Dear David
I just received information from the Lincolnshire Archives, about the Will of
Thomas Trew the elder of Market Deeping, dyer, dated 1666 and I will be ordering this Will in the next week or so. Thanks to you for providing this lead. I am hoping that he is my g.g.g.g.g.g.g. grandfather!
I have photos of headstones in the Market Deeping churchyard which were taken for me by a Bingham descendant a few years ago now (my g.g. grandparents in Market Deeping were Ambrose True and Elizabeth Bingham who married there in 1803). Three of their children are mentioned on headstones - 1) Robert True and his wife Sarah nee Battram. 2) also on the same headstone was Robert's sister Mary, who married Daniel Perkins then married Richard Atwood/Attwood and 3) Thomas True and his wife Rachel nee Berry and three of their children who died in infancy. My g.grandfather, Samuel Pickering True, was a brother to Robert, Mary and Thomas. Sam came to Australia in 1849 with his wife, Mary Ann Luff who he married at Stamford in 1847.
Three daughters of Robert True and wife Sarah are buried with headstones in a newer part of St Guthlac's churchyard. They are:- 1) Martha Pickering True 2) Betsey True and 3) Sarah True. These three ladies were spinster dressmakers and lived in Church Street, Market Deeping. They died in the 1920s and 1930s. They were first cousins to my grandfather, who was born in Australia in 1865. Thanks for all your great help.
from Aurora.
