Lincoln woman needed to make man happy!

[PennyvdB1949]

VERY strange coincidence -  when looking at this whilst browsing for Lincoln information I looked at the 1901 census for Sarah Macbeth to try and help and thought the address 34 Vernon Street, Lincoln sounded familiar and when looking at my Tree I saw my paternal Great Grandfather was living at that address with his daughter and son in law when he died in 1947

[stpud2011]

Wahey,

I have an interest in this thread. My daughter-in-law recently produced us a grandson and inter alia it came up that his other grandfather on his mother's side had the unusial middle name of grimalde.

So after a day or two of fossicking as to where this might have originated I came to John Usher marrying Sarah Ann Farmer in 1875. Sarah Ann Farmer had two brothers named Grimalde Farmer who both died in infancy. So some progress.

Sarah Anne's mum was Elizabeth Townsend b Holbeach ca 1831/2. She I think had two brothers Cotnam Townsend b Whaplode ca 1825/6 and Grimalde Townsend, christened Holbeach 1833. I suspect that they shared common parents in George & Sarah (Fields) Townsend.

On the 1841 census, Cotnam, it seems to me appears on the same page as his grandfather, Cotnam Fields as an apprentice newspaper printer and editor, in Holbeach under the name of Thomas Townsend - a common foible amongst the young who shun the unusual names foisted on them by their parents :-). Grimalde Usher was no different - went by the name of James!


Sarah Fields was the daughter of Cotnam Fields and Ann Grimalde who married in Holbeach ca 1794

So someone, somewhere on ancestry has either surmised the same as I about Cotnam Townsend's origins or sought the original parish records for Whaplode but they also give George and Sarah (Fields) as his parents.

HTH,

Howdie (in the chatroom)

Hi

I know this an old posting but if there are any of Cotnam Townsend descendants out their I have a old Victorian Family photo album given to William Cotnam Boyes on his tenth birthday which was 29th August 1885. It has many family portraits and some early ones taken by Cotnam Townsend when he was working as a professional photographer in Doncaster. Be glad to share the details with any descendants and it would be good to identify those in the album.

Steve

[PennyvdB1949]

hi Steve, I got your post as I put on the original one re 34 Vernon Street, Lincoln. I'm sure you're aware but just in case Lincs Archives have digitalized many of the original Lincolnshire parish records. You can view them on their website Lincs to the Past  http://www.lincstothepast.com/advanced-search/  to access them on the advanced search page enter the name of the parish in the Exact phrase box followed by the word PAR and search. That will bring up a list of the records they hold for that particular parish, the onews you can view have a little photo icon at the side
Regards
Penny