Lizzie Herd.....Still Not Found Her

[Del 80]

Been to local library this morning......have established that Charles Robinson was still at No.9 Brownlow Street in 1912/13......in 1914/15 he has gone, and someone else is living there.....this is from the parliamentary list of voters for the  Grantham area......interestingly Lizzie is not mentioned, although I did not have time to check if it just gave the head of the house at a particular address...... I wonder where he went ?.......... Del.

[rosie99]

Have you checked trade directories for Charles as he was a Baker 

I notice that on the newspaper cutting you posted Mrs Robinson (without Mr Robinson) was mentioned twice 

[Del 80]

Trade directories are on my list of things to check.......I did wonder if he had been called up (in 1914 he would have been 40 years old) also, would being a baker have been a "reserved occupation"?.....I think that is the correct term for someone in the service industry, bakers, butchers, agricultural workers and miners etc........ Del.

[Geoff-E]

...interestingly Lizzie is not mentioned,

Not surprising, women did not have the vote until 1918. 

Re call-up for him ... Conscription was introduced in January 1916, targeting single men aged 18-41. Within a few months World War 1 conscription was rolled out for married men. http://ww1facts.net/people/conscription/

[Del 80]

Geoff, That would explain Lizzie not being registered as eligible to vote then......I hadn't realised that, thank you...............Del.

[carzholme]

Have you tried using the British Newspaper Archive on line?  Might be worth checking. 

[Del 80]

Yes, have tried newspaper archives, along with all the other lines of enquiry......wills, military, census....etc...etc......it was always going to  be hard to find them, because there is no indication as to where they went......there are quite a few possibilities for deaths of Charles, Lizzie and Stanley Robinson's.....but proving that it is the right people is turning out to be  very difficult........ Del.

[Del 80]

After much trawling through newspaper archives, it would now appear that the Stanley, Olive and Rita Robinson mentioned at Alice Ayto's funeral were not relatives of her's......they just happened to live at Barrowby Vale, and had a son, Kelvin Stanley Robinson, who was killed in the 1940's when he was hit by a lorry whilst getting off a school bus, at Allington Lane end, Barrowby Vale........so, the question remains, what happened to the Stanley, son of Charles and Lizzie Robinson ?

[rosie99]

Have you tried searching the 1939 register