The Rev. Henry Ramsden Bramley was the Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral between 1895-1905. He never married. His sister Ann lived with him at Nettleham Hall for 17 years following the death of her husband, Rev. James Stewart. He published 'Christmas Carols, New and Old', sometime in the 1860s. By 1871, the second book came out. A third book was issued in 1878. He published Seventy carols in all.

Grace Mary Hood, “Molly “ to her family and friends was born in 1877 in Nettleham Hall, the oldest of six children. Her grandfather collected Egyptian antiquities, which at his death were sold at Sotheby’s, but it put her in contact with archaeologists, like William Flinders Petrie.

During World War II she worked on the Sutton Hoo Ship burial, after the war published a joint paper on the embroidered panels of Tutankhamun’s tomb. With the recovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls she published a paper on the Qumran textiles. Among other things, she had trained a generation of textile archaeologists before she died from leukemia in 1957.