Hi
Does anyone know where I can find out the history of Mint Lane, I'm interested in 1861-1872 specifically. I've googled, Asked Jeeves etc. but can't find anything useful.
My 2 x g.grandfather was at 11 Mint Lane on the 1861 census with his 2nd wife and their 4 children (his children from his first marriage, inc. my g.grandfather had moved on). He was still at 11 Miint Lane on the 1871 census with his 2nd wife and their two youngest children, his occupation at the time of both census was poulterer.
[Also living there was an old widow, who was listed as mother. I don't know whose mother she was, as she wasn't my 2 x g.grandfather's mother, (who died in 1844) nor was she the mother of his 2nd wife - or indeed his first wife and on the 1851 census she is shown as a Farmer's wife - still I can ignore her].
When we visited Lincolnshire as part of our holiday in 2008, walking in my ancestors footsteps, we went to Gaunt Street and took photographs of number 30, but having got in a traffic jam in Lincoln in the rush hour, we only saw the end of Mint Lane but couldn't stop so I don't know what it's like now.
Now the mystery. When 2 x g.grandfather died of asthma in 1872 at 11 Mint Lane, the informant not surprisingly was his 2nd wife, but the address she gave was the address of my 2 x g.grandfather's eldest son who was a blacksmith. I just wondered if my 2 x g.grandfather was carrying on his work at 11 Mint Lane, but living with his eldest son and family at 30 Gaunt Street. Does anyone know if Mint Lane was becoming uninhabitable in 1872. I could imagine it wasn't a very good trade for someone suffering with asthma.
Does anyone know where I can find old photographs of Mint Lane, by the way there aren't any on the Frith site.
Many thanks
Lizzie
