
Spouse: Elizabeth Williamson
FHL Film Number: 1450471
Well, that's strange isn't? I wonder which is correct, unless of course I have the wrong people. Anyway, in the first few months of 1850, their first child is born, Mary Elizabeth Hind(s), But as the HINDs are certainly members of the Non-Conformist Church, her baptism is not recorded in the local parish church of Rippingale,
So in the 1851 Census, 10 years after he was with his uncles's family, he has his own business & family too.Note he calls himself HIND now not HINDS.
1851 census for Samuel HINDS
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 11d
Entry 74: Bridge Street,
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 28, Foreman Shoemaker, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Elizabeth HIND, wife, married, 28, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Elizabeth HIND, daughter, unmarried, 1, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Hind Sarah Ann Newark 15 587 (Brant Broughton is in the Newark Registration area.)
They have son called Thomas HIND, born in the January quarter of 1857 in Brant Broughton, but again no baptism took place in the Parish Church.
Everything was okay, but on 10 January, 1859, Elizabeth HIND, nee Williamson, died in Brant Broughton; There was an announcement in the local newspaper, & she was buried in the local graveyard of the Parish Church as these records show.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 04 February 1859: At Brant Broughton, on the 10th ult., Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Samuel HIND, shoemaker, aged 36.
Brant Broughton Parish Records - Burials (1858-1859) Entry 580: Elizabeth HIND, of Broughton, Buried January 12th, aged 36, by H Harman?, Rector (source)
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Brant-Broughton-Parish-Records---Burials--1858-1859-/563003.record?ImageID=85715&pt=T
Samuel needed a new wife, and soon he was married again to a Sarah Lamb; the marriage probably took place in Brant Broughton, in the Registration area of Newark as this record shows.
Marriages Jun 1860
Hind Samuel Newark 7b 437 & Lamb Sarah Newark 7b 437
Ah yes it did-here's the marriage:
10 May 1860, Samuel Hind son of Robert Hind & Sarah Lamb daughter of Thomas Lamb were married at Brant Broughton. Source: http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ (Newark spreadsheet-downloaded and searched it).
Sarah Lamb was the daughter of Thomas Lamb and Sarah Briggs who married at Claypole, Lincolnshire on 18 March 1807. (Source:Claypole Parish Records - Marriages (1806-1808) Banns of Marriage between Thomas Lambe of the Parish of Fulbeck, and Sarah Briggs of the North Parish of Claypole were published March 1st, 8th & 15th, and no impediment alleged. No. 245: Thomas Lamb of the Parish of Fulbeck & Sarah Briggs of the Parish of Claypole were married in this church by Banns on 16th March 1807 by John Horton, assistant curate in presence of John Heble & W. Preston.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=558899&iid=131327
So the census of 1861 for this family is thus:
1861 Census : for Samuel HIND
Lincolnshire, Brant Broughton, District 4
Entry27: Rector House:
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 39, Cordwainer, Born Rippingale Lincs.
Sarah HIND, Wife, Married, 44, Born Fulbeck, Lincs.
Mary Elizabeth HIND, Daughter, Unmarried, 11, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs
Sarah Ann HIND, Daughter, Um, 9, Scholar, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Thomas HIND, son, UM, 4, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
William Hey, Apprentice, Um, 15, Cordwainer, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
So Samuel is with his family in the village, living in the
rectory is that, quite a few families were in that house it
seems as well as the rector. He has a young apprentice working
for him, a local youth, and 2 daughters and a young son.
In the 1871 census, none of the children are at the family home,
Mr. & Mrs. HIND have their shoemaker's shop and workshop in
Brant Broughton village, where they live & work in a private
house, with two apprentices that have come from Rippingale,
judging by one of them is a family member.
1871 Census for Samuel HIND, Lincolnshire, Brant Broughton,
District 4
Entry: 44: Private House, High Street, Brant Broughton:
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 48, Master Shoemaker, born
Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, wife, married, 51, born Fulbeck, Lincs.
Edward Williamson, Apprentice, Um, 14, Shoemaker, Born
Rippingale, Lincs.
John Chappel, Apprentice, Um.,13, Shoemaker, Dunston, Lincs.
The next thing I did discover about this family was that their
son Thomas was apprenticed to a local chemist in Lincoln, called
Messrs. Battle and Son and Maltby chemists.
However, as a teenager, he died from a drowning accident
as this newspaper article explains.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 24 June 1876
SAD ACCIDENT:-Thos. HIND, an apprentice of Messrs, Battle and Son, and Maltby, chemists, Lincoln, was drowned whilst bathing in the Fosdyke at Lincoln, about seven o’ clock on Wednesday morning. It is supposed that he was seized with cramp, as he suddenly cried out and then sank. Efforts were made to rescue him, but without success. The police dragged the river for several hours, and about eleven O’ clock a sawyer named Matthew Wicks, of Victoria Street, dived and brought the body back to the bank. The deceased was the son of Mr. Samuel HIND of Brant Broughton, and was within six weeks of the end of his apprenticeship.-Mr. Coroner Lowe held an inquiry touching the melancholy event at the Guildhall Hotel, Lincoln in the evening, when the following evidence was tendered:- Herbert Street, seventeen, stated that he was bathing with HIND, when he shrieked, on which he (witness), caught hold of his hair and held him up for about a minute. He then felt himself being pulled down, and remembered no more till he himself was pulled out. Hind could swim. He was in the middle of the river, near Jekyll and Co’s chemical manure works. They had been in the river about ten minutes. There were several more on the bank who had been bathing, and some tried to rescue the deceased.-Matthew Wicks deposed to diving into the river and fetching out the body, which was in a semi-erect position, with the arms raised. The depth of the river in the middle was 7½ feet.-Fred Cockett, assistant to Mr. Trotter, deposed to seeing Hind fall back and sink; went to his assistance, but could not rescue him. A pleasure boat was passing at the time, and the young man in it dived out of it with his clothes on, but could not see him.-Chas Hy. Golland, eighteen, who was also bathing with HIND, heard him cry out and got hold of his hair. Cockett then joined in and another young man, and then they joined hands, and formed a line to the bank and got out, when they found that HIND was missing.-A verdict of “Accidental Drowned” was returned.
That incident certainly gives an insight of what was going on in
Lincoln on summer days morning in June 1876, with
apprentices diving & playing in the Fosdyke, a
pleasure boat sailing up and down, and people on both banks
watching what was going on-and this was a weekday morning,
Wednesday 21st June, so midsummer days morning.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 30 June 1876
FATAL BATHING ACCIDENT
On Wednesday morning, between six and seven O’ clock, a young man named Thomas Hind, 19 years of age, a native of Brant Broughton, and apprenticed with Messrs. Battle, Son and Maltby, chemists, of this city, was drowned whilst bathing in the river Fosdyke, near Messrs. Jekyll, Glazier, and Pratt’s Chemical Works.
At Five O’clock in the evening Mr. Coroner Lowe held an inquest on the body at the Guildhall Hotel.-The Coroner, in opening the enquiry, said it appeared that the same morning deceased, with others, was out bathing, when from some unaccountable cause or other was drowned. He was seized either with a fit or some dread and sank. The jury would have to enquire whether there was any neglect on the part of those who were present, and might have rescued the deceased, or whether death was purely accidental. It was hoped the building of the new baths would have done away with the risk of bathing in the open river, but there were no means to prevent youths from bathing. The Coroner then stated that he had had the body removed to the house of Mr. Andrew, shoe dealer, at his (Mr. Andrew’s request, instead of letting it lie in an open shed, as was too frequently the case, and in future he should request the police to follow out this course.-The jury having viewed the body, the following evidence was taken:-Herbert Street, 17 years of age, apprentice with Messrs. Battle and Maltby, deposed that he, deceased, and a young man named Golland, went down the Fossdyke in a boat for the purpose of bathing, about six o’ clock the same morning. Deceased was pulling. When a little past Messrs. Jekyll, Glasier and Pratt’s Chemical Works., they undressed, and get into the water, deceased being the last to do so. As they were coming out of the river deceased shrieked, and Golland called to witness. He went to deceased immediately, and took hold of his hair, just as he was sinking. He managed to keep deceased up for a minute or two, but his weight pulled him under the water. Witness could not remember anything further until he himself was pulled out of the water. A young fellow in the employ of Mr. Albert Hall dived down twice after the deceased, but could not find him. Some men on two barges then began to drag for deceased. By the Coroner: This was the first time he had bathed with deceased, who said on the previous day that he could swim across the Brayford from Lucy Tower-street end to the island. Deceased had swam across the river where he was drowned, but witness had not seen him do so. When deceased first called out he was about the middle of the river. Witness was able to swim a little-about 100 yards. They had been in the water about ten minutes when deceased gave the alarm. Witness saw the deceased swim up the river previously, but not across it. When deceased swam up the river he was about two yards from the side, where it was not deep, although it was in the middle. This was the first time witness had bathed in Lincoln. He recovered his senses as soon as he was drawn to the bank. There were several other people about on the banks. Golland tried to get to witness and deceased, but finding he could not swim he returned. Other young men, who had just got out of the water, seeing the danger in which witness and deceased were. Returned to them. Matthew Wicks, labourer, deposed that about nine O’ clock the same morning he heard that a man had been drowned, but they could not find him. Witness went down, dived, trying to find deceased for half-an-hour, and then came out again and tried with a net. He shortly afterwards went into the water again, and on the third time of diving he found the deceased on his knees with his hand upwards. It was a solid bottom. It was about half past ten when he found the deceased. The place where he found him was about twelve yards nearer Pyewipe than the spot pointed out to him where deceased had sunk. Police Sergeant Ellis Briggs deposed that a few minutes before seven o’ clock that morning he received information of a young man having been drowned near the Chemical Works. In company with another officer he at once proceeded to the spot with the grappling irons. The grappled for half-an-hour but could not feel anything. The pole drags were then used for about an hour, and afterwards a drag net, but without success. Witness accounted for the deceased being found lower down the river than where he sank by the use of the drag net, it probably having moved the body. Where deceased was found the river was about 7½ft. deep. By the Coroner: There was no mud in the centre of the river , but there was a great deal at the sides. They did not appear to touch the deceased with the drags. When witness first arrived on the scene there were not more than a dozen people present.-Fredk. Cockett, an assistant to Mr. Trotter, ironmonger, said about a quarter past 6 O’ clock that morning he went to bathe. He saw the deceased in the water in the way of a boat that was passing, but the boat just missed him. Deceased then seemed to lose his balance and fall backwards. Witness heard someone on the bank shouting that the deceased was going down, and at the same time he saw a young man rushing into the water to him. Witness then went to them and got hold of the arm of one of them, but he did not know whether it was the arm of the deceased or not. Someone then got hold of the deceased’s hair and pulled him under the water, which caused him to lose the arm he had hold of. Witness and another young man then struggled to the bank. He went to the rescue in his shirt as he had not commenced bathing.-by a Juror: The boat which passed near deceased did not strike him; it was one of Bell’s pleasure boats. The occupants returned to assist deceased after they had got about twenty yards past him. A young man who was in the boat dived into the water after the deceased.- Charles Henry GOLLAND, and apprentice, eighteen years of age, with Messrs. Battle and Maltby, who was in the company with deceased and Street, deposed that Street was the first to enter the water, witness second, and deceased last. They had been inj the water about ten minutes when witness heard a cry. He was standing near Street. Having been trying to swim he was exhausted and could scarcely stand. He said to Street, “ Look at HIND,” and Street immediately went to the spot where the deceased was in the water and took hold of his hair. Cockett and another young man from Mr. Odling’s shop also jumped from the bank and went to deceased’s assistance. Witness and a half a dozen others then formed a line with their hands and pulled the latter two out, but deceased was missing. By the Coroner: Before deceased called out witness saw a boat, in which were three young men from Mr. Hall’s pass close by him. About five minutes afterwards one of those young men dived into the water, but witness never saw deceased rise after he first sank. He had seen deceased swim across the river on a previous occasion. This being the whole of the evidence the Coroner proceeded to sum up the case to the jury, and in doing so it might be that the deceased suffered from cramp, but it was much more likely that not being able to swim very well, he became flurried and terrified by the boat passing near him: indeed it was very doubtful he was seized with cramp at all. However, whether he died from cramp or from losing his courage did not alter the fact that he was accidentally drowned, and this, he thought, the jury would consider to be their verdict. The jury concurred with the Coroner’s observations, and at once returned a verdict to that effect.
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 30 June 1876
FATAL BATHING ACCIDENT
On Wednesday morning, between six and seven O’ clock, a young man named Thomas Hind, 19 years of age, a native of Brant Broughton, and apprenticed with Messrs. Battle, Son and Maltby, chemists, of this city, was drowned whilst bathing in the river Fosdyke, near Messrs. Jekyll, Glazier, and Pratt’s Chemical Works.
At Five O’clock in the evening Mr. Coroner Lowe held an inquest on the body at the Guildhall Hotel.-The Coroner, in opening the enquiry, said it appeared that the same morning deceased, with others, was out bathing, when from some unaccountable cause or other was drowned. He was seized either with a fit or some dread and sank. The jury would have to enquire whether there was any neglect on the part of those who were present, and might have rescued the deceased, or whether death was purely accidental. It was hoped the building of the new baths would have done away with the risk of bathing in the open river, but there were no means to prevent youths from bathing. The Coroner then stated that he had had the body removed to the house of Mr. Andrew, shoe dealer, at his (Mr. Andrew’s request, instead of letting it lie in an open shed, as was too frequently the case, and in future he should request the police to follow out this course.-The jury having viewed the body, the following evidence was taken:-Herbert Street, 17 years of age, apprentice with Messrs. Battle and Maltby, deposed that he, deceased, and a young man named Golland, went down the Fossdyke in a boat for the purpose of bathing, about six o’ clock the same morning. Deceased was pulling. When a little past Messrs. Jekyll, Glasier and Pratt’s Chemical Works., they undressed, and get into the water, deceased being the last to do so. As they were coming out of the river deceased shrieked, and Golland called to witness. He went to deceased immediately, and took hold of his hair, just as he was sinking. He managed to keep deceased up for a minute or two, but his weight pulled him under the water. Witness could not remember anything further until he himself was pulled out of the water. A young fellow in the employ of Mr. Albert Hall dived down twice after the deceased, but could not find him. Some men on two barges then began to drag for deceased. By the Coroner: This was the first time he had bathed with deceased, who said on the previous day that he could swim across the Brayford from Lucy Tower-street end to the island. Deceased had swam across the river where he was drowned, but witness had not seen him do so. When deceased first called out he was about the middle of the river. Witness was able to swim a little-about 100 yards. They had been in the water about ten minutes when deceased gave the alarm. Witness saw the deceased swim up the river previously, but not across it. When deceased swam up the river he was about two yards from the side, where it was not deep, although it was in the middle. This was the first time witness had bathed in Lincoln. He recovered his senses as soon as he was drawn to the bank. There were several other people about on the banks. Golland tried to get to witness and deceased, but finding he could not swim he returned. Other young men, who had just got out of the water, seeing the danger in which witness and deceased were. Returned to them. Matthew Wicks, labourer, deposed that about nine O’ clock the same morning he heard that a man had been drowned, but they could not find him. Witness went down, dived, trying to find deceased for half-an-hour, and then came out again and tried with a net. He shortly afterwards went into the water again, and on the third time of diving he found the deceased on his knees with his hand upwards. It was a solid bottom. It was about half past ten when he found the deceased. The place where he found him was about twelve yards nearer Pyewipe than the spot pointed out to him where deceased had sunk. Police Sergeant Ellis Briggs deposed that a few minutes before seven o’ clock that morning he received information of a young man having been drowned near the Chemical Works. In company with another officer he at once proceeded to the spot with the grappling irons. The grappled for half-an-hour but could not feel anything. The pole drags were then used for about an hour, and afterwards a drag net, but without success. Witness accounted for the deceased being found lower down the river than where he sank by the use of the drag net, it probably having moved the body. Where deceased was found the river was about 7½ft. deep. By the Coroner: There was no mud in the centre of the river , but there was a great deal at the sides. They did not appear to touch the deceased with the drags. When witness first arrived on the scene there were not more than a dozen people present.-Fredk. Cockett, an assistant to Mr. Trotter, ironmonger, said about a quarter past 6 O’ clock that morning he went to bathe. He saw the deceased in the water in the way of a boat that was passing, but the boat just missed him. Deceased then seemed to lose his balance and fall backwards. Witness heard someone on the bank shouting that the deceased was going down, and at the same time he saw a young man rushing into the water to him. Witness then went to them and got hold of the arm of one of them, but he did not know whether it was the arm of the deceased or not. Someone then got hold of the deceased’s hair and pulled him under the water, which caused him to lose the arm he had hold of. Witness and another young man then struggled to the bank. He went to the rescue in his shirt as he had not commenced bathing.-by a Juror: The boat which passed near deceased did not strike him; it was one of Bell’s pleasure boats. The occupants returned to assist deceased after they had got about twenty yards past him. A young man who was in the boat dived into the water after the deceased.- Charles Henry GOLLAND, and apprentice, eighteen years of age, with Messrs. Battle and Maltby, who was in the company with deceased and Street, deposed that Street was the first to enter the water, witness second, and deceased last. They had been inj the water about ten minutes when witness heard a cry. He was standing near Street. Having been trying to swim he was exhausted and could scarcely stand. He said to Street, “ Look at HIND,” and Street immediately went to the spot where the deceased was in the water and took hold of his hair. Cockett and another young man from Mr. Odling’s shop also jumped from the bank and went to deceased’s assistance. Witness and a half a dozen others then formed a line with their hands and pulled the latter two out, but deceased was missing. By the Coroner: Before deceased called out witness saw a boat, in which were three young men from Mr. Hall’s pass close by him. About five minutes afterwards one of those young men dived into the water, but witness never saw deceased rise after he first sank. He had seen deceased swim across the river on a previous occasion. This being the whole of the evidence the Coroner proceeded to sum up the case to the jury, and in doing so it might be that the deceased suffered from cramp, but it was much more likely that not being able to swim very well, he became flurried and terrified by the boat passing near him: indeed it was very doubtful he was seized with cramp at all. However, whether he died from cramp or from losing his courage did not alter the fact that he was accidentally drowned, and this, he thought, the jury would consider to be their verdict. The jury concurred with the Coroner’s observations, and at once returned a verdict to that effect.
His body was brought back to Brant Broughton and buried in
graveyard of the parish church:
Brant Broughton Parish Records - Burials (1875-1877)
No 782: Thomas HIND, of St Peters at Arches, Lincoln, buried June 23rd, 1876, aged 19, by Frederick H. Sutton, Rector.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=563003&iid=85728
Brant Broughton Parish Records - Burials (1875-1877)
No 782: Thomas HIND, of St Peters at Arches, Lincoln, buried June 23rd, 1876, aged 19, by Frederick H. Sutton, Rector.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=563003&iid=85728
So what a shock to the whole family that must have been and a
sad day when the funeral took place 2 days later, in the parish
church & graveyard on the Friday. No doubt all the family
turned up to support the parents.
I did carry on then searching through this family, finding how and when Samuel & his wife died, and what family they had. I will add this sort of thing to this story later on. Actually I got stuck with the two daughters of Samuel Hind & his first wife Elizabeth Williamson, Sarah Ann Hind & Mary Elizabeth HIND. By the time of the 1871 Census, none of the children were at home, so I went searching for them in the 1871 Census but failed to find them so I asked the Hind expert, Gerald Calver if he could find them. Sure enough he did; Sarah in 1871 is a general domestic servant at a house at 10 South Parade, Newark, the home of the Wallis family, aged 19. Mary Elizabeth Hind on the other hand only appears in the 1901 census, some 30 years after she has left home.in the Kesteven County Asylum as an imbecile. Sarah in 1872, marries William Woods, a carpenter; the marriage takes place in Lincoln registration district, so not in Brant Broughton-Free BMD has the marriage:Marriages Dec 1872
HIND, Sarah Ann at Lincoln, 7a,1116
WOODS, William at Lincoln, 7a,1116
Looking at the 1881 Census, this is that record:
1881 Census for Sarah A. Woods Rutland, Ketton, District 14
Main Street, Carpenter Shop;
William WOODS, Head, Married, 29, Carpenter & Joiner (Master), born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Sarah A. WOODS, Wife, Married, 29, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Lizzie WOODS, daughter, 8, Scholar, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Sarah Ann WOODS, daughter, 6, Scholar, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Edith WOODS, daughter, 11months, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Joseph WOODS, Father, Widower, 63, Carpenter & Joiner, born Besthorpe, Nottinghamshire.
Emma Tomblin, Servant, Unmarried, 13, General Servant, born Southorpe, Lincs.
Child Number 6: Mary Ann HINDS & Child Number 7, Sarah
HINDS are both with their parents, Robert & Martha in the 1841
census:I did carry on then searching through this family, finding how and when Samuel & his wife died, and what family they had. I will add this sort of thing to this story later on. Actually I got stuck with the two daughters of Samuel Hind & his first wife Elizabeth Williamson, Sarah Ann Hind & Mary Elizabeth HIND. By the time of the 1871 Census, none of the children were at home, so I went searching for them in the 1871 Census but failed to find them so I asked the Hind expert, Gerald Calver if he could find them. Sure enough he did; Sarah in 1871 is a general domestic servant at a house at 10 South Parade, Newark, the home of the Wallis family, aged 19. Mary Elizabeth Hind on the other hand only appears in the 1901 census, some 30 years after she has left home.in the Kesteven County Asylum as an imbecile. Sarah in 1872, marries William Woods, a carpenter; the marriage takes place in Lincoln registration district, so not in Brant Broughton-Free BMD has the marriage:Marriages Dec 1872
HIND, Sarah Ann at Lincoln, 7a,1116
WOODS, William at Lincoln, 7a,1116
Looking at the 1881 Census, this is that record:
1881 Census for Sarah A. Woods Rutland, Ketton, District 14
Main Street, Carpenter Shop;
William WOODS, Head, Married, 29, Carpenter & Joiner (Master), born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Sarah A. WOODS, Wife, Married, 29, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Lizzie WOODS, daughter, 8, Scholar, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Sarah Ann WOODS, daughter, 6, Scholar, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Edith WOODS, daughter, 11months, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Joseph WOODS, Father, Widower, 63, Carpenter & Joiner, born Besthorpe, Nottinghamshire.
Emma Tomblin, Servant, Unmarried, 13, General Servant, born Southorpe, Lincs.
So William Woods was born in the same village as the Hind
family were living-Brant Broughton. After their marriage, the
Woods family remain in Lincoln area, where three children are
born, and then they move to Ketton, in Rutlandshire, probably
just before the census. Joseph Woods, William's father lives
with them for the next 20 years, he is there with them in 1891
& 1901. William & Sarah Ann have a lot of children,
quite usual for that time. Joseph Woods was born in Besthorpe,
Nottinghamshire, about 12 miles from Brant Broughton. His wife
Sarah Atkin was born in Leadenham, Lincolnshire. This couple
married on 24 August, 1840 at Leadenham, Lincolnshire-his
father was called Joseph Woods and her father was William
Atkin. Source http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
Sleaford spreadsheet.
Sarah Woods nee Atkin died quite soon into her marriage to Joseph Woods, not sure when exactly or where, because she's alive with the family in Brant Broughton in 1851 but in the census of 1861, Joseph her husband is a widower. (Just going to stop this for a while and move back to the Hind children)
Sarah Woods nee Atkin died quite soon into her marriage to Joseph Woods, not sure when exactly or where, because she's alive with the family in Brant Broughton in 1851 but in the census of 1861, Joseph her husband is a widower. (Just going to stop this for a while and move back to the Hind children)
1841 CENSUS for Robert & Martha HIINDS
Rippingale:
Robt. HINDS, 50, Agl (crossed through), Not born in Lincs.
Martha HINDS, 50, Not born in Lincs,
Mary Ann HINDS, 15, Born in Lincs.
Sarah HINDS, 12, born in Lincs.
Okay, lets look at these 2 children, Mary Ann Hinds & Sarah HINDS, both with their parents in the 1841 census and again with them in the 1851 Census as below, although they are now called HIND, not HINDS.
1851 Census for Robert HIND: Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11D
Entry 16: High Street,
Robert HIND, Head, Married, 64, Butcher, born Sysonby, Leicestershire
Martha HIND, wife, Married, 62, Born Whissindine, Rutland
Elizabeth HIND, daughter, Unmarried, 31, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary Ann HIND, daughter, unmarried, 25, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Note their father Robert in this census is still a butcher, and the address in the 1851 census is a butcher's shop in the main street of Rippingale.
After the census of 1851, Mary married John Barber on 1st May 1851. He was the son of Mark Vickers & Ann BARBER, before that couple got married in 1827.
This is the source & record for that marriage: 1851,1-May, Barber,John son of Mark VICKERS & Hind, Mary Anne daughter of Robert HIND -the marriage took place at Rippingale.
http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ and the Bourne spreadsheet.
Mark Vickers & Ann Barber married at Helpringham, Lincolnshire on 11 October 1827. At the time of his marriage, Mark was a minor, aged 19, so under 21, so needed the consent of his father, William before he married Ann Barber.
VICKERS Family in the census
1841:
1841 census for Mark VICKERS & Family
Kirkby Underwood:
Mark VICKERS, 30, Ag Lab, born Lincolnshire
Ann VICKERS, 35, Born Lincs.
Mary VICKERS, 12, born Linc.
William VICKERS, 9, born Lincs.
Eleanor VICKERS, 7, born Lincs.
Edward VICKERS, 5, born Lincs.
Mark VICKERS, 3, born Lincs.
1851
1851 Census for Mark VICKERS & Family
Lincolnshire, Kirkby Underwood, 1a
Gunsthorpe Rd.
Mark VICKERS, Head, Married, 42, Ag Lab, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Ann VICKERS, wife, married, 49, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Edward VICKERS, Son, Unmarried, 15, Works on Farm, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Mark VICKERS, son, Unmarried, 13, Works on Farm, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Thomas VICKERS, son, U, 8, Scholar, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Elizabeth VICKERS, daughter, U, 6, Born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
George VICKERS, son, U, 2, Born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
1841:
1841 census for Mark VICKERS & Family
Kirkby Underwood:
Mark VICKERS, 30, Ag Lab, born Lincolnshire
Ann VICKERS, 35, Born Lincs.
Mary VICKERS, 12, born Linc.
William VICKERS, 9, born Lincs.
Eleanor VICKERS, 7, born Lincs.
Edward VICKERS, 5, born Lincs.
Mark VICKERS, 3, born Lincs.
1851
1851 Census for Mark VICKERS & Family
Lincolnshire, Kirkby Underwood, 1a
Gunsthorpe Rd.
Mark VICKERS, Head, Married, 42, Ag Lab, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Ann VICKERS, wife, married, 49, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Edward VICKERS, Son, Unmarried, 15, Works on Farm, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Mark VICKERS, son, Unmarried, 13, Works on Farm, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Thomas VICKERS, son, U, 8, Scholar, born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Elizabeth VICKERS, daughter, U, 6, Born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
George VICKERS, son, U, 2, Born Kirkby Underwood, Lincs.
Note William VICKERS is not with the family in 1851, so
elsewhere; in fact he is living and working in Gosberton, at the
home of the Dixon Family, where he is a farm servant aged 19,
and there are 2 other children, Elizabeth & George,
but no Eleanor and Mary. Eleanor in 1851 is working as a servant
in Rippingale, in the home of the Pawlett Family. Mary is
working as a cook in Bourne with a family called Mawby.
Then I found this newspaper article which lead me to search for other newspaper articles in Australian Newspapers.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 January 1871
VICKERS:- At Seemore, Australia, on the 27th October, accidentally drowned, Mr. William VICKERS, son of Mr. Mark VICKERS of Rippingale, aged 39.
The name of the place is actually Seymour, not Seemore, near Melbourne, Victoria. Other articles about his death appeared in Australian Newspapers.
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 – 1954 Fri 28 Oct 1870 Page 2 NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
SEYMOUR. 27th October.
The township is flooded by the River Goulburn suddenly rising. Mr. William Vickers, of the Old Lamb Inn, Elizabeth-street, was drowned in attempting to pass through the street to-day. His horse and buggy were swept away. Philip O'Meara left the buggy on a horse a moment before the accident ; and a man named David, who held up Mr. Vickers until the horse struck him under, escaped after swimming a great distance. Mr. H. Furze, who was accompanying him in his own buggy, narrowly escaped.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Fri 28 Oct 1870 Page 7 MORE FLOODS.
SEYMOUR, Thursday.
The township is again flooded. The River Goulburn has risen suddenly, and Mr. William Vickers, of the Old Lamb Inn, Eliza-beth-street, was drowned in attempting to pass through the street to-day. His horses and buggy were swept away. Phillip O'Meara left the buggy on a horse only a moment before the accident occurred, and a man named David held up Mr. Vickers for a short time, but the horses in plunging struck him under, and he was not seen afterwards. David escaped by swimming a great distance. Mr. Henry Fuze, who was in another buggy, had a narrow escape.
Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918) Sat 5 Nov Page 2 MINING INTELLIGENCE.
FOUND DROWNED-A correspondent of the Argus, writing from Seymour on the 2nd instant says:-" The body Mr. William Vickers, of the Lamb Inn, Melbourne, was found in the Goulburn River on Thursday, and the inquest was held this morning. The verdict was "Accidentally drowned," with a
rider attached, requesting the road board to drive piles and place a chain on the dangerous side of the main road, as a guide to strangers passing along during floods. The body of Mr. Vickers has been sent to Melbourne for interment. The flood is now gradually subsiding, but the road is still covered in places with water, although the bridges and culverts are not damaged sufficiently to prevent crossing.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957 Fri 4 Nov 1870
Page 8 Family Notices
THE Friends of the late Mr. WILLIAM VICKERS are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment Melbourne General Cemetery. The funeral to move from his late residence, Old Lamb Inn Hotel, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, THIS DAY, at half-past 2 o'clock p.m. JOHN DALEY, undertaker, Latrobe and Spring streets, Melbourne.
The articles above confirm that William was a bachelor, and working as a licensed victualler at the Lamb INN in Elizabeth-street, Melbourne. It appears that on 27th October, 1870, he was riding his buggy along a flooded street in Seymour, Victoria, where the River Goulburn had burst its banks and flooded the town. Clearly it was a powerful flood, for his horse & buggy were swept away, a passer by went to his help, and held him up, but his struggling horses struck him and pulled him down so he drowned. His body was then to Melbourne for interment at Melbourne General Cemetery on Friday 4 November 1870.
William did not leave a will, so his brother Mark VICKERS, who by then was in Australia, had to go the Supreme Court to get his estate sorted out as these newspaper articles explain.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tue 8 Nov 1870 Page 7 Advertising
IN the SUPREME COURT of the COLONY of VICTORA:
In Its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.-In the Goods of WILLIAM VICKERS, late of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, In the Colony of Victoria, Licensed Victualler, a Bachelor, Deceased, Intestate-Notice Is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof application will be made to the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria, in its Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, that LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION of the goods, (chattels, credits, and effects of the above named William Vickers, a bachelor, deceased, Intestate, may be granted to Mark Vickers, of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth street, Melbourne aforesaid, farmer, a brother and one of the next of kin of the said deceased in the said colony. Dated the seventh day of November, A D 1870. SAMUEL GILLOTT, 1 Market-square, Collins street West, Melbourne, proctor for the said William Vickers,
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Mon 19 Dec 1870 Page 7 Advertising
RE WILLIAM VICKERS, Deceased, Intestate Pursuant to the provisions In that behalf contained in the "Statute of Trusts, 1864, "notice is hereby given, that all creditors and others having any claims against the estate of William Vickers, late of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, in the
colony of Victoria, licensed victualler, a bachelor, deceased, intestate, who died on the twenty seventh day of October last, and administration of whose personal estate was, on the twenty-fifth day of November last, granted by the Supreme Court to Mark Vickers, of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne aforesaid, hotel-keeper, a brother of the said deceased, are hereby required to SEND PARTICULARS of such CLAIMS on or before the tenth day of January next to the said Mark Vickers, as such administrator, at the office of Mr. Samuel Gillott Number one, Market square Colllns-street West Melbourne, solicitor; and notice Is hereby given, that after the said tenth day of January next the said Mark Vickers will proceed to distribute the assets of the said William Vickers, deceased, amongst the parties, entitled thereto, having regard to the, claims of which the said Mark Vickers may then have had notice, and the said Mark Vickers will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose claims he shall not then have had notice.
Dated this second day of December, A. D. 1870 SAMUEL GILLOTT, 1 Market square, Collins street West Melbourne solicitor for the said Mark Vickers..
South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900)
Wed 13 Jun 1860 Page 1 Advertising
PUBLIC NOTICES.
WILLIAM VICKERS, formerly of Moulton, Lincolnshire, and afterwards of Colney Hatch, in the County of Middlesex, England.— If the said William Vickers, who left England in the month of February, 1854, for Adelaide, Australia, and who shortly after his arrival there took the situation of a shepherd in the immediate neighbourhood of Adelaide, which he held for about a year; and then removed to a similar situation at some distance therefrom, and afterwards to another situation of the same kind near to the diggings (but what diggings is not known), will make application to the undersigned he will hear of something to his advantage, his father having recently died and left him a small estate at Moulton, aforesaid. He was last heard of by a letter to his wife, written about two years and a half ago, wherein he stated that on the arrival of that letter he should be en his way to the diggings. If the said William Vickers be dead and such is known to be the fact to anyone who will inform the an undersigned when and where he died and was buried, and furnish satisfactory evidence of his death and burial, he will be handsomely rewarded for his trouble.
HARVEY & CARTWRIGHT, Solicitors Spalding, Lincolnshire, Old England. April 11. 1860.
However, although this article looks most interesting, I wonder if it refers to the William VICKERS, son of Mark VICKERS, because than man died in 1883, not 1860.
Now looking at Sarah Hinds, sister of Mary Ann Hinds, both children of Robert Hinds the butcher in Rippingale.. In 1841, Sarah was with her parents in Rippingale. On 27 November 1849, at Rippingale, she married a local man, also from Rippingale, Edward Williamson, son of John Williamson & his wife Hannah. So 2 years later they are living in Rippingale, with a daughter called Sarah E Williamson, whose birth in the census isn't very clear. However in Free BMD, there is a Sarah Williamson born in Bourne RD in June quarter of 1847 but not christened in Rippingale.
1851 CENSUS for Edward Williamson & wife Sarah Williamson nee HIND
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
118: Bridge Street:
Edward WILLIAMSON, Head, Married, 22, Ag Lab, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah WILLIAMSON, wife, Married, 21, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah E. WILLIAMSON, Daughter, Um, 1, born Rippingale, Lincs.
James MARTIN, Lodger, Um, 25, Ag Lab, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Now during the next 10 years, Edward & Sarah live together in Rippingale, producing a family.
So by 1861 census this is their family then.:
1861 census for Mary A WILLIAMSON nee HIND
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 10
Entry 79:
Edward WILLIAMSON, Head, Married, 32, Ag Lab., Born Rippingale, Lincs
Sarah WILLIAMSON, wife, Married, 32, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah E. WILLIAMSON, daughter, 12, Scholar, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Edward WILLIAMSON, Son, 10, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary A. WILLIAMSON, daughter, scholar, 9, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Maria WILLIAMSON, daughter, 7, Scholar born Rippingale, Lincs.
Amos WILLIAMSON, son, 5, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
John B. WILLIAMSON, son, 4months, born Rippingale, Lincs.
So according to this census, Sarah E Williamson is born about 1849, Edward in 1851, Mary A in 1852, Maria in 1854, Amos in 1856 & John B in 1861.
Now that 1861 Census shows a son called Edward Williamson, born according to the census about 1851, but not before the 1851 census, because he wasn't recorded in that census, but he was the first born son so quite rightly given the name of Edward after his father. Now in the blog above, for Samuel HIND, Sarah's brother who was a shoemaker in Brant Broughton, in the 1871 Census is this entry:
1871 Census for Samuel HIND, Lincolnshire, Brant Broughton, District 4
Entry: 44: Private House, High Street, Brant Broughton:
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 48, Master Shoemaker, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, wife, married, 51, born Fulbeck, Lincs.
Edward Williamson, Apprentice, Um, 14, Shoemaker, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
John Chappel, Apprentice, Um.,13, Shoemaker, Dunston, Lincs.
At the time I said that it looks as though Samuel was employing someone from the family, and sure enough I am sure that the Edward Williamson above in that 1871 is the same Edward Williamson who was son of Edward & Sarah Williamson nee HIND. I did find this newspaper article about a young Edward Williamson:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 April 1877
MARRIAGES:
WILLIAMSON-BONES: At the Independent Chapel, Bourn, on the 18th inst., Edward son of Mr. Edward WILLIAMSON, of Rippingale, to Annie Anderson BONES, of Kirkby Laythorpe.
However the next event was the death of Elizabeth HINDS, John's wife in 1842:
Then I found this newspaper article which lead me to search for other newspaper articles in Australian Newspapers.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 January 1871
VICKERS:- At Seemore, Australia, on the 27th October, accidentally drowned, Mr. William VICKERS, son of Mr. Mark VICKERS of Rippingale, aged 39.
The name of the place is actually Seymour, not Seemore, near Melbourne, Victoria. Other articles about his death appeared in Australian Newspapers.
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 – 1954 Fri 28 Oct 1870 Page 2 NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
SEYMOUR. 27th October.
The township is flooded by the River Goulburn suddenly rising. Mr. William Vickers, of the Old Lamb Inn, Elizabeth-street, was drowned in attempting to pass through the street to-day. His horse and buggy were swept away. Philip O'Meara left the buggy on a horse a moment before the accident ; and a man named David, who held up Mr. Vickers until the horse struck him under, escaped after swimming a great distance. Mr. H. Furze, who was accompanying him in his own buggy, narrowly escaped.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Fri 28 Oct 1870 Page 7 MORE FLOODS.
SEYMOUR, Thursday.
The township is again flooded. The River Goulburn has risen suddenly, and Mr. William Vickers, of the Old Lamb Inn, Eliza-beth-street, was drowned in attempting to pass through the street to-day. His horses and buggy were swept away. Phillip O'Meara left the buggy on a horse only a moment before the accident occurred, and a man named David held up Mr. Vickers for a short time, but the horses in plunging struck him under, and he was not seen afterwards. David escaped by swimming a great distance. Mr. Henry Fuze, who was in another buggy, had a narrow escape.
Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918) Sat 5 Nov Page 2 MINING INTELLIGENCE.
