JonnieAugustineFravigar

I have just spoken to my mum and my mum told me it could have been a family called the Flanagans, my mum said she was italian and she also stood out the front selling ice cream so it also could be her.

Here is the link to the newspaper clipping. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=BD5ED204292BD727!603&authkey=!AIA30MTI3V7F4iM&v=3&ithint=photo%2cJPG

The lady and the man in the newspaper are indeed Francis and his wife Mary Ann. Francis was my Great great granddad, he was Fred Fravigar father. Francis was the first descendant of the Augustine Fravigar (the one that came from Genoa Italy). Francis died in 1932 and his wife Mary Ann died in 1946. My great granddad(Fred) was born in 1900 and married Elsie Haw, Elsie was the adoptive daughter of the station master at skegness train station. Selina Fravigar was Freds Sister in law i have a clipping and will share a link to it which mentions a kiosk. I will ask my granddad and see if he can she

Hi thanks for welcoming me to the thread ;-). I think the shop you are on about is maybe the shop my great grandfather had on lumley road. They use to make rock in there and holiday makers could go in and see the rock being made. Is this the shop you mean? i have some pics somewhere of the ice cream carts they use to have on skegness beach but not sure if i can put them in this thread

interesting thread, it was actually my great granddad Fred Fravigar and my grandmother that you guys are talking about. Although the family is of italian descent my great grandmother was from Boston, the family came from italy to boston in the 1840s bringing the ice cream/gelato with them and were traveling musicians before making gelato and traveling on the train to skegness and selling it on skegness beach before moving to skegness. My great granddad started a factory in skegness making rock, sweets and ice cream which stayed in the family until about 10 years ago when it was sold.