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Mary Farrow

Mary Farrow (nee Cragg) developed the ketchup brewing / ketchup manufacturing business of her husband Joseph Farrow (1850 - 1939). She died on May 22nd, 1926, and Sir Richard Winfrey (Liberal MP fo…
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John Beagles

John Beagles was born on 11 June 1844 in Whaplode Drove, Spalding, Lincolnshire. He was one of 7 children born to John & Jane Beagles. Jane was daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Booth of Doningto…
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Captain Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. He is also …
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Sir Thomas Boor Crosby

Thomas Boor Crosby was born at Gosberton Risegate on 26 October, 1830, the son of William Crosby (farmer) and Mary Boor. He was Village Doctor to the Lord Mayor of London.…
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William Stapleton Royce

(Born in 1858) English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Holland with Boston constituency from 1918 until 1924. He was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, an…
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Sir Richard Winfrey

Sir Richard Winfrey (born on 5 August 1858 in Long Sutton, died 18 April 1944) was a British Liberal politician, newspaper publisher and campaigner for agricultural rights. He served as Member of Parl…
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Henry Harold Welch Pearson

Henry Harold Welch Pearson (born 28 January 1870 in Long Sutton, died November 1916) was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden i…
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The Cobbler of Quadring

Ebanezer Ackland was Quadring’s cobbler. He was born in 1850 and died in 1935. photo kindly donated by Myra Featherstone…
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Extracts From Trade Directories for South Holland

Were your family Trades people? Why not look them up in the attached Trade Directories an extract from the University of Leicester collection covering 1828 to 1919 Pigots 1828 Crowland Deep…
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Contractors Tools – George Cohen & Sons

A catalogue found in the Forge …
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