Grandma's Birthday Book
Grandma's Birthday Book - 1901
Inscribed on the front page - "Florence SCALES - January 21st 1901" My grandmother received the
birthday book as a birthday present on her 14th birthday.
Born in Baldock, Hertfordshire in 1887, she moved to Wisbech with her family as a toddler; her
younger sister, Daisy, was born in Wisbech in March 1889.
My grandmother worked as a seamstress at "Dawbarns" in Wisbech [where the present day Woolworth's
store is now situated] until her marriage in 1912.
So all these names should have Wisbech connections!
January:
09 -
| J.W.E. TOMLINSON
21 -
| Florence H. SCALES 1887
22 -
| Dorothy BEALE
29 -
| Marshall DIGGLE
February:
| ..
05-
| Flora TROLLEY
10 -
| E.J. BEALE
11 -
| Frederick REEVE 1885
15 -
| J.H. JOHNSON
22 -
| Katie PALMER
24 -
| P.M. MILLER
26
| Ann BATES
28 -
| G.S[?]. HAYES Born 1879. Born again 1899
March:
| ..
07 -
| A.C. ACRED
07 -
| E.G.WILLIAMSON
18 -
| Annie TROLLEY
18 -
| Edith E. RAYNER
21 -
| Leonard C. WHITEHEAD
22 -
| Daisy SCALES 1889
24 -
| R. TROLLEY
25 -
| J.H. JOHNSON
25 -
| Rachel Ann CAWTHORN
26 -
| Barbara Jean SCALES 1945
28 -
| Herbert TRIPP[?] 1875
28 -
| D. SUTTERBY
29 -
| Charles WALTON
29 -
| Edith HUBBARD
April:
| ..
03 -
| T.[?]G. HAMILTON-BALL
05 -
| A.E. POSTLE
07 -
| John J. LONG aged 17 years
11 -
| Ellen SCALES 1847
15 -
| Ada F. WILSON or WILLOW 1887
15 -
| Susan Janet PALMER 1947
May:
| ..
01 -
| E.A. JOHNSON
08 -
| Eveline PALMER - died March 12th 1964
08 -
| John Grice SCALES 1913
08 -
| Ernest Charles SCALES 1913
09 -
| H. ROWE
11 -
| Jane HUNTER
11 -
| Edith ROPER
12 -
| Willie JOHNSON
12 -
| Hilda ALCOCK
13 -
| Ernest PALMER 1887 - died May 7th 1954
17 -
| Mary HORSELEY
19 -
| K. WARD 1880
21 -
| C. SCALES 1852
22 -
| R.S. PALMER 1923
22 -
| Harry WYE
23 -
| Chas. BATLEY
23 -
| K.W. THACKER - died Jan 20th 1904
26 -
| Graham ALLEN 1946
30 -
| Alice J. GOODMAN
June:
| ..
04 -
| F. JENNINGS
09 -
| D. [?]TILNEY
14 -
| Herbert A. [?]LYNDOE 1886
17 -
| George Bertram SCALES 1910
18 -
| Edgar E. TILLEY
18 -
| C.D. [?]GILHOM
25 -
| Louis Henry PALMER - passed away June 25th 1923
July:
| ..
02 -
| Catherine PALMER
04 -
| Edith SPEED
07 -
| W.I.BEALE 1885
08 -
| Annie JOHNSON
10 -
| J.H. SMITH
15 -
| Ada JARVIS
17 -
| S. SMALLEY
22 -
| Beatrice WALKDEN
23 -
| Ethel May MARSHALL
25 -
| F.B. BATES
27 -
| Maud TROLLEY
29 -
| Dora BLADES
August:
| ..
02 -
| C. WALING
02 -
| Ivy BLADES
12 -
| John BATES
14 -
| Rose NICHOLSON
25 -
| S. WALING
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