FOUND DROWNED-A correspondent of the Argus, writing from Seymour on the 2nd instant says:-" The body Mr. William Vickers, of the Lamb Inn, Melbourne, was found in the Goulburn River on Thursday, and the inquest was held this morning. The verdict was "Accidentally drowned," with a
rider attached, requesting the road board to drive piles and place a chain on the dangerous side of the main road, as a guide to strangers passing along during floods. The body of Mr. Vickers has been sent to Melbourne for interment. The flood is now gradually subsiding, but the road is still covered in places with water, although the bridges and culverts are not damaged sufficiently to prevent crossing.
THE Friends of the late Mr. WILLIAM VICKERS are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment Melbourne General Cemetery. The funeral to move from his late residence, Old Lamb Inn Hotel, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, THIS DAY, at half-past 2 o'clock p.m. JOHN DALEY, undertaker, Latrobe and Spring streets, Melbourne.
The articles above confirm that William was a bachelor, and working as a licensed victualler at the Lamb INN in Elizabeth-street, Melbourne. It appears that on 27th October, 1870, he was riding his buggy along a flooded street in Seymour, Victoria, where the River Goulburn had burst its banks and flooded the town. Clearly it was a powerful flood, for his horse & buggy were swept away, a passer by went to his help, and held him up, but his struggling horses struck him and pulled him down so he drowned. His body was then to Melbourne for interment at Melbourne General Cemetery on Friday 4 November 1870.
William did not leave a will, so his brother Mark VICKERS, who by then was in Australia, had to go the Supreme Court to get his estate sorted out as these newspaper articles explain.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tue 8 Nov 1870 Page 7 Advertising
IN the SUPREME COURT of the COLONY of VICTORA:
In Its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.-In the Goods of WILLIAM VICKERS, late of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, In the Colony of Victoria, Licensed Victualler, a Bachelor, Deceased, Intestate-Notice Is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof application will be made to the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria, in its Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, that LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION of the goods, (chattels, credits, and effects of the above named William Vickers, a bachelor, deceased, Intestate, may be granted to Mark Vickers, of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth street, Melbourne aforesaid, farmer, a brother and one of the next of kin of the said deceased in the said colony. Dated the seventh day of November, A D 1870. SAMUEL GILLOTT, 1 Market-square, Collins street West, Melbourne, proctor for the said William Vickers,
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Mon 19 Dec 1870 Page 7 Advertising
RE WILLIAM VICKERS, Deceased, Intestate Pursuant to the provisions In that behalf contained in the "Statute of Trusts, 1864, "notice is hereby given, that all creditors and others having any claims against the estate of William Vickers, late of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, in the
colony of Victoria, licensed victualler, a bachelor, deceased, intestate, who died on the twenty seventh day of October last, and administration of whose personal estate was, on the twenty-fifth day of November last, granted by the Supreme Court to Mark Vickers, of the Lamb Inn, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne aforesaid, hotel-keeper, a brother of the said deceased, are hereby required to SEND PARTICULARS of such CLAIMS on or before the tenth day of January next to the said Mark Vickers, as such administrator, at the office of Mr. Samuel Gillott Number one, Market square Colllns-street West Melbourne, solicitor; and notice Is hereby given, that after the said tenth day of January next the said Mark Vickers will proceed to distribute the assets of the said William Vickers, deceased, amongst the parties, entitled thereto, having regard to the, claims of which the said Mark Vickers may then have had notice, and the said Mark Vickers will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose claims he shall not then have had notice.
Dated this second day of December, A. D. 1870 SAMUEL GILLOTT, 1 Market square, Collins street West Melbourne solicitor for the said Mark Vickers..
Now looking in the same resource I found this rather
interesting article:
PUBLIC NOTICES.
WILLIAM VICKERS, formerly of Moulton, Lincolnshire, and afterwards of Colney Hatch, in the County of Middlesex, England.— If the said William Vickers, who left England in the month of February, 1854, for Adelaide, Australia, and who shortly after his arrival there took the situation of a shepherd in the immediate neighbourhood of Adelaide, which he held for about a year; and then removed to a similar situation at some distance therefrom, and afterwards to another situation of the same kind near to the diggings (but what diggings is not known), will make application to the undersigned he will hear of something to his advantage, his father having recently died and left him a small estate at Moulton, aforesaid. He was last heard of by a letter to his wife, written about two years and a half ago, wherein he stated that on the arrival of that letter he should be en his way to the diggings. If the said William Vickers be dead and such is known to be the fact to anyone who will inform the an undersigned when and where he died and was buried, and furnish satisfactory evidence of his death and burial, he will be handsomely rewarded for his trouble.
HARVEY & CARTWRIGHT, Solicitors Spalding, Lincolnshire, Old England. April 11. 1860.
However, although this article looks most interesting, I wonder if it refers to the William VICKERS, son of Mark VICKERS, because than man died in 1883, not 1860.
Now looking at Sarah Hinds, sister of Mary Ann Hinds, both children of Robert Hinds the butcher in Rippingale.. In 1841, Sarah was with her parents in Rippingale. On 27 November 1849, at Rippingale, she married a local man, also from Rippingale, Edward Williamson, son of John Williamson & his wife Hannah. So 2 years later they are living in Rippingale, with a daughter called Sarah E Williamson, whose birth in the census isn't very clear. However in Free BMD, there is a Sarah Williamson born in Bourne RD in June quarter of 1847 but not christened in Rippingale.
1851 CENSUS for Edward Williamson & wife Sarah Williamson nee HIND
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, 11d
118: Bridge Street:
Edward WILLIAMSON, Head, Married, 22, Ag Lab, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah WILLIAMSON, wife, Married, 21, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah E. WILLIAMSON, Daughter, Um, 1, born Rippingale, Lincs.
James MARTIN, Lodger, Um, 25, Ag Lab, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Now during the next 10 years, Edward & Sarah live together in Rippingale, producing a family.
So by 1861 census this is their family then.:
1861 census for Mary A WILLIAMSON nee HIND
Lincolnshire, Rippingale, District 10
Entry 79:
Edward WILLIAMSON, Head, Married, 32, Ag Lab., Born Rippingale, Lincs
Sarah WILLIAMSON, wife, Married, 32, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah E. WILLIAMSON, daughter, 12, Scholar, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Edward WILLIAMSON, Son, 10, Scholar, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Mary A. WILLIAMSON, daughter, scholar, 9, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Maria WILLIAMSON, daughter, 7, Scholar born Rippingale, Lincs.
Amos WILLIAMSON, son, 5, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
John B. WILLIAMSON, son, 4months, born Rippingale, Lincs.
So according to this census, Sarah E Williamson is born about 1849, Edward in 1851, Mary A in 1852, Maria in 1854, Amos in 1856 & John B in 1861.
Now that 1861 Census shows a son called Edward Williamson, born according to the census about 1851, but not before the 1851 census, because he wasn't recorded in that census, but he was the first born son so quite rightly given the name of Edward after his father. Now in the blog above, for Samuel HIND, Sarah's brother who was a shoemaker in Brant Broughton, in the 1871 Census is this entry:
1871 Census for Samuel HIND, Lincolnshire, Brant Broughton, District 4
Entry: 44: Private House, High Street, Brant Broughton:
Samuel HIND, Head, Married, 48, Master Shoemaker, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah HIND, wife, married, 51, born Fulbeck, Lincs.
Edward Williamson, Apprentice, Um, 14, Shoemaker, Born Rippingale, Lincs.
John Chappel, Apprentice, Um.,13, Shoemaker, Dunston, Lincs.
At the time I said that it looks as though Samuel was employing someone from the family, and sure enough I am sure that the Edward Williamson above in that 1871 is the same Edward Williamson who was son of Edward & Sarah Williamson nee HIND. I did find this newspaper article about a young Edward Williamson:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 April 1877
MARRIAGES:
WILLIAMSON-BONES: At the Independent Chapel, Bourn, on the 18th inst., Edward son of Mr. Edward WILLIAMSON, of Rippingale, to Annie Anderson BONES, of Kirkby Laythorpe.
Note there is no mention of his occupation in this entry, or
her parents. However the 1881 census gives a clue to Annie's
previous relationships.
1881 Census for Edward WILLIAMSON, Lincolnshire, Donington,
District 4
Fen Street:
Edward WILLIAMSON, Head, Married, 29, Shoemaker, born
Rippingale, Lincs.
Annie Anderson WILLIAMSON, wife, married, born Walcot Dales,
Lincolnshire.
Arthur Anderson BONES, stepson, 13, born Kirkby Laythorpe,
Lincolnshire.(born 1868)
So in this census, Edward Williamson is a fully qualified
shoemaker, born in Rippingale, married to Annie Anderson with
a step-son, called Arthur Anderson BONES, born Kirkby
Laythorpe, which is the same place that Annie Anderson was
living before her marriage to Edward on 18th April 1877.
So looking at Arthur Anderson BONES 10 years earlier, will give us a clue about his mother.
So looking at Arthur Anderson BONES 10 years earlier, will give us a clue about his mother.
1871 census for Arthur Anderson BONES (born Kirkby
Laythorpe)
Lincolnshire, Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincs District 3
Kirkby Laythorpe
Ann Anders BONES, Head, widow, 33, Farmer of 340 acres, employing 6 men, born Billinghay, Lincs
Jane Brackenbury BONES, daughter, 11, scholar, born Billinghay, Lincs.
Richard Archibald BONES, son, 9, born Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincs
Arthur Anderson BONES, son, 3, born Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincs.
Eliza All wood, servant, 18, born Not known in Lincs.
Lincolnshire, Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincs District 3
Kirkby Laythorpe
Ann Anders BONES, Head, widow, 33, Farmer of 340 acres, employing 6 men, born Billinghay, Lincs
Jane Brackenbury BONES, daughter, 11, scholar, born Billinghay, Lincs.
Richard Archibald BONES, son, 9, born Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincs
Arthur Anderson BONES, son, 3, born Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincs.
Eliza All wood, servant, 18, born Not known in Lincs.
So Annie/ Ann Anders or Anderson, was previously married, to a
Mr. Bones, a farmer who has died before the 1871 Census was
put together.
However the next event was the death of Elizabeth HINDS, John's wife in 1842:
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1841-1842) No. 391:
Elizabeth HINDS, of Rippingale, buried June 21st 1842, aged 30,
By Wm. Waters, Rector.
source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=542712&iid=320965
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1864-1866)
NO. 679: Robert HIND, of Rippingale, buried January 25th, 1866, aged 81, by Wm . Cooper, Rector.
Source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=542712&iid=321024source: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=542712&iid=320965
Rippingale Parish Records - Burials (1864-1866)
NO. 679: Robert HIND, of Rippingale, buried January 25th, 1866, aged 81, by Wm . Cooper, Rector.
This is the marriage of John's parents, Thomas Hind & Mary Williamson.
So before I proceed further with Susan Louisa HIND, I ought to start with her father, John HIND. Since my contact with Gerald Calver (see below), he has sent me quite a few records & photographs which I can now add to this blog about the Hind Family. So here is a photograph of John HIND's birth certificate with Gerald obtained from the General Record Office in 2013.
It reads: No. 145: Fifteenth of October, 1842 at Rippingale,
Lincolnshire, John, son of Thomas HIND & Mary Hind formerly
Williamson, a shoemaker, Informant:-Mary HIND of Morton,
Rippingale on 31st October,1842 by John Mansfield, Registrar.
Register No. 5, September 3rd, 1838, Thomas HINDS, of full age, Cordwainer, of Rippingale, son of Robert HINDS, Butcher & Mary Williamson, Nineteen, spinster, Servant, of Rippingale, daughter of John Williamson, Labourer were married the Parish Church by banns by Wm. Waters, Rector in presence of Thomas Briggs & Elizabeth HINDS (sister of the bride has been added by Gerald Calver)
You will note that on this record, John HIND's father Thomas is called Thomas HINDS, not Hind.
She was born into a terrace house on Station Street,Rippingale called Gladstone Villa. This house is still in Rippingale-on Google Maps this is the reference: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8393566,-0.3625442,3a,75y,163.65h,83.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUdom6nRElysVYtr40Hn7vw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en
Her sister Alberta Sophia was born in October 1874 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 1 year old.
The source for this information is an obituary & funeral report of John HIND, Susan's father, who died in 1901, at the age of 58. This is that article taken from the Grantham Journal Saturday 4 May 1901
DEATH OF MR JOHN HIND
We regret to announce that Mr. John HIND, a very prominent parishioner, died at the comparatively early age of fifty-eight, at 6-45 last Sunday evening, The deceased had been in failing health for the last ten years, and a great sufferer, but had up to the last few months taken much interest both in public and private matters, except at intervals, when his affliction was too severe. Mr. HIND was a native of Rippingale, bur removed to Hanthorpe some twenty-five years ago, to his father-in-law’s farm, where he lived for several years. From Hanthorpe he came to Morton, where he had since resided. The ceased gentleman took great interest in all public affairs, both parliamentary and parochial, and was well-known for miles around. He had filled most of the parochial offices-overseer of the highways, overseer of the poor, member of the Board of Guardians, Parish Councillor, and only so recently as the Thursday prior to his death he was appointed a Trustee of the Parish property, which entitled him to become a manager of the School. He was a prominent member of the Primitive Methodist Church, with which he had been connected for forty-one years as a local preacher and class leader, but ceased to undertake this work in 1899. He was also an enthusiastic worker of the temperance Society, and also of the Band of Hope, which for many years found their location on his premises. For a long period, he had a men’s Bible Class in the Baptist Chapel, and during the winter months held an adult’s Bible Class during the week.
The funeral took place on Thursday. Mr. Henry SNEATH conducted the service in the Wesleyan Chapel, where he gave a brief sketch of the life of the deceased gentleman. At the graveside, Mr. SNEATH was assisted by the Rev. A. Atkinson (Primitive Methodist, Donnington Circuit). Amongst the immense number of mourners, we noticed:- The Widow and family, Mr. T. HIND, (Brant Broughton), Mrs. HIND Senr., (Morton), Mrs Green, (Morton), Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Sommerfield, (Dyke), Mr. E. C. SNEATH (Brant Broughton), Mr. Wm. Sommerfield (Castle Donnington), Mr. Geo. Sommerfield (Dyke), Mr. T. A. Oliver (Evedon), Mr. J. R. Williamson (Rippingale), Mr. Rob HIND (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Williamson (Rippingale), Mr. and Mrs. R. Williamson (Spalding), Col. And Mrs. W. Parker (Grantham), Mr. and Mrs. R. Pinder (Stainfield), Mrs. Butler (Bulby), Mr. and Mrs. Holland (Billingborough), Mr. and Mrs. Sly (Spalding), Mr. and Mrs. Kelby (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs. Carlton (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs Garwood (Thurlby), Mr. and Mrs Elvidge (Hanthorpe), Mr. Downes (Bourne), Mr. Wm. Smith, Mr. T. Rickard, Mr. and Mrs. H. SNEATH, (Thurlby), and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver (Sutton).
A correspondent supplies us with the following additional notes in reference to the deceased:- Born at Rippingale in 1842, he early identified himself with the Primitive Methodist Church in that village, and for forty years was “Instant in season and out of season” in all good works. Beginning to preach in 1860, for many years he walked long distances to his appointments, most of the places he visited being from twelve to twenty miles away from the village where he lived. His love for teetotalism took him many journeys away from home and the Band of Hope at Rippingale and Morton were largely the result of his earnest Temperance effort. At camp-meetings he was perfectly at home, and he had, in all probability addressed more outdoor meetings than any man in South Lincolnshire. His generosity was unbounded, and even when only an apprentice he always found one penny a week and a shilling a quarter that his Church expects each member to pay. The help he has given to the poor in the district will never be known, but no needy case ever went unrelieved from his presence. He was an Earnest Liberal and the Association loses a good helper by his death. He loved Morton, and was never happy except when he some scheme of improvement on hand. His work on the Parish Council resulted in many improvements, notably supplying of the village with pure water, and the covering of the Open Drain from the cross to the station. For many years he had acted as steward to Colonel Parker, who attended the funeral, and also sent a wreath as a token of respect from the family. His later life was full of pain, and for months his friends had been expecting that he would not rally but again and again his strength of will triumphed over his weakness, and he was once more seen down the fen, along with his old pony .But on Sunday last the end came-so quietly that his friends scarce knew when he passed away. His funeral, at his own special request, was conducted by a layman friend of his who in an address given in the Chapel, to a large and representative congregation, said that Mr. Hind was first, a friend of the poor. They were his especial charge, and for all his public strivings were for their benefit and blessing. Secondly he was a friend of Morton. His busy brain was always framing some plan of improvement, and for many schemes that he had supported during his residence had helped to brighten village life, and make it easier for all classes to live happily together. Thirdly, he was the friend of Methodism. A Dissenting Protestant, he was ever in the front ranks of the battle for truth and equality. When the Baptist and Methodist Chapels were built in the village, he was a most liberal subscriber, and his hospitality to the local preachers who visited them was of the kindest type. Especially to the Wesleyan friends was he kind, and by their presence and sympathy that afternoon they desired to show they appreciated the same. He was no angel (said the speaker), not even a perfect man, but just one of ourselves. We at time blamed him for his eager strenuous life; but now that is gone, we feel we shall look upon his like no more, so patient of our shortcomings, so anxious to see the best of those whom he loved, so full of tenderness towards the children, the frail and the erring. We must part with him who has so often made life happy and bright for us, but has gone to a place prepared for him by One whose every word of promise is true, and on those Shores he will be welcomed, not only by his own personal friends, but by numbers of those whom he helped to a higher nobler life, and who owe their conversion to his eager, anxious care of their souls.
This congregation was greatly moved during the address, and the funeral was one of the largest in the village, the streets being lined with sympathetic spectators.
The previous owner of the farm, was Robert Hind, his father's brother, who died on 16 August 1872. at the Bull Inn, where had been landlord for a number of years. My source for his death, and subsequent testimonials, is below:
Death
16 Aug 1872 • Rippingale, Lincolnshire, England
Stamford Mercury - Friday 23 August 1872
DIED: At Rippingale, on the 16th of August, Mr. Robert HIND, for nearly 28 years landlord of the Bull Inn, Rippingale, after great suffering borne with Christian fortitude, aged 57.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 30 August 1872
MR ROBERT HIND, Deceased: All Persons having any claim or Demand upon or against the estate of ROBERT HIND, late of Rippingale, in the County of Lincoln, inn-keeper and farmer, deceased are requested forthwith send the same to the undersigned, in order that they may be examined and if correct discharged; and all Persons indebted to the said deceased at the time of his death are requested at once to pay the amount of the respective Debts to Mr. Robert SANDALL, or to Mr. Joseph ATKINSON, both of Rippingale, the Executors or to me J L Bell, solicitor. Bourn 26th August 1872
Probate: Robert HIND: Effects under £4,000.
17 December 1872: The will of Robert HIND, late of Rippingale in the County of Lincoln, farmer and inn keeper who died 16 August 1872 at Rippingale was proved at the Principal Registry by Robert SANDALL of Rippingale, Brewer and Joseph Atkinson, of Rippingale, Farmer the executors.
Robert Hind's first wife was Jane Sandall, whom he married at Rippingale on 31 August, 1844. She was born 1806, in Rippingale but then died 1865, in the same place. Robert then married Sophia Duke, nee Sommerfield, on 26 September 1867 in Morton,. Sophia was born in 1828, christened on 2 March 1828 at Morton by Bourn as daughter of Thomas Sommerfield and his wife Sophia-so she was Louisa Sommerfield's (John Hind's wife), elder sister. She was a schoolteacher, & her first husband, James Duke, was a schoolmaster, but he died at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire on 17 June 1864. She then married Robert Hind, but as you can see above he died in August 1872, leaving money to his wife Sophia, and farm to be worked-so John Hind took over the farm, moving his wife & family to Hanthorpe.
Her brother John was born on 17 March 1876 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 2 years old.
Her brother George William was born in October 1877 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 4 years old.
Her brother Henry was born in 1879 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 6 years old.
Her brother James Duke was born in July 1880 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 6 years old.
Throughout that decade, more of her siblings arrived, so by census day on 5 April, 1881 with her mother pregnant with yet another child, another brother for Susan Louisa, the family were living in Morton, Lincolnshire at a farm.
1881 census John HIND Morton, Lincolnshire:
John HIND, Head, Married, 38 Farmer of 95 acres, employing 3 labourers, born Rippingale, Lincs
Louisa HIND, wife, married, 32, Born Morton, Lincs
Robert HIND, son, 9, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Thomas Hind, son, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Susan Louisa HIND, daughter, 8, born Rippingale, Lincs
Alberta Sophia HIND, daughter, 6, born Hanthorpe, Lincs
John HIND, son, 5, Born Hanthorpe, Lincs.
George HIND, son, 3, Born Hanthorpe, Lincs
Henry HIND, son, 2, born Hanthorpe, Lincs
James Duke HIND, 10 months, born Hanthorpe, Lincs
Sophia HIND, wife’s sister, widow, 53, Annuitant, born Morton, Lincs.
Her brother Charles Sommerfield was born in July 1881 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 7 years old.
16 Aug 1872 • Rippingale, Lincolnshire, England
Stamford Mercury - Friday 23 August 1872
DIED: At Rippingale, on the 16th of August, Mr. Robert HIND, for nearly 28 years landlord of the Bull Inn, Rippingale, after great suffering borne with Christian fortitude, aged 57.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 30 August 1872
MR ROBERT HIND, Deceased: All Persons having any claim or Demand upon or against the estate of ROBERT HIND, late of Rippingale, in the County of Lincoln, inn-keeper and farmer, deceased are requested forthwith send the same to the undersigned, in order that they may be examined and if correct discharged; and all Persons indebted to the said deceased at the time of his death are requested at once to pay the amount of the respective Debts to Mr. Robert SANDALL, or to Mr. Joseph ATKINSON, both of Rippingale, the Executors or to me J L Bell, solicitor. Bourn 26th August 1872
Probate: Robert HIND: Effects under £4,000.
17 December 1872: The will of Robert HIND, late of Rippingale in the County of Lincoln, farmer and inn keeper who died 16 August 1872 at Rippingale was proved at the Principal Registry by Robert SANDALL of Rippingale, Brewer and Joseph Atkinson, of Rippingale, Farmer the executors.
Robert Hind's first wife was Jane Sandall, whom he married at Rippingale on 31 August, 1844. She was born 1806, in Rippingale but then died 1865, in the same place. Robert then married Sophia Duke, nee Sommerfield, on 26 September 1867 in Morton,. Sophia was born in 1828, christened on 2 March 1828 at Morton by Bourn as daughter of Thomas Sommerfield and his wife Sophia-so she was Louisa Sommerfield's (John Hind's wife), elder sister. She was a schoolteacher, & her first husband, James Duke, was a schoolmaster, but he died at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire on 17 June 1864. She then married Robert Hind, but as you can see above he died in August 1872, leaving money to his wife Sophia, and farm to be worked-so John Hind took over the farm, moving his wife & family to Hanthorpe.
Her brother John was born on 17 March 1876 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 2 years old.
Her brother George William was born in October 1877 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 4 years old.
Her brother Henry was born in 1879 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 6 years old.
Her brother James Duke was born in July 1880 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 6 years old.
Throughout that decade, more of her siblings arrived, so by census day on 5 April, 1881 with her mother pregnant with yet another child, another brother for Susan Louisa, the family were living in Morton, Lincolnshire at a farm.
1881 census John HIND Morton, Lincolnshire:
John HIND, Head, Married, 38 Farmer of 95 acres, employing 3 labourers, born Rippingale, Lincs
Louisa HIND, wife, married, 32, Born Morton, Lincs
Robert HIND, son, 9, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Thomas Hind, son, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Susan Louisa HIND, daughter, 8, born Rippingale, Lincs
Alberta Sophia HIND, daughter, 6, born Hanthorpe, Lincs
John HIND, son, 5, Born Hanthorpe, Lincs.
George HIND, son, 3, Born Hanthorpe, Lincs
Henry HIND, son, 2, born Hanthorpe, Lincs
James Duke HIND, 10 months, born Hanthorpe, Lincs
Sophia HIND, wife’s sister, widow, 53, Annuitant, born Morton, Lincs.
Her brother Charles Sommerfield was born in July 1881 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Susan Louisa was 7 years old.
John HIND’s life as seen through local newspapers, mainly
the Grantham Journal
On March 25th, 1886, John Hind & John Scotney,
both employed by Lieut. Colonel Parker, were driving back from
a market on a horse and cart, when they were overtaken by two
men, driving a trap, very fast (estimated as 12 miles an
hour), with the driver thrashing the horse. John Hind who was
driving, had to pull over to let them past. He complained
about the matter to his employer soon appeared in court giving
evidence-the defendant was found guilty and fined 2/6d with
8/9d costs.
Later that year, in October, there were the elections for the
Parish Guardians-John was nominated but failed to receive
enough votes.
In 1887, on 13th November, John conducted morning
& evening services at the Primitive Methodist church in
Thurlby-he was unwell at the time-the church was celebrating
the installation of its new organ.
On 22nd December, 1887, John was the chairman of
the Morton Temperance Society, which had a meeting, with a
speaker from Lancashire, a collier called Thomas Rowbottom,
who told the audience lots of funny stories-so an evening out
without going to the pub.
In July 1888, John Hind & Thomas Holland of Horbling,
conducted an open-air religious service in the village square
at Billingborough, Lincolnshire. John often went to this
village, conducting services mainly in the Primitive Methodist
Church.
On 2nd June, 1889, the Band of Hope had their
anniversary meeting in the big barn on John Hind’s farm in
Morton. They had a visiting speaker who told the audience
about the statistics for drunkenness and the subsequent crimes
which was appallingly high. 100 children went as well, sitting
down for tea in a decorated barn. On the following Tuesday,
with the weather fine, they had an open-air meeting on John’s
farm when the Bourn Brass Band attended, and about 120
juvenile members of the organisation sat down to a tea at 4pm
and a public tea at 5pm, followed by a talk by a Mr. Samuel
HIND from Brant Broughton. A Rev. T Ratcliffe told the meeting
of a group of distillers at Boston, USA, who had sent
quantities of rum into the Congo, thus causing strife &
crime, and neutralising the effect of missionary work there.
The Rev Eason gave them some scientific facts about the
effects of alcohol on the body, urging everyone to keep to
their principles not to drink alcohol. All this took place on
John Hind’s farm, so His family would have been present
too.
In March, 1890, John Hind and others took part assenting to a
James Priestley being the Liberal Party candidate for the
Bourn Division in the forthcoming general election.
In March 1891, John in his capacity as foreman, working for
Lieut. Colonel Parker was at the Bourn Petty Sessions given
evidence against a William Chatterton of Morton in breach of
the Master and Servant Act.
On Tuesday 1 November 1892 a meeting of agriculturists took
place at Falkingham, Lincolnshire, where it was proposed that
there should be a Farmer’s Defence Association. The meeting
was about the depressed state of the agricultural industry,
with low prices caused by imported goods.
John Hind was against such an organisation being formed, but
at the end of the meeting such an association was formed.
1894
In February 1894, John chaired a meeting of the local
agricultural union held in the Temperance Hall in Morton.
A bazaar was held on the Friday 20 & Saturday 21st
July that year in John Hind’s Barn in aid if the Wesleyan
Chapel Fund, stalls were erected, fancy goods sold, they had
an excellent tea, singing by local people.
John conducted the Harvest Festival service at Billingborough
Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday 30 September, followed by
a festival tea on the Monday and an evening meeting chaired by
John Hind
In December, In the local Parish Council elections John lost
his seat on the council.
1895: in March, John was back in Billingborough to chair
a meeting of the Temperance League.
John was back in Billingborough, at the annual harvest
Festival in the Primitive Methodist Church, preaching 2
sermons on the Sunday, 6 October & on the Monday, chairing
a public meeting.
1896: John was back at Billingborough Primitive Methodist
Church annual tea and meeting on Good Frday-he chaired the
meeting.
1899: John Hind polled 57 votes in the local parish council,
so was elected to it again and on 20th April he
attended with his wife & family the wedding of his
daughter Alberta Sophia to Mr T A Oliver of Evedon, Sleaford
at the Wesleyan Chapel, in Morton.
John attended a meeting of the Parish Council on 28th
September, 1899 and on 23rd October, and on Tuesday
21st November he was at the Morton Wesleyan Church
in connection with the Foreign Missionary cause-he chaired the
meeting.
1900: April, John’s son John died: Mr John HIND, fourth son of
Mr. John Hind of Morton, born March 17th, 1876 died
at Ventnor Isle of Wight on April, 24th after a
prolonged illness. A melancholy fact is that he anticipated
coming home on Wednesday. The deceased had been suffering from
pulmonary consumption for which he had the open-air treatment
at Brompton Hospital, London, and afterwards at the Royal
National Hospital, Ventnor, and was apparently progressing
favourably, when suddenly a change to Peritonitis developed,
which proved fatal. He was brought home on Wednesday and was
interred in Morton churchyard on Thursday 26th. A
short service was conducted in the Wesleyan Chapel, where he
had been an active member of the church and Sunday School. The
Rev. H. Brown, circuit minister, who officiated announced the
deceased’s favourite hymn, which was followed by short reading
and prayer. After another hymn, had been sung the funeral
cortege proceeded to the churchyard accompanied by relations
and friends and sympathisers.
1901:
BOURNE CATTLE MARKET: April, 1901. 130 Long wool Ewes, and a
well-bred Lincoln Red Bull, bred by Mr. Langham, on the
property of Mr. John Hind of Morton. They are sold in
consequence of Mr. Hind giving up his fen farm to his sons and
consequently giving up breeding sheep.
John Hind attended the Parish Council where he was elected as
a trustee of Morton Parish Property on April 25th,
he died on April 28th.
So lets continue with the HIND family and lets see what we find.
So John HIND dies in 1901, by then quite a lot of the family had moved on-so lets look at the census for 1891 & 1901 just to check we have the correct number & names of his children.
1891 Census: MORTON, near Bourne, Lincolnshire.
John HIND, Head, Married, 48, Farmer, Employer, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Louisa HIND, Wife, Married, 43, Farmer’s Wife, born Morton, Lincs.
Susan Louisa HIND, single, daughter, 17, Farmer’s daughter, Employed, born Rippingale, Lincs.
John HIND, son, single, 15, Farmer’s Son, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
George HIND, son, 13, Farmer’s Son, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
Henry HIND, son, 12, Farmer’s Son, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
Duke HIND, son, 10, Scholar, Born Morton, Lincs.
Charles S. HIND, 9, Scholar, born Morton, Lincs.
Mary HIND, daughter, 7, Scholar, born Morton, Lincs.
Frances Miriam, daughter, 9 months, born Morton, Lincs.
Joseph, Son, 2, Born Morton, Lincs.
Frederick Newton, servant, Single, Farm Servant, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
Eliza Richardson, servant, Single, 15, Domestic Servant, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
So lets continue with the HIND family and lets see what we find.
So John HIND dies in 1901, by then quite a lot of the family had moved on-so lets look at the census for 1891 & 1901 just to check we have the correct number & names of his children.
1891 Census: MORTON, near Bourne, Lincolnshire.
John HIND, Head, Married, 48, Farmer, Employer, born Rippingale, Lincs.
Louisa HIND, Wife, Married, 43, Farmer’s Wife, born Morton, Lincs.
Susan Louisa HIND, single, daughter, 17, Farmer’s daughter, Employed, born Rippingale, Lincs.
John HIND, son, single, 15, Farmer’s Son, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
George HIND, son, 13, Farmer’s Son, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
Henry HIND, son, 12, Farmer’s Son, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
Duke HIND, son, 10, Scholar, Born Morton, Lincs.
Charles S. HIND, 9, Scholar, born Morton, Lincs.
Mary HIND, daughter, 7, Scholar, born Morton, Lincs.
Frances Miriam, daughter, 9 months, born Morton, Lincs.
Joseph, Son, 2, Born Morton, Lincs.
Frederick Newton, servant, Single, Farm Servant, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
Eliza Richardson, servant, Single, 15, Domestic Servant, Employed, born Morton, Lincs.
So straightaway you can see that the eldest and second sons
Robert & Thomas HIND are missing from the family group
in Morton on census day, 5 April 1891. So that conveniently
leads me to look at the life of Robert & Thomas HIND a
bit more closely.
I found this obituary for Robert which gives an outline of his life.
Grantham Journal – Friday August 27th 1943
EDITOR IN SOUTH AFRICA
MORTON NATIVE DIES IN CAPE TOWN
SERVED AS COLONEL IN BOER WAR
The death occurred at Cape Town on August 12th of Mr. Robert HIND, J.P., brother of Mr. J. Duke HIND, of South Witham. The eldest son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, he was educated at Gosberton Hall School and went to South Africa 50 years ago where he took up journalism, and for many years he was on the staff of the “Eastern Province Herald”, Port Elizabeth, later becoming editor of the “Grahamstown Journal”
He was a Justice of the Peace, Fellow of the Statistical Society and attorney, and took great interest in education being either chairman or governor of several schools; also a visitor to hospitals.
A colonel in the Boer War, he was among the first to enter Ladysmith after the siege, and rode into Pretoria with Lord Roberts. During that time he met with Mr. Winston Churchill and travelled with him.
Deceased knew all the leading statesmen, including Cecil Rhodes, General Botha and the present premier General Smuts. A prominent Freemason, he passed through the offices, while he was also a past Grand Master of the Buffalo Lodge, Port Elizabeth. On his frequent visits to the homeland he made his home with Mr. Joseph Hind, farmer of South Witham.
So John HIND, his father paid for him to have a private education, and just like the Sneath boys he went to Gosberton Hall School. However, prior to going to that school he attended the local school in Rippingale. I don't have the school records but I do have this newspaper report:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 September 1929
In this article is the funeral of Mr John Caunce, a former Rippingale Schoolmaster, who was headmaster of the school for several years. He was there until 1912, 46 years of service.One of his pupils was Mr. Robert HIND, who at one of the Jubilees represented the South African Government at one of the Colonial Conferences.
Okay lets look at the Census of 1891 and see where Robert & Thomas HIND are.
I found this obituary for Robert which gives an outline of his life.
Grantham Journal – Friday August 27th 1943
EDITOR IN SOUTH AFRICA
MORTON NATIVE DIES IN CAPE TOWN
SERVED AS COLONEL IN BOER WAR
The death occurred at Cape Town on August 12th of Mr. Robert HIND, J.P., brother of Mr. J. Duke HIND, of South Witham. The eldest son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, he was educated at Gosberton Hall School and went to South Africa 50 years ago where he took up journalism, and for many years he was on the staff of the “Eastern Province Herald”, Port Elizabeth, later becoming editor of the “Grahamstown Journal”
He was a Justice of the Peace, Fellow of the Statistical Society and attorney, and took great interest in education being either chairman or governor of several schools; also a visitor to hospitals.
A colonel in the Boer War, he was among the first to enter Ladysmith after the siege, and rode into Pretoria with Lord Roberts. During that time he met with Mr. Winston Churchill and travelled with him.
Deceased knew all the leading statesmen, including Cecil Rhodes, General Botha and the present premier General Smuts. A prominent Freemason, he passed through the offices, while he was also a past Grand Master of the Buffalo Lodge, Port Elizabeth. On his frequent visits to the homeland he made his home with Mr. Joseph Hind, farmer of South Witham.
So John HIND, his father paid for him to have a private education, and just like the Sneath boys he went to Gosberton Hall School. However, prior to going to that school he attended the local school in Rippingale. I don't have the school records but I do have this newspaper report:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 September 1929
In this article is the funeral of Mr John Caunce, a former Rippingale Schoolmaster, who was headmaster of the school for several years. He was there until 1912, 46 years of service.One of his pupils was Mr. Robert HIND, who at one of the Jubilees represented the South African Government at one of the Colonial Conferences.
Okay lets look at the Census of 1891 and see where Robert & Thomas HIND are.
32 Market Place, Dewsbury, in the parish of All Saints
Dewsbury
Robert HIND, Head, Married, 19, Printer, Book Seller &
Stationer, an employer, Born Rippingale, Lincs
Edith E. HIND, Wife, Married, 26, Born Tiverton,
Devonshire.
Thomas HIND, brother, 18, Stationer’s Assistant, Employed,
Born Rippingale, Lincs.
Sarah E. Wilson, Servant, Single, 18, General Domestic
Servant,, born Chapel Hill, Lincs.
So by 1891, Robert, aged 19, has married a girl called Edith
from Tiverton, Devonshire, and has opened a shop in Market
Place, Dewsbury, where he is employed as a book seller &
stationer with his brother Thomas working as his
assistant.
What none of these census or obituaries show as to why &
how Robert should open a stationer's shop and later become a
journalist and editor of newspapers. Well, this article in a
newspaper of 1911, shows that Robert served & completed
an apprenticeship with a local book seller in Bourne called
J. T. Morris.
Lincolnshire Free Press - Tuesday 23 May 1911
News reached this village on Saturday that Mr. Robert HIND, J. P., associate editor of “The Journal”, Grahamstown, and vice-president of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, is coming over in the Kenilworth Castle on a visit to his mother and brothers who farm here and in the Fens. It is four years since Mr. HIND visited England, and nearly twenty-five since he completed his apprenticeship with Mr. J. T. Morris of Bourne. So I calculate he completed his apprenticeship with J T Morris of Bourne in 1886., when he was 14, no it must have been longer than that.
I found Robert's marriage reported in the Grantham Journal.(maybe the marriage record will show his occupation)
Lincolnshire Free Press - Tuesday 23 May 1911
News reached this village on Saturday that Mr. Robert HIND, J. P., associate editor of “The Journal”, Grahamstown, and vice-president of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, is coming over in the Kenilworth Castle on a visit to his mother and brothers who farm here and in the Fens. It is four years since Mr. HIND visited England, and nearly twenty-five since he completed his apprenticeship with Mr. J. T. Morris of Bourne. So I calculate he completed his apprenticeship with J T Morris of Bourne in 1886., when he was 14, no it must have been longer than that.
John T. Morris opened his business as a printer,
bookseller and stationer in 1864. In 1868 the shop was in
West Street, Bourne, where he was still trading in 1910.
The census of1881, 1891 & 1901 confirms that a
bookseller, printer, called John Thomas Morris had a
business in West St, Bourne. So now we know a bit more
about Robert's early life & training.
I found Robert's marriage reported in the Grantham Journal.(maybe the marriage record will show his occupation)
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 March 1891
MARRIAGES:
HIND-MOORE: At the Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Boston, on
the 17th inst., (By the Rev. W. Watkinshaw),
Mr. Robert HIND, of Dyke, Bourn, and Boston, to Edith Emma
MOORE, adopted daughter of Mr. J. G. Kirk, Elm House,
Boston.
17 March 1891, Robert HIND, 21, Bachelor, Stationer, of 81 West St, Boston, son of John Hind, Farmer & Edith Emma MOORE, 25, Spinster, of 35 West Street, Rock, Boston, daughter of John MOORE, Butcher, married at Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Boston in presnce of James Greenfield KIRK & Susan Louisa HIND by Wm. Watkinshaw, Wesleyan Minister.
