Reference
AU10/64/2
Title
Letter from Andrew Underwood to Anne Pinnington:
- Dorothy Sharpe (d.1988) was Andrew Underwood's aunt, her husband Norman, who predeceased her, was at Bedford Modern School with John Lynn Marks; at the time of her visit the Sharpes lived at Green Path, 77 Station Road, Ampthill;
- John Lynn Marks attended BMS 1910-1914 and was born 29 Jun 1899, son of William Marks, butcher, of Church Street, Ampthill, who succeeded Leonard Brightman in the business in the late 1880s;
- William Marks was a Urban District Councillor 1913-1918 when he was disqualified for some unspecified reason;
- William's children by his wife Mary Amelia were baptised at Ampthill as follows: William Lynne 1893; Mary Guildford 1895; Ellen Russell 1896; John Lynn 1899; Ellen Russell was born 15 Mar 1897 and died 19 Aug 1908 and was buried at Thornham [Norfolk]; Mary Guildford was born 12 Jan 1895 and died 3 Oct 1897, being buried in Ampthill; William Lynne was born 22 Mar 1893 and died in action 11 Apr 1918 [as a trooper in 2nd Australian Light Horse] being buried in Jerusalem;
- Dorothy Sharpe was AU's father's sister; his mother's sister Lily Grimmer remembered William Lynne Marks and was willing to provide reminiscences;
- enclosing a photograph of the butcher's shop in the Market Square, it was formerly the Market House and later a jewellers; the Marks' house collapsed in the 1970s but is shown on another enclosed photograph, it included a slaughterhouse, rebuilt by William in 1895
Date free text
17 Jun 1998
Production date
From: 1893 To: 1998
Level of description
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