Saltfleetby All Saints
picture courtesy of Paul Fenwick
Edward, with whom this web site is particularly concerned, was the fourth of six surviving children born to William and Sarah.
Born in Saltfleetby in 1844, Edward married Georgina Brocklebank in 1872 or 1873. I have no record of the date of their marriage or the origins of Georgina though there was a Brocklebank family in Thimbleby. They were in fact the local brick-makers and the parish records record a number of baptisms to John and Rebecca Brocklebank. One other record unearthed is that of 'Martha Brocklebank, a poor widow buried......' in Saltfleetby All Saints parish records of 2nd December 1761, aged 94. There are numerous other references to Brocklebanks in the records of Saltfleetby, Skidbrooke and Mablethorpe.
Edward's marriage to Georgina brought them seven children born in five different locations out of at least seven moves across the County of Lincolnshire. As a humble farm labourer this mobility is almost certainly the result of the feudal 'hiring fairs' that farmers used to staff their establishments in the nineteenth century.
The 1881 census records Edward and Georgina living at Somersby together with her by now widowed and seventy-two year old mother. Mother's origin is stated as Little Cawthorpe. Their offspring were:
Edward and Georgina are buried in Eastgate Cemetery, Lincoln along with their daughter Louise.