This certificate which Gerald Calver has sent me shows that Robert, before his marriage had qualified as a stationer and was living in Boston, Lincolnshire at 81 West Street. It also gives a clue as to Edith Emma's father. Licence was also needed as I think that Robert wasn't actually 21, but 19.
My correspondent at this stage of the Hind family is Gerald Calver of Leamington Spa who with his younger brother, David, are the sons of Dorothea (Dora)Miriam born 1907 to Charles Sommerfield Hind and his wife Sarah Ann Charles I have mentioned as being a twinkle in his mother’s eye in 1881 when the Hinds moved house Dora’ brother, Robert was born in Canada in 1915 and Colonel Robert Hind we have been discussing kept in close touch with his nephew and namesake, Robert so much so that the cause of his visit in 1937 was to attend the “young” Robert’s wedding to Esther Baines, born 28th February 1917. I mention this particularly because on the 29th of February she holds her 100th birthday.
Gerald has written a book called "Hindsight", and this is is interest in the Hind family which he has prompted me to insert into this blog.
"Dora, first of all married John William Pearce in 1931 and there was one son, Terence, but the marriage ended in divorce brought by her. She then married Stanley Turton Ellis who was unsuitable according to Esther, and when Alfred Calver came on the scene she went off with him. There was no divorce but mother changed her name by Deed Poll registered in the London Gazette, just before I was born (1943), followed by my brother David".
17 March 1891, Robert HIND, 21, Bachelor, Stationer, of 81 West St, Boston, son of John Hind, Farmer & Edith Emma MOORE, 25, Spinster, of 35 West Street, Rock, Boston, daughter of John MOORE, Butcher, married at Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Boston in presnce of James Greenfield KIRK & Susan Louisa HIND by Wm. Watkinshaw, Wesleyan Minister.
This certificate which Gerald Calver has sent me shows that Robert, before his marriage had qualified as a stationer and was living in Boston, Lincolnshire at 81 West Street. It also gives a clue as to Edith Emma's father. Licence was also needed as I think that Robert wasn't actually 21, but 19.
My correspondent at this stage of the Hind family is Gerald Calver of Leamington Spa who with his younger brother, David, are the sons of Dorothea (Dora)Miriam born 1907 to Charles Sommerfield Hind and his wife Sarah Ann Charles I have mentioned as being a twinkle in his mother’s eye in 1881 when the Hinds moved house Dora’ brother, Robert was born in Canada in 1915 and Colonel Robert Hind we have been discussing kept in close touch with his nephew and namesake, Robert so much so that the cause of his visit in 1937 was to attend the “young” Robert’s wedding to Esther Baines, born 28th February 1917. I mention this particularly because on the 29th of February she holds her 100th birthday.
Gerald has written a book called "Hindsight", and this is is interest in the Hind family which he has prompted me to insert into this blog.
"Dora, first of all married John William Pearce in 1931 and there was one son, Terence, but the marriage ended in divorce brought by her. She then married Stanley Turton Ellis who was unsuitable according to Esther, and when Alfred Calver came on the scene she went off with him. There was no divorce but mother changed her name by Deed Poll registered in the London Gazette, just before I was born (1943), followed by my brother David".
So prior to his marriage Robert was living in Dyke, near
Bourn, and also in Boston. Here he has met a young woman
called Edith Emma Moore, who is described as being the
adopted daughter of Mr. J. G. KIRK of Elm House, Boston.
So lets look at Edith to see where she was born etc.
Edith Emma Moore was born 24 November 1864 & christened in Tiverton on 15 December 1864, as the daughter of John & Eliza Moore of Tiverton, father being a butcher and grocer.
This is the census for 1861 for a farm in Rackenford, Devon:
1861 Census for John Moore, Rackenford, Devon, District 12:
Lane Land: John MOORE, Head, married, 62, Farmer & Butcher, born Knowstone, Devonshire
Elizabeth MOORE, wife, married, 50, born Rackenford, Devon
John MOORE, son, unmarried, 24, Butcher & Cattle Dealer, born Rackenford, Devon
Elizabeth MOORE, daughter, Unmarried, 21, Dressmaker, born Rackenford, Devon.
Sarah Ann MOORE, daughter, 16, born Rackenford, Devon.
Emma MOORE, daughter, 10, Scholar, born Rackenford Devon
James COLES, servant, 16, Farmer servant, born Bishops Nympton,
John Moore & Eliza Moore marry in 1864 in Exeter. This is that marriage:
February 17th 1864 at St John & St George Church, Exeter, by banns, John Moore, 28, butcher, bachelor, of St Georges St., son of John Moore, butcher to Eliza Moore, 22 spinster, of St Georges Street, daughter of Richard Moore, cattle dealer. Both signed, witnesses Robert Adams (?) and Matilda Viccary (?)
Western Times - Friday 11 February 1870
DEATHS: MOORE, February 4, at Tiverton, Mr. John Moore, butcher, aged 33, much respected.
He left a will which confirms the date of death & where the family were living at that time.
MOORE, John, Probate: Effects under £300:
7 March 1870: The Will of John MOORE, late of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, Butcher, deceased, who died 4 February, 1870 at Angel Hill, Tiverton, aforesaid, was proved at Exeter by the oath of Richard Furze of Rackenford, in the County aforesaid, Yeoman, sole executor.
Edith Emma Moore was born 24 November 1864 & christened in Tiverton on 15 December 1864, as the daughter of John & Eliza Moore of Tiverton, father being a butcher and grocer.
This is the census for 1861 for a farm in Rackenford, Devon:
1861 Census for John Moore, Rackenford, Devon, District 12:
Lane Land: John MOORE, Head, married, 62, Farmer & Butcher, born Knowstone, Devonshire
Elizabeth MOORE, wife, married, 50, born Rackenford, Devon
John MOORE, son, unmarried, 24, Butcher & Cattle Dealer, born Rackenford, Devon
Elizabeth MOORE, daughter, Unmarried, 21, Dressmaker, born Rackenford, Devon.
Sarah Ann MOORE, daughter, 16, born Rackenford, Devon.
Emma MOORE, daughter, 10, Scholar, born Rackenford Devon
James COLES, servant, 16, Farmer servant, born Bishops Nympton,
John Moore & Eliza Moore marry in 1864 in Exeter. This is that marriage:
February 17th 1864 at St John & St George Church, Exeter, by banns, John Moore, 28, butcher, bachelor, of St Georges St., son of John Moore, butcher to Eliza Moore, 22 spinster, of St Georges Street, daughter of Richard Moore, cattle dealer. Both signed, witnesses Robert Adams (?) and Matilda Viccary (?)
Western Times - Friday 11 February 1870
DEATHS: MOORE, February 4, at Tiverton, Mr. John Moore, butcher, aged 33, much respected.
He left a will which confirms the date of death & where the family were living at that time.
MOORE, John, Probate: Effects under £300:
7 March 1870: The Will of John MOORE, late of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, Butcher, deceased, who died 4 February, 1870 at Angel Hill, Tiverton, aforesaid, was proved at Exeter by the oath of Richard Furze of Rackenford, in the County aforesaid, Yeoman, sole executor.
This the same farm in 1871:
1871 Census for Edith Moore, Rackenford, Devon, District
12
Lane Land: Elizabeth MOORE, widow, 60, Farmer of 37 Acres, born Rackenford, Devon
Sarah MOORE, daughter, Unmarried, 25, Farmer’s daughter, born Rackenford Devon
Edith MOORE, grand-daughter, 6, Scholar, born Tiverton, Devon
Francis Crudge, Servant, 30, Farm Servant, born Rackenford, Devon.
Lane Land: Elizabeth MOORE, widow, 60, Farmer of 37 Acres, born Rackenford, Devon
Sarah MOORE, daughter, Unmarried, 25, Farmer’s daughter, born Rackenford Devon
Edith MOORE, grand-daughter, 6, Scholar, born Tiverton, Devon
Francis Crudge, Servant, 30, Farm Servant, born Rackenford, Devon.
Note that John Moore, the farmer aged 62 in 1861 has died
leaving his widow, Elizabeth, looking after the farm, with
her daughter Sarah, aged 15 in the 1861 Census, but in 1871
, aged 25 on the farm, and a young 6 year old Edith Emma
Moore, the only Moore members of the family. So with her son
John dead, and her daughter-in-law Eliza a widow,
Grandmother Elizabeth is looking after her grand
daughter.
Meanwhile, her mother , Eliza, is 5 miles away living/staying at the farm of her uncle George Veysey, aged 43, born Rackenford, Devon.
Meanwhile, her mother , Eliza, is 5 miles away living/staying at the farm of her uncle George Veysey, aged 43, born Rackenford, Devon.
1871 England census Rose Ash, Devon, District 11
Cottage & Farm: George VEYSEY, Head, Widower, 43, Farmer of 50 acres, born Rackenford, Devon
Elizabeth VEYSEY, Daughter, Unmarried, 14, Born Creacombe, Devon
Frederick VEYSEY, son, Unmarried, 12, Born, Creacombe, Devon
Ann Veysey, Daughter, 7, Born Rose Ash, Devon
Eliza MOORE, Niece, Widow, 28, Farmer’s Daughter, Born Rackenford, Devon
And 2 servants
The name Vessey was in Eliza's family: This is her christening: Baptisms at Rackenford: in Year 1842 Page 62
Register Number: 490: January 19th, 1843, Eliza daughter of Richard & Charity MOORE, of Rackenford, Farmer, By Wm. Lomas. Her mother's maiden name was Vessey so this is their marriage.
14 Feb 1831, Richard Moore & Charity Vessey at Rackenford, Devon, England.
Cottage & Farm: George VEYSEY, Head, Widower, 43, Farmer of 50 acres, born Rackenford, Devon
Elizabeth VEYSEY, Daughter, Unmarried, 14, Born Creacombe, Devon
Frederick VEYSEY, son, Unmarried, 12, Born, Creacombe, Devon
Ann Veysey, Daughter, 7, Born Rose Ash, Devon
Eliza MOORE, Niece, Widow, 28, Farmer’s Daughter, Born Rackenford, Devon
And 2 servants
The name Vessey was in Eliza's family: This is her christening: Baptisms at Rackenford: in Year 1842 Page 62
Register Number: 490: January 19th, 1843, Eliza daughter of Richard & Charity MOORE, of Rackenford, Farmer, By Wm. Lomas. Her mother's maiden name was Vessey so this is their marriage.
14 Feb 1831, Richard Moore & Charity Vessey at Rackenford, Devon, England.
Now I think I have solved the mystery as how Edith Emma
MOORE came to be living in Boston in the home of a James
KIRK, a boot and shoe dealer.
In the December quarter of 1873, Eliza MOORE married John
KIRK in Boston, only the brief details So it's probable that
Eliza, after April 1871,who had previously been a servant
answered an advertisement for a job in the Boston area, and
moved there with Edith Emma. She meets and married John
KIRK, who it turns out to be the brother of James KIRK. The
Census of 1881 confirms this move and marriage:
1881 England census for Eliza KIRK: Boston Lincolnshire,
District 6
10 Red Lion Street, John KIRK, Head, Married, 33, Boot
Dealer, Born County Down, Ireland
Elisa KIRK, wife, Married, 38, Born Rackenford, Devon.
Margaret KIRK, Daughter, Unmarried, 22, Born Newton
Stewart, Ireland
James KIRK, son, Unmarried, 6, Scholar, born Boston,
Lincs.
Gertrude E. KIRK, Daughter, Unmarried, 3 months, Born
Boston, Lincolnshire.
So it appears in this census, that John Kirk has been
married before, with a child, and he and Eliza have 2
children, James Hugh Kirk & Gertrude Ellen KIRK.
Initially when I saw this census, I read John Kirk's
occupation as boat dealer, but then I found a court case
in 1882, which confirms that John Kirk & James KIRK
were brothers and in business together. So in the same
census, Edith Emma Moore, who is Eliza's daughter from her
first marriage at at John's brother's house in Boston.
Boston Guardian - Saturday 11 November 1882
John KIRK, the first witness said: “ I am in partnership
with my brother James Greenfield KIRK, and we carry on
business as boot and shoe makers in the Borough of Boston.
We have two places of business in the borough, one in
Dolphin-Lane and the other in the Market-place. On
Saturday October 28th, about seven or eight o’clock in the
evening, the prisoner Lizzie Poll came to our Dolphin-lane
shop. I was alone in the shop at the time. The prisoner
asked me to send two or three pairs of boots for Mrs.
Dowse. I said “Which Mrs. Dowse”? She said “Hamlet
Terrace”. I asked what size, and she replied “Fives”, I
got two pairs of boots down and asked the prisoner if they
would do. She said “I think they will”. I packed the two
pairs of boots up and made an entry in the day book, which
I now produce. I believed the prisoner to be Mrs. Dowse’s
servant. The value of the boots is 15/-. I have not
received the boots back again or payment for them. The two
pairs of boots now produced are those taken away by the
prisoner under the circumstances I have stated. Mrs. Dowse
is a customer of ours.
In the census of 1891, John Kirk is still living in Boston
with his wife Eliza and family, without Edith Emma, who of
course in that year has married Robert HIND.
1891 Census for James G Kirk, Boston Lincolnshire,
District 18
245: 35 West Road: James G KIRK, Head, married, 61,
Retired Boot and Shoe Dealer, born Belfast, Ireland
Sarah KIRK, wife, married, 48, Born Belfast, Ireland
Sarah SCOTT, Aunt, Single, 75, born Belfast, Ireland
Ruth Dickenson, Servant, 19, General Domestic Servant,
born Morton Lincolnshire
Note James is a retired Boot & Shoe Dealer, whereas
his brother John is still a boot & shoe dealer, so he
has taken over the family business.
1891 Census Eliza Kirk: Boston Lincolnshire, District 3
11 Mainridge Boston
John KIRK, head, Married, 64, Boot & Shoe Dealer,
born Ireland
Eliza KIRK, wife, Married, 48, Born Honiton, Devon
Isabella KIRK, daughter, unmarried, Single, Assistant
Boot & Shoe Dealer, born Ireland
Margaret KIRK, daughter, single, 32, Draper’s Assistant,
born Ireland
Gertrude E. KIRK, daughter, 10, Scholar, born Boston,
Lincs.
In fact, in July, 1891, James G Kirk puts
his house up for sale in the local newspaper-the Boston
Guardian:
Boston Guardian - Saturday 18 July 1891
ELM HOUSE, WEST-Road, Boston
FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY.
THAT Modern, Freehold Detached VILLA RESIDENCE, three
minutes- walk from Station, and six minutes from the
Market Place, within twenty minutes ride of the Sea
Coast. The situation is the pleasantest in the suburbs,
with Splendid Woodland Scenery. The house contains
Entrance Hall, Breakfast, Dining and Drawing Rooms, and
Kitchen with modern cooking Range, Four Bed and Dressing
Rooms, Front, Side, and Kitchen Entrances. The
well-stocked Fruit, Flower and Kitchen Gardens furnish a
background to a well-laid out lawn, dotted with rose and
other trees.
A modern Hot-House, replete with water pipes and air
slides. The premises throughout enjoy every necessary
conveniences. Apply to the Owner, J. G. KIRK, who is
leaving the district.
In fact this advert didn't work, so James put his house up
for auction instead:
Boston Guardian - Saturday 07 November 1891
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT THE Red Lion Hotel, Boston on
Tuesday 17th day of November at 6 or 7 pm. The
following very valuable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE and COTTAGE
PROPERTY
LOT 1 A roomy and convenient DWELLING HOUSE, called Elm
HOUSE, very pleasantly situated at the corner of Carlton
Road and containing spacious entrance Hall, Dining and
Drawing Rooms, 2 Kitchens, Pantry, and 4 bedrooms, one
with Dressing Room, attached, also a greenhouse,
Conservatory, and Garden in the rear, and now in
occupation of Mr. J G KIRK.
However on the day of the auction with the bidding
reaching £560 James withdrew it from the auction. However
it went up for sale again on Thursday September 29th 1892,
according to the Boston Guardian 17 September 1892.
And it was up for sale again in 1893, according to the
Boston Guardian of 10 June 1893.
Then it was up for sale again in 1894, according to the
Boston Guardian of 21 April 1894, the same house with the
same description but now owned not by J G Kirk but by the
Rev. S. F. L. BERNAYS., so it looks it became a
vicarage/Rectory.
I think that James KIRK then goes to Dewsbury, and joins
Edith Emma & her husband at their stationer's shop.
James died in Dewsbury 20 February 1910, aged 80.
Meanwhile, John Kirk & his family stay in Boston, but
by 1901 they are in Norwich, and in there 10 years later
in 1911.
So now we can get back to Robert HIND who we last found in Dewsbury in 1891, married to Edith Emma Moore, and working as a stationer in a shop in the Market Place, in Dewsbury. The Census record states Robert was head of the household, with his brother Thomas as his assistant.
Now to turn to that obituary published in 1943:
"The eldest son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, he was educated at Gosberton Hall School and went to South Africa 50 years ago where he took up journalism"
So do we take it he went to South Africa in 1893, to take up a post as a journalist with the "Eastern Province Herald" at Port Elizabeth? Before he went, however, his wife Edith Emma produced a daughter called Sophia Irene Hind born 29 March 1892 in Dewsbury.
It appears that Robert has decided to give up the stationers shop in Dewsbury and start a new career as a journalist with a South African Newspaper. Certainly he never appears on any of the English Census again although he does pop back again to England from time to time, but mostly to see his Hind relatives as opposed to his family in Dewsbury or elsewhere; again that obituary states " On his frequent visits to the homeland he made his home with Mr. Joseph Hind, farmer of South Witham. Even though his wife Edith and daughter were still living in Dewsbury at least up to 1911.
Certainly whilst in South Africa he joined the British Army and fought in the Boer War which started on 11 October 1899.
I did find several in articles in both national and local newspapers concerning a Colonel Hind's activities fighting the war, but none of the articles I found mention the full name of the Colonel HIND or which regiment he was commander, so I cannot be sure of their veracity. I am sure that he joined the war from South Africa; I did see an article that said many of the volunteers that joined the war in Natal were British people resident in that province as opposed to regular soldiers from Britain. So I think I would be more reliant on reports in South African newspapers rather than our British ones. Here are some articles I have found in newspapers about Colonel Hind in the Boer War. Colonel Robert HIND involved in the Boer War: Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Monday NOVEMBER 97, 1899. LATEST NEWS OF THE WAR. (BY PRIVATE WIRE.) THE FIGHTING NEARESTCOURT. THE INVASION OF CAPE COLONY. BOERS CAPTURE A MAGAZINE (Press Association War Special.) The Press Association is indebted to the courtesy of the ‘Times” for the following telegrams. from the seat of war from their special correspondents:- ESTCOURT, Wednesday (by runner, via Mooi River, Friday). For several days Boers have been reported in large parties south of Estcourt. An isolated force, 1,000 strong, with two guns, is reported be on the hills, six or seven miles east of Willow Grange. On Monday night a mixed force was assembled at Willow Grange, under Colonel Hind. The original intention of a night attack was deferred till morning, when General Hildyard arrived, and a reconnaissance force was undertaken. After approaching within two miles of the Boer position on low hills the infantry returned to Willow Grange, the mounted infantry remaining. At 4-30 the Boers were reported be close to our pickets west of Willow Grange, and about 200 were clearly visible on the high hills two miles away. Our infantry occupied a, strong height above the station, which gave excellent cover, but it was too steep get up the covering the withdrawal of the infantry. At seven o'clock, a large mixed force marched out of Estcourt to protect the retreating body. Communication is interrupted. Dublin Daily Nation - Tuesday 28 November 1899 A “Times” telegram despatched from Estcourt on Wednesday (by runner, via Mooi River, Friday), states:—For several days the Boers have been reported in large parties south of Estcourt. An isolated force, one thousand strong, with two guns, is reported to be on the hills six or seven miles east of Willow Grange. On Monday night a mixed force was assembled at Willow Grange, under Colonel Hind. The original intention of a night attack was deferred till the morning, when General Hildyard arrived, and a reconnaissance in force was undertaken. After approaching within two miles of the Boer position on low hills the infantry returned to Willow Grange, the mounted infantry remaining. At 4.30 Boers were reported to be close to our pickets, west of Willow Grange, and about 200 were clearly visible on the high hills two miles away. Our infantry occupied a stony height above the station, which gave excellent cover, but it was too steep to get up the naval guns. At 5.30 Colonel Hind decided to retreat in order to avoid being surrounded by two forces. The mounted infantry returned, covering the withdrawls, of the infantry. At seven a large mixed force marched out of Estcourt to protect the retreating body. Communication is interrupted. The line believed to be broken in two places on this side of the Mooi River. Certainly after the war had finished, articles about Robert start to appear in the local press of Lincolnshire concerning his various appointments in South Africa, and his trips home, but none of these articles ever mention his wife and family, just his mother and brothers in Morton and Bourne.
Perhaps this photograph of Robert in South Africa gives us further reason why he never returned to his wife & family in Dewsbury.
In 1907, Robert made his first return to Morton from South Africa:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 20 July 1907
Mr. Robert HIND is expected to arrive at Southampton this morning by the R.M.S. “Kinfanns Castle” from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, after an absence of some sixteen years. Mr. HIND is a son of the late John HIND of Morton, and was born at Rippingale some thirty-six years ago. He is editor of the “Eastern Province Herald”, the principal proprietor of which is the Honourable Edgar Walton, M.L.A, Treasurer General of Cape Colony, and a brother of Sir J. Lawson Walton, Attorney General of England. Mr. HIND is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Justice of the Peace, and an Agent-at-Law. He will make his headquarters at Morton during his brief stay amongst his own people.
So he stayed with family in Morton, not his wife & child, and left again in October.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 05 October 1907
MORTON
Mr. Robert HIND, J P., who has been spending his holiday with his mother and brothers in this village, returns to South Africa by R. M. S. Kinfauna Castle on Saturday sailing from Southampton Docks on the afternoon of that day.
Lincolnshire Free Press - Tuesday 23 May 1911
News reached this village on Saturday that Mr. Robert HIND, J. P., associate editor of “The Journal”, Grahamstown, and vice-president of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, is coming over in the Kenilworth Castle on a visit to his mother and brothers who farm here and in the Fens. It is four years since Mr. HIND visited England, and nearly twenty-five since he completed his apprenticeship with Mr. J. T. Morris of Bourne.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 16 October 1937
OFF TO SOUTH AFRICA:
Mr Robert HIND, J.P., returns to South Africa on the “City of Nagpur”, leaving the Royal Albert Docks today. Mr. and Mrs Joseph HIND entertained a large family party at the Manor House at the weekend to say farewell to the returning South African, and amongst those present were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HIND from Yorkshire, Mrs. E. C. SNEATH and her daughter, from Lincoln. Councillor J. Duke HIND and Mrs HIND, and Mr. and Mrs Henry HIND, together with nephews and nieces. Mr and Mrs Joseph HIND, of the Manor House, have left for London to see their brother sail.
So after this date, comes his death in 1943, which is covered by that obituary.
Grantham Journal - Friday 27 August 1943
Robert Hind son of J Duke HIND-death
EDITOR IN SOUTH AFRICA
Morton Native Dies In Cape Town
SERVED AS COLONEL IN BOER WAR
The death occurred at Cape Town on August 13th of Mr. Robert Hind. J.P.. brother of Mr. J. Duke Hind, of South Wltham. The eldest son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, he was educated at Gosberton Hall school and went to South Africa 50 years ago, where he took up journalism, and for many years was on the staff of the “ Eastern Province Herald," Port Elizabeth, later becoming editor of the Grahamstown Journal." He was a Justice the Peace. Fellow of the Statistical Society, and attorney, and took great Interest In education, being either chairman or a governor of several schools: also a visitor to hospitals. A colonel in the Boer War, he was among the first to enter Ladysmith after the siege, and rode into Pretoria with Lord Roberts. During that time he met Mr. Winston Churchill and travelled with him. Deceased knew all the leading statesmen, including Cecil Rhodes, General Botha and the present premier, General Smuts. A prominent Freemason, he passed through the offices, while he was also past Grand Master of the Buffalo Lodge, Port Elizabeth. On his frequent visits to the homeland he made his home with Mr. Joseph Hind, farmer, of South With
So the next member of the family is his younger brother Thomas HIND, who we last met in the 1891 Census as living in Dewsbury and working in his brother's shop as an assistant in the stationer's shop in the Market Place, Dewsbury. Apart from the Census entries I can't find much about Thomas. Just wonder if he too served an apprenticeship with John Thomas Morris of Bourne. Anyway as we have seen in 1891 he was in Dewsbury, in 1901, he was in Huddersfield, living at the home of the Jagger family as a lodger with his brother Charles Sommerfield Hind.
1901 Census for Thomas HIND, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, District 12
15 Springwood St: Emily Jagger, head, Widow, 49, Born Frome Somerset
Hilda Jagger, daughter, 22, Dressmaker, Born Huddersfield, Yorks.
Hubert Jagger, Son, single, 20, Fitter, Born, Huddersfield, Yorks.
Thomas HIND, Boarder, single, 28, Printer & Stationer, Employer, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Albert MOUNTAIN, Boarder, single, 41, Waiter, Worker, Born Flockton, Yorks.
Pharoah J Robinson, Boarder, Shop Assistant, Worker, Born Bradford, Yorks.
Albert BRIGGS, Boarder, Single, 23, Manager, Worker, born Penistone, Yorks.
Charles S HIND, Boarder, Single, 19, Stationer’s Shop Assistant, born Morton, Lincs.
10 years later he is in the same house in Huddersfield, though most of the Jagger family have left 15 Springwood Street, including his brother Charles Sommerfield HIND, so the entry for that year is:-
So now we can get back to Robert HIND who we last found in Dewsbury in 1891, married to Edith Emma Moore, and working as a stationer in a shop in the Market Place, in Dewsbury. The Census record states Robert was head of the household, with his brother Thomas as his assistant.
Now to turn to that obituary published in 1943:
"The eldest son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, he was educated at Gosberton Hall School and went to South Africa 50 years ago where he took up journalism"
So do we take it he went to South Africa in 1893, to take up a post as a journalist with the "Eastern Province Herald" at Port Elizabeth? Before he went, however, his wife Edith Emma produced a daughter called Sophia Irene Hind born 29 March 1892 in Dewsbury.
It appears that Robert has decided to give up the stationers shop in Dewsbury and start a new career as a journalist with a South African Newspaper. Certainly he never appears on any of the English Census again although he does pop back again to England from time to time, but mostly to see his Hind relatives as opposed to his family in Dewsbury or elsewhere; again that obituary states " On his frequent visits to the homeland he made his home with Mr. Joseph Hind, farmer of South Witham. Even though his wife Edith and daughter were still living in Dewsbury at least up to 1911.
Certainly whilst in South Africa he joined the British Army and fought in the Boer War which started on 11 October 1899.
I did find several in articles in both national and local newspapers concerning a Colonel Hind's activities fighting the war, but none of the articles I found mention the full name of the Colonel HIND or which regiment he was commander, so I cannot be sure of their veracity. I am sure that he joined the war from South Africa; I did see an article that said many of the volunteers that joined the war in Natal were British people resident in that province as opposed to regular soldiers from Britain. So I think I would be more reliant on reports in South African newspapers rather than our British ones. Here are some articles I have found in newspapers about Colonel Hind in the Boer War. Colonel Robert HIND involved in the Boer War: Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Monday NOVEMBER 97, 1899. LATEST NEWS OF THE WAR. (BY PRIVATE WIRE.) THE FIGHTING NEARESTCOURT. THE INVASION OF CAPE COLONY. BOERS CAPTURE A MAGAZINE (Press Association War Special.) The Press Association is indebted to the courtesy of the ‘Times” for the following telegrams. from the seat of war from their special correspondents:- ESTCOURT, Wednesday (by runner, via Mooi River, Friday). For several days Boers have been reported in large parties south of Estcourt. An isolated force, 1,000 strong, with two guns, is reported be on the hills, six or seven miles east of Willow Grange. On Monday night a mixed force was assembled at Willow Grange, under Colonel Hind. The original intention of a night attack was deferred till morning, when General Hildyard arrived, and a reconnaissance force was undertaken. After approaching within two miles of the Boer position on low hills the infantry returned to Willow Grange, the mounted infantry remaining. At 4-30 the Boers were reported be close to our pickets west of Willow Grange, and about 200 were clearly visible on the high hills two miles away. Our infantry occupied a, strong height above the station, which gave excellent cover, but it was too steep get up the covering the withdrawal of the infantry. At seven o'clock, a large mixed force marched out of Estcourt to protect the retreating body. Communication is interrupted. Dublin Daily Nation - Tuesday 28 November 1899 A “Times” telegram despatched from Estcourt on Wednesday (by runner, via Mooi River, Friday), states:—For several days the Boers have been reported in large parties south of Estcourt. An isolated force, one thousand strong, with two guns, is reported to be on the hills six or seven miles east of Willow Grange. On Monday night a mixed force was assembled at Willow Grange, under Colonel Hind. The original intention of a night attack was deferred till the morning, when General Hildyard arrived, and a reconnaissance in force was undertaken. After approaching within two miles of the Boer position on low hills the infantry returned to Willow Grange, the mounted infantry remaining. At 4.30 Boers were reported to be close to our pickets, west of Willow Grange, and about 200 were clearly visible on the high hills two miles away. Our infantry occupied a stony height above the station, which gave excellent cover, but it was too steep to get up the naval guns. At 5.30 Colonel Hind decided to retreat in order to avoid being surrounded by two forces. The mounted infantry returned, covering the withdrawls, of the infantry. At seven a large mixed force marched out of Estcourt to protect the retreating body. Communication is interrupted. The line believed to be broken in two places on this side of the Mooi River. Certainly after the war had finished, articles about Robert start to appear in the local press of Lincolnshire concerning his various appointments in South Africa, and his trips home, but none of these articles ever mention his wife and family, just his mother and brothers in Morton and Bourne.
Perhaps this photograph of Robert in South Africa gives us further reason why he never returned to his wife & family in Dewsbury.
This photograph supplied by Gerald Calver, from Eastern
Herald, South Africa, shows our Robert Hind sitting with
some men and a lady who is entitled his girlfriend-not
his wife, he never seems to have gotten a divorce.
In 1907, Robert made his first return to Morton from South Africa:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 20 July 1907
Mr. Robert HIND is expected to arrive at Southampton this morning by the R.M.S. “Kinfanns Castle” from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, after an absence of some sixteen years. Mr. HIND is a son of the late John HIND of Morton, and was born at Rippingale some thirty-six years ago. He is editor of the “Eastern Province Herald”, the principal proprietor of which is the Honourable Edgar Walton, M.L.A, Treasurer General of Cape Colony, and a brother of Sir J. Lawson Walton, Attorney General of England. Mr. HIND is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Justice of the Peace, and an Agent-at-Law. He will make his headquarters at Morton during his brief stay amongst his own people.
So he stayed with family in Morton, not his wife & child, and left again in October.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 05 October 1907
MORTON
Mr. Robert HIND, J P., who has been spending his holiday with his mother and brothers in this village, returns to South Africa by R. M. S. Kinfauna Castle on Saturday sailing from Southampton Docks on the afternoon of that day.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 March 1908
MORTON: The news arrived from South Africa that Mr. Robert HIND, J. P. whose mother and brothers farm in this village, who for many years was managing editor of the Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth), had been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal, Grahamstown, Cape Colony. This makes the second occasion Mr. HIND has succeeded an editor, who was also Member of Parliament. 1904, when the Hon. Edgar Walton, M.L.A. (brother of the Attoney general of England), joined the Jameson Missionary as Treasurer-General, Mr. HIND succeeded the hon gentleman as editor of the East Province Herald Mr. HIND now succeeds Mr. Josiah Slater J.P., B.A., M.L.A., as editor of the Journal which by the way is the oldest established paper in Africa, the first issue appearing as long ago as 1831.
MORTON: The news arrived from South Africa that Mr. Robert HIND, J. P. whose mother and brothers farm in this village, who for many years was managing editor of the Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth), had been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal, Grahamstown, Cape Colony. This makes the second occasion Mr. HIND has succeeded an editor, who was also Member of Parliament. 1904, when the Hon. Edgar Walton, M.L.A. (brother of the Attoney general of England), joined the Jameson Missionary as Treasurer-General, Mr. HIND succeeded the hon gentleman as editor of the East Province Herald Mr. HIND now succeeds Mr. Josiah Slater J.P., B.A., M.L.A., as editor of the Journal which by the way is the oldest established paper in Africa, the first issue appearing as long ago as 1831.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 August 1909
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE Governmental Gazette, of July
23rd, contains the following: “His Excellency the
Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint Mr.
Robert HIND, J. P., a justice of the Peace for the
district of Albany” Mr. HIND, is the eldest son of Mrs
John HINDS, of this village. He visited this country
in 1907. He is also a justice of the peace for the
district of Port Elizabeth, and a fellow of the Royal
Statistical Society of England.
News reached this village on Saturday that Mr. Robert HIND, J. P., associate editor of “The Journal”, Grahamstown, and vice-president of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, is coming over in the Kenilworth Castle on a visit to his mother and brothers who farm here and in the Fens. It is four years since Mr. HIND visited England, and nearly twenty-five since he completed his apprenticeship with Mr. J. T. Morris of Bourne.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 27 May 1911
MORTON
A CORONATION VISITOR- Amongst the many Colonists who are coming to England for the Coronation from South Africa is Mr. Robert HIND, J. P., Editor of the Grahamstown Journal, and a partner in the firm of Messrs. Salter and Company, newspaper proprietors and manufacturing stationers, of Grahamstown, in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. HIND is Vice-President of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, a Justice of the Peace, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. In the city win which he dwells, Mr. HIND is a member of the Albany and Grahamstown Clubs, a member of the Executive Committee and the Committee of management of the Eastern Province Auto-Mobile Association, Vice President and Treasurer of the Eastern Province Association (a non-party political institution, having for its object the recognition of the rights of the people of the Eastern Districts of the Cape Province self-government). Mr. HIND’s mother and brothers are farmer in this village, and are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the R.M.S. Kenilworth Castle.
MORTON
A CORONATION VISITOR- Amongst the many Colonists who are coming to England for the Coronation from South Africa is Mr. Robert HIND, J. P., Editor of the Grahamstown Journal, and a partner in the firm of Messrs. Salter and Company, newspaper proprietors and manufacturing stationers, of Grahamstown, in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. HIND is Vice-President of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, a Justice of the Peace, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. In the city win which he dwells, Mr. HIND is a member of the Albany and Grahamstown Clubs, a member of the Executive Committee and the Committee of management of the Eastern Province Auto-Mobile Association, Vice President and Treasurer of the Eastern Province Association (a non-party political institution, having for its object the recognition of the rights of the people of the Eastern Districts of the Cape Province self-government). Mr. HIND’s mother and brothers are farmer in this village, and are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the R.M.S. Kenilworth Castle.
OFF TO SOUTH AFRICA:
Mr Robert HIND, J.P., returns to South Africa on the “City of Nagpur”, leaving the Royal Albert Docks today. Mr. and Mrs Joseph HIND entertained a large family party at the Manor House at the weekend to say farewell to the returning South African, and amongst those present were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HIND from Yorkshire, Mrs. E. C. SNEATH and her daughter, from Lincoln. Councillor J. Duke HIND and Mrs HIND, and Mr. and Mrs Henry HIND, together with nephews and nieces. Mr and Mrs Joseph HIND, of the Manor House, have left for London to see their brother sail.
So after this date, comes his death in 1943, which is covered by that obituary.
Grantham Journal - Friday 27 August 1943
Robert Hind son of J Duke HIND-death
EDITOR IN SOUTH AFRICA
Morton Native Dies In Cape Town
SERVED AS COLONEL IN BOER WAR
The death occurred at Cape Town on August 13th of Mr. Robert Hind. J.P.. brother of Mr. J. Duke Hind, of South Wltham. The eldest son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, he was educated at Gosberton Hall school and went to South Africa 50 years ago, where he took up journalism, and for many years was on the staff of the “ Eastern Province Herald," Port Elizabeth, later becoming editor of the Grahamstown Journal." He was a Justice the Peace. Fellow of the Statistical Society, and attorney, and took great Interest In education, being either chairman or a governor of several schools: also a visitor to hospitals. A colonel in the Boer War, he was among the first to enter Ladysmith after the siege, and rode into Pretoria with Lord Roberts. During that time he met Mr. Winston Churchill and travelled with him. Deceased knew all the leading statesmen, including Cecil Rhodes, General Botha and the present premier, General Smuts. A prominent Freemason, he passed through the offices, while he was also past Grand Master of the Buffalo Lodge, Port Elizabeth. On his frequent visits to the homeland he made his home with Mr. Joseph Hind, farmer, of South With
So the next member of the family is his younger brother Thomas HIND, who we last met in the 1891 Census as living in Dewsbury and working in his brother's shop as an assistant in the stationer's shop in the Market Place, Dewsbury. Apart from the Census entries I can't find much about Thomas. Just wonder if he too served an apprenticeship with John Thomas Morris of Bourne. Anyway as we have seen in 1891 he was in Dewsbury, in 1901, he was in Huddersfield, living at the home of the Jagger family as a lodger with his brother Charles Sommerfield Hind.
1901 Census for Thomas HIND, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, District 12
15 Springwood St: Emily Jagger, head, Widow, 49, Born Frome Somerset
Hilda Jagger, daughter, 22, Dressmaker, Born Huddersfield, Yorks.
Hubert Jagger, Son, single, 20, Fitter, Born, Huddersfield, Yorks.
Thomas HIND, Boarder, single, 28, Printer & Stationer, Employer, born Rippingale, Lincolnshire
Albert MOUNTAIN, Boarder, single, 41, Waiter, Worker, Born Flockton, Yorks.
Pharoah J Robinson, Boarder, Shop Assistant, Worker, Born Bradford, Yorks.
Albert BRIGGS, Boarder, Single, 23, Manager, Worker, born Penistone, Yorks.
Charles S HIND, Boarder, Single, 19, Stationer’s Shop Assistant, born Morton, Lincs.
10 years later he is in the same house in Huddersfield, though most of the Jagger family have left 15 Springwood Street, including his brother Charles Sommerfield HIND, so the entry for that year is:-
1911 Census for Thomas HIND
Huddersfield, West Riding District 37
15 Springwood St, Huddersfield
Emily JAGGER, 59, Head, widow, Boarding House Keeper,
Employer, born Frome, Somerset.
Albert MOUNTAIN, Boarder, 52,single, Butten, Hotel
& Club, born Flockton, Yorks.
