Bill Goldthorp Family History
December 2, 2014

White’s 1872 Trade Directory for Lincolnshire

White’s 1872 Trade Directory for Lincolnshire. – A link to a scan of this directory can be found on the page here – https://crowle.org/?p=1433 Crowle. Crowle Township included Eastoft although by this date it had become a separate parish with its own church. Crowle is described as a small thriving market town, 6 miles north of Epworth, 12 south of Goole and 16 North East of […]

Family History
December 2, 2014

THROSTLE & BROWN

My 2X gr-grandparents, Ann THROSTLE and Thomas BROWN arrived in Canada about 1845. I am hoping to connect both of them to their ancestors in England. Many years ago, I hired a professional genealogist in Lincolnshire and while she was unable to determine the parents of Thomas she did find information on a Nancy Throstle who is presumed to be the woman I know as […]

History Industries
November 1, 2014

Crowle Gas Works

      Crowle Gas Works   Based on information supplied by Avril Clarke (Turner) The gas works was situated on the corner of Windsor Road and Marsh Road (the extension of Cross Street). The site is now covered by a new building – Windsor Lodge. It was established in 1854 with a capital of £1800 in £10 shares. Avril’s father was the last manager […]

Bill Goldthorp
September 26, 2014

Starting University, early 1950s. – Bill Goldthorp

Society was still very restricted and we had spent the last five years paying for the 1939 –1945 war, setting up the Welfare State and running newly Nationalised Industries, which without investment would cause trouble in the future. Two recent elections had altered the political landscape but not the country’s problems. The tensions of two great Nuclear Powerblocks loomed over us and problems of empire […]

History
September 21, 2014

Cornelius Vermuyden

The entry for ‘Vermuyden, Cornelius’ in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58 by Albert Frederick Pollard states that Sir Cornelius Vermuyden had a daughter, Elizabeth who married Sir Thomas Peneystone under the name of Elizabeth Fairmedow. This is not correct and is part of the ‘Fairmedow legend’ propounded when it was noticed over two centuries later that a ‘Sir Cornelius Pharmedo’ was […]