emma drinkall
Emma Drinkall was born in Baumber, Lincolnshire in 1870. She was the daughter of William Drinkall and Elizabeth Fox. Her mother died when she was nineteen years old and her father remarried one year later. In 1891, Emma was living with her cousin in Grimsby and one year later, she married Frederick Mallandain in Hull, Yorkshire. She was not working when the census was taken and may have moved to Hull to find work.
william drinkall + elizabeth
William Drinkall was born in Winterton in north east Lincolnshire and his wife Elizabeth was born in Beltoft near Scunthorpe. They had five children and their birthplaces chart the family’s movement through Lincolnshire from Winterton in the north east of the county, south to Horncastle, Claxby and finally Baumber.
Their first daughter, Mary Ann, was born in Winterton in 1859 followed by John Thomas in 1864 in Horncastle, Anne in 1865, Louise in Claxby in 1869 and Emma in Baumber in 1870.
In 1861, William, Elizabeth and their daugther Mary Ann were living in Woodhall, a small village approximately 5 kms from the market town of Horncastle. William's occupation was listed as Labourer in the 1861 census and he likely worked on one of the local farms. Ten years later, the family was living in Baumber and their address in the census was listed as the Infants School where William worked as a Groom and Coachman. By 1881, the family had moved further south to Boston where William was employed as a Drayman & Publican at the Black Horse on West Street, their son, John Thomas, was employed as an apprentice in a Tobacco factory and their eldest daughters, Mary Ann and Annie, were working as domestics. The two youngest children, Louisa and Emma, were still at school.
Elizabeth Drinkall died in Boston in 1889 and her husband remarried one year later to Lydia Hart.
In 1891, Emma was living at 45 Nelson Street in Grimsby with her cousin, Edward Stubbs, and his wife Fanny. Edward Stubbs was working as a general labourer but neither Fanny nor Emma were working. Her father was still living in Boston, at 13 Cheapside, with his second wife and her family. William appears to have retired by this time as his occupation is listed as ‘living on his own means.’ John Thomas moved to Liverpool to work in a tobacco factory and settled in the Everton area of the city. He married Annie Wells in 1890 and they had seven children. His sister Annie Eliza moved to London and was working as a general servant for the Hibbert family in St Pancras however there is no sign of sisters Mary Ann or Louisa in the 1891 census.
William Drinkall died in Boston in 1900 and his second wife Lydia died one year later. John Thomas was still in Liverpool and by 1911, he had been promoted to Foreman at the tobacco factory. He died in Liverpool in 1956 but there are no further records of his sisters Mary Ann, Annie or Louisa.