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Index of Contents
Regular Features
Page
About the Cover Pictures and Editorial
Toni Smith
Proposal for Change in Society Constitution
Mick Rawle
News from the LFRHS
Diane Merryweather
New Bookshop and Important Notice re LRFHS Library
News from the Groups
Parish Register Tit Bits
New Books Review
LRFHS Projects Update
Mick Rawle
News from the LRFHS Library
Barbara Harrison
News from the Record Office
Pat Grundy
Query Box and Query Quirks
Web Masters Report
George Smith
Forgotten Trades and Odd Names
Mick Rawle
Useful Web Sites
Computer Bits
Mike Ratcliff
Letters to the Editor
New Members
Members Interests
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32
35
36
42
43
46
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Your Articles
An Interesting Case
Corporal Ted Smout
Theatre History Enthusiasts
William Burbage – Lock Keeper
Adventures with DNA
More Odd Names
A Glimpse into Writing John Nichol’s Book
Suffocation by Drowning
The Globe Trotting Family from Knighton
Horspools in Rutland and Leicestershire and Beyond
Census Enumerator 1871 and 1881
1901 census – Some Lateral Thinking
The Story of the Grandfather Clock
Update on Australian and Chilean Relations
Gateway to Antiquity
W J Anderson
George Smith
Jim Addison
Norman O Bell
Peter Wells
Michael J Gainsford
Eric Nichols
Dick Harrison
Dianne Burks
William and Una Horspool
Ken Brockway
Mike Hutchinson
Phil Hamilton
Bull Buchanan
David A Jackson
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Mike Hutchinson
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Society Events and Family History Updates
Members Interests Update from Service Manager
Forthcoming Events including dates of Bus Trips
LRFHS Anniversary Project
IT Ends Paper Births Register
Useful Information Pages
Proposed Constitution
Jean Perry
John Stevenson
Mick Rawle
Centre Pages
G.R.O. Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes Search Service
1851 and 1881 Leicestershire Census Search Service
L.R.F.H.S. Bookstall, Postal Book Services
Publications Avalailable on Microfiche
Printed Publications
CD Publications of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Indexes
Post Supplies Order Forms and Postage and Packing Rates
Coach Trips – Booking Forms
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LRFHS Journal No. 118
December 2004
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About the Cover Picture……………..
The building is Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse Eaves. During WWII the
building was used by the services and was involved in the secret Enigma Codebreaking. It may well have been the site of the first computer! There are many
Leicester people who still remember the secrecy surrounding the project. It is
now owned by the County Council and used as a staff training centre.
Editorial – Toni Smith
My first thoughts as I write this editorial, is to apologise for the
difficulties that some members experienced in reading the last journal. It was
certainly a great disappointment to me also, as I really was looking forward to a
‘special’ edition. The proof copy was printed in black, and looked great, so the
printers thought that to print in sepia would be even better, and I went along
with that. Members who wrote or phoned me to complain, were all sent
replacements in the form of black print on white paper, courtesy of the printers.
Sadly, some complaints came anonymously, and there was nothing I could do
about those. I didn’t look upon the comments as complaints, just constructive
criticism! If we don’t try new ideas, we won’t move forward………..
I hope that you like the format of the front cover – which for the time
being, I am happy to keep. This again was an idea from Parchment Printers –
for which I am grateful. I just need a steady flow of photographs or postcards
for this purpose please!
I was delighted to receive a letter (see letters to editor) that a member
recognised one of the men in the cover picture, (Journal 117) serving in the
Leicestershire Territorials at Garandon in 1908. What a lovely surprise she had.
Jean Perry has received some lovely stories about experiences during
the wars. If you haven’t already sent in your memories, there is still time, but be
quick! The submission date has been extended to 31 March 2005 – so no
excuse now! (see page 53 for more details)
On a more personal note, I received an email referring to a remark I
had written in Journal No 116. This member asked if I could look a couple of
things up for him at the record office, for which I agreed. He then mentioned
that he lived in Malta, and this to me was heaven sent, as my son-in-law’s
family came from Malta, arriving here around 1945. Well you can guess the
rest, but you could never, in your wildest dreams, imagine the amount of
information I now have on this family. So you see kindness does pay! Thank
you Keith for all your hard work.
Finally, I upgraded my genealogy computer programme recently to
Family Tree Maker 2005. I already had the previous version, and what a
difference! Now that I am used to it, it is so easy and a delight to use. In my
opinion it was an upgrade well worth getting, although the disappointment for
me is that there is still no place for a baptism date on the family page.
