Memories Of Granparents Harry Hill Lily Richardson

A Memory of Northampton.

My grandparents hailed from Kingsthorpe and Northampton. They came to Toronto, Ontario in 1907. Grampa ran his own business plaster ornamental mouldings. He did work all around Toronto specifically The Royal Alexandria Theatre in Toronto. I have many happy memories of my grandparents. Grampa always called me "the little nipper". His parents lived at 5 Vicarage Lane. Grampa Harry lost two brothers in WW1. He always told my mother a story of going through the cemetery late at night when he was a child (the cemetery was very close to the house) and a goat being there. He thought it was a ghost and ran like the devil! Mom and I enjoyed a visit to Kingsthorpe in 1998. His father Samuel was a plasterer. My gr-grandmother Ellen Reed was still living during the war and got to meet her nephew George Hill who was serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers. She thought he was her son George who had died in WW1 aboard the HMS Good Hope. My uncle George purchased some heavy bedsocks for her and a bottle from the local pub. She said she had never been so warm in her life!

I have since been in contact with some wonderfully helpful people from Kingsthorpe on the internet who have taken pics of the house in Kingsthorpe.
Best regards to all, Margo Clarke in Ontario, Canada