I know that this picture is already on here somewhere but as it’s such a nice one and there are lots of new members I hope people wont mind me giving it another outing. You will see your new house in the distance Stephen Steele Jackson. The Postland road looks very different now.
This one was posted in July 1910 with a Crowland postmark to a Miss A. Tilley, 60 Field Street, Kettering. The message reads Dear Annie, just a line to let you know I have got home again. I hope all of you at home are well. What do you think to this card? That is one of the mills we were talking about. This one is nearly done for. Well I should be very pleased to hear from you. With best love from Ruth” It also says (presumably the sender) “Miss Ulyatt, c/o Mrs Sanderson, West Street, Crowland”
Apparently the mill was destroyed by fire (arson) on 5th November 1911 and had been redundant for 20 years prior to that. It was built in 1790 and at the time of it’s demise was owned by the rector of Crowland.
Update
Having just done some research on the sender it would seem that Ruth Ulyatt was born in 1890 and in the 1891 census was living with her mother and siblings on Albion Street. By 1901 she was living on West Street with her step-father Edward Sanderson a farmer (her mother still has the surname Ulyatt at this point). In 1911 she was still living with her mother and step-father and her mother’s surname was Sanderson. Ruth’s job in 1911 was “dairy worker”. She would have been 20 when she sent the postcard.
Thanks to John Wakefield
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Dear Mr. Wakefield,
I found this article very interesting.
I have been tracing my family tree, it turns out that Ruth Ulyatt was my great great Aunt, her sister Agnes was my mother’s mother. I was intrigued to know how the name Sanderson came into it, also it was on a census (when her mother Mary) was living with Edward Sanderson that Agnes and Ruth had the surname of Taylor. Hope you will be able to shed some light on it for me.
Kind Regards,
Jackie (O’Sullivan)
I will try and contact Mr Wakefield and see what else he can help with. Regards Geoff
Hi Geoff,
Thankyou for your reply..
That will be much appreciated
Kind Regards,
Jackie O’Sullivan
Hi Geoff,
Thankyou for your reply..
That will be much appreciated
Kind Regards,
Jackie O’Sullivan
Hi Geoff,
Did you manage to contact Mr Wakefield to see what he could find out about my Great Aunt Ruth Ulyatt. i.e who she married and children etc.
Kind Regards,
Jackie O’Sullivan.
Hi, I’m fascinated by the Crowland mills as my great great grandfather was a miller from Crowland called William Worrell. I’d love to know where he was apprenticed.
He wandered north, working in Heeley, Sheffield and eventually ran a pub in Armthorpe. Earlier Worrells had been described as ‘gentleman’, Williams father, John, was a butcher and Constable but he died quite young presumably throwing the family on to their own resources. (His widow married another miller, William Warsop).
There is a connection to the Ullyat family through William’s Aunt Grace. She married Charles Wyche after having taken out at least one bastardy order against him. Their daughter, Elizabeth married into the Ullyat family.
I am sorry I can’t help. But if you publish to website your request then maybe a contributor can help