Dear Mary My name is Jan Marchant, I live in Sydney, Australia. I have just received an Email from you addressed to "Bill"! Perhaps it's something to do with the system you have of sending out the same email to all interested parties. However, I do have Sharp(e) ancestors in Lincolnshire and would like to access any information which may be helpful. My maternal great grandfather was Henry Sharpe. From a newspaper article on his elder son's Diamond Wedding (DW), in 1954, I have gleaned that Henry senior died at age 84 and his father died at age 90 in a house opposite the Fox and Hounds at Hundleby - that must have been a long while ago. Henry, my great grandfather had 3 children: a girl c. 1864 who died young from consumption; Henry Mason Sharpe c. 1869 who had the DW at age 85 but died soon after; and Herbert Allen Sharpe on 28.07.1874 who was my maternal grandfather. He died on 04.09.1954 aged 80. The grave is No 1107, O section, Canwick Road Cemetery, Lincoln. His wife, Jane Elizabeth is also in that grave (died 1937) and the ashes of my mother, Winifred Ena Brown. (My father, Harold Walter Woodrow Brown was killed in action in W.W.II and is buried in Holland.) I have my grandfather, Herbert Allen Sharp(e)'s birth and death certs. and note that the "e" was on the birth but not the death and my mother had never used the "e" to my knowledge (but, of course, she had her married name, Brown, anyway - a real beauty to research! - in Suffolk). According to the DW article, Henry senior, my great grandfather, originally came from "near Lincoln" but later moved to the Spilsby area. He was originally a gardener (as was his father) but later opened a bakery shop in High Street, Spilsby. His elder son, Henry Mason, originally a blacksmith, joined his father in the business at some point and took it over on his father's retirement, until his own retirement. He had 2 daughters, one of whom died young. The other daughter, Doris, married Norman Skinner, a potato dealer in Old Bolingbroke. When I was a child in the 1940s and also in the 1950s we visited them sometimes. They lived in Cromwell House, Old Bolingbroke, where Norman Skinner spent his whole life. I am still in contact with their son and daughter. The son still lives in Lincolnshire, the daughter is retired in France and approaching her Golden Wedding. I was bridesmaid at her wedding. She has 2 daughters (who were bridesmaids at my wedding, as their mother was to my mother, a tradition broken when we nicked off to the other side of the world). Both daughters lived recently in the Spilsby area and may still do, although both have had marital difficulties which could have induced a move, but most likely not out of Lincs. Looking back, this all looks very involved but I hope you'll be able to make some sense of it! I am also interested in Mason, my great great grandmother was Jane Elizabeth, or Elizabeth Jane, Sharpe, nee Mason. Also I have a dated tapestry worked by Charlotte Sizer in 1856 at age 13. I was told she was my great, great grandmother. I have already had 2 email replies re Sizer, one of whom has lots of them in the Spilsby area and thinks they are all related - so it's all getting very interesting. Thanks very much for your email and I hope my submission will be of some use, and that we may be able to be of service to one another. Regards Jan