Thomas HIND, Boarder, 38, Single, Stationer, Shop
In the December quarter of 1916, he married Janet
Glendinning. She was the person who read the poem called
"Golden Lines" at the wedding of Alberta Sophia HIND to
Thomas Oliver on 20th April 1899. Janet was a school
mistress, a headteacher of Deighton Infants School in
1900-she had her salary increased from £85-90 in that
year. In the 1911 Census she is living with her widowed
mother Martha, a head teacher.
After that census I can't find out much about him at
all, except news of his death and his will such as it
was.
Grantham Journal - Friday 25 June 1943
DEATHS: HIND On June 13th, 1943, suddenly at his home,
Carr Hill, Huddersfield, Thomas, second son of the
late John Hind of Morton, in his 71st year.
HIND Thomas of Carr Hill Cottage, Cumberworth,
Huddersfield, died June 13th, 1943, Probate, Wakefield,
23 July to Janet HIND, widow. Effects £32 10s. His wife,
Janet died in the same year:
HIND, Janet, of 96 New North Road Huddersfield, widow, died 9 September 1943 Probate Wakefield, 21 October to Herbert Glendinning, retired bank manager and George Glendinning, woollen cloth manufacturer. Effects £1663 8s 11d.
HIND, Janet, of 96 New North Road Huddersfield, widow, died 9 September 1943 Probate Wakefield, 21 October to Herbert Glendinning, retired bank manager and George Glendinning, woollen cloth manufacturer. Effects £1663 8s 11d.
Thomas's sister Alberta Sophia is the next HIND family
member to consider.When Alberta Sophia Hind was born in
October 1874 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire, her father,
John, was 32, and her mother, Louisa, was 27. She
was born in the October quarter of 1874 in Hanthorpe,
near Morton, Lincolnshire. Alberta Sophia was the first
child to be born on the farm at Hanthorpe worked
by her father John HIND. He, if you remember, had
inherited/taken over his uncle Robert's farm, when he
died on 16 August 1872, who as well as being a farmer
was the landlord of the Bull Inn, at Rippingale. I am
not quite sure where in Hanthorpe was this farm-I
suppose if I had the will of Robert HIND it might say
where the farm was, but Alberta's brother John was born
in Morton in 1876, so that must be a different farm to
that one where Alberta Sophia was born. I can understand
where the name Sophia came from-that was her
grand-mother's forename( Sophia Mayhew).
Her brother John was born on 17 March 1876 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 1 year old.Her brother George William was born in October 1877 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 3 years old.Her brother Henry was born in 1879 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 5 years old.Her brother James Duke was born in July 1880 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 5 years old. Her brother Charles Sommerfield was born in July 1881 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 6 years old.
In the 1881 Census, she is living at a farm of 95 acres, where her father John employs 3 men. Again the location of this farm is not known-it may have been on the Fen somewhere. But in 1891 census it appears to be in the centre of the village of Morton, not out on the Fen which was to the west.
Below is a map of the village of Hanthorpe & Morton surveyed in 1887 & published in 1888 from NLS Maps.http://maps.nls.uk/view/101591018
Her brother John was born on 17 March 1876 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 1 year old.Her brother George William was born in October 1877 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 3 years old.Her brother Henry was born in 1879 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 5 years old.Her brother James Duke was born in July 1880 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 5 years old. Her brother Charles Sommerfield was born in July 1881 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 6 years old.
In the 1881 Census, she is living at a farm of 95 acres, where her father John employs 3 men. Again the location of this farm is not known-it may have been on the Fen somewhere. But in 1891 census it appears to be in the centre of the village of Morton, not out on the Fen which was to the west.
Below is a map of the village of Hanthorpe & Morton surveyed in 1887 & published in 1888 from NLS Maps.http://maps.nls.uk/view/101591018
If you look carefully you will see the name SMITHY
In the 1891 census, John HIND's farm is next to a blacksmith shop. This is the census page.
So his farm must be near the Smithy. The farm was called
Morton Fen Farm-a couple of newspaper articles seem to
confirm this.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 March 1885
BOURN COUNTY COURT:
Wm. Baxter, innkeeper, of Morton, v R. Dixon Olvey, (foreman to Mr. John HIND, farmer), Morton Fen.
BOURNE CATTLE MARKET: April, 1901. 130 Long wool Ewes, and a well-bred Lincoln Red Bull, bred by Mr. Langham, on the property of Mr. John Hind of Morton. They are sold in consequence of Mr. Hind giving up his fen farm to his sons and consequently giving up breeding sheep.
So more about Alberta Sophia first of all:
Her sister Mary was born in 1884 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 10 years old.
In the 1891 census, John HIND's farm is next to a blacksmith shop. This is the census page.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 March 1885
BOURN COUNTY COURT:
Wm. Baxter, innkeeper, of Morton, v R. Dixon Olvey, (foreman to Mr. John HIND, farmer), Morton Fen.
BOURNE CATTLE MARKET: April, 1901. 130 Long wool Ewes, and a well-bred Lincoln Red Bull, bred by Mr. Langham, on the property of Mr. John Hind of Morton. They are sold in consequence of Mr. Hind giving up his fen farm to his sons and consequently giving up breeding sheep.
So more about Alberta Sophia first of all:
Her sister Mary was born in 1884 in Morton, Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 10 years old.
Her brother Joseph was born in 1889 in Morton,
Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 15 years old.
Her brother Joseph was born in 1889 in Morton,
Lincolnshire, when Alberta Sophia was 15 years old.
When you look on the 1891 page above you wont find
Alberta Sophia HIND, because on the day of the Census 5
April, 1891, she was at her school in Market Deeping.
This was called Surbiton House and was run by the Misses
Flack. Alberta would have had the opportunity to learn a
variety of subjects in a Ladies Boarding School as these
advertisements show:
Stamford Mercury - Friday 02 April 1880
SURBITON HOUSE, MARKET DEEPING
LADIES’ BOARDING SCHOOL, CONDUCTED BY Misses FLACK.
The domestic arrangements under the management of Mrs.
Flack. Subjects taught-English, French, Music,
Singing, Drawing and painting. The house is large and
airy, with grounds and Garden attached. The ensuing
term commences March 30th.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 30 July 1886
LADIES BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL, SURBITON HOUSE, MARKET
DEEPING.
The Misses FLACK beg to announce that the duties of
their school will be resumed (D.V.) August 3rd.
Special attention is paid to the French & German
Languages, to Drawing, and Painting in Water and Oil
colours. A Resident Foreign Governess. Vacancies for
Boarders. Private Lessons given in the
Accomplishments. Pupils prepared for the Oxford and
Cambridge Exams if wished. References and Prospectus
on Application.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 27 January 1888
SURBITON HOUSE, MARKET DEEPING
The Misses Flack beg to announce that the next term
will commence (D.V.) Jan 27th, 1888.
Subjects taught-English, French, German, Latin,
Drawing, Painting in water and oil colours, Music,
Calisthenics and dancing. Large House, Extensive
grounds; German Governess, Vacancies for Boarders.
Private Lessons given in Accomplishments. References
permitted to professional gentlemen and to parents of
pupils.
The Misses Flack were Mary & Elizabeth & their
mother was also called Mary.
This is the school in the census:
Here is Alberta Sophia at the school:
Alberta must have finished school not long after this
census, and returned to home in Morton.
We know she attended the wedding of her sister Susan
Louisa to Edwin Cartwright SNEATH on 23 June 1898,
because that was where she met her future husband Thomas
Oliver who was Edwin's best man. Remember the poem
Golden Lines which was read at her wedding-
This is her wedding to Thomas Alfred Oliver from
Grantham Journal:
Marriage of Alberta Sophia HIND & Thomas Alfred
Oliver 20 April, 1899
(Grantham Journal 29 April, 1899)
AN ATTRACTIVE WEDDING:-This village was en fete
on Thursday, the 20th inst., on the occasion of
the marriage of Miss Alberta Sophia HIND, second
daughter of Mr. John HIND, to Mr. T. A. OLIVER, of
Evedon, Sleaford. The ceremony took place in the
Wesleyan Chapel, which was most tastefully
decorated, whilst the building was packed with
interested spectators, all anxious to get a
glimpse of the bridal party. The guests began to
arrive by 10.30, and about 10.45 the bridegroom,
attended by his brother, Mr. W. Oliver (who acted
as best man), drove up, followed soon afterwards
by the two bridesmaids. Miss M. HIND, sister, and
Miss Oliver, who were charmingly attired in pale
blue gowns, with large white hats, and carried
lovely bouquets of white flowers, with white
streamers. The youthful sister of the bride also
attended her, prettily dressed in white, and
carrying a basket of white flowers. The bride,
accompanied by her father (who gave her away),
arrived shortly before eleven. She was exquisitely
gowned in ivory white Bengaline silk, with
trimmings of white ribbon and ostrich feathers.
During the signing of the register, Mr. Mower
presided at the organ, and the Wedding March.
After luncheon, and the usual toasts having been
proposed and responded to the happy pair left for
London, en route for the Isle of Wight, where the
honeymoon is being spent. The bride wore a very
becoming brown costume for her going-away dress.
The following is a list of the guests:- Mr. and
Mrs. HIND (parents of the bride), Messrs. Thomas
John, George, Henry, James Duke, Charles and
Joseph HIND (brothers of the bride), and Misses
Mary & Frances Miriam HIND (sisters), Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver, Hawksworth (parents of the
bridegroom), Mr. Will Oliver, (brother of the
bridegroom), Miss Oliver (sister), officiating
ministers-Rev. H. Brown, Bourne, and Rev. T. H.
Richards, Burton-on-Trent: Mr. and Mrs. Butler,
Miss Lucy Butler, Bulby; Mr. and Mrs. Jehu Butler,
Morton; Miss Creasey, Hanthorpe; Mr. and Mrs.
Dixon, Newark; Mr. and Mrs. Elvidge, Hanthorpe;
Miss Glendenning, Huddersfield; Mrs Green, Dyke;
Mr. and Mrs. Garwood, Thurlby; Mr. and Mrs Horn,
Miss Horn, Manthorpe; Misses Holland (3),
Horbling; Mr. R. HIND, Bourne; Mr. Hobson, Bourne;
Miss Jackson, Hanthorpe; Mr, and Mrs. Kelham,
Bourne; Mr. and Mrs. Mower, Morton; Mrs. And Miss
Summerfield; Mr. G. H. D. Summerfield, Dyke; Mr.
H. A. Sneath, Thurlby; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Sneath,
Miss Sneath, Brant Broughton; Miss Upton,
Alvaston; Mr. and Mrs. R. Williamson, Pinchbeck;
Miss Woods, Brant Broughton; Miss Woods,
Gosberton; and Mr. and Mrs. Welch, Rauceby.
The presents were numerous, handsome, and costly,
and included the following:- Cheque, piano and
stool, dining room carpet, bedroom suite, silver
tea service, silver teapot, silver egg-stand,
silver toast rack, silver knife rests, silver
mounted butter-dish, silver-mounted
potted-meat dish, silver-mounted jam dish,
suite of table silver, three wooden bread-boards,
set of carvers and steel, wood coal vase, three
japanned ditto, combined clock and barometer,
china milk suite, portmanteau, dressing case,
suite of dining-room furniture, flower vase, table
lamp, hand-painted antimacassar, pair wool mats,
pair salt-cellars, silver serviette ring, pair
china dessert plates, pair glass pickle-jars, pair
milk jugs, worked table centre, copper kettle,
tray cloth, two letter-racks, overmantel, carriage
rug, skin hearth-rug, hand-mirror, half-dozen
egg-cups, two call-bells, china timepiece, brush
rack and mirror, Browning’s poems, Canterbury,
photo frame, two glass jugs, volume “Christ and
the Home”, salad-bowl, d’oyleys, three damask
table-cloths, china cruet, two cheese dishes,
toilet set (double), toilet set (single), three
oil-paintings, two water-colours, two sets
toilet-mats, pair iron holders, four glass fruit
dishes, two toilet covers, set of fire-brasses,
kitchen fire-irons and sifter (hand-made), fancy
bracket, pair goose-down pillows, two
bread-knives, table cutlery, two pairs silver
sugar tongs, silver bread-knife, silver
sardine-fork, dozen silver teaspoons, silver
sugar-sifter, three silver jam spoons, two silver
butter-knives, three cushions, two sets
water-jugs, china hot-water jug, china teapot,
china cake-dish, china fruit-dish, china
flower-stand, bent iron ornaments, four pars
vases, four crumb trays, and brushes, set of
dinner-mats, glass fruit dish etc. On the day
following, the members of the Wesleyan Church,
Morton, together with the employees of Mr. Hind,
their wives, and families, were entertained to a
first-class tea, followed by speeches, songs,
recitations, etc. a very enjoyable evening being
closed by the singing of the Doxology. A romantic
interest is attached to this wedding from the fact
that ten month’s previously, at her sister’s
wedding, the bride, who was officiating as chief
bridesmaid, met her husband, who was acting as
best man: the bride on that occasion (Miss S. L.
HIND) and the groom (Mr. E. C. SNEATH), having met
about seven months previously, under similar
circumstances at the wedding of a relative. These
series of weddings have been the subject of the
following effusion from the pen of the Rev Jabez
Marratt, Wesleyan Minister, Chorlton-cum-Hardy,
Manchester, an uncle of E. C. SNEATH, which was
read on the wedding evening, at the supper-table,
by Miss Glendenning, one of the guests:-
GOLDEN LINES
A marriage; and Cartwright Sneath was there,
Looking on maidens with features fair,
And adding to their own loveliness
The chastened splendour of bridal dress.
He saw them in charming cluster stand,
The roses and lilies of the land,
And one of them, in that gladsome hour,
Won his heart as by magic power-
Susan Louisa HIND her name,
And her presence there was a living flame,
Which threw, though the month was November
dim,
A summer-like radiance over him.
He saw her intent on sweet service beside
The inly-rejoicing yet tremulous bride;
And thought what a glory would come in his
life
Could he on some happy day claim her as wife.
His heart with great love was then astir,
And cunningly he stole close to her,
And talked as if in a blissful dream
Of two lives afloat on a placid stream,
And O’er them the music of wavering palms
Like softened echoes of rapturous psalms.
The feast was o’er, but at Broughton Clays
Love gave a new light to toiling days,
And back to the favoured scene he went
And won from the maiden glad consent
To the union perfected in June,
When two hearts sang to the joyful tune
Of marriage vows, and when Henry Brown
Gave them his blessing as spousal crown.
Cartwright’s friend, Thomas Oliver, saw
The two made one by the Bible law.
He stood in the Church by the bridegroom’s
side,
And heard the sweet “I will” of the bride,
While hearing and seeing, he felt
His heart with a strange emotion melt,
For Alberta Sophia Hind was there,
Bright as if newly from bright starry sphere,
And as he the vision of beauty beheld,
To purpose of winning her impelled.
Alberta Sophia was then by him seen
In Bridal array, as his soul’s darling queen,
And he, by a homage free from guile,
Drew from her royal lips, accent and smile
Which he rightly nailed as wealth of bliss
For which he gave thanks with a heart-warm
kiss.
When April has numbered twice ten days,
And larks and thrushes weave happy lays,
They will their faith at the altar plight,
And their two lives in one unite,
Grateful that they were together brought,
And that love in their souls was sweetly
wrought,
When Cartwright and Susan Louisa HIND
Gladly united in heart and mind.
So it was quite a wedding wasn't?
After their honeymoon on the Isle of Wight, during they may have visited Alberta's brother John who was living in Ventnor, but I can't find any proof they they did the happy couple went back to live at an address in Evedon, Lincolnshire about 2 miles from Sleaford.
In the census of 1901, the family are shown together back at the home that Thomas probably rents from the Lord of the Manor. He and Alberta were both brought up on farms so would have been most familiar with life like that. No doubt both would have worked with animals, and probably both had some education as well. We know that Thomas's wife had been educated at a private school in Norfolk, no doubt Thomas had been educated as well, though I don't yet have any information about that.
1901 Census for Alberta Sophia HIND & Family
Lincolnshire, Evedon, District 6
Number 4 in the Village:
Thomas A. OLIVER, Head, married, 33, Farmer, Employer, born Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire
Alberta S. OLIVER, wife, married, 26, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
William H. OLIVER, Son, 1, Born Evedon, Lincolnshire
Mary OLIVER, daughter, 1month, born Evedon, Lincolnshire
Ethel A. GREEN, cousin, Single, 22, Mother’s Helper-domestic, Born Nottingham
Elizabeth M. Stevenson, Servant, Single, 14, General Servant, Domestic, born Evedon, Lincolnshire
Arthur Seymour, servant, 16, Waggoner on farm, born Staunton, Lincolnshire
John Cooper, Servant, single, 16, horseman on farm, born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Harry Tayles, servant, 16, Yard boy on farm, born Asgarby, Lincolnshire
The 1911 census at Beckingham shows the entire family inc William Hind Oliver,he of the £10 fine for adulterated milk! The Wills of both parents leave probate to him.
The 1901 census you may like to add a note about as it contains ETHEL A GREEN,son of Thomas Green who is son of Mary Ann Green, nee Sommerfield .Thomas features later for the last Hind,Mary ,as he re-marries to her in 1911 Erith. Might be worthwhile introducing at this stage.
So the next child of the Hind family in that 1881 census was John HIND, 5, Born Hanthorpe, Lincs. Well ten years later in 1891, he is a farm servant on the family farm.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 28 April 1900
Mr John HIND, fourth son of Mr. John Hind of Morton, born March 17th, 1876 died at Ventnor Isle of Wight on April, 24th after a prolonged illness. A melancholy fact is that he anticipated coming home on Wednesday. The deceased had been suffering from pulmonary consumption for which he had the open-air treatment at Brompton Hospital, London, and afterwards at the Royal National Hospital, Ventnor, and was apparently progressing favourably, when suddenly a change to Pertonitis developed, which proved fatal. He was brought home von Wednesday and was interred in Morton churchyard on Thursday 26th. A short service was conducted in the Wesleyan Chapel, where he had been an active member of the church and Sunday School. The Rev. H. Brown, circuit minister, who officiated announced the deceased’s favourite hymn, which was followed by short reading and prayer. After another hymn, had been sung the funeral cortege proceeded to the churchyard accompanied by relations and friends and sympathisers.
Ten years later in 1901, he is a farmer at South Fen, Morton.His brother Henry aged 23 & his sister Mary born 17 are also at the farm as well as his Aunt, a Marian Green born Morton aged 72.
I have found this article about his death, funeral & obituary which I will add now so that we can see what there is to know about George William HIND.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 19 May 1928
MR. G. W. HIND, J.P. The sudden death of Mr. George W, Hind, J.P., well-known resident, occurred on Saturday. He had been about his usual work in the morning, and on reaching home pumped his motor-car tyre, prior to a further business journey. Directly afterwards he went into the house and complained to his wife of not feeling well. She rendered what aid was possible, and gave him a medicine which he was accustomed to taking, but as his condition did not improve, she immediately sent for Dr. Keogh, of Bourne. The latter quickly arrived, but death had taken place some ten minutes previously. The sad news was not only shock to those with whom he was immediately associated, but also to his wide circle of friends in the Bourne area, where he was well-known. Deceased was son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, of which village he was a native, and he had resided there for the greater portion of his life, succeeding to the farm previously occupied his late father. On leaving Morton he went to reside at South Witham, was a member on the Grantham Rural District Council for that parish for ten years, and subsequently came to Thurlby, taking over the land owned by the late Mr. Wm. Hayes, J P-, whose surviving daughter married. He was subsequently elected as the representative of Manthorpe on the Bourne Rural District Council, a position which his father-in-law had previously held, and month ago he was appointed chairman for the ensuing year of the Rural District Council, a position which his father-in-law had held for many years, and as recently as last Thursday deceased qualified at Bourne Petty Sessions as an ex-officio Magistrate. During his membership of the Rural District Council he served on all the principal Committees, and only the night previous to his death he attended a joint meeting with the representatives of the Bourne Urban District Council with reference to the small-pox Hospital accommodation, upon which the Ministry of Health had adversely commented. This arose from a visit of one of the Ministry’s Medical Officers consequent upon the recent outbreak of small-pox, necessitating the removal of four inmates of the Workhouse Infirmary to the Joint Isolation Hospital provided by the Bourne Urban and Rural District Councils. The outbreak was attributed to contact with an occupant of the vagrant ward who was detained in the sick, ward of the Workhouse, and the meeting which deceased attended was for the purpose of making better provision for the nurses and others in attendance. During the past year deceased had served the vice-chairman of the Rural District Council, and had in the comparatively short time that he had been a member, entered into the business of the Council, and his election as chairmen was an acknowledgment by his fellow-members of the value of his public work. By his decease, the Wesleyan cause at Thurlby loses a prominent and active supporter. He was a member of a large family, all of whom are at the present time prominently associated with the Wesleyan cause, including Mr, Harry Hind, of Manthorpe, and Mr. Duke Hind, of South Witham. Politically, deceased was Liberal. He leaves a widow and one child. The Funeral took place on Wednesday, amidst every sign of sympathy and respect. The first part of the service was held in the Wesleyan Church, which was inadequate to find accommodation for all who attended. The family mourners were:—Mrs. G. W. Hind (widow). Master G. Hayes Hind (son). Mr. Thos. Hind (Harrogate. brother), Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Oliver (Sutton, Newark, brother-in-law and sister), Mr. and Mrs H. Hind (Manthorpe, brother and sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hind (South Witham, brother and sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hind (Wvmondham, brother and sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. J. Hind (South Witham, brother and sister-in-law). Miss Hind (Birmingham, sister), Mr. Frank Brackenbury (Bardney, cousin), Miss M. L. Sneath (Lincoln), Mr. W. H. Oliver (Sutton). Miss K. Oliver (Sutton). Miss D. Hind (Wymondham), Mr. John Hind (Collingham), Mr. J. D. Hind (South Witham, nieces and nephews). Amongst ethers present were:—The Rev. G. M. Davis (Vicar of Thurlby), the Rev, F. F. Taylor (Rural Dean and vice-chairman of Bourne Rural District Council), and the following members and officers of the Council—Dr. Galletly, Major C Bell, Councillors W. Ash. G. W. Wallis, C. A. Holmes, J. G. Wade. J. Q. Longstaff, C. H. Feneley, F. Jennings. S. Lenton, F. Knott. E. B. Binns, E. Clark. W. Bembridge, F. Smith. J. Freeman. H. Tebb, T. Rippin, W. Reedman, C. W. Barrand. T. Lake (Surveyor), and J. Ross (Sanitary Officer). Supt. Duffin, Messrs. W. Kelby. E. H. Ward, H. M. A. Stanton. H. T. Ringrose. T, Rickard. G. E. Belt, J.P., J. Bloodworth, T. Mawby, J. Gray. E. Jarvis, C. Horn, Stevenson, jun., A. W. Sharman, F. Wade, J. Adcock, A. Hotchkin (Swaton), J. J. Cappitt. H. C. Tointon, H. Hind (Bourne), C. T. Brock, Hollingshead (Morton). A. Peasgood, R. Peasgood, C. Griffen, H. Kelham, C. R. Horn, J. Healey, J.P. (Empingham), W, Sharpe (Manthorpe), W, Waddington (Bowthorpe), Ed. Sneath (Pinchbeck). T. Holland, R. A. Collins. F. W. Mason, Arthur Stubley, J. T. H. Walpole. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Holmes (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Osborn. Mr and Mrs. H. A. Sneath, Mrs. J. T. Sneath, Mrs. H. G. Sneath, Miss Knott (Merton). Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wall, Miss Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Griffen, jun., the Rev. H. and Mrs. Fry. Mrs. Herbert Knott, Mrs. Needham, Mr. and Mrs. Elvidge (Hanthorpe). Mr. and Mrs. A. Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs. Haresign (Pinchbeck). Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Noble, Mr. W. E. Venters, Mr. F. H. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Sands (Dyke), &c. The service was conducted by the Rev. G. H. Lester, the Wesleyan Circuit Minister, and the lesson was read by the Rev. J. Carvath. In the course of a most appropriate address the Rev. G. H. Lester said they were met to express their thankfulness for the life which had been lived in their midst, the loss of which they would all feel. Their brother manifested combination of qualities rarely found. His life was an example of the Scriptural passage, “Diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.” The deceased was trained in a home that was full of high spirits and restless energies, and possessing strong convictions, he faithfully bore witness to his convictions, was a strong fighter, but never fought in an unworthy cause. He served a long apprenticeship to life, and the cares of the home and his family were added to his being engaged in an arduous calling. As a member of that Church, he was a Devout and Sincere Worshipper and a devoted teacher and superintendent of the Sunday- School, to which the presence of the scholars that service testified. Speaking as the minister for a short period, the rev. gentlemen testified to the ready and willing service deceased always rendered, and which he, as minister gratefully acknowledged. Doubtless deceased had been called to a higher and larger service, a call which they received silence. After touching reference the loss sustained by the family, by the Church, and the district, the rev. gentlemen expressed the hope that they might all profit by the memory of deceased and his work. The service at the graveside was conducted the Rev. G, H. Lester. The coffin was of plain oak with brass fittings. Amongst the floral tributes were the following:—From Mother and Sonny; Tom, Bert, and family; Joe, Evelyn, Dunmore and Billy (South Witham); Duke. Annie, Jack, Jim, and Mary (South Witham); Charlie. Annie, Dora. and Bob (Wymondham) : The teachers of the Bourne Infant School; Wesleyan Sunday School; Riss; Employees South Witham); Mr. and Mrs. H. Kelham (Stamford); Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Horn and family; Mr. and Mrs. Bailey (Thurlby): Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Wilson and family (London): Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Stevenson and family; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gray and family (Obthorpe); Bess and Nan: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brackenbury (Bardney).
There is newspaper record about the marriage of James Duke HIND to Annie Elizabeth SCOTT: Lincolnshire Chronicle - Saturday 11 July 1903: MARRIAGES At Brant Broughton, on the 2nd lnst., James Duke Hind, of Stapleford, to Annie Elizabeth Scott, of Becklngham. In fact, 50 years later, there is another newspaper article about this marriage of James Duke HIND to Annie Elizabeth SCOTT. Grantham Journal - Friday 03 July 1953 GOLDEN WEDDINGS HIND-SCOTT. On Thursday, July 2nd, 1903, at Brant Broughton Methodist Church, Broughton by the Rev Joseph Watkinson. James Duke Hind to Annie Elizabeth Scott. Present address; South Witham. Grantham. In the same newspaper, the Grantham JOURNAL, Friday 3rd July, 1953, was another article about James Duke HIND. Grantham Journal - Friday 03 July 1953 South Witham jubilee This is his secret of happy wedded life WHAT would you say Is the secret of happy life? When this question was put Mr. J. Duke Hind, a well-known public figure in Kesteven. who celebrated his golden wedding with his wife at their home at South Witham yesterday, he said: “Live to be of service to others—and do not argue with your wife!” His advice to youth today? Seek make the village where we live a better and happier place by service to that end.” His Proudest Moment: Asked what he considered the most outstanding event in the parish, he smilingly replied-There have been many, but my proudest moment, was when the Parish Council purchased the five-acre playing field 25 years ago-the first of its kind in Kesteven. It was then on ploughed field, Now, it has a tennis court, a hard cricket pitch, pavilion and dressing rooms etc-and all this from the efforts of a farmer whose life has been such a busy one he has had no time for participation in sport. Yet his friends know he is a sportsman at heart and respect him for what he is one what he has done. Married at Brant Broughton Methodist Church on July 2nd 1903, Mr. and Mrs. HIND, age 73 & 71 respectively, and remarkably fit. They have two sons, who are farming with them, a married daughter living at Lincoln, and six grandchildren. Both have taken a very active part in village life. They started farming in Stapleford, Newark, then moved to South Witham in 1915. Parish Councillor for 34 years. Mr. HIND, who is local representative for the Journal has been a Methodist local preacher for over half a century. He was elected to the parish council in 1919, and became chairman in his first year, a position he still holds. He has the distinction of having been unopposed since being elected County Councillor for the Colsterworth Division in 1931. In addition to serving on the County Education Committee, as a representative governor of three schools in the County-Girls High School, Central School, and Hunting Tower-road as well as a governor of Kesteven Teachers T raining College-Mr. Hind has been chairman for 25 years of the local school managers, and is also a member of the Kesteven Community Council. He took great interest in the formation of the Kesteven Association of Parish Councils in 1947, serves on the Executive Committee, and has never missed the Annual Conference at Skegness. Tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. HIND hope to celebrate their jubilee with a reunion of the family and few friends. I have also, now found lots of newspaper entries about James Duke HIND, so I can now make a list of the what he was doing, many articles are also published as Mr. J. Duke HIND as opposed Mr. James Duke HIND. So now I can add more about the life of Mr. James Duke HIND. For example there is the story of a shooting trajedy, in the year 1905. Grantham Journal - Saturday 05 August 1905 LINCOLNSHIRE SHOOTING TRAGEDY. FOLLY OF PLAYING WITH FIREARMS. A sad tragedy occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Stapleford, a remote parish between Newark and Lincoln It appears that a youth of fifteen years, named George William Thacker, employed as a cowboy by Mr. James Duke Hinds, a farmer, of Stapleford Wood, was sitting in the barn when the waggoner, Charles Melton, who is eighteen years old, entered. The latter took a gun from the wall, pointed it at the cowboy, and pulled the trigger. There was loud report, and Thacker fell to the ground with a wound in the neck. Dr. Osbourn Johnson, of Brant Broughton, was immediately sent for, but. upon his arrival he found the poor lad dead. Mr. A. Trotter, the Lincoln District Deputy-Coroner, held an inquest on the body of Thacker at the house of Mr. Duke Hinds, at Stapleford, on Wednesday evening. Melton was present, but, after being cautioned by the Coroner, he stated that he would rather not be called as a witness. Evidence was given by two Irish labourers and a man named Coddington, who had been working temporarily for Mr. Hinds* that on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after dinner, Charles Melton, the waggoner, entered the chaff-house, took down the gun, which was hanging on a nail, and remarked that he was going out to shoot some rabbits. then said to the deceased, " I'll shoot you! " and immediately the gun went off, and Thacker received discharge in the left side of the neck. A shocking wound resulted, and death took place almost instantly. The waggoner was in great despair, and protested to everybody that he had not the least idea that the weapon was loaded. The gun was produced. It was double-barrelled, and appeared have only been loaded in the right barrel with a 12-bore cartridge, No. 5 shot, when the incident happened. The Coroner remarked that the trigger of this barrel seemed to fall rather easily; and several of the jury, who examined the weapon, expressed the same opinion. The Coroner said this was another instance of the folly of people playing with firearms, and was a very sad affair. The jury found a verdict of "Accidental death," and, at their request. Mr. Trotter censured Melton for his carelessness, and also his master for entrusting such a youth with a gun and cartridges. So this article gives us some information about one of the employees of James Duke HIND at his farm at Stapleford, in Lincolnshire. Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser - Tuesday 19 September 1905 EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE GRANTED. James Duke Hind, a farmer, of Stapleford, applied for a vaccination exemption certificate in respect of his child.—Mr. Curtis: Do you believe it will be injurious to the child's health?—l believe vaccination in many cases is injurious to health.—Mr. Curtis: To this particular child?—Yes, I do.—After some deliberation the exemption was granted. Then on 13th April, 1907, there is another newspaper article, that tells us that in that year, James Duke HIND was living in Beckingham, Lincolnshire. Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 April 1907 At Spittlegate Petty Sessions, on Saturday, the Justices approved of the following being appointed serve as parish constables for the ensuing year :Allington, James Brisbane ; Barrowby, Joseph Sansam ; Barkston, John Paruham ; Bassingthorpe - com - Westby, Joseph Sentance ; Beckingham, James Duke Hind; Long Bennington, George Rowbotham ; Belton, Robert Hurd; Bitchfield, John Henry Parkinson ; Boothby Pagnell, James Hunt; Braceby, William, Coddington; Brant Broughton, Thomas Bailey; Burton Coggles, Thomas Woods Armstrong; Carlton Scroop, William Silkstone; Grantham Journal - Saturday 15 July 1916 GRANTHAM RURAL TRIBUNAL. A meeting of the Grantham Rural Tribunal was held at the Guildhall on Saturday, Mr. T. S. Pearson- Gregory presiding. There were also present:- Messrs. H. B. Minta, R. Doubleday, W. Thompson, K. C. Newton. E. Willows. Mr. J. G Thompson was the military representative. James Duke Hind (36). farmer, South Witham, claimed exemption-The Clerk stated the Advisory Committee were of opinion that the applicant and his elder brother were sufficient for the farm and that the younger brother must go. -Hind said he was the sole tenant of farm 47½ acres. His brothers had 300 acres. - Mr. J. G. Thompson: That is quite different; we thought all three brothers were together on one farm, -The Chairman: What labour have you got? -Applicant I do it all myself, with the assistance of my wife. -Conditional exemption was granted. Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 June 1930 SOUTH WITHAM. Sequel to Alleged Stone-throwing.— Five youths, Joseph Johnson, Alfred Richard Bailey, labourers, Arthur Branston, butcher, and Charles Lewis Wise, lorry driver, all of South Witham, were summoned for throwing stones in the Recreation-field at South Witham, on May 16th, to the annoyance of the residents. —Mr, John Norton appeared for all the defendants, and pleaded not guilty. James Duke Hind, farmer, South Witham, said he was chairman of the South Witham Parish Council. On Friday. May I6th. there was a social at the Recreation Hall South Witham, which he attended. About 10.15 p.m. he noticed that one of the curtains was not drawn across the window; he saw four or five at the window, one of whom he recognised as the defendant Johnson. The curtain was drawn across immediately, and there was noise at the side of the hall, as if they (defendants) were kicking. Witness went outside and heard footsteps going towards Thistleton and also to the village. He re-entered the hall, and there was a recurrence of the noise of banging on the side the hall, which was of wooden structure. About 11.20, there was a noise on the roof of stone-throwing; a lady in the hall was singing at the time. Witness went outside with the doorkeeper, and saw three or four youths going away towards Witham. Possibly the windows might have been broken, only they had been covered with wire for protection. Mr. Norton; How do you know that they were stones? Witness: Because some came inside the hall through the door. —As a matter of fact, you do not know who threw them? No, I do not. John Robinson, platelayer, South Witham, doorkeeper on the night in question, corroborated, adding that he was quite sure stones were thrown, because they could hear them rattling down the roof.—P.c. England said in consequence of a complaint he subsequently interviewed defendants, and was satisfied by their answers that they had been to the hall and thrown the stones.—Mr. Norton said he should like to deal with the case of Bailey. Branston, and Wise, because he submitted that against those three there was not a single scrap of evidence to prove the offence, and far as they were concerned he asked the Bench to dismiss their cases straightaway.—The Chairman : We think there no case against Bailey, Branston, and Wise. —Mr. Norton then withdrew his plea of not guilty, and substituted a plea of guilty in respect of Johnson and Swans. On their behalf, he wished to say how sorry they were that the incident took place. With the intention of going to the dance, added Mr. Norton, they looked through the window, and there were, he thought, only two or three ladies there, and he supposed defendants were a bit disappointed. They got walking about, and eventually got into mischief. They had expressed their regret, and promised not to do it again. In imposing a fine of 5s. and 10s expenses, the Chairman said he hoped they would have no more cases from either North or South Wit ham. Cases from those villages were brought up at that Court too frequently. Grantham Journal - Saturday 08 November 1930 SOUTH WITH AM. There was a Record Attendance at the Recreation Hall on Friday for a dance. Music was supplied by the Market Overton Band, and Mr. Harold Bullimore was M.C. Mr. Wm. Bradley won a pork-pie competition organised by Mr. Joseph Hardy. Mesdames Wright and Robinson looked after refreshments. A Show Next Year.— After a lapse of one year, it was resolved at a meeting of the Flower Show Society, held in the School-room on Friday, to carry on the show again next year. Mr. J. Duke Hind presided over a good company, and was supported Mr. R. S. Dunmore (hon. treasurer) and Mr. J. Turner (secretary). The balance-sheet showed £2O Os. 5d, in hand. Mr. W. L. Harvey proposed that a show be held. This was seconded by Mr. W. Harvey, of Sewstern, who remarked it gave great regret that there was show in 1930. They looked to the Witham Show being the second best in the district. Mr. Johnson: Mine might be a silly idea, but I should like the £2O to towards football in the district. Mr. A. Bentley supported these remarks. Mrs. Edmondson said she should like to see the show again. Mr. W. Harvey reminded the meeting that the money in hand belonged to the show, and was given for that purpose, and he should strongly oppose it being used for sport. A proposition that the show be held again was carried by twenty votes against two. Lord Dysart was elected patron. For the position of president the names Mr. Walter Woods, Mr. R. S. Clark, the Rev. Barron, and Mrs. Edmondson were submitted. Mr. Woods and Mr. Clark refused serve, and Mrs. Edmondson received seventeen votes against two for the Rev. Barron, who was not present. The Chairman informed Mrs. Edmondson that she had been elected to the position for what she had done for the village. Mr. Hind then vacated the chair in favour of Mrs. Edmondson, Other appointments were:—Mr. J. Duke Hind, chairman; Mr. R. S. Dunmore, hon. treasurer; Mr. J. Turner, secretary; Mr. Winston Craven, sports secretary; Messrs. W. Woods and J, Hind auditors. Mr. Turner informed the meeting that, although they had elected him secretary, he should expect the assistance of the Committee, as it was not possible to carry out the duties without that support. What they wanted was to forget the past, and pull all together. It was agreed that Mr. Turner be paid £5 for his services. The date of the show was fixed for August 8th. and particulars will appear in the "Journal" advertising columns. The Committee elected were Messrs. W. Wright, J. Wright, Atkinson. J. Ford. F. Meech, H. Clapton. J. Adcock. T. Muggleton, H. Edmondson. H. Bradley, Barrett. F. Gadsby, C. Wormall. S. Arling, and T. Hackctt. with power to add. Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 March 1931 SOUTH WITHAM. At the Parish Meeting, held on Monday. Mi. Harold Bullimore was in the chair, The chief business, was to elect a Parish Council, and (he following old members were appointed Messrs George Tom Bullimore, S. R. Dunmore, George Harvey, James Duke Hind, John Robinson, James Turner, and Walter Woods. The charity accounts were passed, and it was decided that the Charity Commissioners be written to regarding the usual £1 which 'is allowed to the Parish Constable. The Council pointed out that this appointment did not know rest with them. The Grantham RACKETS CONCERT PARTY gave an excellent concert in the Recreation Hall on Thursday week. The programme comprised a sketch, songs, monologues, duet, piano solo. &etc. Each item was well received. Refreshments wore served by Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Wise, and Miss E. Dunmore. Messrs. Sonescall, Muggleton, and Robinson were doorkeepers. About £4 was cleared for the hall funds, and Mr. Harvey, in moving a vote of thanks to the artistes, said only about a further £lO was required to liquidate the debt. He added how much the hall was appreciated. Mr. J. Duke Hind associated himself with these remarks. Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 May 1931 SOUTH WITHAM. The Annual Parish Meeting took place in the Recreation Hail, those present being Messrs. L. R. Dunmore, G. T. Bullimore, J. G. Harvey, J. Duke Hind, J. Robinson, and Jas. Turner. For the tenth year, Mr. J. Duke Hind was appointed chairman. Mr. J. G. Harvey was elected vice-chairman. Mr. G. T. Bullimore treasurer, and Messrs. R. S. Clark and S. R. Dunmore School Managers. Band of Hope. —The fifty-third annual tea and meeting took place in the Congregational Schoolroom, when upwards of fifty members and friends partook of an excellent repast, served by Mrs. H. Frisby and Miss C. Johnson. Games were arranged by Mrs. J. Turner, and a most enjoyable time was spent. Officers elected were :—President, Mr. J. Duke Hind: vice-presidents, Mr. P. Craven and the Rev. G. Killick; secretary, Mrs. Turner: treasurer, Miss C. Johnson. Votes of thanks were heartily accorded the helpers. Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 August 1932 SOUTH WITHAM SHOW: The Opening Ceremony The show was opened by Major Fleetwood Hesketh. who was introduced by the president. Major Hesketh said was pleased to see the South Witham Society kept the flag flying. He was greatly impressed by the wonderful exhibits, especially those of the children’s. In moving a vote of thanks to Major Hesketh, Mr. J. Duke Hind said they were a little jealous that the Major did not reside Lincolnshire, but always assisted them substantially. (Cheers.) Mr. S. R. Dunmorc seconded, and the Band struck “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.’’ Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 03 September 1932 CROWSON-TAYLOR Among several pretty weddings in Boston this week was the ceremony at Holy Trinity Church, Boston, at the marriage of Mr. Fred Crowson, Grantham, to Miss Phyllis Mary Taylor, daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Taylor, of Spilsby Road, Boston. The Rev. R. V. Sellars, who is temporarily taking the Rev. J. Beanland's place, conducted the ceremony. The bride, who was given away her brother, Mr. Ronald Taylor, looked charming in simply made dress of pale blue georgette worn with a pretty crinoline picture hat to match- She carried a bouquet of cream roses and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids —Miss H. M. Taylor and Miss M. D.. Adams-wore charming dresses of blue floral georgette, worn with black hats, and they carried pink roses and fern. Mr. James Duke Hind attended the bridegroom as best man. After the ceremony the wedding breakfast was held at the home of the bride's mother, and later in the day the young couple left for Scotland, where their honeymoon is being spent. Lincolnshire Echo - Saturday 26 November 1932 KESTEVEN COUNCIL VACANCIES Nominations for Three Divisions Nominations were received at Sleaford, yesterday, of candidates for the three vacancies on Kesteven County Council, caused the elevation to the aldermanic bench Mrs. Taylor (Sleaford Division), Mr. C. D. Simmonds (Colsterworth) and Mr. L. E, Harvey (Bourne). For Sleaford there was only one nomination, Mr. Henry Hine Foster, farmer, Holdingham. For Colsterworth, also, there was only one candidate, Mr. James Duke Hind, farmer, High-street farm. South Witham. These two are accordingly elected. In the Bourne division there were two nominations, Mr. John Robert Lambley, political agent, 9, Manning-street, Bourne, and Mr. Frederick George Wall, draper, 34, North-street, Bourne. In the event of a poll this will take place on Saturday, December 3. Grantham Journal - Saturday 27 February 1937 GRANTHAM COUNTY COUNCIL CONTESTS The Nominations in Kesteven Nominations for seats on the Kesteven County Council closed Saturday, and contests are likely at Grantham, Ancaster, Billingborough, Caythorpe, Claypole. Rippingale and Thurlby, among other places. Colsterworth—James Duke Hind, farmer, South Witham. Grantham Journal - Saturday 07 May 1938 SOUTH WITHAM Fellowship. —The Rector conducted the Industrial Christian Fellowship services on Sunday, and at evensong Mr. Geo. Irving. 8.A., gave an address. Parish Council. —At the annual meeting. last week, Mr. J. G. Harvey was re-elected chairman. The matter of pumps on wells in the village was referred to a parish meeting to be held later. A.R.P.—A meeting was held on Monday, when 50 volunteers submitted their names. The Rev. J. W. Ronayne presided, and Mr. Clark, the Rural Council representative, explained the scheme. Straying Beast. —For allowing nine beasts to stray near Thistleton, on April 11th. James Duke Hind, farmer, of South Witham. was fined 9s-a, shilling for each animal—at Rutland sessions on Monday, P.c. Cawthorne gave evidence. Defendant pleaded guilty, and expressed his regret at the occurrence. Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 January 1939 THE GRANTHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. 1939. LAID TO REST AT WOOLSTHORPE Methodist With a Life Full of Service FUNERAL OF MR. C. P. SIMMONDS Mr. Charles Pickwell Simmonds, J.P., who was one of the oldest Methodist officials in the country, and whose death we reported in our last issue, was laid to rest at Woolsthorpe, Colsterworth. on Saturday. Mr. Simmonds. who was 82 years of age. was a well-known magistrate and public figure in Kesteven. and his death, which came after about a year's illness, was greatly deplored by a wide circle of associates, whose deep sympathy has been extended to the family. A service was held in the house, conducted bv the Rev. D. L. Williams, superintendent minister of the Chapel-street Methodist circuit. Grantham, who was assisted by Mr. J. Duke Hind, of South Witham, a close friend of deceased. Making reference, to Mr. Simmonds., Mr. Hind said he had proved friend, counsellor and guide to many of them, numerous lives having been enriched by his guidance. He was a man who was filled with the spirit of God. He spent his life in useful service, and he would be missed in a wider area than any of them realised He 'the speaker* had worked with Mr. Simmonds in public life for a number of years, and he would always remember the moments when he saw him rise sneak. He was always listened to with the utmost respect. The funeral procession from the house to the little cemetery was an impressive sight, the long double files of mourners walking behind the coffin, which was carried on an open motor lorry. The last rites at the graveside were performed by the Rev. D. L. Williams, and the gathering sang one verse of deceased's favourite hymn. "Jesu. the very thought of Thee." Grantham Journal - Friday 01 October 1943 SOUTH WITHAM The Harvest Festival Services at the Congregational church on Sunday were conducted by Mr. James Duke Hind, C.C. The appearance of the church gave eloquent testimony to the generosity of those who had contributed, not only in kind, but in time and labour for its decoration. At the evening service, well-attended by villagers and Servicemen, Mr. Hind took for his text. "the man who puts his hand to the plough and looks back." Mrs. Craven presided at the organ. On Monday, produce was auctioned by Mr. Winston Craven, assisted by a member the R.A.F. The proceeds. with the offertories and donations, amounting in all to £14 10s., were sent the Leicester Royal Infirmary. Grantham Journal - Friday 07 November 1947 EXPENSIVE SEARCH FOR DINNER Three brothers fined for South Witham offence Three brothers who had been in search of a dinner were fined 10s. each, with 15s. 8d costs, at the Spitalgate court at Grantham on Saturday They were John Ed. Stokes, farm labourer, of High-street. South Witham. Geo Wm. Stokes, tractor driver. of Swlnderby, and Peter Stokes, farmer, of 19. Lombard-street, Newark. They appeared on a joint charge of trespassing in pursuit of conies South Witham. James Duke Hind, of South Witham, told the court he saw the accused acting in a suspicious manner on Broadgate Bridge. They had two dogs with them. To police questions William Stokes remarked "I wanted dinner the same as the others.” Peter Stokes was carrying a gun. and the men were seen beating the hedge of Bombhole field. Grantham Journal - Friday 25 March 1949 Nominations yesterday FOR COUNTY COUNCIL VACANCIES IN preparation tor Kesteven County Council election April 9th, nomination papers of candidates in the 60 electoral divisions were handed yesterday. There will be straight fights in each of the ten Grantham divisions, and with the exception of Brig E. J. Grinling. the sitting members are seeking re-election. County area Ancaster—■- Robert G Simpson Bennington—Fredk Winter. Blllingborough Arthur Wilson. Bourne No. I—(Rev. W. J Rees. Bourne No. 2—'Robt. A. Collins. Bytham-John H. Turner. Caythorpe—- John W. Oxby. Claypole— * John W. Milner. Colsterworth James Duke Hind. Grantham Journal - Friday 31 October 1952 SOUTH WITHAM Parish Meeting on Monday, Mr. J. Duke Hind presiding, decided not purchase the disused chapel, for use as a Village-hall. There was a long discussion, and the voting was 32 for the purchase and 63 against. Grantham Journal - Friday 25 February 1955 SOUTH WITHAM FARMER The vacancy caused by the death of Aid. T. W. Atkinson, of Bourne, was filled by the election of a 74-years-old South Witham farmer. James Duke Hind—a friend from boyhood of the man he succeeds. A member of the County Council for Colsterworth since 1931, Ald. Hind was never opposed at an election. Married over 50 years, he said at his golden wedding: "Live to be of service to others—and not argue with your wife!" Voting for the seat, which expires in April next, resulted: James Duke Hind. 15 votes: Benjamin E. Brighton, of Ruskinston, 11; John William Harrison, of Grantham. 10; Dorothy Shipman, 9; John Frederick Vickers, Martin. 6. AID. DUKE HIND CROXTON LOSES AN OLD PARISHIONER One of Croxton's oldest residents, Mrs. Smart, who was 86. and was also one of the oldest members of the Mothers' Union, was laid to rest Saturday. The Vicar, the Rev. F. Tetley, officiated, and chief mourners were Mr. Smart, son; Mr. and Mrs. Towers, sisters and brother-in-law; Mrs. Towers (Folkingham). Mr. Peyser, Mr. and Mrs. W. Smart (Knipton), nephews and nieces: Mrs. Sears. Mrs. Stubbs. Mrs. Woodcock and Mrs. Thornton, neighbours. Floral tributes were sent bv Mr. Smart: sister and brother- Mr. Towers and family, nephews and nieces; Mr. arid Mrs. Sears: Mr. and Mrs. Thornton; Mrs. Stubbs: and members the Mothers' Union. The bearers were Mr. L. Hedworth. Mr. R. Woodcock. Mr. J. Mamot and Mr. W. Musson. v - ' - # Grantham Journal - Friday 15 November 1957 Escapades of two dogs led to charges against South Witham Owners. The escapades of two dogs, one of which was quite old, when they entered a South Witham field in which there was poultry on Friday afternoon. September 13th, were described to Spitalgate magistrates at Grantham on Saturday when their owners were charged with two offences each arising out of the incident. The animals were stated to have killed several chickens valued by the farmer to whom they belonged. James Duke Hind, jun.. of Water-lane. South Witham, at 30s. each. Mrs. Lily White, Water-lane South Witham. and Mrs Margarite Alice Stinson, of East Midland Estate, South Witham. were each charged being the owner a dog, which worried livestock, and also. with failing to keep a dangerous dog under proper control. Fines of £1 each were imposed in respect, of the first offence, and they were both ordered to keep the animals under proper control P.C. Johns said that when he saw Mrs. White she told him: "I keep a few chickens and it has never worried them." She added that she would have compensated the owner had he gone to see her. Mrs. Stinson's husband- neither of the defendants appeared in court—said that his wife's dog, which was just over six months old. had been bought up among chickens. "And I can't see it killing them," he added. Grantham Journal - Friday 13th April, 1958 "WHY?" When the chairman replied that it was with the district auditor Aid. Hind asked why the audit was late. As it was clear that Aid. Hmd knew why the books were with the auditor the meeting began to show it was not in sympathy with his obvious attempt to try extract public statement. Mr. Batty saying it seemed thai "some had come to the meeting for a row." Mr. sensicall asked they couid be told the chairman did resign, and Aid. Hmd replied in the affirmative. Mr. Sensicall then said that in his view that ended the matter. but after lie had remarked that it was very good of Mr. Pendleton to step in Aid. Hind began reading a letter from the district auditor. The chairman intervened say that the matter was closed and proceeded to the business the meeting. The clerk. Mr. R. S. Clark, presented the report of parish charities showing that £l4 had been distributed to old age pensioners and widows. SPECIAL RATE The accounts for the year were presented, and consent was given lor a special rate ol fourpence the £ be levied for parish council purposes. A rate to raise £7O for street lighting was recommended. Nomination papers were available at the meeting lor anyone who wished to be nominated for the new council. Aid. Hind, who has been on the parish council for 40 years, during most which time he has been chairman, was asked later by the "Journal" if he had anythine to say regarding his resignation, but he declined to make any comment. Okay so I have finished with the Hind family, but I have decided to go back to the SNEATH family and my great grandfather on my grandmother Readman side. This is where I started this bit of research-Thomas Dixon SNEATH.
Okay so you can see that Thomas Dixon SNEATH was born on 11 June 1853 at 10.30am on a Saturday morning. His father was William Sneath, and his mother was Elizabeth Sneath nee Cartwright.
So here is Thomas in the 1861 census:
So by the census of 1861, this was the Sneath family:
1861 Census: RG 2477
53, High St, Brant Broughton
William Sneath, Head, Married, Grocer, Draper and Farmer, Caythorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, Wife, Married, 40 years, Lincoln, Lincs
John Wesley Sneath, Son, 10 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Charles William Sneath, Son, 8 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Thomas Dixon Sneath, Son, 4 years, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Edwin Cartwright Sneath, 6months, Brant Broughton, Lincs
John Dunn, Apprentice Grocer & Draper, born Leadenham
Mary Ann Blackburn, Servant, 19 years, Caythorpe, Lincs
And now the 1871 Census, Thomas would have been about 14 years of age.
1871 England Census for Thomas Dixon SNEATH
Nottinghamshire, Newark, District 15
No 37: 26 Stodman Street, Newark
Thomas O. QUIBELL, Head, Unmarried, 26, Chemist & Manure Manufacturer, born Barnby, Notts.
Catharine BASFORD, Housekeeper, Unmarried, 31, Housekeeper, born Wymeswold, Leicestershire.
John H. Holton, Assistant, Unmarried, 24, Chemists Assistant, born Lincoln, Lincs.
Thomas A. Herrod, Assistant, Ditto, 20, Ditto, born Boston, Lincs.
Thomas D. SNEATH, Apprentice, Ditto, 17, Chemists Apprentice, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Frank W. Harris, Apprentice, 17, Chemists Apprentice, born Castle Bytham, Lincs.
John Woods, Boarder, Unmarried, 21, Farmer’s Son, born Mansfield, Notts.
In the next 10 years, Thomas finishes his apprenticeship, meets and marries Clara Rowbotham and opens a chemists business at 26, Stodman Street, Newark, and also in Tuxford, both in Nottinghamshire.
So in July 1874, Thomas Dixon took an examination to become a chemist & druggist as discovered in this newspaper article.
Nottingham Journal - Saturday 25 July 1874
Mr. T. D. Sneath, son of Mr. Sneath, of Brant Broughton and senior assistant at Messrs. Harvey and Quibell's, in this town, has just passed a very successful examination before the professors of the Pharmaceutical Society Great Britain. Under the new Act, it will remembered, no one can commence business as a chemist or druggist until he shall have passed this examination.
The next event in his life that changed it for ever was his marriage to Clara Rowbotham.
Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries .
Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, October 05, 1877; pg. 8; Issue 1680. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-19
Clara Rowbotham it says in this article was the only
daughter of John Rowbotham, who lived in Brant
Broughton, which is where of course Thomas Dixon
Sneath came from. In fact just recently I have come
across a letter written by William Sneath, father of
Thomas Dixon Sneath in March 1891. He addresses his
son as Dixon, not Thomas Dixon. Also many articles in
newspapers are found by using the search name "Dixon
Sneath", not "Thomas Sneath".
So a bit about Clara-well she was born in Nottingham on 25 August 1852, daughter of John Rowbotham and Elizabeth Rowbotham nee Morris. Elizabeth Morris, her mother was born in Wales, in Kerry, Montgomeryshire, and was employed as a nurse at Lincoln Lunatic Asylum. It was in Lincoln that she met John Rowbotham, who was living in Park Lane, Lincoln as a miller. He and Elizabeth married at the Independent Chapel Lincoln on 17 February 1852.
1852 Marriage solemnized at the Independent Chapel
Newfossard, Lincoln
No. 137: 17 February 1852: John Rowbotham, 24 years, Bachelor, Miller, of 15 Park Lane, Lincoln St Martin, son of Thomas Rowbotham, Miller & Elizabeth Morris, 24 years, spinster, Servant, of 15 Park Lane, Lincoln St Martin, daughter of John Morris, Woolsorter were married by Charles Bateman in presence of John Gilby & Ann Rowbotham.
Anyway soon after their marriage, John & Elizabeth move to Nottingham, where on 25 August, 1852, Clara was born to them, and christened on Clara Rowbotham 13.9. 1852 to John & Elizabeth at St Marys, Notts, abode Cow Court, occupation Miller (source Notts FHS CD)
Later in November 1854, Clara's brother Morris is born, but he dies after only a month and was buried in Nottingham-Source: Morris Rowbotham 21.12. 1854 aged 1 month, Red Lion St, Notts St Marys.
So in 1861 the Rowbotham Family are still in Nottingham:
1861 Census for Clara Rowbotham
Nottinghamshire, St Mary, Exchange, District 08
No: 37, 1 Palmers Yard
John ROWBOTHAM, Head, Married, 33, Miller, born Newark, Notts.
Elizabeth ROWBOTHAM, wife, married, 34, born Montgomeryshire
Clara ROWBOTHAM, daughter, single, 8, born Nottingham, Notts.
So it looks as if Thomas Dixon Sneath wanted to start his own business as a chemist & druggist. Remember he had been an apprentice at a business in Newark, at 26, Stodman Street, where Thomas Oliver Quibell, of Harvey & Quibell had been running a business. Now at some time or other after he qualified as a chemist & druggist, his father, William SNEATH lent him £900 so that he could buy his way into the chemist & druggist business at 26, Stodman Street, Newark upon Trent.
Evidence for his father William lending him money so he could buy the business comes from 2 sources.
The first source is the will of his father, William SNEATH who died 18 December 1891 leaving £2536 -16s- 7d.
"I do not bequeath to my son Thomas Dixon Sneath any share of my estate as I have during my life paid to and for his benefit large sums of money."
The second source is a Bankruptcy Hearing at Nottingham on Tuesday 16 March 1886.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 20 March 1886
At Nottingham Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, Thomas Dixon Sneath, chemist and druggist, carrying on business at Newark, appeared before his Honour He returned his liabilities at £2,253 5s.8d., and his assets £616 3s. 7d. He intended to make an offer to his creditors when he filed his statement of affairs. He returned his unsecured creditors at £502 10s. 4d. showing, so far as his trade debts were concerned, a surplus of over 20/- in the pound. He put down £1,765 as other liabilities—Mr. Smith said that they were misleading the extent so far as his trade was concerned was solvent, able to pay 20/- in the pound. The debtor stated the cause his insolvency to pressure from creditors, through having given accommodation bills, and having become liable through the breach terms by a third person. There were two or three writs against him, and for the benefit of his creditors thought best to file his petition. His father not only lent him £900 to commence business with, but also made himself liable for an overdraft, and in 1883 he paid composition of 4/- in the pound. The creditors had voted for a composition 4/- in the pound. As matter of fact, had never been solvent since 1883. He was induced to give him accommodation without receiving any consideration except in one case.—ln answer to Mr. W. H. S. Stevenson who appeared for him, said that the bills were discounted to money lenders. and was he was sued by them. His father gave £2000 for the business when he bought it. He was allowed to pass.
£900 in 1880 would be worth £100, 000 in 2017.
£2000 in 1880 would be worth £226,000 in 2017.
It looks as if he started this business at 26 Stodman
Street in 1878-evidence for this is an
advertisement.
In a newspaper extract from Newcastle Courant, 8 July 1881, there is an advertisement for a cough syrup: Mr. Thomas D. SNEATH, chemist, 26, Stodman Street, Newark, writes, December 3, 1880:- I have sold more of Mother Seigel’s Syrup than any other patent medicine during the last two years.
So this suggests that Thomas had the business there at least in December 1878.
On 15 October 1879, Elizabeth, their first daughter was born at 26, Stodman Street, Newark. (Source England & Wales Death Index)
This Dixon Sneath & Family in 1881 Census:
Unfortunately for Thomas, although he was good at being a chemist & druggist, when it came to running a business he had his problems. He had 2 businesses in 1883, one at 26, Stodman Street, Newark, and another in Tuxford. In 1879, there was an act of Parliament called "The Petroleum Act", which was to do with the storage and sale of petrol. Anyway Thomas fell foul of this act:
For example on Saturday 17th March he was fined.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 23 March 1883
On Saturday, at Retford county police-court, Thomas Dixon SNEATH, of Newark, was fined £5, including costs, for an offence against the Petroleum Act, at his branch establishment at Tuxford.
Entry No. 52, 25 Mint Lane, Lincoln.
Thomas D. SNEATH, Head, Married, 37, Chemist & Druggist, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, Wife, Married, 38, Born Nottingham, Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Newark, Notts.
Eleanor SNEATH, daughter, 9, Scholar, born Newark, Notts.
Clara SNEATH, daughter, 8, born Newark, Notts.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, 6, born Newark, Notts.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, 3, born Lincoln, Lincs.
Ada A E Ss Ro. Goldett, Servant, 14,General Servant, Domestic, born Lincoln, Lincs.
Now not long after the Census of 1891, Dixon and his family moved from Lincoln to Grimsby, set up a business in Hainton Square, Grimsby. He was certainly there in October, 1891, because his father wrote him a letter then.
Brant Broughton
October 16th 1891
Dear Dixon,
The chest Protector you sent fits very nicely & keeps me warm & comfortable. You did not name the price so could not enclose the amount in this letter; send the price of it & will remit it by post. I am improving gradually & hope to rally again. I have been a long time confined to home not being able to leave even to get around at the Farm. I cannot walk far at once my feet smell very much towards night it all arises from my heart. My nervous system is completely shaken so that I can scarcely attend to any business or get after it, Cartwright I find very useful to look after most things. I find it very difficult even to write a letter with any degree of pleasure by. I have written a few lines my mind seems to be gone I am pleased your business still improves & hope with care it will continue to grow. All attention, this is a time of very good competition in all kinds of business. There seems to be many changes is taking place in all departments of life. We have just lost another old neighbour & mention of Ann Chire, Mrs Rimmington, that makes three since May, Mrs Marshall & G. Hutchinson. There are great changes in Broughton since you were here. These things speak loudly be ye also ready, you suffered to the political changes in your letter. I hope they will be for the best. We have had a a very united and harmonious conference at Nottingham and very good man as President in Dr. Stephenson who I am sure will do us make a prosperous year.
I am pleased to find by the plan that Methodism in Grimsby as such a hold of the place-I am persuaded that Methodism is doing a great work this year for the world generally & may her or demands be able to say the best of all God is with us. With united love to you all & may the God of love & all power bless us all. Your affectionate Father Wm. Sneath.
More evidence shows that Thomas Dixon SNEATH had his business in Hainton Square, on 4th November, 1891, as it was advertised in the Hull Daily Mail on many occasions-I used British Newspaper Archive where I have a contract and found this advertisement.
Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 04 November 1891
THE WORLD'S WONDER. THE FISHERMAN'S FRIEND. COUSINS' PILLS Have positively CURED more cases of INDIGESTION Than any known Remedy. Sole Proprietors— COUSINS AND Co LINCOLN, ENGLAND. Sold Wholesale and Retail by F. EARLE, Chemist, 22, Market-place, HULL. A. F. BELL, 217, Cleethorpe-road, GRIMSBY. A. MOORE, 24, Freeman-street, GRIMSBY. HARRISON CARR. Mutual Supply Stores, GRIMSBY. T. D. SNEATH, Hainton-square, GRIMSBY. W. BARKER, Victor-street, NEW CLEE.
This a photograph of the Sneath family in 1892
So in this photograph, which appears to have been taken where there was a a lot of shrubs & plants and a large bench, so it might have been in park somewhere, maybe in Peoples Park, Grimsby.
Thomas Dixon Sneath is on the far right of the photo, with his wife Clara, sat on the bench, between 1 daughter and 2 younger daughters. The eldest daughter was on the far left, so that would have been Elizabeth, aged 12, her sister Eleanor sat next to Clara aged 10, and Clara behind her Mother aged 9, and then the 2 younger daughters, Maud (next to her mother) aged 5 & Florence (my grandmother) aged 8
In 1894 there is photographic evidence to show that Eleanor, Florence & Clara SNEATH attended Welholme School, Welholme Road, Grimsby.
The above photograph shows Florence Sneath sat on the
front row, above the word "HULL", she is next to the
last girl on the front row.
Her two sisters, Clara & Eleanor, are directly behind Florence, with initials on their clothing. Clara looks she is behind Florence on the photo called Flo, with her sister Eleanor next to her.
So in that photograph, Florence Sneath must have been 9years of age, her sister Eleanor, 12 years, & Clara 11 years of age.
Welholme School on the map above, from NLS Maps is near Hare Street and Heneage Road-it has the word schools with black blocks indicating buildings on the map. So if the children were living in New Street, to get to school, they had to go via Doughty Road, Ainslie Street, & Wintringham Road, crossing Hainton Avenue and then go along Hare Street to Heneage Road. So quite a way to go each morning and back in the afternoon.
Another article in a local newspaper, shows how Great Grandfather T D Sneath was quite well known in Grimsby
Eastern Morning News - Wednesday 24 March 1897
FIRST AID TO THE INJURED.—In the absence of the Port Master (Mr Williams), president of the Grimsby Railway Servants' Ambulance Corps, the chaplain, the Rev R. Meddings, presided on the occasion of the presentation of the certificates and medallions gained by members in the recent examinations. Mr Meddings made the presentations, and the following received certificates: Messrs W. Boswell, W. T. Davison, T. C. Fairbairn, and T. H. Sparks. Medallions were presented to Messrs A. Dickinson, jun., J. W. Fletcher, C. Hicks, C. E. Maddison, J. W. Osborne, and T. D Sneath. Mr D. Thompson, late secretary, was presented with a photograph in recognition of his services, and in turn he presented six of the members with cabinet photographs.
So our great grandfather's business was based in Hainton Square, Grimsby, but according to the 1901 census, the family were living at 11, New Street, Grimsby.
1901 England Census for Maud SNEATH
Lincolnshire-Great Grimsby-District 08
26, 11, New Street, Thomas D. SNEATH, Head, M, 47, Chemist & Druggist, own acc, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, wife, M, 48, born Nottingham, Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, Single, 21, Chemist & Druggist assistant, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Eleanor SNEATH, daughter, single, 19, born, Newark, Notts.
Clara SNEATH, daughter, single, 18, Teacher at a Board School, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, single, 16, Born, Newark, Lincs.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, single, 13, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Below is a photograph of 11 New Street, Grimsby, as it was a few years ago-it's now a solicitors office.
This map of 1908 shows the position of New Street & Hainton Square: From NLS Maps
So it was quite a wedding wasn't?
After their honeymoon on the Isle of Wight, during they may have visited Alberta's brother John who was living in Ventnor, but I can't find any proof they they did the happy couple went back to live at an address in Evedon, Lincolnshire about 2 miles from Sleaford.
In the census of 1901, the family are shown together back at the home that Thomas probably rents from the Lord of the Manor. He and Alberta were both brought up on farms so would have been most familiar with life like that. No doubt both would have worked with animals, and probably both had some education as well. We know that Thomas's wife had been educated at a private school in Norfolk, no doubt Thomas had been educated as well, though I don't yet have any information about that.
1901 Census for Alberta Sophia HIND & Family
Lincolnshire, Evedon, District 6
Number 4 in the Village:
Thomas A. OLIVER, Head, married, 33, Farmer, Employer, born Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire
Alberta S. OLIVER, wife, married, 26, Born Rippingale, Lincolnshire.
William H. OLIVER, Son, 1, Born Evedon, Lincolnshire
Mary OLIVER, daughter, 1month, born Evedon, Lincolnshire
Ethel A. GREEN, cousin, Single, 22, Mother’s Helper-domestic, Born Nottingham
Elizabeth M. Stevenson, Servant, Single, 14, General Servant, Domestic, born Evedon, Lincolnshire
Arthur Seymour, servant, 16, Waggoner on farm, born Staunton, Lincolnshire
John Cooper, Servant, single, 16, horseman on farm, born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Harry Tayles, servant, 16, Yard boy on farm, born Asgarby, Lincolnshire
The 1911 census at Beckingham shows the entire family inc William Hind Oliver,he of the £10 fine for adulterated milk! The Wills of both parents leave probate to him.
The 1901 census you may like to add a note about as it contains ETHEL A GREEN,son of Thomas Green who is son of Mary Ann Green, nee Sommerfield .Thomas features later for the last Hind,Mary ,as he re-marries to her in 1911 Erith. Might be worthwhile introducing at this stage.
So the next child of the Hind family in that 1881 census was John HIND, 5, Born Hanthorpe, Lincs. Well ten years later in 1891, he is a farm servant on the family farm.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 28 April 1900
Mr John HIND, fourth son of Mr. John Hind of Morton, born March 17th, 1876 died at Ventnor Isle of Wight on April, 24th after a prolonged illness. A melancholy fact is that he anticipated coming home on Wednesday. The deceased had been suffering from pulmonary consumption for which he had the open-air treatment at Brompton Hospital, London, and afterwards at the Royal National Hospital, Ventnor, and was apparently progressing favourably, when suddenly a change to Pertonitis developed, which proved fatal. He was brought home von Wednesday and was interred in Morton churchyard on Thursday 26th. A short service was conducted in the Wesleyan Chapel, where he had been an active member of the church and Sunday School. The Rev. H. Brown, circuit minister, who officiated announced the deceased’s favourite hymn, which was followed by short reading and prayer. After another hymn, had been sung the funeral cortege proceeded to the churchyard accompanied by relations and friends and sympathisers.
So the next child was George William HIND, born
October 1877 in Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire. In the 1881
Census he was recorded as George HIND, son, 3, Born
Hanthorpe, Lincs. In the 1891 census he is on the
family farm in Morton, Lincolnshire as a 13 year old
farmer's son.
Ten years later in 1901, he is a farmer at South Fen, Morton.His brother Henry aged 23 & his sister Mary born 17 are also at the farm as well as his Aunt, a Marian Green born Morton aged 72.
I have found this article about his death, funeral & obituary which I will add now so that we can see what there is to know about George William HIND.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 19 May 1928
MR. G. W. HIND, J.P. The sudden death of Mr. George W, Hind, J.P., well-known resident, occurred on Saturday. He had been about his usual work in the morning, and on reaching home pumped his motor-car tyre, prior to a further business journey. Directly afterwards he went into the house and complained to his wife of not feeling well. She rendered what aid was possible, and gave him a medicine which he was accustomed to taking, but as his condition did not improve, she immediately sent for Dr. Keogh, of Bourne. The latter quickly arrived, but death had taken place some ten minutes previously. The sad news was not only shock to those with whom he was immediately associated, but also to his wide circle of friends in the Bourne area, where he was well-known. Deceased was son of the late Mr. John Hind, of Morton, of which village he was a native, and he had resided there for the greater portion of his life, succeeding to the farm previously occupied his late father. On leaving Morton he went to reside at South Witham, was a member on the Grantham Rural District Council for that parish for ten years, and subsequently came to Thurlby, taking over the land owned by the late Mr. Wm. Hayes, J P-, whose surviving daughter married. He was subsequently elected as the representative of Manthorpe on the Bourne Rural District Council, a position which his father-in-law had previously held, and month ago he was appointed chairman for the ensuing year of the Rural District Council, a position which his father-in-law had held for many years, and as recently as last Thursday deceased qualified at Bourne Petty Sessions as an ex-officio Magistrate. During his membership of the Rural District Council he served on all the principal Committees, and only the night previous to his death he attended a joint meeting with the representatives of the Bourne Urban District Council with reference to the small-pox Hospital accommodation, upon which the Ministry of Health had adversely commented. This arose from a visit of one of the Ministry’s Medical Officers consequent upon the recent outbreak of small-pox, necessitating the removal of four inmates of the Workhouse Infirmary to the Joint Isolation Hospital provided by the Bourne Urban and Rural District Councils. The outbreak was attributed to contact with an occupant of the vagrant ward who was detained in the sick, ward of the Workhouse, and the meeting which deceased attended was for the purpose of making better provision for the nurses and others in attendance. During the past year deceased had served the vice-chairman of the Rural District Council, and had in the comparatively short time that he had been a member, entered into the business of the Council, and his election as chairmen was an acknowledgment by his fellow-members of the value of his public work. By his decease, the Wesleyan cause at Thurlby loses a prominent and active supporter. He was a member of a large family, all of whom are at the present time prominently associated with the Wesleyan cause, including Mr, Harry Hind, of Manthorpe, and Mr. Duke Hind, of South Witham. Politically, deceased was Liberal. He leaves a widow and one child. The Funeral took place on Wednesday, amidst every sign of sympathy and respect. The first part of the service was held in the Wesleyan Church, which was inadequate to find accommodation for all who attended. The family mourners were:—Mrs. G. W. Hind (widow). Master G. Hayes Hind (son). Mr. Thos. Hind (Harrogate. brother), Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Oliver (Sutton, Newark, brother-in-law and sister), Mr. and Mrs H. Hind (Manthorpe, brother and sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hind (South Witham, brother and sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hind (Wvmondham, brother and sister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. J. Hind (South Witham, brother and sister-in-law). Miss Hind (Birmingham, sister), Mr. Frank Brackenbury (Bardney, cousin), Miss M. L. Sneath (Lincoln), Mr. W. H. Oliver (Sutton). Miss K. Oliver (Sutton). Miss D. Hind (Wymondham), Mr. John Hind (Collingham), Mr. J. D. Hind (South Witham, nieces and nephews). Amongst ethers present were:—The Rev. G. M. Davis (Vicar of Thurlby), the Rev, F. F. Taylor (Rural Dean and vice-chairman of Bourne Rural District Council), and the following members and officers of the Council—Dr. Galletly, Major C Bell, Councillors W. Ash. G. W. Wallis, C. A. Holmes, J. G. Wade. J. Q. Longstaff, C. H. Feneley, F. Jennings. S. Lenton, F. Knott. E. B. Binns, E. Clark. W. Bembridge, F. Smith. J. Freeman. H. Tebb, T. Rippin, W. Reedman, C. W. Barrand. T. Lake (Surveyor), and J. Ross (Sanitary Officer). Supt. Duffin, Messrs. W. Kelby. E. H. Ward, H. M. A. Stanton. H. T. Ringrose. T, Rickard. G. E. Belt, J.P., J. Bloodworth, T. Mawby, J. Gray. E. Jarvis, C. Horn, Stevenson, jun., A. W. Sharman, F. Wade, J. Adcock, A. Hotchkin (Swaton), J. J. Cappitt. H. C. Tointon, H. Hind (Bourne), C. T. Brock, Hollingshead (Morton). A. Peasgood, R. Peasgood, C. Griffen, H. Kelham, C. R. Horn, J. Healey, J.P. (Empingham), W, Sharpe (Manthorpe), W, Waddington (Bowthorpe), Ed. Sneath (Pinchbeck). T. Holland, R. A. Collins. F. W. Mason, Arthur Stubley, J. T. H. Walpole. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Holmes (Bourne), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Osborn. Mr and Mrs. H. A. Sneath, Mrs. J. T. Sneath, Mrs. H. G. Sneath, Miss Knott (Merton). Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wall, Miss Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Griffen, jun., the Rev. H. and Mrs. Fry. Mrs. Herbert Knott, Mrs. Needham, Mr. and Mrs. Elvidge (Hanthorpe). Mr. and Mrs. A. Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs. Haresign (Pinchbeck). Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Noble, Mr. W. E. Venters, Mr. F. H. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Sands (Dyke), &c. The service was conducted by the Rev. G. H. Lester, the Wesleyan Circuit Minister, and the lesson was read by the Rev. J. Carvath. In the course of a most appropriate address the Rev. G. H. Lester said they were met to express their thankfulness for the life which had been lived in their midst, the loss of which they would all feel. Their brother manifested combination of qualities rarely found. His life was an example of the Scriptural passage, “Diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.” The deceased was trained in a home that was full of high spirits and restless energies, and possessing strong convictions, he faithfully bore witness to his convictions, was a strong fighter, but never fought in an unworthy cause. He served a long apprenticeship to life, and the cares of the home and his family were added to his being engaged in an arduous calling. As a member of that Church, he was a Devout and Sincere Worshipper and a devoted teacher and superintendent of the Sunday- School, to which the presence of the scholars that service testified. Speaking as the minister for a short period, the rev. gentlemen testified to the ready and willing service deceased always rendered, and which he, as minister gratefully acknowledged. Doubtless deceased had been called to a higher and larger service, a call which they received silence. After touching reference the loss sustained by the family, by the Church, and the district, the rev. gentlemen expressed the hope that they might all profit by the memory of deceased and his work. The service at the graveside was conducted the Rev. G, H. Lester. The coffin was of plain oak with brass fittings. Amongst the floral tributes were the following:—From Mother and Sonny; Tom, Bert, and family; Joe, Evelyn, Dunmore and Billy (South Witham); Duke. Annie, Jack, Jim, and Mary (South Witham); Charlie. Annie, Dora. and Bob (Wymondham) : The teachers of the Bourne Infant School; Wesleyan Sunday School; Riss; Employees South Witham); Mr. and Mrs. H. Kelham (Stamford); Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Horn and family; Mr. and Mrs. Bailey (Thurlby): Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Wilson and family (London): Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Stevenson and family; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gray and family (Obthorpe); Bess and Nan: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brackenbury (Bardney).
Well he married a Miss HAYES in on Tuesday 15 April,
1919:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 19 April 1919
THURLBY, WEDDING. The Wesleyan Church attracted a
large number of relatives and friends, on Tuesday
last to witness the marriage of Mr. Councillor
George W. Hind, of Counthorpe Lodge, Castle Bytham
(son of the late John Hind, of Morton, and Mrs
Hind, the Manor House, South Witham), to Miss
Hayes, only child Mr. William Hayes, J.P., and
Mrs. Hayes, of Ivy Lodge. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. J. (Superintendent the
Bourne Circuit) and the Rev. Benjamin Bransom
(Superintendent of the Grantham Circuit). The
bridesmaids were Miss Hind (sister of the
bridegroom) and Miss Dunn (Bromley, Kent), the
bridegroom being attended by Mr. Joseph Hind, of
South Witham Manor. Miss Noble presided at the
organ. The happy pair received large number costly
presents. The honeymoon is being spent in
Yorkshire, after which Mr. and Mrs. George Hind
will take their residence at Ivy Lodge,
Thurlby.
