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White Charles, auctioneer, Skirbeck Winter George, market gardener, Freiston road, Skirbeck White Dawson, smith & coach maker, 78 Bargate end Winter Herbert Palmer, poulterer, Bargate bridge White Francis Thirkill (firm, F. T. White & ~on), solicitor & Winter Marianne, Louise & Blanche (Misses), milliners, II clerk of the peace for the parts of Holland, & commissioner Emery lane for oaths & perpetual commissioner, 15 Wide Bargate Wise John, carter & cowkeeper, 14 Cheapside White George, anchorsmith, Pulvertoft lane Wise Thomas, insurance agent, Shodfriars hall White George, butcher, 4 Vauxhall road Wishear Ann (Mrs.), dress ma. & dyers' agent, 22 Church st White Henry, dairyman, 14 Trafalgar place, West street Witham Outfall Board (Henry Arthur Peake, clerk, ~lea- White William Henry, solicitor & cornmissioner for oaths, see ford ; J obn Evelyn Williams c.E. engineer; William White F. T. & ~on Garfit, treasurer), offices, Bridge street Whitten AlfredJohn,printer, stationer, bookbinder & account Wood James & Charles, coal, manure, granite, lime & book manufacturer, Old Post Office, Market place general agricultural merchants; offices, 26 Market place Whiteside Thomas, oil cake, seed & manure merchant, Pack Wood Emma (Miss), grocer, 29 Wide Bargate house quay; res. Drain side north Wood Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, 19 Pen street Whiting Thomas, Coach & HorsesP.H. Main ridge Wood Thomas, farmer, Skirbeck Wigfall Annie (Mrs.), milliner, 93 & 95 High street Wood Thos.Jas. dist.supt.ofGt.Nortbernrailway,IoiWest st Wilkinson A. E. (Miss), watch maker, IO Dolphin lane Wood Wm.Hanson,carpet & upholstery warebo.54Market pl Wilkinson Benjamin, farmer, Boston west Wood Wm.Jn.Haram L.R.C.P.Edin.,M.R.C.s.surgn.& medical Wilkinson Charles, fruiterer & greengrocer, 7 Wide Bargate officer &!public vaccinator for Skirbeck dist. 12 Red Lion st Wilkinson David, tailor, 13 Pen street Woodcock Edward, tinman& brazier, 8 Church street Wilkinson Geo. farmr .lar: d agt. valuer&c. Vauxhall rd. Skirbck Woodcock William, beer retailer, 7 I West street Wilkinson George, bay & corn dealer, 3~ Red Lion street; Woodruff Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 2-t Frampton place res. The Hollies, Tower road Woods Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer, 64 Main ridge Wilkinson John, market gardener, Skirbeck Woodthorpe.Anne(Mrs.),fruitr.&sboeing smith,53WideBargt Willcock John George, market gardener, Skirbeck Woodthorpe George, general smith, Shodfriars lane; sboe- W"illcock John, baker, 27 Norfolk place ing forge, Peacock yard Willcock Robert, farmer, Skirbeck Woollard & Son, carriage builders, 40 Wide Bargate Williams John Evelyn M.I.C.E., F.G.S. consulting engineer, & Working Men's College (Charles Lucas, hon. sec.; Mrs. engineer to the Witham General Commissioners & the Jessop, librarian), Market place Witham Outfall Board; offices, Witham office, Bridge st Wormsley John, carpenter, Frieston road, Skirbeck Williamson Frank William, plumber, 33 Queen street; work- Wrack John Skid more, dining rooms, 55 Market place shop, u6 West street Wright & Harrison, corn, cake &c. merchants, 2 South st Williamson Henry Frederick, hair dresser, u6 West street Wright Betsy Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 25 Cheapside Williamson Thos. printer & eating house propr. 5 Church st Wright Charles, boot maker, r6 Dolphin lane Williamson William, ship owner, Skirbeck quarter Wright Charles, who. furnishing ironmonger, 43 High street Willis & Son, chimney sweepers, 42 Stanbow lane Wright George Ward, baker & grocer, 9I High street Wilson Charles, berlin wool & fancy warehouse, 9 High st Wright John, farmer, Dyke house, Queen's road, Skirbeck WilsTattershall road Young John, fruiterer, 26 South street Winlaw & Co. ale & porter mers. & sack contra.ctrs. West st Young Men's Institute, Tower street BOTTESFORD is a large township, parish and small the year I6o3 ; but there are transcripts of earlier registers village, 3~ miles south from Frodingham station on the Peni- in the diocesan registry at Lincoln. The living is a vicarage, stone and Grimsby branch of the ~anchester, Sheffield and tithe rent-charge £I3I, net