Melton Ross, Wrawby, Brigg, Lincoln

day 28 Monday 14 June

Melton Ross, Wrawby, Brigg, Lincoln, then on to Wells next the Sea on the Norfolk coast

Next morning, we had to escape, as Mick was talking flat out, and was after a lift to Hull, which we could not have handled. We did have a pleasant wander around the hostel and took some photos before we left.

 
 We drove over the Humber and visited Melton Ross - the church has apparently been rebuilt – and Wrawby, where we found a Foster gravestone.  The church looked pretty old.  Our ancestor John Sergeant was born here about 1770, and is apparently buried here with his wife Jane Foster who died in 1838 at Brigg, although we did not manage to find the stone. She was born at Wrawby about 1778.

 
 

Melton Ross where John Sergeant and Jane Foster are buried. We could not find the tombstone.

Wrawby, St Mary where John Sergeant married Jane Foster in 1799 and her parents are buried.

Sacred to the Memory of SUSANNA late Wife of WILLIAM FOSTER who Departed this Life January 28th 1813 {?] Aged 67 Years Also Of WILLIAM FOSTER Who Departed this Life May 28 1818 Aged 72 years

Parents of Jane Foster, and grandparents of William Foster Sergeant, who emigrated to South Australia in 1837 with his wife and seven children.

Scawby, St Hibald

Joseph Gilderdale and Mary Goodwin were married here in 1797. Her father was a merchant in Brigg.

Their daughter Catherine married William Foster Sergeant at Wrawby in 1824.

[ we did not visit this church in 2004]

The main street of Brigg, another old market town

 We then went to Brigg and rang Ann Cherry (& Trevor).  We visited for morning tea – Sally spoke to an old Peter Sergeant (about 85 years old) who talked non stop on the phone.  It would have been nice to visit him. We enjoyed the visit to the Cherrys – then left for Lincoln. 

We thought the cathedral OK, but it made Beverley look good!  It is bigger, but not necessarily better, in my view.  It was a fair drive from there to Wells next the Sea – a funny old seaside town – ugly pommy tourists down by the waterfront, but we finally found a nice pub near the YH and enjoyed a meal and a pint in the company of a 75 year old and her daughter from Fife.  We have had no e-mail contact for about a week!