John Baxter and Alice SHILCOCK
(née THORNTON)
John Baxter SHILCOCK was born on 14th March 1850 to Robert James and Charlotte SHILCOCK (née MANBY) in Bourne, Lincs.
He died on 14th June 1927 and was buried at Bourne cemetery on 17 Jun 1927 aged 77. Click here to read his obituary.
Alice THORNTON was born on 10th May 1853 in Alconbury, Hunts to John and Maria THORNTON (née SWIFT).
She died on 9th October 1937 and was buried at Bourne cemetery on 11 Oct 1937. aged 84 in the same grave as John.
John was 23 and a merchant clerk, and Alice was 21. Place of residence at time of marriage was Bourne for John and Witham Bank for Alice. witnesses: George Palmer & Martha Palmer John Baxter and Alice had six daughters all born in Bourne.
Alice Mary (b 1873) Married Arthur BOULTON, a physician & surgeon, in 1895 at St Geo Han Sq. In 1901 they were living in Horncastle with children (Montague) Barnard, b 1897 and Georgina May, b. 1898. By the time of JB's funeral, Barnard had a wife named Dora. 
(b 1875) Married Thomas MAYS. Parents of Raymond MAYS. Died 1973. 
(b 1877) My gt grandma married Harry DELLOW. Abandoned by 1908. Died 1950. Martha Louise (b 1880) In 1901 unmarried living in Croydon. Married John AGNEW in 1903. Died in 1924. (see the obit. below) They had 3 children, William, Barry & Alice Mary Nona- I am in contact with Alice's grandaughter Nona). Ida Maud (b 1885) Married Charles WIGGIN in 1920. Daughter Joan Morton(also Barbara?). Ethel M. (b 1887) Married Harold TWELL in 1917. Son Barry lived until 2002. Martha's obituary appeared in the Stamford Mercury on 30th May 1924.
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According to Rex Needle** who has put together an award winning web site about Bourne, John Baxter was the landlord of the Nag's Head. His family also were in business as millers and maltsters, and owned the Star Brewery which supplied many local hostelries with their ale as well as being operators of Baldock's Water Mill, formerly known as Shilcock's Mill. As reported in the Stamford Mercury 1886/1887: <<The Christmas Fat Stock Show took place on Friday 17th December 1886, in a paddock owned by Mr John Baxter Shilcock, landlord of the Nag's Head Inn and joint show secretary with Mr Thomas Hardwick.The show had the advantage of an influential list of patrons and entries were restricted to those living within ten miles of the town unless the competitor had been a regular user of the Bourne stock or cattle market, then held at a site off Hereward Street behind the Marquis of Granby public house. The entries were considerably in excess of the previous year, there being 68 beasts, 90 sheep, 10 pigs and 62 poultry, a total of 230. At the conclusion of the show, there were 160 animals for sale although prices were somewhat low, fine beasts selling from £30 to £32. Afterwards, members attended a dinner, presumably at the Nag's Head Inn because Mr Shilcock was renowned for his catering, presided over by Mr John Compton Lawrance of Dunsby, the Member of Parliament for South Lincolnshire since 1880, a constituency which at that time included Bourne, although the dinner in later years moved to the long room at the Angel Hotel and this became a show tradition until its final years, as was the singing of Who Killed Cock Robin? at the close of these convivial proceedings where on one occasion, 106 diners consumed 110 bottles of Scotch.>> 1875 Bourne PO Directory lists him as resident at the Terrace,Bourne. 1882 White's Directory lists him as: Shilcock John Baxter, (R.J. & Son); h New street. The Commercial section lists: Shilcock R.J. & Son, brewers, maltsters, corn millers, wine, spirit, corn, cake & hop merchants, North st 1919 Kelly's Directory lists him at The Nag's Head hotel, Market place, Bourne Tel: TN31 John and Alice took over the running of the Nag's Head after Maria died in 1896. John appears in Kelly's 1896 Directory as wine & spirit merchant, and at the Nag's Head Hotel,Market Place. In 1913, 1922 and 1926 Kelly's lists him at the Nag's Head. John and Alice finally retired sometime in the late 1920's. |
** I acknowledge Rex Needle here as a brilliant source on this branch of my family. In July 2012 his article about John was published in the local Bourne newspaper.
In 1881 they were living at New Street, Bourn, Lincoln By 1891 they were living at North Street, Bourn, Lincoln In 1901 and 1911 they were at the Nag's Head Hotel, Market Place, Bourn
click here to find Ida and Ethel in 1901 click here to find Fanny in 1901
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