RootsChat.Com

Pam, Not sure if it got to you or I lost it but I did send to say I was very grateful for the burial information and hope sometime to get to Boston to have a look round the graveyards. I live around 60 miles away in Northamptonshire so not so very far away. I have now registered with Lincs to the Past so will be doing some exploring on that site.

Thanks again
Roger B

Frank, the Oldman you refer to was William who owned the bakery, Oldman's Terrace, the paddock alongside the terrace and some other land elsewhere, I have all this in writing from the time of his death in 1896. He passed the bakery on to his nephew Edward Newton sometime before his death but under what arrangements I am yet to find out, if ever. It was also a corn merchants and within my family it has always been rumoured that Edward lost the business either because of drink or due to bad debt from farmer's not paying their bills. Susannah, Edwards wife was my great grandma's sister and William Oldman's wife Sarah was her aunt.
Where any of these people are buried I do not know, I thought I would find gravestones at St Thomas's when I visited but alas no. I am sure you know that Edward Newton's son Edward Oldman Newton and his wife Hannah Maria are buried there as is Walter Broadley's ( my great uncle ) parents George and Betsey.
As a matter of interest William Oldman's brother Richard lived near to him in London Road and he was in business as a cordwainer.
How many times has it been said that we should of asked more about the relatives when we were younger and some of them were still alive. Another problem for me has always been that neither my grandmother or mother who were the links to this area lived very near and in all honesty were not too outgoing so didn't have very strong ties with their relatives in London Road. You have to take into account also that mobilty wasn't so good, my own father didn't have a car until the mid 60's.
Roger B

Hope I am not sending this information again but I have just had some problems. The numbering in London Road is certainly confusing to me. You lived at No 54 a flat above the bakery but now perhaps due to renumbering the house next door to the bakery is No 47 and in the window light above the door in gold lettering is the name Oldman Cottage so I am fairly sure this is where William Oldman the baker lived

Hello Frank and RedRoger.
I am attaching part of an 1800's plan for Skirbeck and have marked on it Oldmans Terrace and Newton's bakery because I seem to be confusing you as I have little practical knowledge of the area. If you print it off on A4 paper it comes up reasonably well.
This is the first of my chats as I think with attachments it doesn't leave a lot for words.
My connection with the Broadley's Frank is as follows. My great grandparents James Cole and Sarah Lister Pannell had three living children, Sarah Ellen, Elizabeth and Charlie my grandfather who left the area pre 1911. Sarah Ellen married Walter Broadley but she died quite young, they had one child Ellen ( Nellie ) who married Herbert Hackfath, she was the organist at St Thomas's. Elizabeth Pannell married Frank Bass Bailey. All of them lived in 1-4 Oldmans Terrace ( 68 - 74 London Road ) at some time or other. When Ellen Hackfath ( nee Broadley )died in 1960 she was living there as was Elizabeth Bailey ( nee Pannell ) when she died in 1962. The premises were demolished in the 1960,s expect along with Middlecott Almshouses.
My one remaining uncle of that generation who is now 92 years old visited his uncle Walter Broadley and cousin Ellen a lot in the late fourties up to 1951 as they had a lodger Agnes Grant a policewoman from Scotland who he married at St Thomas's in 1951.
Roger B