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December 2004
Proposal for changes in the Constitution at the AGM
March 2005
The Society is 30 years old this year, and whilst the Executive Committee has
periodically reviewed and updated the Society Constitution, little has changed
since its conception.
Over the last 5 years, the Society has grown out of all recognition, and so a
working group was set up in August to look at the Society Constitution with the
remit of updating and bringing it in line with legislation, particularly with
regard to the Charity Commission.
The major changes that the group have put forward and which have been
unanimously agreed by the Trustees are:
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The Executive Committee (Trustees) shall consist of 10 members
minimum, instead of the original 12.
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Where appropriate, and with a unanimous decision of the Trustees,
and working within the guidelines of the Charities Commission, the
Society can give reasonable payment to Trustees for services over and
above their Trustee roll. This is specifically to allow the Society to pay
Peter Cousins to produce CD’s and to organise the postal service for
marketing our goods, as well as display our wares in his shop at 100
High Street, Leicester. These duties are over and above his post of
Chairman for the Society
The Proposed Constitution reflects these changes and although at the time of
going to press these changes have not been verified by the Charity Commission
this notice is our only opportunity of setting out our proposals to every member
of the Society before the AGM next March.
A full copy of all proposed changes can be found on pages 69-72 of this
Journal.
Please direct all comments to Mr M Rawle – Charity Commission Liaison
Officer for the LRFHS, who will pass them on to the Executive Committee or
the Charity Commission as necessary. Charity Commission authorization (or
rejection) of our proposals will be published as soon as it becomes available.
Subscriptions
As passed at a previous AGM, the membership subscription for year 2006 is to
increase, (see page 38 for details). This is largely due to the general running
cost increases, including the Journal and postage etc.
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Congratulations
I am sure that you will be as pleased as I was to hear
that our Journal was awarded second prize in the Elizabeth
Simpson award for the best journal 2003 by the Federation
of Family History Societies.
Toni spends endless hours on the journal each quarter to
ensure a very high standard, with a variety of articles and
pictures, all her hard efforts have now been rewarded.
As well as Toni, the committee thank you for all the interesting articles
that you send us, without which the journal would not be published. Keep the
articles coming, Toni is now going for gold.
Diane Merryweather
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A Very Successful Day – The LRFHS Fair, held in
conjunction with the Federation of FH Societies
Conference
It was with some trepidation that I arrived at the Fair in
Loughborough, as the tables had all been set out in the halls by the University
staff, a sort of unknown quantity. My niece and I arrived at 7.45 am to find one
exhibitor already setting up.
From that point in time the stallholders gradually arrived to set up the
tables. Only two appeared to have major problems, one where there was a
mains power fault on the wall where they were situated, and the University
electricians had to be called out, and the other was where a stallholders stand
was too tall for where they were allocated, so they were moved into the main
hall.
It also became apparent that there was not enough directional signs, as
comments were heard that people were having difficulty in finding us. Jean
Perry came to the rescue, and went home to print 21 signs, which were posted
onto appropriate lampposts around the roads leading to the University Campus.
Once the doors opened at 10.00 am a steady stream of people attended
all day. We even had a visit from newspaper reporters, who wished to take our
photographs and general pictures of the event. The photographs were published
in the Loughborough local paper and in ‘Your Family Tree’ Magazine.
The event was over all too quickly and it was time to pack up. I would
like to thank all those volunteers who helped on our stall and on the door, they
are the people who make it all run smoothly, along with all the participating
exhibitors. Will we do it again, watch this space………………………..
Diane Merryweather
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Our Bookshop Has Moved……
The Society Bookshop is still managed by
our chairman, Peter Cousins, who has
recently moved premises – but he is not far
away, having only moved to the other side
of the road. We are delighted that Peter has
made room on his new premises to continue
to display our books and CD’s. Pop in and
browse – a warm welcome awaits you at
100 High Street, Leicester LE1 5YP.
Peter Cousins showing the
Society’s display of books
and CD’s – see centre pages
for the full list - obtainable
by post or in person.
Important Notice for LRFHS Library Users
The Society has been given notice to quit the library
premises due to the expansion of the Shires Shopping Centre. The
Executive Committee have been tracking down new premises, but at
the time of going to press, have not yet found anything suitable, at
an affordable rent.
As soon as we have found premises, it will be announced at
the Group meetings, and hopefully the opening date will be
announced in the next Journal (March 2005). We will of course
open before this if we possibly can. We are all doing our very
best……………… therefore:
The Library Centre in Freeschool Lane will be permanently
closed from Thursday 23 December 2004 at 9.00 pm
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News from the Groups
Computer Group
Evington Village Hall, Church Road, Evington, Leicester
7.30pm (plenty of free car parking)
CHAIRMAN MIKE STEAD,
Forthcoming Meetings
Jan 31st
Mar 21
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Question Time – You, Your Computer & Family History
Peter Cousins and Mike Ratcliff
Family Tree Maker 2005
Mike Ratcliff
Reviews
July
Beginner's Night
Ray Broad.
