| [Index] |
| Fred LAMMING (1895 - 1981) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Freda LAMMING (1916 - 2000) Wilfred LAMMING (1918 - 1988) |
Fred LAMMING (1895 - 1981) + Gertrude Elizabeth TAYLOR (1893 - 1967) |
Ephraim LAMMING (1851 - 1931) | ||
| Naomi HANDLEY (1857 - 1926) | Michael HANDLEY | |||
| Susannah (HANDLEY | ||||
| b. 1895 at North Coates, Linconshire |
| m. 1917 Gertrude Elizabeth TAYLOR (1893 - 1967) at Breaston, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England |
| d. 1981 at Louth, Lincolnshire aged 86 |
| Near Relatives of Fred LAMMING (1895 - 1981) | ||||||
| Relationship | Person | Born | Birth Place | Died | Death Place | Age |
| Grandfather | Michael HANDLEY | |||||
| Grandmother | Susannah (HANDLEY | |||||
| Father in Law | Frank TAYLOR | bef 1917 | ||||
| Mother in Law | Catherine Ann WRIGHT | |||||
| Father | Ephraim LAMMING | 1851 | Great Gonerby,, Lincolnshire | 1931 | 80 | |
| Mother | Naomi HANDLEY | 1857 | Louth, North Coates, Linconshire | 1926 | Louth, Lincolnshire | 69 |
| Self | Fred LAMMING | 1895 | North Coates, Linconshire | 1981 | Louth, Lincolnshire | 86 |
| Wife | Gertrude Elizabeth TAYLOR | abt 1893 | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England | 1967 | Victoria, Australia | 74 |
| Daughter | Freda LAMMING | 1916 | Breaston, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England | 2000 | Grantham, Lincolnshire, England | 84 |
| Son | Wilfred LAMMING | 1918 | Louth, Lincolnshire | 1988 | Leicester, Leicestershire, England | 70 |
| Step Daughter | Living or Recently Deceased | |||||
| Sister | Alice A LAMMING | 1881 | North Coates, Linconshire | |||
| Brother | Charles LAMMING | 1883 | North Coates, Linconshire | |||
| Brother | George LAMMING | 1885 | Tetley Emly, Linconshire | |||
| Sister | Susannah LAMMING | 1887 | Tetley Emly, Linconshire | |||
| Sister | Martha LAMMING | 1890 | North Coates, Linconshire | |||
| Brother | Harry LAMMING | 1892 | North Coates, Linconshire | |||
| Sister | Eva Ellen LAMMING | 1898 | North Coates, Linconshire | |||
| Son in Law | Thomas E INNOCENT | 1914 | ||||
| Son in Law | Arthur W POOLEY | |||||
| Daughter in Law | Dorothy A MONK | |||||
| Granddaughter | Living or Recently Deceased | |||||
| Events in Fred LAMMING (1895 - 1981)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1895 | Fred LAMMING was born | North Coates, Linconshire | Note 1 | ||
| 1911 | 16 | Census | North Coates, Linconshire | Note 2 | 67 |
| 1916 | 21 | Birth of daughter Freda LAMMING | Breaston, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England | Note 3 | |
| 1917 | 22 | Married Gertrude Elizabeth TAYLOR (aged 24) | Breaston, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England | Note 4 | |
| 1918 | 23 | Birth of son Wilfred LAMMING | Louth, Lincolnshire | Note 5 | |
| 1926 | 31 | Death of mother Naomi HANDLEY (aged 69) | Louth, Lincolnshire | Note 6 | 57 |
| 1929 | 34 | Emigration | 'Montrose' from Liverpool to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada | Note 7 | |
| 1931 | 36 | Death of father Ephraim LAMMING (aged 80) | Burial info | ||
| 1939 | 44 | Census | 68 Shaftsbury Rd, Gosport, Hampshire | Note 8 | |
| 1967 | 72 | Death of wife Gertrude Elizabeth TAYLOR (aged 74) | Victoria, Australia | Note 9 | 22 |
| 1981 | 86 | Fred LAMMING died | Louth, Lincolnshire | ||
| Personal Notes: |
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Fred is on the 1901 UK Census. As a young man he ran with the Grimsby Harriers. Before the start of WW1 he was a soldier. Like other young men he moved away from home. He was stationed at Gosport at one time so probably transferred to the RGA.
