MATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

 

WILLIAM SIGGS

Birth: 31 January 1876, Tinsley Park, Yorkshire

Baptism: 23 April 1876, St. Peter’s Church, Doddington, Lincolnshire

Parents: Wallace Siggs and Mary Ann Barnett

Death: 8 January 1954, 80 West Carr Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire

Burial: North Road Cemetery, Retford, Nottinghamshire

 

Occupation: Agricultural Labourer (1891), gamekeeper (1903, 1904, 1907), Game keeper (1911, 1913), Game keeper (1911, 1913, 1921), Licensed Victualler (1939)

Addresses: Whisby (Tinsley Park) (23 April 1876), Bumblebee Hall, Pilham with Gilby, Lincolnshire (1881 census), Keepers Cottage, Pilham Carr, Lincolnshire (1891 census), Pilham Carr, Lincolnshire (1901 census), Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire (13 November 1904), Knaith Park, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (1911 census), Knaith, Lincolnshire (1921 census), Queen’s Hotel, Retford, Nottinghamshire (1929 electoral roll)

 

Notes: On 14 March 1899 he signed up for three years’ service with the Colours and nine years in the Reserves in the Coldstream Guards. He gave his age as 23 years and 2 months, and stated that he was a game keeper. His Army record said that he was 5ft 10in tall, weighed 139 lb., with a maximum chest measurement of 35in., a fresh complexion, blue eyes, and light brown hair. He identified as a member of the Church of England. He was discharged on 22 December 1900 on the grounds that he was medically unfit.

 

 

Marriage: 10 March 1903, St. Michael’s Church, West Retford, Nottinghamshire

 

 

Spouse: MARIA ANN BARNETT

Birth: 29 July 1877, Tinsley Park, Yorkshire

Baptism: 3 September 1877, St. Lawrence’s Church, Tinsley, Yorkshire

Parents: George Barnett and Mary Ann Dennis/Dinniss

Death: 31 August 1941, Queens Hotel, Queen Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire

Burial: North Road Cemetery, Retford, Nottinghamshire

 

Occupation: Domestic servants (1891), Cook (Domestic) (1901), Unpaid Domestic Duties (1939)

Addresses: Tinsley Park (3 September 1877), London Road, Ordsall, Nottinghamshire (1881 census), Rowlands, Walmesley near Shuttleworth, Lancashire (1891 census), Church Leys, Rearsby, Leicestershire (1901 census), West Retford, Nottinghamshire (10 March 1903), Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire (13 November 1904), Knaith Park, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (1911 census), Knaith, Lincolnshire (1921 census), Queen’s Hotel, Retford, Nottinghamshire (1929 electoral roll), Queens Hotel, Queen-street, Retford, Nottinghamshire (1939 register, death certificate)

 

 

Child of WILLIAM SIGGS and MARIA ANN BARNETT:

 

 

WILLIAM EVERARD SIGGS (my grandad)

Birth: 17 October 1904, Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire

Baptism: 13 November 1904, St. Andrew’s Church, Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire

Death: 21 October 1964, Retford, Nottinghamshire

Burial: North Road Cemetery, Retford, Nottinghamshire

 

Occupation: school (1911), assistant gamekeeper (1921) hotel manager (1939) hotel keeper’s assistant (1941), rubber worker (c.1947-1964)

Addresses: Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire (13 November 1904), Knaith Park, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (1911 census), Knaith, Lincolnshire (1921 census), Queen’s Hotel, Retford, Nottinghamshire (1929 electoral roll), Queens Hotel, Queen-street, Retford, Nottinghamshire (1939 register), 80 West Carr Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire

 

Marriage: 26 February 1949, East Retford Register Office

 

Spouse: ALICE ROWLAND (my grandma)

Birth: 22 May 1906, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire

Death: 6 July 1996, Lound Hall Nursing Home, Lound, Nottinghamshire

Parents: Samuel Rowland and Lucy Castledine Branston

 

Occupation: domestic servant (before 1926), unpaid domestic duties (1939), domestic cook

Addresses: Main Road, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire (1911 census), 31 Sibcy Lane, Balderton, Nottinghamshire (1939 register), 80 West Carr Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire

 

Notes: On 2 August 1926 Alice had married her first husband Clarence Frank Briggs (1904-1969), a painter and decorator, at St. Swithin’s Church, Long Bennington. They had two sons, Rowland Frank Briggs (1930-2000) and David Rodney Briggs (1936-1993). Clarence and Alice had separated by 21 June 1943.