It looks like that she & her husband George William HIND had one son called George Hayes HIND, whom attended his funeral in 1928. I have found a birth for this boy in the September quarter of 1920. There is a marriage on Free BMD of Gladys M. NEW & George H. HIND in September 1939 on the Isle of Wight.
So the next child of John & Louisa Hind was Henry HIND born October 1878 in Hanthorpe, Bourne. In that census of 1881 he was with the family and there again in the 1891 census:
10 years later in the 1901 Census he is with his brother George William HIND, & sister Mary HIND and Aunt Marian Green at South Fen Farm.
It looks like that she & her husband George William HIND had one son called George Hayes HIND, whom attended his funeral in 1928. I have found a birth for this boy in the September quarter of 1920. There is a marriage on Free BMD of Gladys M. NEW & George H. HIND in September 1939 on the Isle of Wight.
So the next child of John & Louisa Hind was Henry HIND born October 1878 in Hanthorpe, Bourne. In that census of 1881 he was with the family and there again in the 1891 census:
10 years later in the 1901 Census he is with his brother George William HIND, & sister Mary HIND and Aunt Marian Green at South Fen Farm.
10 years later in 1911 he is shown as a butcher,
living in the same dwelling as his mother Louisa
HIND
1911 England Census for Henry Hind Living in Morton, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Morton 07
Henry HIND, Head, 32, Single, Butcher, Employer, born Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire
Louisa HIND, Mother, 53, Widow, Farmer, Born Morton, Lincolnshire.
Mavis BELLAMY, Assistant, 17, Single, Butcher’s Assistant, worker, Born Oglethorpe, Lincolnshire
Maud PARKIN, Servant, 17, Single, Domestic Servant, Borm Morton, Lincolnshire.
Henry HIND married Minnie Ruby WILSON, daughter of Henry WILSON in the September quarter of 1911- I have found a newspaper article that shows that a man called Henry HIND spoke at a Wesleyan Church in April 1911: Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 07 April 1911
WESLEYAN CHURCH, THE BURROUGHS. SUNDAY, APRIL 9th, at 3.0 p.m. Speaker MR. HENRY HIND.
Then in 1916, Henry & his wife Minnie & 2 children called Minnie & Florence are in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
1916 Census of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Henry Hind Self M 37y England Immigration Year 1912
Minnie Hind Wife F 36y England Ditto
Florence Hind Daughter F 3y England Ditto
Minnie Hind Daughter F 2y Saskatchewan
Anne Cooper Lodger F 40y England
Citing this Record
"Canada Census, 1916," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMG1-6CY : 3 April 2016), Minnie Hind in household of Henry Hind, Saskatchewan, Canada; citing p. 5, line 31; Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,434,946.
I found this entry:
Minnie R Hind
So this prompted me to search British Newspaper Archive for articles about Henry HIND and found these:
Minnie R Hind Immigration, on August 1912 to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on board Teutonic
https://www.familysearch.org/search
From St John, New Brunswick, Canada on board "
Melita" Arrival Date:
18 Apr 1919
to Liverpool, England.
Henry HIND Farmer, address in England, Counthorpe, Nr. Corby, Lincolnshire, Farmer, aged 37
Mrs. Minnie HIND, same address, Wife, aged 39,
Florence HIND, same address, Child, aged 6
Minnie HIND, same address, Child aged 11,
Cecil HIND, same address, Child, aged 2.
Mostly likely Henry went to live in Counthorpe was because that's where his brother George William HIND was living then.
Then I found this article in the Grantham Journal from British Newspaper Archive:
Grantham Journal - Friday 25 July 1941
POPULAR COUPLE MARRY Thistleton And South Witham Alliance A pretty ceremony took place at South Witham Methodist church, on Saturday, when Charles Cuthbert, third son of the late Mr, Charles Bradley and Mrs. Bradley, of Thistleton, was married by the Rev. John Lawson to Florence Elizabeth, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hind, South Witham. The bride, given away by her father, was attired in a frock of oyster green silk, trimmed salmon pink, with headdress of silk net and mittens to match. The bridesmaids were the Misses Minnie Hind, bride's sister. Mary Hind cousin. Jean and Ann Bradley nieces of the bridegroom. The two elder bridesmaids were dressed in floral silk, toning with the bride's attire, with wreaths of flowers, and had sheaves of blue scabious. Each also wore a golden bracelet, the gift of the bridegroom. The other two attendants were attired in salmon pink, and had floral, wreaths, and white shoes, the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr Cecil J. Hind, brother of the bride, was best man. The church had been decorated by Mrs. Mitchelson and Mrs. Laws. *Miss Mitchelson presided at the organ, and played suitable selections before and after the ceremony and accompanied for the hymns "O Father all creating" and "O Perfect Love." On leaving the church, the bride was presented with wooden spoons by John Keetch and Eileen Hind. A reception was held afterwards at the Manor House, when upwards of 50 guests were entertained. The bride's golng-away dress was of floral crepe with grey edge edge coat, navy hat and accessories to tone.
The article above about Minnie HIND resulted in me
finding these records for Minnie HIND in British
Newspaper Archive:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 05 September 1931
OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS —The results of the Oxford Local Examinations held in July have been issued, The following successes were attained by the Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, Oxford School Certificate Minnie Hind.
1911 England Census for Henry Hind Living in Morton, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Morton 07
Henry HIND, Head, 32, Single, Butcher, Employer, born Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire
Louisa HIND, Mother, 53, Widow, Farmer, Born Morton, Lincolnshire.
Mavis BELLAMY, Assistant, 17, Single, Butcher’s Assistant, worker, Born Oglethorpe, Lincolnshire
Maud PARKIN, Servant, 17, Single, Domestic Servant, Borm Morton, Lincolnshire.
Henry HIND married Minnie Ruby WILSON, daughter of Henry WILSON in the September quarter of 1911- I have found a newspaper article that shows that a man called Henry HIND spoke at a Wesleyan Church in April 1911: Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 07 April 1911
WESLEYAN CHURCH, THE BURROUGHS. SUNDAY, APRIL 9th, at 3.0 p.m. Speaker MR. HENRY HIND.
Minnie Ruby WILSON's parents were Henry
WILSON & his wife Elizabeth Ann TARVER. Her
parents married on the 21st May 1877-Grantham
Journal - Saturday 02 June 1877
Tarver—At the Wesleyan Chapel, Great Queen-street,
London, on the 21st ult., Henry third son of
Albert Wilson, farmer, of Rippingale, to Elizabeth
Ann only daughter of Thomas Tarver, of Banbury.
Henry WILSON as well as being a draper by trade
was also a local preacher in the Wesleyan
Methodist Church, so maybe that was how Henry HIND
came to meet Henry WILSON's daughter Minnie Ruby
and marry her later in 1911. Amazing that this
WILSON family came from Rippingale, Lincolnshire
where all these HIND family members came from.
Albert WILSON as mentioned above, Henry WILSON's
father married an Elizabeth WILLIAMSON another
well known Rippingale surname. The TARVER family
came from Banbury in Oxfordshire where Thomas
TARVER, Elizabeth Ann's father eventually ended up
living in London, in Holborn and dying there in
1872 as this newspaper article
explains:
Bucks Herald - Saturday 23 November 1872
DEATHS:Tarver.—ln Great Ormond -street, London, on
the 15th inst., Mr. Thomas Tarver, late of
Banbury, aged 58 years.
Henry's parents Albert & Elizabeth WILSON died
in 1887 & 1896 resepectively as these
newspaper articles illustrate:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 17 December 1887
Wilson.—At Rippingale, on the 12th inst., Mr.
Albert Wilson, aged 68. Deeply lamented.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 29 February 1896
RIPPINGALE. On Thursday, Fab. 27th, body of Mrs.
Wilson, widow of Mr. Albert Wilson, was brought
from London, and interred on the
churchyard at one o'clock. Mrs. Wilson was
a former resident and native of Rippingale,
where she was much respected.
Then in 1916, Henry & his wife Minnie & 2 children called Minnie & Florence are in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
1916 Census of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Henry Hind Self M 37y England Immigration Year 1912
Minnie Hind Wife F 36y England Ditto
Florence Hind Daughter F 3y England Ditto
Minnie Hind Daughter F 2y Saskatchewan
Anne Cooper Lodger F 40y England
Citing this Record
"Canada Census, 1916," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMG1-6CY : 3 April 2016), Minnie Hind in household of Henry Hind, Saskatchewan, Canada; citing p. 5, line 31; Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,434,946.
I found this entry:
So this prompted me to search British Newspaper Archive for articles about Henry HIND and found these:
In 1912, two articles appear in the
Grantham Journal, one in March & 1 in May:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 30 March 1912
Sales by Auction MORTON, 2½ Miles distant from
Bourne SALE of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. HORSES PIGS,
and BUTCHER'S TRADE CARTS, and EFFECTS. MR.
ARTHUR SAUL, Instructed by Mr. Henry Hind,
Butcher, Morton, aforesaid in consequence of
leaving the country), will SELL by AUCTION, upon
the premises, Wednesday. April 10th, 1912, the
whole of his Household FURNITURE, 2 NAG HORSES,
10 STORE PIGS. TRADE CARTS, SADDLERY, and the
EFFECTS necessary for the carrying on the trade
of a Butcher. Further details next week's issue,
and in posters now in circulation, and to be had
of the Auctioneer, Bourne
Grantham Journal - Saturday 11 May 1912
MORTON: Parish Council: On Tuesday evening, a
meeting of the Parish Council was held in the
Public Hall. Councillors Robert Rogers, John
Rodgers, Wm. Rodgers, Pacey, Knott, G. Hind, and
Deacon and the clerk were present. The Council
met in order to appoint a new Councillor in the
place of Mr. Henry HIND who has recently left
the village for Canada. Mr. Edward John Hubbard,
of Hanthorpe was unanimously appointed.
Then in 1916, Henry & his wife Minnie & 2
children called Minnie & Florence are in Moose
Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
I now know that Henry emigrated to Canada by way of Halifax, Nova Scotia on the ship called "Canada". I found this record
Name Event Type Event Date Event Place Gender Age Birth Year (Estimated) Birthplace Ship Name
Henry Hind Immigration Apr 1912 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Male England Canada
The record above shows that Henry HIND, a butcher
went to Canada in April 1912, arriving into
Halifax, Nova Scotia on route to Toronto.
His wife Minnie Ruby & their daughter Minnie Elizabeth went later in August 1912:
I now know that Henry emigrated to Canada by way of Halifax, Nova Scotia on the ship called "Canada". I found this record
Name Event Type Event Date Event Place Gender Age Birth Year (Estimated) Birthplace Ship Name
Henry Hind Immigration Apr 1912 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Male England Canada
His wife Minnie Ruby & their daughter Minnie Elizabeth went later in August 1912:
Minnie R Hind Immigration, on August 1912 to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on board Teutonic
https://www.familysearch.org/search
I searched on Free BMD for a marriage between
Henry Hind & Minnie before 1912 and found this
one:September 1911 • Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Marriages Sep 1911 Wilson Minnie R Edmonton 3a
1453 Hind Henry Edmonton 3a 1453
So a Minnie R. Wilson married a Henry HIND in
Edmonton, London in the September quarter of 1911,
strangely they both ended up in Canada, not
Edmonton, but Moose Jaw, but they didn't stay
there very long because I found this record in
1919:
to Liverpool, England.
Henry HIND Farmer, address in England, Counthorpe, Nr. Corby, Lincolnshire, Farmer, aged 37
Mrs. Minnie HIND, same address, Wife, aged 39,
Florence HIND, same address, Child, aged 6
Minnie HIND, same address, Child aged 11,
Cecil HIND, same address, Child, aged 2.
Mostly likely Henry went to live in Counthorpe was because that's where his brother George William HIND was living then.
Then I found this article in the Grantham Journal from British Newspaper Archive:
Grantham Journal - Friday 25 July 1941
POPULAR COUPLE MARRY Thistleton And South Witham Alliance A pretty ceremony took place at South Witham Methodist church, on Saturday, when Charles Cuthbert, third son of the late Mr, Charles Bradley and Mrs. Bradley, of Thistleton, was married by the Rev. John Lawson to Florence Elizabeth, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hind, South Witham. The bride, given away by her father, was attired in a frock of oyster green silk, trimmed salmon pink, with headdress of silk net and mittens to match. The bridesmaids were the Misses Minnie Hind, bride's sister. Mary Hind cousin. Jean and Ann Bradley nieces of the bridegroom. The two elder bridesmaids were dressed in floral silk, toning with the bride's attire, with wreaths of flowers, and had sheaves of blue scabious. Each also wore a golden bracelet, the gift of the bridegroom. The other two attendants were attired in salmon pink, and had floral, wreaths, and white shoes, the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr Cecil J. Hind, brother of the bride, was best man. The church had been decorated by Mrs. Mitchelson and Mrs. Laws. *Miss Mitchelson presided at the organ, and played suitable selections before and after the ceremony and accompanied for the hymns "O Father all creating" and "O Perfect Love." On leaving the church, the bride was presented with wooden spoons by John Keetch and Eileen Hind. A reception was held afterwards at the Manor House, when upwards of 50 guests were entertained. The bride's golng-away dress was of floral crepe with grey edge edge coat, navy hat and accessories to tone.
The article confirms that Florence had a second
forename of Elizabeth & that she had a brother
called Cecil Joseph HIND, and a sister called
Minnie HIND and that they lived in 1941 in South
Witham, Lincolnshire.
This next article also confirms some other
relationships: Grantham Journal - Friday 25 July
1941
PRESENTS Bride to bridegroom, wrist watch;
bridegroom to bride, wrist watch; bride's father,
cheque: bride's mother, fireside chair;
bridegroom's mother, suitcase and cheque;
Miss Minnie Hind. Mr. Roland Hopwood, cheque and handmade wool
rugs: Mr. Cecil J. Hind, cheque: Miss F. M. Hind, hand-worked-tablecloth and napkins:
Mr and Mrs. J. H. Bradley, cheque:
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Bradley, canteen
of cutlery: Mr. Cyril Bradley, cheque: Mrs. K. Horrell, walnut breadboard and
cheese set.; Miss L. Tidd, Treasury note.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Hind, damask dinner
napkins: Mrs G. W. Hind, case of fruit spoons and forks:
Mr. and Mrs. J. Duke Hind, Stuart cut-glass salad bowl. (It wasn't Roland
HOPWOOD but Ronald HOPWOOD)
Further research shows that Florence Elizabeth HIND was born on 12 July 1912 in Edmonton, Middlesex, where her parents Henry & Minnie Wilson were married in 1911 & that in September 1912 they arrived in Quebec:
Minnie R Hind Immigration Aug 1912 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Female Eng Ship Teutonic
Hind Immigration Aug 1912 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Female Eng ShipTeutonic
Further research shows that Florence Elizabeth HIND was born on 12 July 1912 in Edmonton, Middlesex, where her parents Henry & Minnie Wilson were married in 1911 & that in September 1912 they arrived in Quebec:
Minnie R Hind Immigration Aug 1912 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Female Eng Ship Teutonic
Hind Immigration Aug 1912 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Female Eng ShipTeutonic
Grantham Journal - Saturday 05 September 1931
OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS —The results of the Oxford Local Examinations held in July have been issued, The following successes were attained by the Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, Oxford School Certificate Minnie Hind.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 11 March 1939
Minnie Hind had recently been appointed to a
post in the National Physics Laboratory at
Teddington. and was doing interesting and
difficult work in the aerodynamics department.
So the articles show that Minnie, who was also
named after her grandmother Louise, was educated
at Kesteven & Grantham Girls School, where she
obtained the Oxford School Certificate, and later
in 1939, was appointed to the National Physics
Laboratory at Teddington, where she probably met
Mr. Ronald W Hopwood whom she later married in
September 1941 at Brentford RD and died on 13
December 1983 at 32, Fairview Avenue, Hythe,
in the New Forest area of Hampshire. Ronald
W Hopwood if that is his identity was
older than Minnie and died before her in London on
14 July 1974.
Florence Elizabeth HIND and her husband Charles Cuthbert Bradley whom she married at South Witham on 19 July 1941, died May 1984, at "Greenacres", Thistleton, Oakham, Rutlandshire, whilst her husband died 30 August 1976 at the same place.
Cecil Joseph HIND, if that is his identity died 20 December 1985 at Market Deeping, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
So that's Henry HIND's family, whereas Hind died in 1961 in London whilst his wife Minnie Ruby HIND nee Wilson died 22 April, 1950 at West End, Wymondham, Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray.
So the next HIND family member, as child of John and Louise Summerfield HIND was James Duke HIND known as Duke I think. He was at the wedding of his brother Henry on 25 July 1941 as in the article above.
Gerald Calver who has written a book about the Hind family called "Hindsight", has sent me some PDF files of the HIND family that I can publish in this blog. One of these documents is a written history of James DUKE and his family written I think by his daughter Mary Summerfield HIND.
She starts her story by writing this: "My father James Duke HIND was born in 1880 at Haconby near Bourne in the Fens; the family were quite large. The boys were Robert, who was a journalist and went to South Africa-living in Durban. He came on leave once and I remember he wore "spats". He used to send me "The Outspan" magazine when he "doung out that ilikrf yo trsf".
( I have written a blog item about Robert HIND)
Below is a map showing the relationship of Haconby & Bourne. Bourne is at the bottom of the map, with Morton above it, then Haconby above Morton.
I
"Next came Tom who has a bookshop in Harrogate. The books were religious publications. His wife was sweet and gentle-"Janet"-They had no family. ( I have written a blog item about Tom HIND)
Then Charles, who had the "mill" to grind corn and lived in Wymondham(Leics). Next, George, who married Evelyn complete with "Nanny". They lived at Ivy Lodge in Thurlby. Sadly he died in his 50's leaving one son Hayes who was clever, but had encephalis. He came to Lincoln School, and my husband became friendly with him (felt sorry for him I think) (I have written a blog item about "George William HIND")
Florence Elizabeth HIND and her husband Charles Cuthbert Bradley whom she married at South Witham on 19 July 1941, died May 1984, at "Greenacres", Thistleton, Oakham, Rutlandshire, whilst her husband died 30 August 1976 at the same place.
Cecil Joseph HIND, if that is his identity died 20 December 1985 at Market Deeping, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
So that's Henry HIND's family, whereas Hind died in 1961 in London whilst his wife Minnie Ruby HIND nee Wilson died 22 April, 1950 at West End, Wymondham, Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray.
So the next HIND family member, as child of John and Louise Summerfield HIND was James Duke HIND known as Duke I think. He was at the wedding of his brother Henry on 25 July 1941 as in the article above.
Gerald Calver who has written a book about the Hind family called "Hindsight", has sent me some PDF files of the HIND family that I can publish in this blog. One of these documents is a written history of James DUKE and his family written I think by his daughter Mary Summerfield HIND.
She starts her story by writing this: "My father James Duke HIND was born in 1880 at Haconby near Bourne in the Fens; the family were quite large. The boys were Robert, who was a journalist and went to South Africa-living in Durban. He came on leave once and I remember he wore "spats". He used to send me "The Outspan" magazine when he "doung out that ilikrf yo trsf".
( I have written a blog item about Robert HIND)
Below is a map showing the relationship of Haconby & Bourne. Bourne is at the bottom of the map, with Morton above it, then Haconby above Morton.
I
"Next came Tom who has a bookshop in Harrogate. The books were religious publications. His wife was sweet and gentle-"Janet"-They had no family. ( I have written a blog item about Tom HIND)
Then Charles, who had the "mill" to grind corn and lived in Wymondham(Leics). Next, George, who married Evelyn complete with "Nanny". They lived at Ivy Lodge in Thurlby. Sadly he died in his 50's leaving one son Hayes who was clever, but had encephalis. He came to Lincoln School, and my husband became friendly with him (felt sorry for him I think) (I have written a blog item about "George William HIND")
Then Harry, Duke (my father) and Joe. There
were four girls, Susanna, Alberta, Mary &
Miriam. They were all sent to "Ladies" schools and
Susanna & Alberta married farmers. (
Susan Louisa married Edwin Cartwright
SNEATH-this is where the HIND blog
started). Alberta Sophia married Thomas Alfred Oliver-see my blog about him & her)married Mary married a widower and Miriam taught
at a private school on Spring Hill in Lincoln.
Grandma HIND had been the village school mistress and was very autocratic. She moved round the family when she was a widow. "3/4 words I can't read". She didn't stay with us as we were too isolated. The photographs show her looking like Queen Victoria. George was capable and respected in the area. He was a J.P.
Duke was left with only one eye as Harry (think this must be Henry HIND as seen in the last blog item) had thrown a stone and it bust his eyeball. At 15 he went to Nottingham to live with a family butcher(Beechams) so that he could go to the Eye Hospital for treatment. At the same time he learnt how to cut up meet-very useful later on. Then he came back and lived with Auntie Sue near Brant Broughton( Susan Louisa SNEATH then formerly HIND).
At the next farm was my mother's family the Scotts.
Mother had never left home, she had been to the Methodist School in Brant Broughton until she was 15. When she was 21 she married James Duke HIND (at Brant Broughton Methodist Church)
and he inherited £100 from Mr. DUKE, his uncle, so they could start farming. They had a farm in Stapleford Woods near Newark-lots of Rhododendrons. They had two farm employees "living in".
By now they had two sons John and James. Then they moved to Beckingham to set up a Dairy Company.
Above is a map showing Stapleford Wood,
Stapleford, Beckingham & Brant
Broughton
I don't think it could have been very profitable as they moved to South Witham in 19XX (not sure apparently before 1914). George and Joe were at Manor Farm (siblings of James Duke HIND); Duke and Annie were at the Lodge (which they owned). They all helped each other with labour at hay and harvest. Then George married and went to Thurlby, (see below with South Lodge farm near Lobthorpe on the far left and top of map and Thurbly on far right of map just below Bourne)
and Joe married Evelyn a widow from Stamford. She was a good pianist, she had studied under Malcolm Sargent. Her brother Renwick lived at High Street Farm in those days. When he retired my father Duke moved to the village, then Harry came to the lodge. Renwick built a bungalow opposite the farm-it had a concrete tennis court. It was our relaxation. Their daughter Margaret was my age but her parents wouldn't pay fees for her to come to Grantham High School. The village had a station, trains ran from Nottingham via Bourne to Spalding. On Saturday evenings there were cheap trips to Nottingham so we went to the Goose Fair in the Autumn (A real treat!). (You can see the old railway line and station on the map below, now disused) (South Witham railway station was a station in South Witham, Lincolnshire on the Midland Railway. It was Midland Railway property but train services were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. It was closed in 1959 along with most of the M&G Northern Joint railway)
The station consisted of wooden platforms on the embankment, with a goods yard to the north.
We could still visit the Beechams; Duke was still in touch. One granddaughter married a policeman and lived in Stoke-on-Trent. I stayed there sometimes. We used to go to Trentham Gardens. I'm not sure when they moved to South Witham Lodge Farm. (see below for South Lodge Farm & Manor farm)
Must have been before the first world war as I was born in 1918 just before it ended. I had no playmates but don't remember missing them. I had a box of alphabet bricks and I spent hours playing with them. The lodge being so isolated had nothing to make life easy. The kitchen had a small coal range with a boiler and side oven. We lived in the kitchen. It had a paraffin hanging lamp, and candles in the back kitchen! There was a big copper to heat water on "washdays" and a wooden mangle. There was a large tin bath. We used to take it into the kitchen in front of the fire for our weekly bath. There were four bedrooms. The stairs led up through the sitting room, I don't recall using the "front room". We had a wireless which had a battery which had to be charged weekly; a man on a motorbike came to collect it and charge it weekly; it cost 9d. The Radio Times has a plan of a football pitch with numbers for players. I used to listen on Saturday afternoons, plus the plan (?) On Sundays we had an early milking and tea and went to the village chapel for 6 o' clock service. Usually we had a lay preacher. I remember Margaret Thatcher's father who came by bus from Grantham and has tea at the Manor, then preached and caught a bus home later. South Witham was a village of stone houses and cottages, two pubs, a church and two chapels. It was a Council School. The pub opposite the farm was built in 1704 and is still there-"The Blue Cow". All the pubs on the Dysant estate were called "Blue"-Blue House" etc The Earl of Dysant was a Liberal and so everything was Blue!
Duke HIND was always very interested in the community, and was Chairman of the Parish Council, then a County Councillor, and later an Alderman.
"From the Past (written in 29th January 1996)
I was born on 22nd May 1918-just before the end of the First World War. My earliest memory is of a big black collie dog Leader, which bit my arm because I removed its tin plate of food whilst he was still eating! In those days we lived Lodge farm, about a mile from South Witham.
Here is a map of the area from NLS Maps in 1902-note railway line & Manor farm bottom left, with South Lodge below L of Lobthorpe.
There was a track across the field from the road. We had no car-but we had a horse and trap. After I had been bitten I was taken by horse and trap to the local doctor at Market Overton about 6 miles away-I had a scar for years.
At the age of five, I started school in the village. At first my mother took me in her pony trap, pulled by a grey pony called "Dolly"-It had a socket for a whip, and a seat either side-one climbed in from the back. Mother had a grey and green riding cape-cloak and a large ginger coloured velour hat. I had boots which buttoned at the side. There were no school dinners in those days, but my Uncle had a farm in the village, I went there for my dinner everyday. There was a big grey stone house, with a wide staircase and lovely banisters to slide down. I had to help Winnie the maid to set the table. We didn't play with the village children-I think it was in case of "nits". There were two boys a year or so younger than me.
This article doesn't explain why her father James Duke HIND was given the second forename DUKE. Well I think I have found the reason why. James's mother, as in the story by Mary Scott CASS nee Hind, she explains was a school-mistress. These are her words "Grandma HIND had been the village school mistress and was very autocratic. She moved round the family when she was a widow. That must have been after the death of her husband John HIND. James's mother was born Louisa Sommerfield, in 1847 and christened at St John the Baptist Church, Morton, Lincolnshire on 26 December, 1847. Her christening records from Lincs to the Past reads:
Morton Baptisms 1847: Register No. 208: 26 December 1847, Louisa, daughter of Thomas & Sophia SOMERFIELD, of Morton a shop-keeper, by Thomas HOLDSWORTH.(Source https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=519114&iid=379456)
Her elder sister was called Sophia, named after her mother no doubt. Sophia was born in 1826, so 21 years older than Louisa. Her christening at Morton Parish Church reads :Morton Parish Records: Baptisms: Register No. 356: March 2nd, 1828, Sophia, daughter of Thomas & Sophia Sommerfield, of Morton, Cordwainer, by Samuel Hopkinson-so her father made boots & shoes in 1826. Her parents marriage record reads:
Marriages Register No. 70: Thomas Sommerfield, bachelor & Sophia Mahew, both of this parish were married by Banns on 8 September 1825 in presence of John Sommerfield & Elizabeth Sommerfield.
In the 1841 census, Sophia, aged 13 was working as a servant in High Street, Morton. Ten years later in the 1851 Census. She is shown now as a married woman, a school teacher, married to a James DUKE, aged 34, born in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, employed as a schoolmaster, and both are living in Morton. They don't have any children at all, at the home that Census day was Susanna Sommerfield, Sophia's sister.
I went searching for the marriage of Sophia to James Duke on Free BMD & Ancestry without success, but when I searched in British Newspaper Archive I found this entry:
Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 07 July 1849
Marriages: Oulton— Tuesday last, at St John's Church, by the Rev. H. Hamilton, Mr. Samuel Duke, schoolmaster, to Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Sommerfield, miller, Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Grandma HIND had been the village school mistress and was very autocratic. She moved round the family when she was a widow. "3/4 words I can't read". She didn't stay with us as we were too isolated. The photographs show her looking like Queen Victoria. George was capable and respected in the area. He was a J.P.
Duke was left with only one eye as Harry (think this must be Henry HIND as seen in the last blog item) had thrown a stone and it bust his eyeball. At 15 he went to Nottingham to live with a family butcher(Beechams) so that he could go to the Eye Hospital for treatment. At the same time he learnt how to cut up meet-very useful later on. Then he came back and lived with Auntie Sue near Brant Broughton( Susan Louisa SNEATH then formerly HIND).
At the next farm was my mother's family the Scotts.
Mother had never left home, she had been to the Methodist School in Brant Broughton until she was 15. When she was 21 she married James Duke HIND (at Brant Broughton Methodist Church)
and he inherited £100 from Mr. DUKE, his uncle, so they could start farming. They had a farm in Stapleford Woods near Newark-lots of Rhododendrons. They had two farm employees "living in".
By now they had two sons John and James. Then they moved to Beckingham to set up a Dairy Company.
I don't think it could have been very profitable as they moved to South Witham in 19XX (not sure apparently before 1914). George and Joe were at Manor Farm (siblings of James Duke HIND); Duke and Annie were at the Lodge (which they owned). They all helped each other with labour at hay and harvest. Then George married and went to Thurlby, (see below with South Lodge farm near Lobthorpe on the far left and top of map and Thurbly on far right of map just below Bourne)
and Joe married Evelyn a widow from Stamford. She was a good pianist, she had studied under Malcolm Sargent. Her brother Renwick lived at High Street Farm in those days. When he retired my father Duke moved to the village, then Harry came to the lodge. Renwick built a bungalow opposite the farm-it had a concrete tennis court. It was our relaxation. Their daughter Margaret was my age but her parents wouldn't pay fees for her to come to Grantham High School. The village had a station, trains ran from Nottingham via Bourne to Spalding. On Saturday evenings there were cheap trips to Nottingham so we went to the Goose Fair in the Autumn (A real treat!). (You can see the old railway line and station on the map below, now disused) (South Witham railway station was a station in South Witham, Lincolnshire on the Midland Railway. It was Midland Railway property but train services were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. It was closed in 1959 along with most of the M&G Northern Joint railway)
The station consisted of wooden platforms on the embankment, with a goods yard to the north.
We could still visit the Beechams; Duke was still in touch. One granddaughter married a policeman and lived in Stoke-on-Trent. I stayed there sometimes. We used to go to Trentham Gardens. I'm not sure when they moved to South Witham Lodge Farm. (see below for South Lodge Farm & Manor farm)
Must have been before the first world war as I was born in 1918 just before it ended. I had no playmates but don't remember missing them. I had a box of alphabet bricks and I spent hours playing with them. The lodge being so isolated had nothing to make life easy. The kitchen had a small coal range with a boiler and side oven. We lived in the kitchen. It had a paraffin hanging lamp, and candles in the back kitchen! There was a big copper to heat water on "washdays" and a wooden mangle. There was a large tin bath. We used to take it into the kitchen in front of the fire for our weekly bath. There were four bedrooms. The stairs led up through the sitting room, I don't recall using the "front room". We had a wireless which had a battery which had to be charged weekly; a man on a motorbike came to collect it and charge it weekly; it cost 9d. The Radio Times has a plan of a football pitch with numbers for players. I used to listen on Saturday afternoons, plus the plan (?) On Sundays we had an early milking and tea and went to the village chapel for 6 o' clock service. Usually we had a lay preacher. I remember Margaret Thatcher's father who came by bus from Grantham and has tea at the Manor, then preached and caught a bus home later. South Witham was a village of stone houses and cottages, two pubs, a church and two chapels. It was a Council School. The pub opposite the farm was built in 1704 and is still there-"The Blue Cow". All the pubs on the Dysant estate were called "Blue"-Blue House" etc The Earl of Dysant was a Liberal and so everything was Blue!
Duke HIND was always very interested in the community, and was Chairman of the Parish Council, then a County Councillor, and later an Alderman.
"From the Past (written in 29th January 1996)
I was born on 22nd May 1918-just before the end of the First World War. My earliest memory is of a big black collie dog Leader, which bit my arm because I removed its tin plate of food whilst he was still eating! In those days we lived Lodge farm, about a mile from South Witham.
Here is a map of the area from NLS Maps in 1902-note railway line & Manor farm bottom left, with South Lodge below L of Lobthorpe.
There was a track across the field from the road. We had no car-but we had a horse and trap. After I had been bitten I was taken by horse and trap to the local doctor at Market Overton about 6 miles away-I had a scar for years.
At the age of five, I started school in the village. At first my mother took me in her pony trap, pulled by a grey pony called "Dolly"-It had a socket for a whip, and a seat either side-one climbed in from the back. Mother had a grey and green riding cape-cloak and a large ginger coloured velour hat. I had boots which buttoned at the side. There were no school dinners in those days, but my Uncle had a farm in the village, I went there for my dinner everyday. There was a big grey stone house, with a wide staircase and lovely banisters to slide down. I had to help Winnie the maid to set the table. We didn't play with the village children-I think it was in case of "nits". There were two boys a year or so younger than me.
This article doesn't explain why her father James Duke HIND was given the second forename DUKE. Well I think I have found the reason why. James's mother, as in the story by Mary Scott CASS nee Hind, she explains was a school-mistress. These are her words "Grandma HIND had been the village school mistress and was very autocratic. She moved round the family when she was a widow. That must have been after the death of her husband John HIND. James's mother was born Louisa Sommerfield, in 1847 and christened at St John the Baptist Church, Morton, Lincolnshire on 26 December, 1847. Her christening records from Lincs to the Past reads:
Morton Baptisms 1847: Register No. 208: 26 December 1847, Louisa, daughter of Thomas & Sophia SOMERFIELD, of Morton a shop-keeper, by Thomas HOLDSWORTH.(Source https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=519114&iid=379456)
Her elder sister was called Sophia, named after her mother no doubt. Sophia was born in 1826, so 21 years older than Louisa. Her christening at Morton Parish Church reads :Morton Parish Records: Baptisms: Register No. 356: March 2nd, 1828, Sophia, daughter of Thomas & Sophia Sommerfield, of Morton, Cordwainer, by Samuel Hopkinson-so her father made boots & shoes in 1826. Her parents marriage record reads:
Marriages Register No. 70: Thomas Sommerfield, bachelor & Sophia Mahew, both of this parish were married by Banns on 8 September 1825 in presence of John Sommerfield & Elizabeth Sommerfield.
In the 1841 census, Sophia, aged 13 was working as a servant in High Street, Morton. Ten years later in the 1851 Census. She is shown now as a married woman, a school teacher, married to a James DUKE, aged 34, born in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, employed as a schoolmaster, and both are living in Morton. They don't have any children at all, at the home that Census day was Susanna Sommerfield, Sophia's sister.
I went searching for the marriage of Sophia to James Duke on Free BMD & Ancestry without success, but when I searched in British Newspaper Archive I found this entry:
Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 07 July 1849
Marriages: Oulton— Tuesday last, at St John's Church, by the Rev. H. Hamilton, Mr. Samuel Duke, schoolmaster, to Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Sommerfield, miller, Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire.
So whether the newspaper article is a mistake, with
the name of the groom, but certainly in the 1851
Census, Thomas Sommerfield was a miller at
Hanthorpe., whereas in the 1841 census he was a
grocer in Morton, then 10 years later in 1861 he was
a farmer at Hanthorpe. So the marriage entry
certainly fits with Sophia & her husband James
or Samuel DUKE. I know that church, I regularly walk
through its grounds and graveyard. So I wonder of
James/Samuel DUKE was a teacher at the local
school.
I have now found another record of that marriage on Ancestry:
It reads: West Yorkshire, England, Church of England
Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for James DUKE
1849 Marriage solemnized at St John the Baptist Church, Oulton, in the Parish of Rothwell, In the County of York.
No. 21: 3 July, James DUKE, of full age, Bachelor, Schoolmaster, of Oulton, son of John DUKE, Gardener & Sophia SOMMERFIELD, of full age, Spinster, of Oulton, daughter of Thomas Sommerfield, a Miller were married by Richard H. Hamilton in presence of Silas Abbey & Margaret Atkinson.
So both persons were residing in Oulton at that time
on 3 July, 1849, and that James DUKE's father was a
John DUKE, a gardener.
Information about James DUKE is pretty sparse-he is recorded as being christened at a church at Ferry Fryston on 9 March 1817 with only his mother Jane present at his christening no father at all mentioned. The parish church at Ferry Fryston is called St. Andrew. There was a large estate nearby called Fryston Hall.
Here are 3 maps of the area in 1842: The bottom map has St Andrews Church & Fryston Hall on it.
Records for the church are held at West Yorkshire Archives at Wakefield. Information about the church is here: http://www.billspics.co.uk/ferrybridge-church It was moved from the position above in the 1950's.
I found this record for James DUKE's christening: No. 184: March 9, 1817, James son of Jane DUKE, of Water FRYSTON, illegitimate.
So
Most likely he worked as a schoolmaster at Morton Church of England Primary School. Ten years later in 1861, both are in census, working as school teachers, living in Morton, him being 44 & her being aged 34. Sometime after 1861, they move to Ashby-de-la Zouch, in Northamptonshire, where James took a job at the local school. The only reason I know this is because of a newspaper article in the Grantham Journal in 1864.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 July 1864 DEATHS: At Ashby de-la-Zouch, on the 17th ult., Mr. James DUKE for several years schoolmaster at Morton, near Bourn. So James died on 17 June 1864, and left under £300 to his wife Sophia.
PROBATE RECORD James DUKE: Effects Under £300
3 September 1864: The Will of James DUKE, late of Morton in the County of Lincoln, Schoolmaster, deceased who died 17 June 1864 at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in the County of Leicester was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of Sophia DUKE of Morton, aforesaid Widow the Relict the Sole executrix.
I have now found another record of that marriage on Ancestry:
1849 Marriage solemnized at St John the Baptist Church, Oulton, in the Parish of Rothwell, In the County of York.
No. 21: 3 July, James DUKE, of full age, Bachelor, Schoolmaster, of Oulton, son of John DUKE, Gardener & Sophia SOMMERFIELD, of full age, Spinster, of Oulton, daughter of Thomas Sommerfield, a Miller were married by Richard H. Hamilton in presence of Silas Abbey & Margaret Atkinson.
Information about James DUKE is pretty sparse-he is recorded as being christened at a church at Ferry Fryston on 9 March 1817 with only his mother Jane present at his christening no father at all mentioned. The parish church at Ferry Fryston is called St. Andrew. There was a large estate nearby called Fryston Hall.
Here are 3 maps of the area in 1842: The bottom map has St Andrews Church & Fryston Hall on it.
Records for the church are held at West Yorkshire Archives at Wakefield. Information about the church is here: http://www.billspics.co.uk/ferrybridge-church It was moved from the position above in the 1950's.
I found this record for James DUKE's christening: No. 184: March 9, 1817, James son of Jane DUKE, of Water FRYSTON, illegitimate.
