Thomas Aistrip, Basket maker

[keith110639]

When I was a small boy Mr Aistrip was making baskets just down the road from my home in Willow Row Walk, Spalding, he was a old man then in the  late 1940's but can't remember him being there after around 1950. Would like to know more about him and his family.

[ColC]

Deaths Dec 1967
Aistrup    Thomas W    69    Spalding    3b   64   

Colin

[PaulineJ]

Thomas Aistrup  Birth Date:   26 Feb 1854

Death   Jan 1944 East Elloe, Lincolnshire, England

Would this be the chap? He was at 3 Double St Spalding in 1911

[trish1120]

Bapts of children of Thomas/Elizabeth AISTRUP are on FreeREG 1881-1887
(didnt check with soundex option so may be more)
Father a Basket Maker

Thomas married Elizabeth LYON 1880, his Father EDWARD, hers WILLIAM
(Anc)

On Census they have a Son Thomas Walter 1899.

Thomas snr is still alive 1939

Also on FreeREG Thomas jnr had a Son 1929 who married 1949.
He was 19 and in the H.M. Royal Naval Air Service

[ShaunJ]

Also on FreeREG Thomas jnr had a Son 1929 who married 1949.
He was 19 and in the H.M. Royal Naval Air Service

Strange! The RNAS ceased to exist in 1918. Presumably he was in the Fleet Air Arm.

[DCB]

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 3rd February 1944
The Basket-Maker
MEN like Thomas Aistrup, the basket-maker of Spalding, can ill be spared. His death removes a country craftsman whose kind are hard to find today.
Two more interesting paragraphs about his life

Lincolnshire Echo 3rd February 1944
Oldest Basket Maker.—Mr. Thomas Aistrup, aged 9O, of Double-street. Spalding. oldest basket maker in the district, has died in Holbeach hospital He had been basket making for 78 years.

Peterborough Standard 4th February 1944
Another about his death

Lincolnshire Echo 4th April 1934
Nottingham Evening Post 3rd April 1934
An article about his life.

David

[keith110639]

Thanks for replies, this is good as I know he had a shop in Double Street and his workshop in Willow Row Walk was taken over by my uncle who was a builder in the late 1940's. DCB I would like to see the artical in the Lincolnshire Echo if it is possible for you to share it. I have a photo of him from a local facebook page. Did not know he had a son though but beleive he had brothers.

[trish1120]

Sorry if I confused you ShaunJ

It was the son of Thomas Walter 1899 (Thomas Eric born 1929) who married in 1949 and was 19 and in the H.M. Royal Naval Air Service on his M/C.
His Father Thomas Walter was a Green Grocer on the Cert
(FreeREG)