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Some of us have ancestors who lived in The Rows in Gt Yarmouth. This website will give you some ideas of the conditions they lived in: Time and Tide Museum:
We know of several in tree #40:
Row 3 Boulter the Baker’s Row / Doughty’s Row: Hannah 166 in 1841 and 1851 then in Row 139 in 1861
Row 58Elephant and Castle Row: Hannah 1445 in 1881 and 1911 and with her sister Elizabeth 1443 and family in Row 138 in 1861
Row 87 George 3276 and Mary Ann Ellis in 1851
Row 124Bolters Row Hannah 113 (Sexton) with her family in 1851 before moving to Hull
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Charles attended the 1936 Olympics but not as a competitor. With the help of Adam Glass, who is very interested in the old weightlifters, we have a table showing the championships he took part in and won.
Champ ionship
Yorkshire
Northern Counties
British Amateur
Other eg Olympic 1936
1931
Middleweight: Took part
1932
Mdwt: Came 2nd
1933
Mdwt: Came 3rd
1934
11st: won 12st: won
Nov:- 11st: competed, not won
Nov: 11 st won
Oct: Right hand clean and jerk 188lb @10st 13lb. New Brit record (still not beaten)
1935
?
Jul: 12st: runner up
?
1936
Apr: 12st won, new British 12st record. Lt hvywt: lost to HC Gubby
Sep 12st: won
Dec: 12st won with 716lb (325kg)
6 Ap Yorkshire Olympic trials 638 lb(289kg). June 27: Invited to compete in London. No evidence he took part.
1937
?
?
Competed?
Competed Paris 10-12 Sept 1937: No medal
This table shows the level that Charles was competing at, both locally, at the British Amateur level and World level, an impressive achievement. The titles were judged by the total weight in three lifts, hence his lift in 1936 of 716lb (325kg).
I suspect that in the Olympic trials, HEK Laurence, who normally competed in Light-heavyweight class, was able to get his bodyweight below 12st, which would make him eligible to lift in the 12 stone middleweight class. As he was able to lift more than Charles there would be a better chance of a medal if they entered him at that class rather than at light-heavyweight class. As yet, I do not know if he competed at the selections in London. The souvenir programme information I can find only shows the heavy and light-heavyweight class, so somewhere there should be pages for featherweight, bantamweight and middleweight classes yet to be found.
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Following on from the blog post ‘Postcard to Miss A Gotts’ Barbara Adams has confirmed Lucy Gotts sent it from Bristol and has shared these photos which include Lucy and Alice. For more details click here
Alice in Cromer was the recipient, and is Lucy’s cousin
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This postcard is for sale on eBay, dated 1904. This is probably Alice Maria Gotts, daughter of Blanche Alice 1509 and Henry Robert 1504. They lived at The Meadow, West St, Cromer, who I believe was already in Bristol then. Maybe she got back home from a visit to Cromer. The author ‘L’ could be Alice’s first cousin Lucy Eliz 1503 Gotts. If you would like to bid for this then go to ebay here
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Having used the family tale in the previous post, I decided to try and identify the proper relationships between the Gottses who came North from Norfolk in tree #040, to identify two brothers and a cousin who were two miners and a sea captain.
By looking at the grandchildren of George 101 in tree #40, we can see that half of them left Norfolk.
What transpired was a micro view of the mass migration off the land from Norfolk to places where there was more work.
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In the Archives in 2012 is the mate’s ticket for Thomas 1865, born 1814. By 1837 he was the Master of ships and gained his Certificate of Competency in 1857.
By 1867 he was Captain of SS Gibraltar, bringing barley from Odessa, when in the bad seas the hold started flooding. That day the ship sank, the end of a ship originally named SS Sumter which fought in the American Civil War.
My Auntie Blanche was a great source of the tales about the family, and had told me this tale. She knew the two brothers came up to the North-East area, but did not know anyone who was the ship’s captain.
For a long time we knew that Hannah 113 wife of George 105 had moved up to Hull, but we could not place her definitively as George’s wife. The only way turned out to be to demonstrate that there were no conflicting records which would prevent her from being his wife. This was more difficult because George 105 did not move up to Hull, but everything seems to fit that Hannah 113 moved up there with her family, following her sons who had already gone there for work.
