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Hi Larkspur

Thank you Larkspur for looking up the baptism date for Kate.  I have also seen this on Free Reg, but when I started my tree (i am not sure) but I think I got the information of the baptisms from parish records on microfiche's?  Could have been at the library at Retford.  A year makes a big difference to the way I see things, so when I have time I will track down the Parish records and look again.

Hi Mruczek

There is not much information on the service record for William John Robinson.
If this is what I have?
He must have been in the Territorial Army, his Reg No was 4897.  Then he changes Reg No to 202118  He was a private in the KOYLI.   Unit 1/4 Bn  First joined for duty 15.06.15   Place Wakefield

Some of the sheets are burnt and some you cannot read very well (faded or done in pencil)

On the Military History Sheet it reads

(First Heading is burnt           From                             To                   Years           Days
Embodied Home             14.6.15                   4.3. 16                                            264?
Abroad                           5. 3 .16                 11? 2. 19                          2
Home                            14.2.19                   18.3.19
?                                   19.3.19


Campaigns   First line cannot read?      --      4.3.16
                  Expeditionary Force France   5.3.16 to  ? ? 19

British War Medal
The Victory Medal


Medical Inspection Report
Date cannot read
Apparent age 38 yrs 11 months
Height 5 ft 5 3/4ins
Chest measurement   35 ins    Range of expansion 3 ins

I got this record because my mother told me her mother was upset that her brother had been killed in WW1.  But now it is too late to ask her again.

Regards Lulis
                   

Hi

We have a interesting family of Robinsons.  The information everyone posted looks correct.

There is one big gap in this family and it is my Grandmother.  She was Clara Ann Robinson born I believe in April 1881 at Elkesley.  I have a copy of her birth certificate and it is dated Second April 1883
Mother is Sarah Robinson General Work.  No father is listed When registered Twelfth May 1883.

The only problem with this is on the 1881 Census Clara Robinson is shown to be 2 months old!
Her sister Kate Robinson is not on the 1881 Census

On the 1891 Census Sarah Robinson is head of household and with her are William son age 14 yrs,
Kate aged 10 yrs, Clara aged 8 yrs and Fanny aged 5 yrs.

When Clara died in 1935 her obituary in the newspaper gave her age for her to have been born in 1881.  My thinking is the man came round to do the 1881 Census and she had not registered the birth of either Kate or Clara so she registered Kate being born in 1881 and Clara being born in
1883?

I have copies of the birth certificates of Kate, Clara and Fanny and there is no father listed on any of them.  So the question I have persued over many years is who is my Great Grandfather?

I cannot find a baptism for Clara Robinson anywhere

There was a illness going round Sheffield in 1875 and a year later it arrived in Elkesley (they had relatives in Sheffield)
John William Robinson born 1872 died 28.01.1876
William Robinson born 1842  died 18.02.1876
Fanny Scott Robinson born 1874  died 25.04.1876

And William John Robinson was bap on 13.08.1876

No wonder Sarah Scott Robinson went on to have three more children, it would be so heartbreaking for her to loose three of her family in one year.

I have more information on the Robinson/Doncaster families. And I have a theory who is my Great Grandfather, but as yet I cannot find the truth.

Lulis

Hello Jill

Williamson's Drove is still there, but I cannot remember who it is named after
Was it also called Parson's Drove? 

There is no Fen Drove, it is Fen Road which leads down to a junction.  If you go right it is Green Drove then across the cross roads to The Hern.  In the eighteen hundreds Green Drove and The Hern was called Long Drove.

If you go left from Fen Road junction you go down Gravel Hills or Gravel Hill Drove as it is sometimes known. If you are in the fields adjacent to the road the road dips up and down like small hills.

In Billinghay there is a Billinghay Parish Office, and someone in the village runs a History Group.  If you contact the parish office by e-mail on :-  billinghaypc[at]googlemail.com (replace [at] with @)you might get a answer to your question.  If you google Billinghay Parish Council there is a web page with links to a bi-monthly magazine for the village.
Hope this Helps Lulis

Hi Jacky

Think you were on the right track looking for Moses Creasey at Walcott near Billinghay.

My g.g.grandad was Robert Franklin from walcott and while I was in the Lincolnshire archives I came across many Creaseys and Franklins in the bap register and bishops transcripts for St Oswalds church Walcott, and the surnames are still in the area.  The surname Holmes is also from Billinghay.

Regards Lulis

Hi

There is a graveyard in Horncastle, but I am not going that way at the moment and no access to MI's

Do you know where Alfred Green was born?

I have a Alfred Green b.1877 Carlby Nr Stamford Lincs and some of his family ended up in the Sleaford area, but it is a common name.  I have not gone far into this family yet

Lulis