yearly value £2go, including 65 Lincolnshire railway, and 7 west from Brigg, in the North acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, Lindsey division of the county, east division of Manley wapen- and held since 1873 by the Rev. Francis Josepb Moore B. A. take, Winterton petty sessional division, parts of Lindsey, Trinity College, Cambridge, who resides at Ashby. Bottes­ Glanford Brigg union, county court district of Brigg, rural ford Manor House is the residence of Edward Peacock esq. deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry of Stowe and diocese of F.S.A., J.P. the lord of the manor and principal landowner. Lincoln. The parish comprises the townships of BoTTESFORD, The soil is lias clay ; subsoil, lias. The chief crops are HoLME, YADDLETHORPE, .AsHBY, BuRRINGHAM, and part of wheat, barley, turnips and potatoes. The township con­ EAST BUTTERWICK; the la&t three are given under separate tained in 188I a population of I24; rateable value of Bottes­ headings. The church of St. Peter is a large cruciform edifice ford, £2,214. The parish comprises 7,470 acres. o! stone, chiefly of the Early Eng:l~_h period with portions_ of Holme is a township 6 miles west from Brigg. Joseph

~ormanand Decorated work,co~slBtmg of chancel,clerestoned 1 Cliff, jun. esq. D. L., J.P. of Somerby Hall, is lord of the nave of three bays, transepts, aisles, ~ort~ and s~uth porches, manor and principal landowner. Rateable value, £726; and a_n _embattled w~tern tower, with mght pmnacles ~~d the population in rS8I was 2. contammg 3 bells : m the chancel are three fine sediha, 7 credence tab~e and piscina : in the north wall is ~ double Yaddlethorpe is a small village, 7~ miles west from aumbry and m the east wall are two small aumbnes: the Brigg. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in r873. communion table, dated 1633, was the gift of Mrs. Edith Edward Peacock esq. F.s.A., J.P. who is lord of the manor, Perkins, of Ash by: in the north transept the altar slab of the and the trustees of the late - Titley esr1. are the principal chantry formerly existing there remains, but now serves as landowners. The soil is lias clay and sandy ; subsoil, lias. a tombstone; its five consecration crosses are still visible; Rateable value, £854; the population in 188I was r68. By here also is a large slab of another altar: the nave roof is a , a Local Government Order, March 25, I887, the township of modern work designed by the late Mr. Willson: the chancel Yaddlethorpe was amalgamated with Bottesford and the roof of similar date was designed by the late Mr. S. S. Teulon, township so altered to be known as Bottesford. architect: in the vestry is a good oak chest, dated I693, and Parish Clerk, James Todd. presented to the church by the late Mr. E. S. Peacock, of Letters through Brigg arrive at 9· Io a.m. The nearest Eottesford Manor: there is a good Early English octagonal money order office is at Ashby & telegraph office at Scun­ font: the church was restored in r87o by subscription, the chancel having been previously restored at the expense of thorpe. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 4.IO p.m MisA Hall: at the restoration a sanctus bell was found em- A School Board of 7 members was formed April 22, 1879, for bedded in the west wall and is now in the possession of E. the United District of Bottesford, Holme & Yaddlethorpe; Peacock esq. F.S.A. ; two ancient sundials (probably Saxon) Rev. F. J. Moore, Ashby, chairman & clerk to the board were also found and placed in the south porch :there are 250 Board School (mixed), erected in 1846, by subscription, at a sittings. On the south side of the churchyard are the cost of £300, for 6o children; average attendance, 45; remains of an Early English cross. The register dates from George Forbes Hudson, master Bottesford. Todd Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer N eave George, farmer Walker Joseph, farmer Nixon William, farmer Peacock Edward F.S.A., J.P. Manor ho Holme. Taylor Frederick & John Wm. farmers Clayton George, farmer Tbompson Henry, higgler Garner William, farmer Bray Robert, farmer Honsman J obn, farmer Gilliatt John, farmer Yaddlethorpe. Peacock Edward, farmer Havercroft George, farmer Curtis Mrs