So
Most likely he worked as a schoolmaster at Morton Church of England Primary School. Ten years later in 1861, both are in census, working as school teachers, living in Morton, him being 44 & her being aged 34. Sometime after 1861, they move to Ashby-de-la Zouch, in Northamptonshire, where James took a job at the local school. The only reason I know this is because of a newspaper article in the Grantham Journal in 1864.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 July 1864 DEATHS: At Ashby de-la-Zouch, on the 17th ult., Mr. James DUKE for several years schoolmaster at Morton, near Bourn. So James died on 17 June 1864, and left under £300 to his wife Sophia.
PROBATE RECORD James DUKE: Effects Under £300
3 September 1864: The Will of James DUKE, late of Morton in the County of Lincoln, Schoolmaster, deceased who died 17 June 1864 at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in the County of Leicester was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of Sophia DUKE of Morton, aforesaid Widow the Relict the Sole executrix.
So Charles Sommerfield HIND, born in July
1881, at Morton, in Lincolnshire who was the son
of John HIND & Louisa Sommerfield. John Hind
married Louisa Sommerfield, on 24th August, 1869,
at Bourn Baptist Chapel, as this article in the
"Stamford Mercury" on British Newspaper Archive
states " Stamford Mercury - Friday 03 September
1869
At the Baptist chapel, Bourn, on the 24th
ult, Mr. John Hind, shoemaker, of Rippingale, to
Louisa, daughter of Mr. T. Sommerfield, of
Hanthorpe.
Charles Sommerfield HIND moved to Canada.
According to my Ancestry account, Charles and
his wife Sarah & daughter, Dorothea, were
passengers on board the twin screw steamer
called "Empress of Ireland", which left
Liverpool, Lancashire on 29th December,
1911.
An advertisement in the British Newspaper
Archive states this about that ship:
Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 26 December
1911
CANADIAN-PACIFIC.
Direct Fortnightly Service from BELFAST of
LARGE NEW TWIN SCREW STEAMERS From LIVERPOOL
, "Empress" Royal Mail Fast Service to
Canada FROM BELFAST. I FROM LIVERPOOL. Lake
Manitoba, Mar. 1 Empress of Ireland, Dec. 29
Lake Champlain. Mar. 15 Tunisian, ...
January 12 Lake Manitoba, Mar. 29
Empress of Britain, Jan. 26 Passengers
from Belfast embark by Tender from 10 a.m.
from Donegall Quay, on morning of milling..
Unsurpassed accommodation at moderate
fares.
Cheap Through, Tickets to all inland
destinations. Pamphlets, Information, Ac.,
free from U.P R. 41 VICTORIA STREET. LOCAL
AGENTS. 1471
Another article in the newspaper
account, states that Charles's brother Harry
also went to Canada to join his brother
as this article states:
Grantham Journal - Saturday 27 April
1912
DEPARTURE.-Mr. Harry Hind, son Mrs. Hind,
of this village, who, until quite recently,
carried on business as butcher, set sail on
Saturday for Canada, on the White Star Liner
"Canada" Mr. Hind intends to join his
brother. Mr. Charles Sommerfield Hind, who
started farming at Cashel, Ontario, only a
few months ago. We wish Mr. Hind good luck
in his new venture.
So Charles Sommerfield HIND sailed to Canada
and started farming in CASHEL, Ontario in
January 1912.
There is newspaper record about the marriage of James Duke HIND to Annie Elizabeth SCOTT: Lincolnshire Chronicle - Saturday 11 July 1903: MARRIAGES At Brant Broughton, on the 2nd lnst., James Duke Hind, of Stapleford, to Annie Elizabeth Scott, of Becklngham. In fact, 50 years later, there is another newspaper article about this marriage of James Duke HIND to Annie Elizabeth SCOTT. Grantham Journal - Friday 03 July 1953 GOLDEN WEDDINGS HIND-SCOTT. On Thursday, July 2nd, 1903, at Brant Broughton Methodist Church, Broughton by the Rev Joseph Watkinson. James Duke Hind to Annie Elizabeth Scott. Present address; South Witham. Grantham. In the same newspaper, the Grantham JOURNAL, Friday 3rd July, 1953, was another article about James Duke HIND. Grantham Journal - Friday 03 July 1953 South Witham jubilee This is his secret of happy wedded life WHAT would you say Is the secret of happy life? When this question was put Mr. J. Duke Hind, a well-known public figure in Kesteven. who celebrated his golden wedding with his wife at their home at South Witham yesterday, he said: “Live to be of service to others—and do not argue with your wife!” His advice to youth today? Seek make the village where we live a better and happier place by service to that end.” His Proudest Moment: Asked what he considered the most outstanding event in the parish, he smilingly replied-There have been many, but my proudest moment, was when the Parish Council purchased the five-acre playing field 25 years ago-the first of its kind in Kesteven. It was then on ploughed field, Now, it has a tennis court, a hard cricket pitch, pavilion and dressing rooms etc-and all this from the efforts of a farmer whose life has been such a busy one he has had no time for participation in sport. Yet his friends know he is a sportsman at heart and respect him for what he is one what he has done. Married at Brant Broughton Methodist Church on July 2nd 1903, Mr. and Mrs. HIND, age 73 & 71 respectively, and remarkably fit. They have two sons, who are farming with them, a married daughter living at Lincoln, and six grandchildren. Both have taken a very active part in village life. They started farming in Stapleford, Newark, then moved to South Witham in 1915. Parish Councillor for 34 years. Mr. HIND, who is local representative for the Journal has been a Methodist local preacher for over half a century. He was elected to the parish council in 1919, and became chairman in his first year, a position he still holds. He has the distinction of having been unopposed since being elected County Councillor for the Colsterworth Division in 1931. In addition to serving on the County Education Committee, as a representative governor of three schools in the County-Girls High School, Central School, and Hunting Tower-road as well as a governor of Kesteven Teachers T raining College-Mr. Hind has been chairman for 25 years of the local school managers, and is also a member of the Kesteven Community Council. He took great interest in the formation of the Kesteven Association of Parish Councils in 1947, serves on the Executive Committee, and has never missed the Annual Conference at Skegness. Tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. HIND hope to celebrate their jubilee with a reunion of the family and few friends. I have also, now found lots of newspaper entries about James Duke HIND, so I can now make a list of the what he was doing, many articles are also published as Mr. J. Duke HIND as opposed Mr. James Duke HIND. So now I can add more about the life of Mr. James Duke HIND. For example there is the story of a shooting trajedy, in the year 1905. Grantham Journal - Saturday 05 August 1905 LINCOLNSHIRE SHOOTING TRAGEDY. FOLLY OF PLAYING WITH FIREARMS. A sad tragedy occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Stapleford, a remote parish between Newark and Lincoln It appears that a youth of fifteen years, named George William Thacker, employed as a cowboy by Mr. James Duke Hinds, a farmer, of Stapleford Wood, was sitting in the barn when the waggoner, Charles Melton, who is eighteen years old, entered. The latter took a gun from the wall, pointed it at the cowboy, and pulled the trigger. There was loud report, and Thacker fell to the ground with a wound in the neck. Dr. Osbourn Johnson, of Brant Broughton, was immediately sent for, but. upon his arrival he found the poor lad dead. Mr. A. Trotter, the Lincoln District Deputy-Coroner, held an inquest on the body of Thacker at the house of Mr. Duke Hinds, at Stapleford, on Wednesday evening. Melton was present, but, after being cautioned by the Coroner, he stated that he would rather not be called as a witness. Evidence was given by two Irish labourers and a man named Coddington, who had been working temporarily for Mr. Hinds* that on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after dinner, Charles Melton, the waggoner, entered the chaff-house, took down the gun, which was hanging on a nail, and remarked that he was going out to shoot some rabbits. then said to the deceased, " I'll shoot you! " and immediately the gun went off, and Thacker received discharge in the left side of the neck. A shocking wound resulted, and death took place almost instantly. The waggoner was in great despair, and protested to everybody that he had not the least idea that the weapon was loaded. The gun was produced. It was double-barrelled, and appeared have only been loaded in the right barrel with a 12-bore cartridge, No. 5 shot, when the incident happened. The Coroner remarked that the trigger of this barrel seemed to fall rather easily; and several of the jury, who examined the weapon, expressed the same opinion. The Coroner said this was another instance of the folly of people playing with firearms, and was a very sad affair. The jury found a verdict of "Accidental death," and, at their request. Mr. Trotter censured Melton for his carelessness, and also his master for entrusting such a youth with a gun and cartridges. So this article gives us some information about one of the employees of James Duke HIND at his farm at Stapleford, in Lincolnshire. Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser - Tuesday 19 September 1905 EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE GRANTED. James Duke Hind, a farmer, of Stapleford, applied for a vaccination exemption certificate in respect of his child.—Mr. Curtis: Do you believe it will be injurious to the child's health?—l believe vaccination in many cases is injurious to health.—Mr. Curtis: To this particular child?—Yes, I do.—After some deliberation the exemption was granted. Then on 13th April, 1907, there is another newspaper article, that tells us that in that year, James Duke HIND was living in Beckingham, Lincolnshire. Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 April 1907 At Spittlegate Petty Sessions, on Saturday, the Justices approved of the following being appointed serve as parish constables for the ensuing year :Allington, James Brisbane ; Barrowby, Joseph Sansam ; Barkston, John Paruham ; Bassingthorpe - com - Westby, Joseph Sentance ; Beckingham, James Duke Hind; Long Bennington, George Rowbotham ; Belton, Robert Hurd; Bitchfield, John Henry Parkinson ; Boothby Pagnell, James Hunt; Braceby, William, Coddington; Brant Broughton, Thomas Bailey; Burton Coggles, Thomas Woods Armstrong; Carlton Scroop, William Silkstone; Grantham Journal - Saturday 15 July 1916 GRANTHAM RURAL TRIBUNAL. A meeting of the Grantham Rural Tribunal was held at the Guildhall on Saturday, Mr. T. S. Pearson- Gregory presiding. There were also present:- Messrs. H. B. Minta, R. Doubleday, W. Thompson, K. C. Newton. E. Willows. Mr. J. G Thompson was the military representative. James Duke Hind (36). farmer, South Witham, claimed exemption-The Clerk stated the Advisory Committee were of opinion that the applicant and his elder brother were sufficient for the farm and that the younger brother must go. -Hind said he was the sole tenant of farm 47½ acres. His brothers had 300 acres. - Mr. J. G. Thompson: That is quite different; we thought all three brothers were together on one farm, -The Chairman: What labour have you got? -Applicant I do it all myself, with the assistance of my wife. -Conditional exemption was granted. Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 June 1930 SOUTH WITHAM. Sequel to Alleged Stone-throwing.— Five youths, Joseph Johnson, Alfred Richard Bailey, labourers, Arthur Branston, butcher, and Charles Lewis Wise, lorry driver, all of South Witham, were summoned for throwing stones in the Recreation-field at South Witham, on May 16th, to the annoyance of the residents. —Mr, John Norton appeared for all the defendants, and pleaded not guilty. James Duke Hind, farmer, South Witham, said he was chairman of the South Witham Parish Council. On Friday. May I6th. there was a social at the Recreation Hall South Witham, which he attended. About 10.15 p.m. he noticed that one of the curtains was not drawn across the window; he saw four or five at the window, one of whom he recognised as the defendant Johnson. The curtain was drawn across immediately, and there was noise at the side of the hall, as if they (defendants) were kicking. Witness went outside and heard footsteps going towards Thistleton and also to the village. He re-entered the hall, and there was a recurrence of the noise of banging on the side the hall, which was of wooden structure. About 11.20, there was a noise on the roof of stone-throwing; a lady in the hall was singing at the time. Witness went outside with the doorkeeper, and saw three or four youths going away towards Witham. Possibly the windows might have been broken, only they had been covered with wire for protection. Mr. Norton; How do you know that they were stones? Witness: Because some came inside the hall through the door. —As a matter of fact, you do not know who threw them? No, I do not. John Robinson, platelayer, South Witham, doorkeeper on the night in question, corroborated, adding that he was quite sure stones were thrown, because they could hear them rattling down the roof.—P.c. England said in consequence of a complaint he subsequently interviewed defendants, and was satisfied by their answers that they had been to the hall and thrown the stones.—Mr. Norton said he should like to deal with the case of Bailey. Branston, and Wise, because he submitted that against those three there was not a single scrap of evidence to prove the offence, and far as they were concerned he asked the Bench to dismiss their cases straightaway.—The Chairman : We think there no case against Bailey, Branston, and Wise. —Mr. Norton then withdrew his plea of not guilty, and substituted a plea of guilty in respect of Johnson and Swans. On their behalf, he wished to say how sorry they were that the incident took place. With the intention of going to the dance, added Mr. Norton, they looked through the window, and there were, he thought, only two or three ladies there, and he supposed defendants were a bit disappointed. They got walking about, and eventually got into mischief. They had expressed their regret, and promised not to do it again. In imposing a fine of 5s. and 10s expenses, the Chairman said he hoped they would have no more cases from either North or South Wit ham. Cases from those villages were brought up at that Court too frequently. Grantham Journal - Saturday 08 November 1930 SOUTH WITH AM. There was a Record Attendance at the Recreation Hall on Friday for a dance. Music was supplied by the Market Overton Band, and Mr. Harold Bullimore was M.C. Mr. Wm. Bradley won a pork-pie competition organised by Mr. Joseph Hardy. Mesdames Wright and Robinson looked after refreshments. A Show Next Year.— After a lapse of one year, it was resolved at a meeting of the Flower Show Society, held in the School-room on Friday, to carry on the show again next year. Mr. J. Duke Hind presided over a good company, and was supported Mr. R. S. Dunmore (hon. treasurer) and Mr. J. Turner (secretary). The balance-sheet showed £2O Os. 5d, in hand. Mr. W. L. Harvey proposed that a show be held. This was seconded by Mr. W. Harvey, of Sewstern, who remarked it gave great regret that there was show in 1930. They looked to the Witham Show being the second best in the district. Mr. Johnson: Mine might be a silly idea, but I should like the £2O to towards football in the district. Mr. A. Bentley supported these remarks. Mrs. Edmondson said she should like to see the show again. Mr. W. Harvey reminded the meeting that the money in hand belonged to the show, and was given for that purpose, and he should strongly oppose it being used for sport. A proposition that the show be held again was carried by twenty votes against two. Lord Dysart was elected patron. For the position of president the names Mr. Walter Woods, Mr. R. S. Clark, the Rev. Barron, and Mrs. Edmondson were submitted. Mr. Woods and Mr. Clark refused serve, and Mrs. Edmondson received seventeen votes against two for the Rev. Barron, who was not present. The Chairman informed Mrs. Edmondson that she had been elected to the position for what she had done for the village. Mr. Hind then vacated the chair in favour of Mrs. Edmondson, Other appointments were:—Mr. J. Duke Hind, chairman; Mr. R. S. Dunmore, hon. treasurer; Mr. J. Turner, secretary; Mr. Winston Craven, sports secretary; Messrs. W. Woods and J, Hind auditors. Mr. Turner informed the meeting that, although they had elected him secretary, he should expect the assistance of the Committee, as it was not possible to carry out the duties without that support. What they wanted was to forget the past, and pull all together. It was agreed that Mr. Turner be paid £5 for his services. The date of the show was fixed for August 8th. and particulars will appear in the "Journal" advertising columns. The Committee elected were Messrs. W. Wright, J. Wright, Atkinson. J. Ford. F. Meech, H. Clapton. J. Adcock. T. Muggleton, H. Edmondson. H. Bradley, Barrett. F. Gadsby, C. Wormall. S. Arling, and T. Hackctt. with power to add. Grantham Journal - Saturday 14 March 1931 SOUTH WITHAM. At the Parish Meeting, held on Monday. Mi. Harold Bullimore was in the chair, The chief business, was to elect a Parish Council, and (he following old members were appointed Messrs George Tom Bullimore, S. R. Dunmore, George Harvey, James Duke Hind, John Robinson, James Turner, and Walter Woods. The charity accounts were passed, and it was decided that the Charity Commissioners be written to regarding the usual £1 which 'is allowed to the Parish Constable. The Council pointed out that this appointment did not know rest with them. The Grantham RACKETS CONCERT PARTY gave an excellent concert in the Recreation Hall on Thursday week. The programme comprised a sketch, songs, monologues, duet, piano solo. &etc. Each item was well received. Refreshments wore served by Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Wise, and Miss E. Dunmore. Messrs. Sonescall, Muggleton, and Robinson were doorkeepers. About £4 was cleared for the hall funds, and Mr. Harvey, in moving a vote of thanks to the artistes, said only about a further £lO was required to liquidate the debt. He added how much the hall was appreciated. Mr. J. Duke Hind associated himself with these remarks. Grantham Journal - Saturday 02 May 1931 SOUTH WITHAM. The Annual Parish Meeting took place in the Recreation Hail, those present being Messrs. L. R. Dunmore, G. T. Bullimore, J. G. Harvey, J. Duke Hind, J. Robinson, and Jas. Turner. For the tenth year, Mr. J. Duke Hind was appointed chairman. Mr. J. G. Harvey was elected vice-chairman. Mr. G. T. Bullimore treasurer, and Messrs. R. S. Clark and S. R. Dunmore School Managers. Band of Hope. —The fifty-third annual tea and meeting took place in the Congregational Schoolroom, when upwards of fifty members and friends partook of an excellent repast, served by Mrs. H. Frisby and Miss C. Johnson. Games were arranged by Mrs. J. Turner, and a most enjoyable time was spent. Officers elected were :—President, Mr. J. Duke Hind: vice-presidents, Mr. P. Craven and the Rev. G. Killick; secretary, Mrs. Turner: treasurer, Miss C. Johnson. Votes of thanks were heartily accorded the helpers. Grantham Journal - Saturday 13 August 1932 SOUTH WITHAM SHOW: The Opening Ceremony The show was opened by Major Fleetwood Hesketh. who was introduced by the president. Major Hesketh said was pleased to see the South Witham Society kept the flag flying. He was greatly impressed by the wonderful exhibits, especially those of the children’s. In moving a vote of thanks to Major Hesketh, Mr. J. Duke Hind said they were a little jealous that the Major did not reside Lincolnshire, but always assisted them substantially. (Cheers.) Mr. S. R. Dunmorc seconded, and the Band struck “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.’’ Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 03 September 1932 CROWSON-TAYLOR Among several pretty weddings in Boston this week was the ceremony at Holy Trinity Church, Boston, at the marriage of Mr. Fred Crowson, Grantham, to Miss Phyllis Mary Taylor, daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Taylor, of Spilsby Road, Boston. The Rev. R. V. Sellars, who is temporarily taking the Rev. J. Beanland's place, conducted the ceremony. The bride, who was given away her brother, Mr. Ronald Taylor, looked charming in simply made dress of pale blue georgette worn with a pretty crinoline picture hat to match- She carried a bouquet of cream roses and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids —Miss H. M. Taylor and Miss M. D.. Adams-wore charming dresses of blue floral georgette, worn with black hats, and they carried pink roses and fern. Mr. James Duke Hind attended the bridegroom as best man. After the ceremony the wedding breakfast was held at the home of the bride's mother, and later in the day the young couple left for Scotland, where their honeymoon is being spent. Lincolnshire Echo - Saturday 26 November 1932 KESTEVEN COUNCIL VACANCIES Nominations for Three Divisions Nominations were received at Sleaford, yesterday, of candidates for the three vacancies on Kesteven County Council, caused the elevation to the aldermanic bench Mrs. Taylor (Sleaford Division), Mr. C. D. Simmonds (Colsterworth) and Mr. L. E, Harvey (Bourne). For Sleaford there was only one nomination, Mr. Henry Hine Foster, farmer, Holdingham. For Colsterworth, also, there was only one candidate, Mr. James Duke Hind, farmer, High-street farm. South Witham. These two are accordingly elected. In the Bourne division there were two nominations, Mr. John Robert Lambley, political agent, 9, Manning-street, Bourne, and Mr. Frederick George Wall, draper, 34, North-street, Bourne. In the event of a poll this will take place on Saturday, December 3. Grantham Journal - Saturday 27 February 1937 GRANTHAM COUNTY COUNCIL CONTESTS The Nominations in Kesteven Nominations for seats on the Kesteven County Council closed Saturday, and contests are likely at Grantham, Ancaster, Billingborough, Caythorpe, Claypole. Rippingale and Thurlby, among other places. Colsterworth—James Duke Hind, farmer, South Witham. Grantham Journal - Saturday 07 May 1938 SOUTH WITHAM Fellowship. —The Rector conducted the Industrial Christian Fellowship services on Sunday, and at evensong Mr. Geo. Irving. 8.A., gave an address. Parish Council. —At the annual meeting. last week, Mr. J. G. Harvey was re-elected chairman. The matter of pumps on wells in the village was referred to a parish meeting to be held later. A.R.P.—A meeting was held on Monday, when 50 volunteers submitted their names. The Rev. J. W. Ronayne presided, and Mr. Clark, the Rural Council representative, explained the scheme. Straying Beast. —For allowing nine beasts to stray near Thistleton, on April 11th. James Duke Hind, farmer, of South Witham. was fined 9s-a, shilling for each animal—at Rutland sessions on Monday, P.c. Cawthorne gave evidence. Defendant pleaded guilty, and expressed his regret at the occurrence. Grantham Journal - Saturday 21 January 1939 THE GRANTHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. 1939. LAID TO REST AT WOOLSTHORPE Methodist With a Life Full of Service FUNERAL OF MR. C. P. SIMMONDS Mr. Charles Pickwell Simmonds, J.P., who was one of the oldest Methodist officials in the country, and whose death we reported in our last issue, was laid to rest at Woolsthorpe, Colsterworth. on Saturday. Mr. Simmonds. who was 82 years of age. was a well-known magistrate and public figure in Kesteven. and his death, which came after about a year's illness, was greatly deplored by a wide circle of associates, whose deep sympathy has been extended to the family. A service was held in the house, conducted bv the Rev. D. L. Williams, superintendent minister of the Chapel-street Methodist circuit. Grantham, who was assisted by Mr. J. Duke Hind, of South Witham, a close friend of deceased. Making reference, to Mr. Simmonds., Mr. Hind said he had proved friend, counsellor and guide to many of them, numerous lives having been enriched by his guidance. He was a man who was filled with the spirit of God. He spent his life in useful service, and he would be missed in a wider area than any of them realised He 'the speaker* had worked with Mr. Simmonds in public life for a number of years, and he would always remember the moments when he saw him rise sneak. He was always listened to with the utmost respect. The funeral procession from the house to the little cemetery was an impressive sight, the long double files of mourners walking behind the coffin, which was carried on an open motor lorry. The last rites at the graveside were performed by the Rev. D. L. Williams, and the gathering sang one verse of deceased's favourite hymn. "Jesu. the very thought of Thee." Grantham Journal - Friday 01 October 1943 SOUTH WITHAM The Harvest Festival Services at the Congregational church on Sunday were conducted by Mr. James Duke Hind, C.C. The appearance of the church gave eloquent testimony to the generosity of those who had contributed, not only in kind, but in time and labour for its decoration. At the evening service, well-attended by villagers and Servicemen, Mr. Hind took for his text. "the man who puts his hand to the plough and looks back." Mrs. Craven presided at the organ. On Monday, produce was auctioned by Mr. Winston Craven, assisted by a member the R.A.F. The proceeds. with the offertories and donations, amounting in all to £14 10s., were sent the Leicester Royal Infirmary. Grantham Journal - Friday 07 November 1947 EXPENSIVE SEARCH FOR DINNER Three brothers fined for South Witham offence Three brothers who had been in search of a dinner were fined 10s. each, with 15s. 8d costs, at the Spitalgate court at Grantham on Saturday They were John Ed. Stokes, farm labourer, of High-street. South Witham. Geo Wm. Stokes, tractor driver. of Swlnderby, and Peter Stokes, farmer, of 19. Lombard-street, Newark. They appeared on a joint charge of trespassing in pursuit of conies South Witham. James Duke Hind, of South Witham, told the court he saw the accused acting in a suspicious manner on Broadgate Bridge. They had two dogs with them. To police questions William Stokes remarked "I wanted dinner the same as the others.” Peter Stokes was carrying a gun. and the men were seen beating the hedge of Bombhole field. Grantham Journal - Friday 25 March 1949 Nominations yesterday FOR COUNTY COUNCIL VACANCIES IN preparation tor Kesteven County Council election April 9th, nomination papers of candidates in the 60 electoral divisions were handed yesterday. There will be straight fights in each of the ten Grantham divisions, and with the exception of Brig E. J. Grinling. the sitting members are seeking re-election. County area Ancaster—■- Robert G Simpson Bennington—Fredk Winter. Blllingborough Arthur Wilson. Bourne No. I—(Rev. W. J Rees. Bourne No. 2—'Robt. A. Collins. Bytham-John H. Turner. Caythorpe—- John W. Oxby. Claypole— * John W. Milner. Colsterworth James Duke Hind. Grantham Journal - Friday 31 October 1952 SOUTH WITHAM Parish Meeting on Monday, Mr. J. Duke Hind presiding, decided not purchase the disused chapel, for use as a Village-hall. There was a long discussion, and the voting was 32 for the purchase and 63 against. Grantham Journal - Friday 25 February 1955 SOUTH WITHAM FARMER The vacancy caused by the death of Aid. T. W. Atkinson, of Bourne, was filled by the election of a 74-years-old South Witham farmer. James Duke Hind—a friend from boyhood of the man he succeeds. A member of the County Council for Colsterworth since 1931, Ald. Hind was never opposed at an election. Married over 50 years, he said at his golden wedding: "Live to be of service to others—and not argue with your wife!" Voting for the seat, which expires in April next, resulted: James Duke Hind. 15 votes: Benjamin E. Brighton, of Ruskinston, 11; John William Harrison, of Grantham. 10; Dorothy Shipman, 9; John Frederick Vickers, Martin. 6. AID. DUKE HIND CROXTON LOSES AN OLD PARISHIONER One of Croxton's oldest residents, Mrs. Smart, who was 86. and was also one of the oldest members of the Mothers' Union, was laid to rest Saturday. The Vicar, the Rev. F. Tetley, officiated, and chief mourners were Mr. Smart, son; Mr. and Mrs. Towers, sisters and brother-in-law; Mrs. Towers (Folkingham). Mr. Peyser, Mr. and Mrs. W. Smart (Knipton), nephews and nieces: Mrs. Sears. Mrs. Stubbs. Mrs. Woodcock and Mrs. Thornton, neighbours. Floral tributes were sent bv Mr. Smart: sister and brother- Mr. Towers and family, nephews and nieces; Mr. arid Mrs. Sears: Mr. and Mrs. Thornton; Mrs. Stubbs: and members the Mothers' Union. The bearers were Mr. L. Hedworth. Mr. R. Woodcock. Mr. J. Mamot and Mr. W. Musson. v - ' - # Grantham Journal - Friday 15 November 1957 Escapades of two dogs led to charges against South Witham Owners. The escapades of two dogs, one of which was quite old, when they entered a South Witham field in which there was poultry on Friday afternoon. September 13th, were described to Spitalgate magistrates at Grantham on Saturday when their owners were charged with two offences each arising out of the incident. The animals were stated to have killed several chickens valued by the farmer to whom they belonged. James Duke Hind, jun.. of Water-lane. South Witham, at 30s. each. Mrs. Lily White, Water-lane South Witham. and Mrs Margarite Alice Stinson, of East Midland Estate, South Witham. were each charged being the owner a dog, which worried livestock, and also. with failing to keep a dangerous dog under proper control. Fines of £1 each were imposed in respect, of the first offence, and they were both ordered to keep the animals under proper control P.C. Johns said that when he saw Mrs. White she told him: "I keep a few chickens and it has never worried them." She added that she would have compensated the owner had he gone to see her. Mrs. Stinson's husband- neither of the defendants appeared in court—said that his wife's dog, which was just over six months old. had been bought up among chickens. "And I can't see it killing them," he added. Grantham Journal - Friday 13th April, 1958 "WHY?" When the chairman replied that it was with the district auditor Aid. Hind asked why the audit was late. As it was clear that Aid. Hmd knew why the books were with the auditor the meeting began to show it was not in sympathy with his obvious attempt to try extract public statement. Mr. Batty saying it seemed thai "some had come to the meeting for a row." Mr. sensicall asked they couid be told the chairman did resign, and Aid. Hmd replied in the affirmative. Mr. Sensicall then said that in his view that ended the matter. but after lie had remarked that it was very good of Mr. Pendleton to step in Aid. Hind began reading a letter from the district auditor. The chairman intervened say that the matter was closed and proceeded to the business the meeting. The clerk. Mr. R. S. Clark, presented the report of parish charities showing that £l4 had been distributed to old age pensioners and widows. SPECIAL RATE The accounts for the year were presented, and consent was given lor a special rate ol fourpence the £ be levied for parish council purposes. A rate to raise £7O for street lighting was recommended. Nomination papers were available at the meeting lor anyone who wished to be nominated for the new council. Aid. Hind, who has been on the parish council for 40 years, during most which time he has been chairman, was asked later by the "Journal" if he had anythine to say regarding his resignation, but he declined to make any comment. Okay so I have finished with the Hind family, but I have decided to go back to the SNEATH family and my great grandfather on my grandmother Readman side. This is where I started this bit of research-Thomas Dixon SNEATH.
Okay so you can see that Thomas Dixon SNEATH was born on 11 June 1853 at 10.30am on a Saturday morning. His father was William Sneath, and his mother was Elizabeth Sneath nee Cartwright.
So here is Thomas in the 1861 census:
So by the census of 1861, this was the Sneath family:
1861 Census: RG 2477
53, High St, Brant Broughton
William Sneath, Head, Married, Grocer, Draper and Farmer, Caythorpe, Lincs
Elizabeth Sneath, Wife, Married, 40 years, Lincoln, Lincs
John Wesley Sneath, Son, 10 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Charles William Sneath, Son, 8 years, scholar, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Thomas Dixon Sneath, Son, 4 years, Brant Broughton, Lincs
Edwin Cartwright Sneath, 6months, Brant Broughton, Lincs
John Dunn, Apprentice Grocer & Draper, born Leadenham
Mary Ann Blackburn, Servant, 19 years, Caythorpe, Lincs
And now the 1871 Census, Thomas would have been about 14 years of age.
1871 England Census for Thomas Dixon SNEATH
Nottinghamshire, Newark, District 15
No 37: 26 Stodman Street, Newark
Thomas O. QUIBELL, Head, Unmarried, 26, Chemist & Manure Manufacturer, born Barnby, Notts.
Catharine BASFORD, Housekeeper, Unmarried, 31, Housekeeper, born Wymeswold, Leicestershire.
John H. Holton, Assistant, Unmarried, 24, Chemists Assistant, born Lincoln, Lincs.
Thomas A. Herrod, Assistant, Ditto, 20, Ditto, born Boston, Lincs.
Thomas D. SNEATH, Apprentice, Ditto, 17, Chemists Apprentice, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Frank W. Harris, Apprentice, 17, Chemists Apprentice, born Castle Bytham, Lincs.
John Woods, Boarder, Unmarried, 21, Farmer’s Son, born Mansfield, Notts.
No it appears here he was 17 years of age, well yes
if born in 1853, then he would have been that age.
So Thomas is working as an apprentice for the
Quibell family business in Stodman Street, Newark.
The Quibell family had a big business in Newark
making chemical manures and sheep dip. There's quite
a bit about this family
here: http://www.themeister.co.uk/hindley/quibells.htm
I have mentioned this family before, because later
on, Thomas's brother John Wesley SNEATH married
Thomas Oliver Quibell's sister and went to Australia
as the company's representative there.
In the next 10 years, Thomas finishes his apprenticeship, meets and marries Clara Rowbotham and opens a chemists business at 26, Stodman Street, Newark, and also in Tuxford, both in Nottinghamshire.
So in July 1874, Thomas Dixon took an examination to become a chemist & druggist as discovered in this newspaper article.
Nottingham Journal - Saturday 25 July 1874
Mr. T. D. Sneath, son of Mr. Sneath, of Brant Broughton and senior assistant at Messrs. Harvey and Quibell's, in this town, has just passed a very successful examination before the professors of the Pharmaceutical Society Great Britain. Under the new Act, it will remembered, no one can commence business as a chemist or druggist until he shall have passed this examination.
The next event in his life that changed it for ever was his marriage to Clara Rowbotham.
Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries .
Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, October 05, 1877; pg. 8; Issue 1680. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-19
On the 27th ult., (September) 1877, at St Helen’s,
Brant Broughton, by the Rev. T. B. Sutton, vicar,
Thomas D. SNEATH, chemist, Newark, to Clara, only
daughter of Mr. John Rowbotham, of Brant
Broughton.
So a bit about Clara-well she was born in Nottingham on 25 August 1852, daughter of John Rowbotham and Elizabeth Rowbotham nee Morris. Elizabeth Morris, her mother was born in Wales, in Kerry, Montgomeryshire, and was employed as a nurse at Lincoln Lunatic Asylum. It was in Lincoln that she met John Rowbotham, who was living in Park Lane, Lincoln as a miller. He and Elizabeth married at the Independent Chapel Lincoln on 17 February 1852.
No. 137: 17 February 1852: John Rowbotham, 24 years, Bachelor, Miller, of 15 Park Lane, Lincoln St Martin, son of Thomas Rowbotham, Miller & Elizabeth Morris, 24 years, spinster, Servant, of 15 Park Lane, Lincoln St Martin, daughter of John Morris, Woolsorter were married by Charles Bateman in presence of John Gilby & Ann Rowbotham.
Anyway soon after their marriage, John & Elizabeth move to Nottingham, where on 25 August, 1852, Clara was born to them, and christened on Clara Rowbotham 13.9. 1852 to John & Elizabeth at St Marys, Notts, abode Cow Court, occupation Miller (source Notts FHS CD)
Later in November 1854, Clara's brother Morris is born, but he dies after only a month and was buried in Nottingham-Source: Morris Rowbotham 21.12. 1854 aged 1 month, Red Lion St, Notts St Marys.
So in 1861 the Rowbotham Family are still in Nottingham:
1861 Census for Clara Rowbotham
Nottinghamshire, St Mary, Exchange, District 08
No: 37, 1 Palmers Yard
John ROWBOTHAM, Head, Married, 33, Miller, born Newark, Notts.
Elizabeth ROWBOTHAM, wife, married, 34, born Montgomeryshire
Clara ROWBOTHAM, daughter, single, 8, born Nottingham, Notts.
Now sometime before 1870, John & his family move
to Brant Broughton-this newspaper article proves
this fact.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 16 September 1870
To Millers, Bakers and Others
Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, To be sold by
Auction
At the “Generous Briton” Inn in Brant Broughton on
Wednesday 28th of September 1870 at 5 O’ clock in
the evening. The Following very valuable Freehold
Property, viz:-
Lot 1: All that Messuage or Dwelling-house, with
the Granary, stable, Out-buildings, Yard, Garden,
and Apurtenances; and all that Corn Steam Flour
Mill, and also that Corn Wind Flour Mill, together
with all the going and running gear and utensils
attached or belonging to the same respectively.
Each Mill works 3 pairs of stones. The said
Messuage and Premises are now in the occupation of
Mr. John Rowbotham.
1871 Census for Clara ROWBOTHAM
Lincolnshire, Brant Broughton, District 4
No. 13: Mill Lane, Private House:
John ROWBOTHAM, Head, Married, 43, Master Miller,
Employing 1 man, Born Newark, Notts.
Elizabeth ROWBOTHAM, wife, married, 44, Born
Montgomeryshire, Kerry
Eliza ROWBOTHAM, daughter, unmarried, 18, Born
Nottingham.
Thomas BAKER, Boarder, unmarried, Miller, born
Collingham, Notts.
Clearly the name Eliza ROWBOTHAM must have been a
mistake, because John & Elizabeth had only one
daughter called Clara, not Eliza.
So it looks as if Thomas Dixon Sneath wanted to start his own business as a chemist & druggist. Remember he had been an apprentice at a business in Newark, at 26, Stodman Street, where Thomas Oliver Quibell, of Harvey & Quibell had been running a business. Now at some time or other after he qualified as a chemist & druggist, his father, William SNEATH lent him £900 so that he could buy his way into the chemist & druggist business at 26, Stodman Street, Newark upon Trent.
Evidence for his father William lending him money so he could buy the business comes from 2 sources.
The first source is the will of his father, William SNEATH who died 18 December 1891 leaving £2536 -16s- 7d.
"I do not bequeath to my son Thomas Dixon Sneath any share of my estate as I have during my life paid to and for his benefit large sums of money."
The second source is a Bankruptcy Hearing at Nottingham on Tuesday 16 March 1886.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 20 March 1886
At Nottingham Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, Thomas Dixon Sneath, chemist and druggist, carrying on business at Newark, appeared before his Honour He returned his liabilities at £2,253 5s.8d., and his assets £616 3s. 7d. He intended to make an offer to his creditors when he filed his statement of affairs. He returned his unsecured creditors at £502 10s. 4d. showing, so far as his trade debts were concerned, a surplus of over 20/- in the pound. He put down £1,765 as other liabilities—Mr. Smith said that they were misleading the extent so far as his trade was concerned was solvent, able to pay 20/- in the pound. The debtor stated the cause his insolvency to pressure from creditors, through having given accommodation bills, and having become liable through the breach terms by a third person. There were two or three writs against him, and for the benefit of his creditors thought best to file his petition. His father not only lent him £900 to commence business with, but also made himself liable for an overdraft, and in 1883 he paid composition of 4/- in the pound. The creditors had voted for a composition 4/- in the pound. As matter of fact, had never been solvent since 1883. He was induced to give him accommodation without receiving any consideration except in one case.—ln answer to Mr. W. H. S. Stevenson who appeared for him, said that the bills were discounted to money lenders. and was he was sued by them. His father gave £2000 for the business when he bought it. He was allowed to pass.
£900 in 1880 would be worth £100, 000 in 2017.
£2000 in 1880 would be worth £226,000 in 2017.
In a newspaper extract from Newcastle Courant, 8 July 1881, there is an advertisement for a cough syrup: Mr. Thomas D. SNEATH, chemist, 26, Stodman Street, Newark, writes, December 3, 1880:- I have sold more of Mother Seigel’s Syrup than any other patent medicine during the last two years.
So this suggests that Thomas had the business there at least in December 1878.
On 15 October 1879, Elizabeth, their first daughter was born at 26, Stodman Street, Newark. (Source England & Wales Death Index)
This Dixon Sneath & Family in 1881 Census:
1881 England Census for Thomas Dixon SNEATH
Nottinghamshire, Newark, District 15
No. 37. 26 Stodman Street
Thomas Dixon SNEATH, Head, Married, 27, Chemist
& Druggist, employing 5 men, born Brant
Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, wife, Married, 28, born Nottingham,
Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, 1, born Newark, Notts.
