Electoral Role - Londonthorpe

[Truebrit]

Hi

I wonder whether anyone has access to the electoral roles for the Grantham area, or a similar resource.

I am trying to establish who was living with the Wilson family in Londonthorpe, nr Grantham in the years preceding 1951.  I have the death certificate for Thomas A E Wilson who died in late 1951.  He appears to have lived at 17 Alma Park, Londonthorpe and i am trying to establish who lived with him, or who he was living with.

Can anybody please help me as i do not have access to records in Lincolnshire and i am trying to solve a family mystery.

Thanks in advance.

TB

[tup1]

Hi TB

I will have a look in Grantham library on Saturday in the Electoral Rolls they hold.Will let you know if I find anything.

Kathy

[Truebrit]

Thanks Kathy  I really appreciate that.  If you can trace them in an obvious manner in any earlier years i would also be interested to see who was with him - i may be able to identify further deaths!

Getting a bit closer to solving my family mystery!  I am hoping for some familiar names living with Thomas.  I would also like to know where Thomas A E Wilson was buried - what is the cemetary local to Londonthorpe that would have been used in late 1951?

Thanks in advance.

TB

[tup1]

Hi TB,

Have you a date or approx date of when Thomas died which could help me find his obituary in the Grantham Journal which (might) give family details.

Kathy

[Truebrit]

hi

He appears to have died 8th December 1951 in Londonthorpe.

Thanks for your assistance.

TB

[tup1]

Hi TB,

Have found the address in 1950 where Thomas Albert Edwin Wilson,Edwin A Wilson & Dora Wilson lived it was 17,Oak Drive Alma Park.
I have not found his death reported in the Grantham Journal.I will try and find where he is buried and let you know.

I did find the following Wilsons all living in the same area are they yours.

!949. WILSONS.
Douglas P  & Rose Marie    20,Harrowby Hall Estate.
*Edwin A & Dora  (BUT NO THOMAS A E WILSON?)17,Oak Drive Alma Park
Leonard & Ada M    1,Londonthorpe
Sidney,Susan M ,Reginald,SidneyG & Raymond. 20,Londonthorpe
George H & Joyce I   68,Arnhem Drive Alma Park.

1950.
Same as above except Douglas P & Rose Marie lived 16,Warren Drive Alma Park.
+ Leslie J & Jean Wilson lived 80 Arnhem Drive Alma Park.

1953.
John S & Audrey F.M lived 84 Arnhem Drive.

The houses in Alma Park have all been pulled down to make way for a new housing estate & Industrial units.

Kathy

[Truebrit]

Thank-you very much.

The connection of Thomas A E Wilson to Dora was what i was looking for.

From the information that you have told me it would like as if Thomas Albert Edwin Wilson's wife Jane Elizabeth Wilson had already died (i need to try and establish when!).  I am also not sure where Dora's husband is - Thomas Edward (sometimes Edwin) Wilson - although he did not die until 1975.

If you can spot them on any earlier census' i would be grateful.  I believe that Dora and her husband were in Baston Fen, Baston Road in March 1944 as they had a child there.

This is a great help - this family previously lived in Nuneaton, Warwickshire where i lost them after 1935 when it appears that Thomas E Wilson (son of Thomas A E Wilson) moved with his family to Lincolnshire as part of the war effort.  All of the family were noted on the electoral role at that time and so i need to trace the family thereafter.  the link to Lincolnshire was all circumstantial and all the circumstances are adding up fortunately!!!

Thanks again i look forward to anything that you can find out for me.

Regards

TB

[tup1]

Hi TB

Just a query can you tell me what year Thomas A E & Jane Elizabeth married?so that gives me a guide to which years to find her death up to 1950.

I will not be in the library until Sat but will have a look.

Kathy

[Truebrit]

Hi again

Thomas A E Wilson (born 1879) and Jane Elizabeth Storer (born 1879) married in 1903 in Attleborough, Nuneaton.  Their son, Thomas E Wilson married Dora in Hinckley, Leics in 1931.  They then all lived together in Nuneaton until at least 1935, when i lose them, as they appear to have moved to Lincolnshire as i think Thomas E Wilson joined the war effort.  The first evidence i have of them there is in 1944 in Baston Fen when a daughter was born to Thomas E Wilson and Dora. 

Whilst it looks like the father Thomas A E Wilson came with them i am not sure if the wife Jane Elizabeth did - finding them on the electoral rolls after 1935 may help!

Thanks for your help - any assistance is greatly received.

TB