Family history

Sadie

Feb 28, 20223 min read

Gertrude Thurley-Pupil teacher

Gertrude's childhood home-Haydn Terrace The Peterborough Advertiser, Wednesday March 19, 1902 At the dawn of the twentieth century...

Sadie

Feb 1, 202215 min read

Captain Herbert Wootton M.B.E. - advocate for Fletton

As new industries were attracted to Fletton, at the turn of the twentieth century, new housing was required for the workers. One man was...

Sadie

Nov 25, 20214 min read

A Life Devoted to Education

When the Fletton Board School opened on Monday 25th February 1901 the Peterborough Advertiser reported that there were ‘upwards of 300...

Sadie

Sep 30, 20214 min read

The Panter family, Farrows, Canada and the ‘Hesperian’

The family I am exploring this month – the Panters – shows how employment, especially for women attracted families to Fletton. But it...

Sadie

Aug 26, 20215 min read

Charles Dack Museum curator and folklorist, Kesteven Lunatic Asylum and the Rembrandt connection.

Athough St. Margarets did not witness any of Charles Dack’s vital events; birth, marriage or death, he lived the majority of his life in...

Sadie

Jul 20, 20216 min read

A servant's life in Fletton

The two industries which were most influential in attracting male migrants to Fletton were the railways and the brickyards. For females...

Sadie

Mar 17, 20214 min read

Welfare Hero of Fletton

Every community throughout the country has unsung female heroes who should be celebrated not just this month but every month. To...

Sadie

Feb 11, 20212 min read

In the beginning...

there was a small parish, just south of Peterborough, in the north of Huntingdonshire. In 1841 it had a population of 256 and was a rural...