St. Thomas' church Skirbeck Quarter Boston

[onmebike]

Pam thanks for the information given and the offer to look into some burials, I guess from what you have said the following might have been buried at St Nicholas's except for Sarah Lister Pannell.

Top of my list on burials are:

James Cole Pannell ( died 5/10/1889 ) and his wife Charlotte ( died Oct - Dec 1876 ). These were my great, great grandparents.

James Cole Pannell ( died 31/12/1891 ) and his wife Sarah Lister Pannell ( died Oct - Dec 1941 ) my great grandparents. They had 7 children and four died in infancy and I wonder about their burials also.
Alice Pannell - died Oct - Dec 1882
James Cole Pannell - died Apr - Jun 1881
Kate Pannell - died Apr - Jun 1881
Ernest Pannell - died January 1885

I would expect there to be gravestones somewhere as both my great, great grandfather and my great grandfather had small building businesses and I think were stone mason's as well.
Thanks  Roger B

[pamthomas]

Hi Roger B,
James Cole Pannell died 1889 was buried 9 Oct 1899 at Skirbeck Holy Trinity (down Spilsby Road). I don't think those PRs have been deposited with Lincolnshire Archives yet - they're certainly not showing on the Archives website - so Lincs FHS obviously had special permission to transcribe the registers at the church.

Charlotte Pannell buried 16 Nov 1876, also Skirbeck Holy Trinity.

James Cole Pannell died 1891 (only just, as he was buried Jan 1892) buried Skirbeck St Nicholas
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=613035&iid=330799

Sarah Lister Pannell died 1941
Wouldn't you just know that the latest register for St Nicks deposited at Archives ends in 1940. :'stomps foot in rage' smilie:
She's not buried at St Thomas'.
I do have the cemetery burials but I can't access them at the moment. If you'd like to post a reminder in this thread after Christmas, I will hopefully be able to look then.

Alice Pannell died 1882, buried St Nicks
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=613035&iid=330732

James Cole Pannell died 1881, buried St Nicks
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=613035&iid=330721

Kate Pannell died 1881, buried St Nicks.
See the entry immediately before James'. According to the 'number in plan' in the side column, she and James are in the same grave.

Ernest Pannell died 1885 also buried St Nicks - though he was very nearly omitted.
 http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=613035&iid=330747

Check out the plot numbers - the ones for the children at least are consecutive, so there may well be a family grave with a headstone. Worth contacting St Nicks to ask if they still know where the plots are. (Some graveyard maps have been lost over the years.)

If you'd like a bonus, baptism of:
Alice in 1878
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=615990&iid=329852

Elizabeth in 1878
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=615990&iid=329855

Ernest in 1884
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=615990&iid=329910

Check out their actual baptism place. 

Shall I be mean and leave you to go backwards and forwards through the images for the other children? 

[FrankAT]

I visited the shop on Newtons Corner this a.m. for my paper, and talked with the ex owner (his daughter now owns it) and he has been there for 32 years. He tells me of the mill on the premises where Mr Newton would have ground the corn. He also tells me he had the 'Oldman House' above the door re- engraved because the paint? had eaten into the glass, somehow.

The first church was erected in 1885 and constructed of corrugated iron sheets and was painted red. All the burials took place at St Nicks as that was the mother church prior to the 1885 one going up. In fact all burials either took place at St Nicks or Holy Trinity in Spilsby Road until the present, permanent, church was erected. As I said before, there were several clauses written into the conditions of burials by the benefactor, Mr George Jebb, and the church hierarchy wouldn't get involved. So the burials began at the present church, but with some being turned away, to be buried at either of the other two churches.
The photo shows the site where the old school used to be.

[FrankAT]

I am posting a few more photos of the area today:

This one shows where the ;Folly Pads' to the right of the rail line used to run. It is now the pavement running to the east of the A16 road. I took the photo on the old site but further north just before the turn off into Bayswood and Elmwood Avenues.

[FrankAT]

This one shows the old white cottage at the top of Rowell Row, and the ex Police houses in the left background.

[FrankAT]

The building is the ex-police houses and the later, Co-op shop. It is now just another member if the ubiquitous blocks of flats.

[FrankAT]

Where the trees are is where the 'Oldmans Terrace' would have stood:

[onmebike]

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

[Redroger]

Thanks Frank, At least the former police station and police house/Co-op are still there along with the white cottage which was in front of the St. Thomas' school I attended. More importantly they are recognisable, which is more than can be said about the rest of the picture. I believe that the road picture was taken from the former railway line. Recognisable to a native by the curvature of the road. Previously Calders Wood Yard would have been behind the trees at the right of the picture, at the rear of the hospital.