Iwas told that my maternal great-grandmother, Annie Newman (b.1871, Coleby, Lincolnshire) was one of seven sisters who grew up in a tiny two-up twodown cottage, in Coleby near Lincoln. My nan, Mabel, was Annie’s only daughter.
In 1985, I started researching my family history, starting with these seven sisters. Pretty early on, with the help of the Lincolnshire Family History Society,