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Hi rootschatters,
As the originator of this topic I have to say a special thank you to everyone, especially those that have sent in photos of the Pyewipe Cottages/ Railway Cottages. When I started this topic I was thinking I would be lucky to find any information but I have exceeded my expectations, now knowing their exact location and seeing photos of the cottages through their life and the surrounding railway and environs. Thank you everyone and if I could single out Andy and FiremanBill for their recent postings of superb and enlightening photos of the cottages. The cottages were a lot bigger than I had in my minds eye.
For the record in the 1901 census (when my ggrandfather lived there) these were listed families:
Skellingthorpe, Railway Cottages (starts at schedule no. 145):
Charles Rudkin, Pumping Engine Driver + wife/ 5 children;
Rueben Rudkin, Plate Layer on Railway + wife/1 child;
Julius A. Hindley, Railway Engine Driver [my gggrandfather] + wife/8 children;
Charles Elliott, Signalman on Railway + wife/1 child;
Fred Spineer (?), Platelayer on Railway + wife/ 2 children; and
Frederick Bircholme (?), Signalman on Railway + wife/ 1 child;
so there we have the 6 cottages of Railway/ Pyewipe Cottages. So a community of 12 adults and 18 children.
Thanks again, and I look forward to future revelations about this gone but not forgotten part of Lincolnshire.
Gerry

Thanks again Ross for your quick response. The odd thing I find is that either side of the missing years 1924 - 1927 the squadron seemed very busy before with bombing and policing raids and afterwards with the "Mahmand" War, and more of the same.
Gerry

Thanks Ross for a very quick and clear response I will follow up with that shortly.
Gerry

Hi Noisylass
I have done research on the Hindleys and Julius Augustus and his ancestors and descendants. If you do a couple of more postings I can send you a private mail. I look forward to hearing from you again and hope to share some what I have researched.
Gerry

Hi Tanman,
I was just wondering how sure that your gt grandfather came from Kells, Meath. The reason I ask is that Kells is prominently an Ulster surname, for example if you search under the 1901 census the vast majority are from Ulster, with the those that are outside Ulster mainly in Dublin. There are only 2 male Kells in County Meath in the village of Oldcastle. If your information is from the shipping records could it be possible a) that he was from Kells, County Meath and because his name was difficult to pronounce or for some other reason gave the name Kells or b) Could it be that the enumerator copied the name or town twice in error. So I guess my question is do you have a record of your gt grandfather in Kells, Meath with the name Kells?
By the way there is also a Kells in County Antrim.
Good Luck
Gerry