Annie Smith at Maplethorpe 1947

[jangar]

Any clues how to find Annie Smith in Maplethorpe in 1947/48 please? I've tried the phone books- no luck. She would have been an elderly lady by then. She had the odd lodger to generate a bit of extra income.
How big would Maplethorpe have been in the late 40's.

Thanks Janet (who's lost her Auntie Annie)

[Waitabit]

Can you perhaps ask of the local Library / Council offices to check electoral rolls for you for the address of the time, & who was living there? you could try for a few years either side to locate her. Do you have a record of her death & where it occurred? Even a local newspaper may have had a tribute or...local undertakers.

[Pam Downes]

Mablethorpe library
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/popiO...amp;catId=2434

Mablethorpe is in Louth registration district and there's a death registration for an Annie Smith, aged 72, in December quarter 1950. (Volume number 3b page number 345.)
If the library have local newspapers they might do a lookup for you to see if there's an obituary. (Without a date of death, they may have to check up to 14 weeks of papers It won't give an address, but it might give the names of relatives which could confirm that that is definitely your Annie.

If you stick www. in front of mablethorpe.info/towncouncil/index.html
there's links to Mablethorpe Town Council and also East Lindsey District Council.

I've only been to Mablethorpe about two or three times (and then not recently, though slightly more recently than 1947 ) but it never struck me as a big place. The population in 1901 was less than a thousand people.
Pam

[jangar]

Thank you for the tips.I shall persue them. I haven't an address for her, just a date when the family last made contact before we emmigrated. I wonder how big Maplethorpe was then in 1950 if it was only a thousand in 1901. It can't be too hard to find the auntie LOL

[jangar]

Hi Pam, I realised I had had the 1950 death checked, it wasn't my Annie. The Linc's Reg office said this Annie wasn't a widow and not living at M'thorpe. kind regards, Janet

[jangar]

Tried the council, they don't hold electoral rolls 'that far back' they said. Tried St Mary's church reverend for burial registers...no reply but council suggested British Library in London. So I looked at what they had on line. Oh my gosh what a huge mass of convoluted info for determining electoral boundaries...gave up on that. I mean how big was Maplethorpe in the 1950's?
I don't have an address until I can get a trade/ post office directory listing.

[jangar]

The reverend of the Maplethorpe church kindly checked burial records for my aunt and nothing matched. So I guess the electoral roll or trades directory are my next best bet. Can anyone help out there please?

1947 to about 1960ish ANNIE SMITH, MAPLETHORPE

Thanks Janet in Australia

[jangar]

up date on Annie:

any kind person able to visit the Lincoln archives to check the death

Ann Smith March Q 1949 Louth

The archives have the church records on the death/burial.St Mary's Mablethorpe

Thank you

[Pam Downes]

Hi Janet,
Do you mean the Ann, aged 87, who died in Louth district, March quarter 1948?

In a previous message you said that the vicar of Mablethorpe had checked the burial registers. Do you know if he checked only one year, or for several years either side?

With Ann Smith being a common name we might need to tackle this a different way.
Forget her (possible) death for a few minutes.
Do you know when Ann(ie) was born? Precise year will do, precise date would be a bonus.
I get the impression that she was married, therefore what was her maiden name?
Who were her brothers and sisters and when were they born (knowing where would be another bonus so we can be sure we've got the right family)?
Do you know who she married, and did they have any children?
Pam

[jangar]

Hi Pam
Annie (a widow) was resident at 14 Cumberland Place Notts in 1914 when she was my grandfather's guardian in his father's WW1 service record .Backwards of that date I have been fishing for info and managed tentatively to match her to the 1911 census of Annie Smith -widow - publican running the Sir Francis Burdett hotel in Mount St, Notts. These 2 addresses are 50 yards apart and the Annie at the pub sold it before the Annie at Cumberland appears. I have been very thorough here making sure there is no overlap or not 2 Annies via rate books and directories. If it is the same Annie then I can go back to her birth and grandparents/siblings/children/marriage etc..all good.

Still with me! LOL Now Annie moved to West Parade Linc's (got her there in 1939 directory) and ran a boarding house called Laburnum House. She then moved to Maplethorpe and was definitely there in 1947/8. Now I'm hoping to find her death so it may afford me more info which will tie everything together.

If the pub Annie is my Annie then the census shows her born 1865, which is 4 years out on the death in 1948.

Annie was an great?/aunt of my grandad, but my branch is broken and I can't tie her in. That side that is very flakey! The vicar's records only are from 1951.

Thanks for reading, Janet