From Kent to Yorkshire, but via Lincolnshire

[Jan1954]

We have a bit of a mystery in my family: why did my great grandfather move from Kent to Lincolnshire and then on to Yorkshire?

First, a bit of background….

Frederick George MILSTED was born in Tenterden, Kent in 1874 to parents Frederick, who was a Blacksmith, and Mary, a Laundress.

Frederick started his working life in Tenterden as a Grocer’s Assistant and married Grace HILLS on February 23rd 1896 at St. Mildred’s Church, Tenterden. Grace’s address is on the marriage certificate as Tenterden… but Frederick’s is Great Grimsby, where he is employed as a Laundry Manager.

Skip forward a bit to the end of December 1896, when my grandfather (another Frederick) was born in Newington, Hull and Frederick is recorded as a Laundry Manager again. Okay, so that is just across the Humber from Grimsby and I think that I have now found the Laundry that he managed. There were actually only 3 in Hull in the Bennett’s Business Directory of 1898, so a process of elimination.

I can understand why and how he moved across the Humber from North Lincolnshire to South Yorkshire – he may have seen an advertisement in the local newspaper or even a trade magazine and the wages may have been a bob or two more each week. However, I have no idea as to why he moved to North Lincolnshire in the first place!

If I can get an idea of the laundries that were in operation in Grimsby between 1891 when I have him as a 16 year-old in Kent and 1896, I can run the names past my aging father to see if any ring bells – the Hull one did!

Thank you,

[pennydog]

Kelly's Directory for Lincolnshire is on Historical Directories - Great Grimsby starts on image number 232

http://www.
historicaldirectories.org/hd/pageviewer.asp?pnum=232&zoom=-r%2B100&dn=LUL1018tif&fn=

Hope you can find something on there to help

[malcolm99]

Kelly's Directory for Lincolnshire is on Historical Directories - Great Grimsby

This is the 1892 Directory and it lists the following Laundries in Great Grimsby>


Jabez Clift, Cromwell Road, Great Grimsby
Mrs H Garner, 17 Dover Street, Great Grimsby
William Hardy, manager, Grimsby Laundry Co, Humber Street, Great Grimsby
Mrs Alice Leonard, 25 Duke Street, Wellowgate, Great Grimsby

They're listed on image 702.

[malcolm99]

However, I have no idea as to why he moved to North Lincolnshire in the first place!

Interestingly, but probably totally irrelevantly,the manageress of the Laundry Company in Humber Street, Grimsby in 1881, was a Maria Palmer age 38 from Egham in Surrey: so he wasn't the only stray from the soft south!

[Jan1954]

Thank you both - it is much appreciated.

I will run the names past my father to see if they could make any faint bells tinkle in the distance. He has an incredible memory that just needs a trigger for him to recall names and events from the past.

so he wasn't the only stray from the soft south!

Tuh! (But thank you all the same )

[malcolm99]

Tuh! (But thank you all the same )

As Surrey born & bred I'm only repeating what they say up here!