Annie KITCHEN, servant, single, 26, General
Servant (Domestic), born Sheffield, Yorks.
George TAYLOR, apprentice, single, 19, Chemist’s
apprentice, born Northampton.
Henry C. DRAKE, Apprentice, single, 17, Ditto,
born Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
So now they live in Newark, in Stodman Street, with
a daughter Elizabeth aged just over 1.
Then on 9th January 1882, at 26, Stodman Street,
Eleanor SNEATH was born to Thomas Dixon SNEATH &
his wife Clara Sneath nee Rowbotham-Thomas Sneath
was the informant to the Registrar on 7 February
1882 to William Talbot, Registrar.
Then in April quarter 1883, on 29 March, 1883,
their third child, Clara was born, another daughter,
but this was about the time that Thomas's troubles
began.
Unfortunately for Thomas, although he was good at being a chemist & druggist, when it came to running a business he had his problems. He had 2 businesses in 1883, one at 26, Stodman Street, Newark, and another in Tuxford. In 1879, there was an act of Parliament called "The Petroleum Act", which was to do with the storage and sale of petrol. Anyway Thomas fell foul of this act:
For example on Saturday 17th March he was fined.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 23 March 1883
On Saturday, at Retford county police-court, Thomas Dixon SNEATH, of Newark, was fined £5, including costs, for an offence against the Petroleum Act, at his branch establishment at Tuxford.
Then on 26 June 1884, their fourth child, another
daughter, which they named Florence, was born at 26
Stodman Street, Newark. She became my
grandmother.
Then in March 1886, came these public hearings of Bankruptcy. The local newspapers reported the hearings.I have enclosed one of them above to show how his father both supported him to start off his business and then bailed him out of trouble.
Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 16 March 1886
Re SNEATH. —Thomas Dixon Sneath, chemist and druggist, carrying business at Newark, appeared before his Honour. He returned his liabilities at £2.268 5s. 8d, and his assets at £6l6 3s. 7d. He intended to make offer to his creditors when he filed his statement of affairs. He returned his unsecured creditors at £502 10s. 4d. showing far his trade debts were concerned, a surplus, over: 20s. in the pound put down £1,765 other liabilities.—Mr. Smith said that they were misleading to extent that so far his trade was concerned he was solvent, and able to pay 20s the one pound. The debtor stated the cause of his insolvency to be pressure from creditors, through having given accommodation bills and having become liable through the breach of terms a third person. There were two or three writs against him and for the benefit his creditors he thought it best to file his petition. His father not only lent him £900 to commence business with, but he also made himself liable for an overdraft, and in 1883 he paid a composition of 4s in the pound. The creditors had now voted for a composition 4s. in the pound. As matter of fact, had never been solvent since 1883. He was induced to give bills of accommodation without receiving any consideration except in one case. —In answer to Mr. W. H. Stevenson, who appeared for him, he said that the bills were discounted to money lenders, and he was sued by them. His father gave £2,000 for the business when he bought it.—He was allowed to pass.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 20 March 1886
At Nottingham Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, Thomas Dixon Sneath, chemist and druggist, carrying on business at Newark, appeared before his Honour He returned his liabilities at £2,253 5s.8d., and his assets £616 3s. 7d. He intended to make an offer to his creditors when he filed his statement of affairs. He returned his unsecured creditors at £502 10s. 4d. showing, so far as his trade debts were concerned, a surplus of over 20/- in the pound. He put down £1,765 as other liabilities—Mr. Smith said that they were misleading the extent so far as his trade was concerned was solvent, able to pay 20/- in the pound. The debtor stated the cause his insolvency to pressure from creditors, through having given accommodation bills, and having become liable through the breach terms by a third person. There were two or three writs against him, and for the benefit of his creditors thought best to file his petition. His father not only lent him £900 to commence business with, but also made himself liable for an overdraft, and in 1883 he paid composition of 4/- in the pound. The creditors had voted for a composition 4/- in the pound. As matter of fact, had never been solvent since 1883. He was induced to give him accommodation without receiving any consideration except in one case.—ln answer to Mr. W. H. S. Stevenson who appeared for him, said that the bills were discounted to money lenders. and was he was sued by them. His father gave £2000 for the business when he bought it. He was allowed to pass.
Then in March 1886, came these public hearings of Bankruptcy. The local newspapers reported the hearings.I have enclosed one of them above to show how his father both supported him to start off his business and then bailed him out of trouble.
Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 16 March 1886
Re SNEATH. —Thomas Dixon Sneath, chemist and druggist, carrying business at Newark, appeared before his Honour. He returned his liabilities at £2.268 5s. 8d, and his assets at £6l6 3s. 7d. He intended to make offer to his creditors when he filed his statement of affairs. He returned his unsecured creditors at £502 10s. 4d. showing far his trade debts were concerned, a surplus, over: 20s. in the pound put down £1,765 other liabilities.—Mr. Smith said that they were misleading to extent that so far his trade was concerned he was solvent, and able to pay 20s the one pound. The debtor stated the cause of his insolvency to be pressure from creditors, through having given accommodation bills and having become liable through the breach of terms a third person. There were two or three writs against him and for the benefit his creditors he thought it best to file his petition. His father not only lent him £900 to commence business with, but he also made himself liable for an overdraft, and in 1883 he paid a composition of 4s in the pound. The creditors had now voted for a composition 4s. in the pound. As matter of fact, had never been solvent since 1883. He was induced to give bills of accommodation without receiving any consideration except in one case. —In answer to Mr. W. H. Stevenson, who appeared for him, he said that the bills were discounted to money lenders, and he was sued by them. His father gave £2,000 for the business when he bought it.—He was allowed to pass.
Grantham Journal - Saturday 20 March 1886
At Nottingham Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, Thomas Dixon Sneath, chemist and druggist, carrying on business at Newark, appeared before his Honour He returned his liabilities at £2,253 5s.8d., and his assets £616 3s. 7d. He intended to make an offer to his creditors when he filed his statement of affairs. He returned his unsecured creditors at £502 10s. 4d. showing, so far as his trade debts were concerned, a surplus of over 20/- in the pound. He put down £1,765 as other liabilities—Mr. Smith said that they were misleading the extent so far as his trade was concerned was solvent, able to pay 20/- in the pound. The debtor stated the cause his insolvency to pressure from creditors, through having given accommodation bills, and having become liable through the breach terms by a third person. There were two or three writs against him, and for the benefit of his creditors thought best to file his petition. His father not only lent him £900 to commence business with, but also made himself liable for an overdraft, and in 1883 he paid composition of 4/- in the pound. The creditors had voted for a composition 4/- in the pound. As matter of fact, had never been solvent since 1883. He was induced to give him accommodation without receiving any consideration except in one case.—ln answer to Mr. W. H. S. Stevenson who appeared for him, said that the bills were discounted to money lenders. and was he was sued by them. His father gave £2000 for the business when he bought it. He was allowed to pass.
So Thomas's time in his shop in Newark came to an
end, and he was forced to leave Newark and go to
Lincoln. According to my father Bill Readman Dixon
Sneath became a manager of Boots in Lincoln.
Certainly he was there in 1887, because their
daughter Maud was born on 17 August, 1887 in
Lincoln. Also in April 1891, Thomas & his
Wife Clara and their family were at 25, Mint Lane,
Lincoln.
1891 England Census for Thomas Dixon SNEATH and
Family
Lincolnshire, St Peter at Arches, District 17Entry No. 52, 25 Mint Lane, Lincoln.
Thomas D. SNEATH, Head, Married, 37, Chemist & Druggist, Born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, Wife, Married, 38, Born Nottingham, Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, 11, Scholar, born Newark, Notts.
Eleanor SNEATH, daughter, 9, Scholar, born Newark, Notts.
Clara SNEATH, daughter, 8, born Newark, Notts.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, 6, born Newark, Notts.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, 3, born Lincoln, Lincs.
Ada A E Ss Ro. Goldett, Servant, 14,General Servant, Domestic, born Lincoln, Lincs.
Now not long after the Census of 1891, Dixon and his family moved from Lincoln to Grimsby, set up a business in Hainton Square, Grimsby. He was certainly there in October, 1891, because his father wrote him a letter then.
Brant Broughton
October 16th 1891
Dear Dixon,
The chest Protector you sent fits very nicely & keeps me warm & comfortable. You did not name the price so could not enclose the amount in this letter; send the price of it & will remit it by post. I am improving gradually & hope to rally again. I have been a long time confined to home not being able to leave even to get around at the Farm. I cannot walk far at once my feet smell very much towards night it all arises from my heart. My nervous system is completely shaken so that I can scarcely attend to any business or get after it, Cartwright I find very useful to look after most things. I find it very difficult even to write a letter with any degree of pleasure by. I have written a few lines my mind seems to be gone I am pleased your business still improves & hope with care it will continue to grow. All attention, this is a time of very good competition in all kinds of business. There seems to be many changes is taking place in all departments of life. We have just lost another old neighbour & mention of Ann Chire, Mrs Rimmington, that makes three since May, Mrs Marshall & G. Hutchinson. There are great changes in Broughton since you were here. These things speak loudly be ye also ready, you suffered to the political changes in your letter. I hope they will be for the best. We have had a a very united and harmonious conference at Nottingham and very good man as President in Dr. Stephenson who I am sure will do us make a prosperous year.
I am pleased to find by the plan that Methodism in Grimsby as such a hold of the place-I am persuaded that Methodism is doing a great work this year for the world generally & may her or demands be able to say the best of all God is with us. With united love to you all & may the God of love & all power bless us all. Your affectionate Father Wm. Sneath.
More evidence shows that Thomas Dixon SNEATH had his business in Hainton Square, on 4th November, 1891, as it was advertised in the Hull Daily Mail on many occasions-I used British Newspaper Archive where I have a contract and found this advertisement.
Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 04 November 1891
THE WORLD'S WONDER. THE FISHERMAN'S FRIEND. COUSINS' PILLS Have positively CURED more cases of INDIGESTION Than any known Remedy. Sole Proprietors— COUSINS AND Co LINCOLN, ENGLAND. Sold Wholesale and Retail by F. EARLE, Chemist, 22, Market-place, HULL. A. F. BELL, 217, Cleethorpe-road, GRIMSBY. A. MOORE, 24, Freeman-street, GRIMSBY. HARRISON CARR. Mutual Supply Stores, GRIMSBY. T. D. SNEATH, Hainton-square, GRIMSBY. W. BARKER, Victor-street, NEW CLEE.
This a photograph of the Sneath family in 1892
So in this photograph, which appears to have been taken where there was a a lot of shrubs & plants and a large bench, so it might have been in park somewhere, maybe in Peoples Park, Grimsby.
Thomas Dixon Sneath is on the far right of the photo, with his wife Clara, sat on the bench, between 1 daughter and 2 younger daughters. The eldest daughter was on the far left, so that would have been Elizabeth, aged 12, her sister Eleanor sat next to Clara aged 10, and Clara behind her Mother aged 9, and then the 2 younger daughters, Maud (next to her mother) aged 5 & Florence (my grandmother) aged 8
In 1894 there is photographic evidence to show that Eleanor, Florence & Clara SNEATH attended Welholme School, Welholme Road, Grimsby.
Her two sisters, Clara & Eleanor, are directly behind Florence, with initials on their clothing. Clara looks she is behind Florence on the photo called Flo, with her sister Eleanor next to her.
So in that photograph, Florence Sneath must have been 9years of age, her sister Eleanor, 12 years, & Clara 11 years of age.
Welholme School on the map above, from NLS Maps is near Hare Street and Heneage Road-it has the word schools with black blocks indicating buildings on the map. So if the children were living in New Street, to get to school, they had to go via Doughty Road, Ainslie Street, & Wintringham Road, crossing Hainton Avenue and then go along Hare Street to Heneage Road. So quite a way to go each morning and back in the afternoon.
Another article in a local newspaper, shows how Great Grandfather T D Sneath was quite well known in Grimsby
Eastern Morning News - Wednesday 24 March 1897
FIRST AID TO THE INJURED.—In the absence of the Port Master (Mr Williams), president of the Grimsby Railway Servants' Ambulance Corps, the chaplain, the Rev R. Meddings, presided on the occasion of the presentation of the certificates and medallions gained by members in the recent examinations. Mr Meddings made the presentations, and the following received certificates: Messrs W. Boswell, W. T. Davison, T. C. Fairbairn, and T. H. Sparks. Medallions were presented to Messrs A. Dickinson, jun., J. W. Fletcher, C. Hicks, C. E. Maddison, J. W. Osborne, and T. D Sneath. Mr D. Thompson, late secretary, was presented with a photograph in recognition of his services, and in turn he presented six of the members with cabinet photographs.
So our great grandfather's business was based in Hainton Square, Grimsby, but according to the 1901 census, the family were living at 11, New Street, Grimsby.
1901 England Census for Maud SNEATH
Lincolnshire-Great Grimsby-District 08
26, 11, New Street, Thomas D. SNEATH, Head, M, 47, Chemist & Druggist, own acc, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, wife, M, 48, born Nottingham, Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, Single, 21, Chemist & Druggist assistant, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Eleanor SNEATH, daughter, single, 19, born, Newark, Notts.
Clara SNEATH, daughter, single, 18, Teacher at a Board School, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, single, 16, Born, Newark, Lincs.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, single, 13, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Below is a photograph of 11 New Street, Grimsby, as it was a few years ago-it's now a solicitors office.
This map of 1908 shows the position of New Street & Hainton Square: From NLS Maps
New Street is next to Town Hall SQ.-persons could go
along Victoria Street West, then right along Pasture
Street, over the railway line and onto Hainton
Avenue, and turn left and end up at Hainton Square.
An advertisement in the Grimsby News, 18th
December 1906, seems to confirm this.
"THOS. D. SNEATH, CERTIFIED OPTICIAN AND CHEMIST,
is showing some excellent designs in gold filled
eyeglasses, they are made for comfort, and
certainly are a great improvement on what was
formerly used. He also has a good supply of gold
filled spectacles for reading and constant use in
all the latest patterns. Alumine, nickel, and
stell spectacles and folders in every pattern. In
another window he has an assortment of all
choicest perfumes in caskets, cut-glass bottles,
from 6d to 12s. 6d ; fancy boxes of toilet soap,
from 8 and half d to 2s. 6d; and many other toilet
preparations of the very best quality.
His address is Hainton-square, where he has
been now for nearly 16 years,
and will be pleased to see all old and new
friends."
So sometime between 1901 & 1911, the family move from New Street, to 14, Hainton Avenue. Maybe evidence for this would lie on the Marriage certificate of his daughter Eleanor SNEATH to John Arthur WILSON which took place on the 18th August, 1904 at Duncombe Street, Methodist Church. Thomas Dixon SNEATH was a local Methodist Preacher, so no doubt this was the church that the family attended, so no wonder that was why Eleanor SNEATH married at that church.
This other photograph of the daughters of Thomas Dixon Sneath & his wife Clara may have been taken between 1901 & 1911.
The daughters from left to right are Eleanor,
Maud, Clara, Florence & Elizabeth.
So sometime between 1901 & 1911, the family move from New Street, to 14, Hainton Avenue. Maybe evidence for this would lie on the Marriage certificate of his daughter Eleanor SNEATH to John Arthur WILSON which took place on the 18th August, 1904 at Duncombe Street, Methodist Church. Thomas Dixon SNEATH was a local Methodist Preacher, so no doubt this was the church that the family attended, so no wonder that was why Eleanor SNEATH married at that church.
This other photograph of the daughters of Thomas Dixon Sneath & his wife Clara may have been taken between 1901 & 1911.
Certainly according to the 1911 Census, the family
then were living in 14, Hainton Avenue:
1911 England Census
Lincolnshire-Clee-22
Thomas Dixon SNEATH, Head, 57 years, Married, 33 yrs of marriage, Chemist & Optician, Employer, born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Clara SNEATH, Wife, 58 years, Married, Assistant(crossed out), born Nottingham
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, 31years, single, Assistant, Chemist, Worker, born Newark on Trent.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, 26 years, single, School Teacher, government, worker, born Newark on Trent.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, 23 years, single, School Teacher, government, worker, born Lincoln.
14, Hainton Avenue must have been close to Bradley Street on the map above.
I declare that this schedule is correctly filled up to the best of my knowledge and belief,
Thomas Dixon Sneath, 14, Hainton, Avenue, Grimsby
Write below the Number of rooms in this dwelling (House, Tenement, or Apartment). Count the kitchen as a room but do no count scullery, landing, lobby, closet, bathroom: nor warehouse, office, shop.
8 rooms
So the census page of 1911, shows that on that day there were only 3 daughters of Thomas Dixon & Clara Sneath at home. It also shows that the 3 daughters now had employment and qualifications. It also shows how that Clara Sneath, wife of Thomas Dixon was also working as an assistant, but it was crossed out on the census page, so maybe it was put there incorrectly. A photograph of the Census page would show this entry.
So both Florence SNEATH & Maud SNEATH were school teachers, whereas their sister Elizabeth, was an assistant, as a chemist.
I have the qualifications of Florence Sneath, which she gained in 1907.
Board of Education sends this letter with Florence Sneath's Teaching certificate
Stamford Mercury - Friday 22 July 1910 Grimsby
Education Committee. Monday: Sir George Doughty
was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year, and
Mr. J. Whiteley Wilkin was re-elected
vice-chairman.—Miss Enid Wilson was appointed
certificated assistant teacher at the St. John's
mixed school,
Miss Maud Sneath was appointed certificated
assisstant at the South Parade junior girls'
school, Miss Elsie King at Welholme senior girls', Miss
Ruby Harrison at the Central Market girls' school,
and Mr. Edgar Smith at the Chapman-street mixed
school. Miss M. George, Miss M. A. Johnson, and
Mr. Reginald Ames were appointed certificated
assistant teachers, to such vacancies as might
arise.
Detail
Stamford Mercury - Friday 22 July 1910
Here is a modern map showing South Parade & Hainton Avenue
South Parade School is marked with a red symbol, & Hainton Square is at the junction of Hainton Avenue & Ellis Way on the far right of the map.
Certainly in 1911, according to the census, sister Eleanor wasn't with the family, no she was already married. The census of 1911, shows her living in Durban Road, Grimsby, with her husband John Arthur WILSON.
1911 England Census for Eleanor Wilson
John Arthur Wilson, Head, 34, Married, Timber Merchant’s Clerk, Born Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Eleanor Wilson, Wife, 29, Married, born Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Six rooms, signed John Arthur Wilson at 158, Durban Road, Grimsby
So Eleanor SNEATH, who was the second eldest child of Dixon Sneath & Clara, married John Arthur WILSON at Duncombe Street,Methodist Church, Grimsby on the 18th August 1904. This was the first marriage of one of Dixon Sneath's daughters. John Arthur WILSON, was the son of William Wilson & Mary Burt. He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. At the time of their marriage he was employed as a Timber Merchant's Clerk, just like his wife's sister Clara's husband. He was 6 years older than his wife Eleanor, as he was born
I have a couple of pictures of this couple around the time of their marriage:
I also have a photograph of William Wilson the
father of John Arthur Wilson with his son
JohnArthur Wilson. William is in the centre of
the photograph and his son John Arthur to his
left wearing a trilby hat, sat on side of a
boat. John Arthur Wilson's father died before
the 1911 Census on 9 January 1911. He left
£2,406 16s & 9d in his will, probably to be
shared with all his children.
1911 England Census for Clara BENTON nee
SNEATH
Edward Rawson BENTON, Head, 30, Married, Timber Merchants Clerk, worker, Born Grimsby, Lincs.
Clara BENTON, Wife, 28, Married, born Newark, Notts.
The house has 5 rooms, not counting the scullery, landing, lobby, closet, bathroom, nor warehouse, office, shop-signed Edward Rawson Benton, 160, Durban Road, Grimsby.
1911 England Census
Lincolnshire-Clee-22
Thomas Dixon SNEATH, Head, 57 years, Married, 33 yrs of marriage, Chemist & Optician, Employer, born Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Clara SNEATH, Wife, 58 years, Married, Assistant(crossed out), born Nottingham
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, 31years, single, Assistant, Chemist, Worker, born Newark on Trent.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, 26 years, single, School Teacher, government, worker, born Newark on Trent.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, 23 years, single, School Teacher, government, worker, born Lincoln.
14, Hainton Avenue must have been close to Bradley Street on the map above.
I declare that this schedule is correctly filled up to the best of my knowledge and belief,
Thomas Dixon Sneath, 14, Hainton, Avenue, Grimsby
Write below the Number of rooms in this dwelling (House, Tenement, or Apartment). Count the kitchen as a room but do no count scullery, landing, lobby, closet, bathroom: nor warehouse, office, shop.
8 rooms
So the census page of 1911, shows that on that day there were only 3 daughters of Thomas Dixon & Clara Sneath at home. It also shows that the 3 daughters now had employment and qualifications. It also shows how that Clara Sneath, wife of Thomas Dixon was also working as an assistant, but it was crossed out on the census page, so maybe it was put there incorrectly. A photograph of the Census page would show this entry.
So both Florence SNEATH & Maud SNEATH were school teachers, whereas their sister Elizabeth, was an assistant, as a chemist.
I have the qualifications of Florence Sneath, which she gained in 1907.
Board of Education sends this letter with Florence Sneath's Teaching certificate
Board of Education,
Whitehall,
London,
SW 190
03 December 1908
Please write at the head of any reply 07/4067
Dear Madam,
I am directed to send you the enclosed
Certificate, which has been endorsed in
accordance with Schedule Lic 4, (ii), of the
Code of 1907.
I have the honour to be
Madam
Your obedient Servant
R. G. Mayor
This is her teaching certificate
BOARD OF EDUCATION
THIS IS TO CERTIFY
That Florence Sneath passed
The Certificate Examination of the Board of
Education for Teachers
In Elementary Schools in 1907; and that she is
recognised by the Board
Under the Code of Regulations for Public
Elementary Schools
As a certificated Teacher from 1st January
1908.
Subjects (Compulsory or Optional) in which the
Candidate passed with Distinction.
Optional Subjects in which the Candidate
obtained a Pass Only.
IT IS FURTHER CERTIFIED that the teacher has
completed twelve months service in Elementary
Schools in accordance with the Code.
Walter Runciman
L. G. Selby-Bigge
President
Principal Assistant
Secretary
Elementary
Education Branch
Florence was teaching at Holme Hill School,
Heneage Road, Grimsby, which wasn't far from
where she was living in 1911 Census.
Her sister Maud, had a teaching job at South
Parade Junior School as this article in a
newspaper states. I found the article when I
was researching my mother's relation Sir
George DOUGHTY MP, who in July 1910, was the
Chairman of the Education Committee in
Grimsby.
The article in Stamford Mercury stated
Detail
Stamford Mercury - Friday 22 July 1910
Here is a modern map showing South Parade & Hainton Avenue
South Parade School is marked with a red symbol, & Hainton Square is at the junction of Hainton Avenue & Ellis Way on the far right of the map.
Certainly in 1911, according to the census, sister Eleanor wasn't with the family, no she was already married. The census of 1911, shows her living in Durban Road, Grimsby, with her husband John Arthur WILSON.
1911 England Census for Eleanor Wilson
John Arthur Wilson, Head, 34, Married, Timber Merchant’s Clerk, Born Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Eleanor Wilson, Wife, 29, Married, born Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Six rooms, signed John Arthur Wilson at 158, Durban Road, Grimsby
So Eleanor SNEATH, who was the second eldest child of Dixon Sneath & Clara, married John Arthur WILSON at Duncombe Street,Methodist Church, Grimsby on the 18th August 1904. This was the first marriage of one of Dixon Sneath's daughters. John Arthur WILSON, was the son of William Wilson & Mary Burt. He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. At the time of their marriage he was employed as a Timber Merchant's Clerk, just like his wife's sister Clara's husband. He was 6 years older than his wife Eleanor, as he was born
I have a couple of pictures of this couple around the time of their marriage:
I also have a photograph of William Wilson the
father of John Arthur Wilson with his son
JohnArthur Wilson. William is in the centre of
the photograph and his son John Arthur to his
left wearing a trilby hat, sat on side of a
boat. John Arthur Wilson's father died before
the 1911 Census on 9 January 1911. He left
£2,406 16s & 9d in his will, probably to be
shared with all his children.
Then on the 2nd May, 1916, their first child was
born, whom they named Raymond SNEATH WILSON,
which was their first child that I am aware of
since their marriage which had taken place
almost 12 years earlier.
Then on the 12th November 1919, their next child
was born, another son whom they named Brian
Wilson.
So far as I know, Raymond Sneath Wilson, became
a bank manager-he also must have attended the
marriage of his cousin, my father William Sneath
Readman & Freda Doughty on June 7, 1941 in
Humberston, near Grimsby. He married a lady
called Elizabeth WALLIS in the October/December
quarter of 1940, in Grimsby somewhere.
According to the 1939 England and Wales
Register for Raymond S Wilson, he was living
with his mother Eleanor, aged 82, and a widow at
41, Park Avenue, Grimsby & working as a bank
officer.
More about Clara SNEATH-she was born on 29
March, 1883, in Newark, Nottinghamshire at 26,
Stodman Street, Newark.
Then in the March quarter 1909, Clara SNEATH
married a Timber Merchant's Clerk called Edward
Rawson BENTON. Edward was the son of John Outwin
Benton & Mary Rawson. So in the Census of
1911, they are shown living in Durban Road,
Grimsby, the same road as her sister Eleanor, in
fact thet lived next door to each other they at
160 & her sister Eleanor at 158.
Edward Rawson BENTON, Head, 30, Married, Timber Merchants Clerk, worker, Born Grimsby, Lincs.
Clara BENTON, Wife, 28, Married, born Newark, Notts.
The house has 5 rooms, not counting the scullery, landing, lobby, closet, bathroom, nor warehouse, office, shop-signed Edward Rawson Benton, 160, Durban Road, Grimsby.
Both these couples lived opposite Grant Thorold
Park in terraced houses.
So Hainton Avenue & Hainton Square are to the
left and top of map, whilst Durban Road is near
the letter G in the word Grimsby. I think 160
Durban Road would have been round about the letter
d in Durban Road, close also to the letters &
numbers BM88. This map is from NLS Maps.
A year later on October 4th, 1912, their first child was born, a daughter, that they named Audrey. When she was 18 months old she got double pneumonia, which she survived from and suffered from most other childish ailments like chicken pox, measles, mumps and whooping cough in mild attacks.
I have in a copy of a biography that Audrey wrote of her life, so that's where that information comes from. She went to Welholme Infant and then Junior school the same school that those Sneath children went to.
Then on April, 7, 1918, her brother Donald Sneath Benton was born. I know that he died in Weston Supermare in 1989.
I know my dad met him in Alexandria, in Egypt during World War 2. I know he married a lady called Nancy Morris. I know his wife died in 1960, when he was only 42, I don't know if they had any family.
Audrey emigrated to New Zealand, to Dunedin in 1959, she became the a teacher of maths and was at Columba Collge, Dunedin where she became head of music.She helped out out at the Methodist Church goodwill shop, the mission's coffee shop, and read to the elderly at the Methodist hospital in Dunedin. She also played the organ at the Methodist church in North East Valley until she moved to Birchleigh Retirement Village in 1991 at 6, Napier St. She was a keen croquet player and played for Otago and won the New Zealand title in 1972. She was an avid traveller and had seen Canada, United States, Europe, many countries except Turkey. She had also visited Russia, China, Japan and most recently Fiji. She was honoured at Birchleigh having the new Benton wing named after her. Obituary from Otago Daily Times-Dunedin.
Audrey died on September 3rd, 1997 at the Bellhaven Rest Home, Dunedin.
According to the funeral director, she was buried in a family plot, with Samuel Foster Benton died 1932 and Joseph Meggitt Benton died 1929.
The family plot at Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, was called Block 65, , plot 0005 Ashes Burial.
Burial Details:
My wife & I travelled to New Zealand, and we went to Dunedin, where I made some enquiries at the local library as regards the Benton Family in Dunedin. There I learned why it was that Audrey Benton decided to travel to New Zealand & settle in Dunedin, because she had some relations living there.
I obtained details about these from the library-these were the obituaries for Samuel Foster Benton & Joseph Meggitt Benton who were brothers of her grandfather John Outwin Benton.
Mr. Samuel Foster BENTON
The death occurred early yesterday morning of Mr. Samuel Foster Benton, who was for many years connected with the business life of this city. Mr. Benton was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire (England) 70 years ago, and in his early years was apprenticed to the drapery trade in that town, quickly showing himself to be possessed of that ability which qualified him for responsible positions. Almost 40 years ago, seeking a wider sphere of development and opportunity, Mr. Benton sailed for New Zealand. Auckland was the first town in which he settled, and for some time was employed by the firm of Smith and Caughey. In 1907, he transferred to Dunedin to become manager of Brown, Ewing and Company, which position he held unto 1925, when he accepted managership of Braithwaites. Later Mr. Benton commenced business on his own account, opening a shop at Hastings, which, together with its contents, was destroyed by the earthquake of last year, (3rd February, 1931) while Mr. Benton was visiting Dunedin for medical treatment. He never experienced a complete recovery to health, and remained with his daughter and son-in-law (Mr. J.L.Gregory) at Macandrew Bay, until the time of his death. Mr. Benton was actively connected with the Methodist Church, and was a well known eloquent and local preacher. He also interested himself in the musical side of the worship of the church, being a capable choir master and possessor of a fine bass voice. His sincerity in the cause of religion and his freedom from sectarianism were proved by the fact that for some years before the Methodists were established at St. Clair, Mr. Benton, while a resident of that suburb, allied himself with the local Presbyterian Church and devoted himself to its work. He is survived by his widow and two daughters-Mrs. Gregory of Macandrew Bay, and Miss Gladys Benton of Christchurch.
Otago Daily Times, Tuesday 9th February, 1932, page 7
Death
BENTON: On February 8, 1932, at Macandrew Bay, Samuel Foster, husband of Isabella Benton. Private interment-Hugh Gourley Ltd, undertakers.
Otago Daily Times 9th February, 1932, page 6
A year later on October 4th, 1912, their first child was born, a daughter, that they named Audrey. When she was 18 months old she got double pneumonia, which she survived from and suffered from most other childish ailments like chicken pox, measles, mumps and whooping cough in mild attacks.
I have in a copy of a biography that Audrey wrote of her life, so that's where that information comes from. She went to Welholme Infant and then Junior school the same school that those Sneath children went to.
Then on April, 7, 1918, her brother Donald Sneath Benton was born. I know that he died in Weston Supermare in 1989.
I know my dad met him in Alexandria, in Egypt during World War 2. I know he married a lady called Nancy Morris. I know his wife died in 1960, when he was only 42, I don't know if they had any family.
Audrey emigrated to New Zealand, to Dunedin in 1959, she became the a teacher of maths and was at Columba Collge, Dunedin where she became head of music.She helped out out at the Methodist Church goodwill shop, the mission's coffee shop, and read to the elderly at the Methodist hospital in Dunedin. She also played the organ at the Methodist church in North East Valley until she moved to Birchleigh Retirement Village in 1991 at 6, Napier St. She was a keen croquet player and played for Otago and won the New Zealand title in 1972. She was an avid traveller and had seen Canada, United States, Europe, many countries except Turkey. She had also visited Russia, China, Japan and most recently Fiji. She was honoured at Birchleigh having the new Benton wing named after her. Obituary from Otago Daily Times-Dunedin.
Audrey died on September 3rd, 1997 at the Bellhaven Rest Home, Dunedin.
According to the funeral director, she was buried in a family plot, with Samuel Foster Benton died 1932 and Joseph Meggitt Benton died 1929.
The family plot at Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, was called Block 65, , plot 0005 Ashes Burial.
Burial Details:
Burial Details
Surname BENTON
Forename AUDREY
Age84 Years
Gender Female
Date of Death 3 Sep 1997
Last Address BELHAVEN REST HOME, 6 NAPIER
ST
Next of Kin
Funeral Director Hope & Sons Ltd, P O Box
5013, Andersons Bay, DUNEDIN
Cemetery
ANDERSONS BAY CEMETERY
Location Block 65 . Plot 0002
Date of Burial 6 Sep 1997
Type Ashes Burial
Notes Original reference:- C19970910
Occupation:-RTD SCHOOL TCH
Place
Occupation:-
Place
My wife & I travelled to New Zealand, and we went to Dunedin, where I made some enquiries at the local library as regards the Benton Family in Dunedin. There I learned why it was that Audrey Benton decided to travel to New Zealand & settle in Dunedin, because she had some relations living there.
I obtained details about these from the library-these were the obituaries for Samuel Foster Benton & Joseph Meggitt Benton who were brothers of her grandfather John Outwin Benton.
Mr. Samuel Foster BENTON
The death occurred early yesterday morning of Mr. Samuel Foster Benton, who was for many years connected with the business life of this city. Mr. Benton was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire (England) 70 years ago, and in his early years was apprenticed to the drapery trade in that town, quickly showing himself to be possessed of that ability which qualified him for responsible positions. Almost 40 years ago, seeking a wider sphere of development and opportunity, Mr. Benton sailed for New Zealand. Auckland was the first town in which he settled, and for some time was employed by the firm of Smith and Caughey. In 1907, he transferred to Dunedin to become manager of Brown, Ewing and Company, which position he held unto 1925, when he accepted managership of Braithwaites. Later Mr. Benton commenced business on his own account, opening a shop at Hastings, which, together with its contents, was destroyed by the earthquake of last year, (3rd February, 1931) while Mr. Benton was visiting Dunedin for medical treatment. He never experienced a complete recovery to health, and remained with his daughter and son-in-law (Mr. J.L.Gregory) at Macandrew Bay, until the time of his death. Mr. Benton was actively connected with the Methodist Church, and was a well known eloquent and local preacher. He also interested himself in the musical side of the worship of the church, being a capable choir master and possessor of a fine bass voice. His sincerity in the cause of religion and his freedom from sectarianism were proved by the fact that for some years before the Methodists were established at St. Clair, Mr. Benton, while a resident of that suburb, allied himself with the local Presbyterian Church and devoted himself to its work. He is survived by his widow and two daughters-Mrs. Gregory of Macandrew Bay, and Miss Gladys Benton of Christchurch.
Otago Daily Times, Tuesday 9th February, 1932, page 7
Death
BENTON: On February 8, 1932, at Macandrew Bay, Samuel Foster, husband of Isabella Benton. Private interment-Hugh Gourley Ltd, undertakers.
Otago Daily Times 9th February, 1932, page 6
MR. JOSEPH MEGGITT BENTON
Mr. Joseph Meggitt Benton, who died suddenly
on Tuesday at his residence, St. Clair, at the
age of seventy years was born in Grimsby. On
completing his education, he entered the
timber business, in which he was engaged in
his native city until 1913., when he came to
Dunedin as manager for Messrs. Hogg and Co.,
timber merchants. In this position he remained
until his retirement from active business in
1924. Until the establishment of a Methodist
Church in St. Clair, Mr. Benton, although a
Methodist, associated himself with the St.
Clair Presbyterian church of which he was
choir master for a number of years. On the
Methodist Church being built, however, he
became a member of that congregation and took
a prominent part in its activities. He was
also a keen horticulturist. He is
survived by his widow, a son (Mr. J.E.R.
Benton, Dunedin), and a daughter (Mrs. L.
Ireland), also of Dunedin. A brother, Mr. S.F.
Benton, for some years manager of Messrs
Brown, Ewing and Co, and more recently
Braithwaites Ltd, is also resident in Dunedin.
Otago Witness: 2nd July, 1929 page 30
So both these two men who were born in Grimsby
& emigrated to New Zealand, had families in
Dunedin, so when Audrey travelled there she met
up with them.
The youngest daughter of Thomas Dixon SNEATH and
his wife Clara Rowbotham was Maud SNEATH, born
17th August 1887. She was born at 25, Mint Lane,
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and was there with the
family in the census of 1901. Then 10 years
later, she was with her family in Grimsby, at
11, New Street. Then on the 22nd July,
1910, Maud Sneath was appointed
certificated assistant at the South Parade
junior girls' school.
This is Maud from that photograph of the Sneath
Girls:
So that is Maud as a young person, I have
another photo of her as an elder person I think.
I found this fact in a newspaper article,
involving another relative called Sir George
DOUGHTY.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 22 July 1910
Grimsby Education Committee. Monday:
Sir George Doughty was re-elected
chairman for the ensuing year,
and Mr. J. Whiteley Wilkin was re-elected
vice-chairman. Mrs. T. Wintringham was
appointed a member of the School of Art
Committee in the vacancy caused the
resignation of Miss Collyns. The committee
formally passed the following resolution:
"That the Grimsby Town Council as the local
education authority, having in view the
additional charges thrown upon the education
rate by recent Acts of Parliament and the
proposals of various ministers of education to
grant additional sums from the Imperial
Exchequer (none of which have been granted),
is of the opinion that it is urgently
necessary that additional grants for education
purposes should be provided for in the
estimates for the coming year, in order that
the charges for this service, which is
national in its character and effect, may be
equitably distributed, and that the great
pressure upon local rates which is so
universally felt may not be allowed to check
the progress of educational work." Miss Enid
Wilson was appointed certificated assistant
teacher at the St. John's mixed school,
Miss Maud Sneath at the South Parade
junior girls' school,
Miss Elsie King at Welholme senior girls',
Miss Ruby Harrison at the Central Market
girls' school, and Mr. Edgar Smith at the
Chapman-street mixed school. Miss M. George,
Miss M. A. Johnson, and Mr. Reginald Ames were
appointed certificated assistant teachers, to
such vacancies as might arise. Miss A. S.
Sprengel was appointed cooking mistress at the
Technical School, and Mr. J. Cooke instructor
in grocers' commodities at the same school for
the 1910-11 session.
Then in the Census of 1911, she was living with
her family at 14, Hainton Avenue, Grimsby.
The record states this for Maud SNEATH:
Maud SNEATH, daughter, 23, Single, School
Teacher, Government, Worker, born Lincoln, a
British Subject, living at 14, Hainton Avenue,
Grimsby.
Then on the 16th July, 1921, Maud's mother Clara
Sneath, nee Rowbotham died-her probate record
read thus: England & Wales, National Probate
Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1858-1995 for Clara Sneath
SNEATH Clara, of 14, Hainton Avenue, Great
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, (wife of Thomas Dixon
SNEATH) died 16 July 1921.Probate London 12
December to John Arthur WILSON and Edward Rawson
BENTON, timber merchant’s clerks. Effects £959
17s 3d.
She was buried at Scartho Road, Cemetery, as
this record on another blog of mine shows:
Then sometime in 1922, Maud SNEATH married a man
called Francis MUSSON, who worked as an optician
both in Grimsby at 14, Hainton Avenue, and in
Louth, Lincolnshire at his father's jewellery
& optician's shop.
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