He married Elizabeth Gertrude Taylor. In 1916 they were living at Top House, Crimwell Road, Breaston. They had two children, Freda 26/11/1916, born Breaston and Wilfred born 29/9/1918 at North Coates. Fred and Elizabeth seperated when the children were quite young but it would appear he kept in touch with his children. In his late 70's he was still working on a farm in Sedgebrook, picking potatoes! Although he suffered from Senile Dementia (Alzhiemers) in his latter years he was still able to get himself from Lincolnshire to Anglesey in Wales by coach to attend the funeral of his brother Harry. He helped lower the coffin into the grave. He died on 23rd March 1981 aged 86 years. As a young man he ran with the Grimsby Harriers, I have a photo of him with his Athletics cups. Before the start of WW1 he was a soldier, I have a photo of him in uniform looking very young so he may have joined up in 1912 when he was 18. He served in France from 1st March 1915. His World War One Medal card tells us he joined the Lincolnshire regiment and he was promoted to sergeant. He was awarded 3 medals 1914/15 star, British War Medal, Victory Medal. I think he was stationed at Gosport at one time so may have joined/transferred to the RGA like George and Harry, or he may have joined the Royal Engineers. He had active service in World War I, but looking at the dates of birth of his children he must have had home leave a couple of times too! He was shot in the belly but the bullet hit his belt buckle and although he was thrown to the floor by the impact and badly winded and bruised enough to be taken to hospital, he excaped serious injury. Fred and his wife Elizabeth separated when the children were quite young, but did not divorce as far as I know. It would appear he kept in touch with his children. I have a photo of him with a grandchild c1960. In the background of the photo is a concrete birdbath and a garden gnome. He used to make these and at one time lived at Tintagel, Cornwall and sold them from his front garden. He learned his concrete skills as a civil engineer. He showed me a photo of himself inside a huge concrete pipe at one time. My parents still have a concrete Yeoman of the Guard garden ornament, and a Snow White. At one time Fred lived in Canada. A Fred Lamming appears on the Canadian Passenger lists 1865-1935. I assume he went to Canada after he separated from his wife, so perhaps in the 1920s. My father tells me Fred emigrated to Canada with a woman called Elsie. As he does not appear to have been divorced, they must have been living together, quite shocking to their peer generation at that time, and this may have contributed to his reputation as a bit of a black sheep. Presumably Canada was not all they thought it was going to be because we know Fred came back at some time. Fred told me he was a bus driver at one time and that he used to drive the bus from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham and Grantham. My father remembers him driving buses around Cleethorpes and Grimsby. He lived in a boat at one time and the hatch fell on his head. He blamed his poor short term memory on this. Fred was a character - a charming man, with a wicked and often risque sense of humour. He was a loveable rogue. My mother told me he could even charm moles out of their molehills and was in demand whenever people had problems with molehills in their lawns. I only got to know Fred when we were living in Melton Mowbray in the 1970s-80s and found out he was living nearby in the Grantham area. I wrote to him and he came to visit us. Although he was in his late 70s he was still working, at Chestnut Farm, Sedgebrook picking potatoes. I think he lived at a bungalow called 'Cambrai', Sedgebrook, I assume in lodgings or maybe it was a tied cottage. Later he moved to Grantham where he had lodgings at 19 Welling Street. I only became interested in finding out about my family tree after my grandfather died in 1975, so a lot of what I have noted about my Lamming family came from Fred, whose long term memory was rather better than his short term memory by this stage. When we bought our first car we picked him up from Grantham and took him to my parents home in Anglesey. He got a bit confused on the way about who we were, where he was and where he was going. Driving into Betwys y Coed in the Welsh mountains he said "Oh! I recognise this, this is Louth, you can drop me off here"! He did this several times. He obviously thought he had hitched a lift and forgotten who we were and what we were doing. Once we got there he remembered my parents and their home and was OK although he did ask on Christmas Day several times "What day is it?"! When my grandfather died my mother wrote to Fred to tell him. Fred was very frail and in poor health, but still managed to get himself across country from Lincolnshire to Anglesey all by himself (by coach) and turned up on time (although he had forgotten why he had to be there, just knew he HAD to). He helped lower his brother's coffin into the grave. Fred ended up in an old people's home in Louth but according to Gwen would sometimes escape and head back to places he had lived, or to the homes of people he once knew. His strength of character and wish to be with his family was with him to the end, even if his short term memory and grip on reality had sadly let him down. He may have been a 'character' and a bit of a rogue but we loved him. |
| Source References: |
| 67. Type: Census, Abbr: UK Census Collection, Title: UK Census Collection, Auth: Ancestry.com.au, Publ: Ancestry.com.au |
| - Reference = (Census) |
| - Notes: LAMMING
Ephram (60) b Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire - farm labourer Naomi (54) b North Coates, Lincolnshire Fred (16) b North Coates, Linconshire - labourer Eva Ellen (13) b North Coates, Lincolnshire - at school Ephraim & Naomi had been married 31 years - 8 children born and 7 still alive |
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