FAMILY HISTORY APPEAL FROM FORMER BRIGG SPORTSMAN NOW LIVING DOWN-UNDER

Still well-known in the Brigg area despite emigrating to Australia many years ago, Simon Church is hoping that Brigg Blog followers may be able to assist his family history research.
The former Brigg Town Cricket Club batsman and ex-Sir John Nelthorpe School pupil is trying to find further information about his ancestor Frederick Jacklin, who appears to have worked as a goods guard on the railway at Barnetby (circa December 1903 to August 1907).
"Does anyone know where I may be able to find out more info about Frederick's time in Barnetby and perhaps where he and wife Elizabeth may have lived?" asks Simon, pictured above, who grew up in the railway village and later emigrated to the Perth area down-under.
He makes periodic return visits to the Brigg area.
By the time that Frederick, pictured below with his wife, was a goods guard in Barnetby, the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway had become the Great Central Railway.
A few years later, Barnetby really took off as North Lincolnshire's main railway junction - extra tracks being added to cope with an upsurge in traffic resulting from the port of Immingham  being opened.
If you can help Simon's research, please add a comment on this post (he's a regular reader of Brigg Blog, despite being on the other side of the world). Or message Simon Joanna Church on Facebook.