As the title of the meeting was Beginner's Night we didn't know how
many members would attend. As it turned out we had virtually a full house
again, which goes to show that no matter how little or how much we know we
are always keen to learn a little more.
Ray started the evening with first of all buying a computer and the preloaded programmes you will usually get with it. He also discussed the
advantages and disadvantages of the different versions of 'Windows'.
Next came choosing a suitable Family History programme that will do
what you want it to do. A good starting point is PAF (Personal Ancestral File),
which can be bought for about £5 from the Mormon Church, or down loaded
free from the Internet.
Ray gave a brief demonstration of PAF and its uses before moving on
to "help" button and also how to customise the programme to your own
preferences. The GEDCOM file and its uses were explained followed by a brief
question and answer session.
Finally, Ray explained just some of the material that is available to
members in the LRFHS Library and Research Centre in Freeschool Lane.
Another enjoyable and interesting evening.
Brian Johnson
September
Making a Web Page
John Sim
The evening was somewhat different from the planned presentation, as
sadly the lap top computer and the projector could not be persuaded to talk to
each other! However, John managed to demonstrate the making of web pages
as we gathered around his computer. Luckily the attendance was lower than
normal, so together with questions as we went along, it was an enjoyable and
informative evening.
John demonstrated ‘Front Page’ and explained the process of
downloading the end product to the Internet Provider. It was a sharp learning
curve for us all.
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Hinckley
The Hinckley Library, Lancaster Road, Hinckley
7.00 to 9.00 pm
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
Jan 5th
Feb 2nd
Mar 2nd
BARBARA HARRISON, 114 Hinckley Road, Leic Forest East, Leics LE3 3JS
PAT CAMPTON, 88, Druid St. Hinckley, LE10 1QQ
The Fenlands
The Byrons & East Shilton
Hinckley’s Great Dividend
F Harding
David Herbert
M J Roberts
Reviews
Leicester
The Royce Institute, Crane Street, Leicester
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
7.30pm
PETER COUSINS, 13 Langton Road, Wigston, Leicester LE18 2HT
Forthcoming Meetings: Jan 12th
Feb 9th
Mar 9th
History of the Freemen of Leicester
‘What a Tangled Web We Weave’
‘They Told Me I was Adopted’
John Tolton
Mick & Joyce Billings
Carole Smith
Reviews
11 August
Military Medals
George Gamble
Once again Mr Gamble visited us with his recent additions to his large
collection of medals. This time he began his talk by showing and taking us to
the Sudan with a commemorative medal struck to honour the campaign.
A long and bloody campaign culminating in the battle of Omdurman
and the defeat of the Mad Mahdisson.
We then visited the Eastern Cape, en route to fight the Kaffirs.
Narrating the tragedy of the HMS Birkenhead, wrecked en route; taking troops
to fight in this engagement, and the medal awarded to heroes of this tragedy,
almost equal to the Titanic.
Lastly nearer home, a marine disaster off Dogger Bank, and a medal
awarded to a ship’s Master for heroism. All stirring stuff, equal to the
adventures in a ‘Boys Own’ paper.
8 Sept Skeletons in the Cupboard
Maureen Waugh
Memories from the past, recollections of mysterious telephone calls,
taking her father away from home in the dark of night haunted Maureen. Indeed
it prompted her to make her own investigations many years later.
The reason for these nocturnal visits was her grandfather ‘Tony Hay’,
as she was to find out later – the black sheep of the family.
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Careful research unearthed an Irish grandfather, who had led a
colourful and eventful life. During WWI he was interned in Berlin, meeting
Roger Casement, and subsequent involvement with him.
Sadly Tony’s later life was plagued with ill-health and possibly illfortune. He died in London, aged fifty-eight in the late 1940’s.
October 2004 Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Virginia Wright
We tip-toed through the tomb stones in Welford Road cemetery with
Mrs Wright during her talk, pausing in front of various memorials to long dead
members of the Leicester community.
A memorial to Percy Brown, died aged 18 years in the Falklands in
1837, Thomas Hardy – a notable local singer who died at Easter 1922, Mrs
Causey – a Salvationist ‘Promoted to Glory’ in 1909, Richard Ham of the
Methodist Temperance Movement - passed on in 1860.
These were just a taste of the local worthies who lie buried in Welford
Road. Many interesting tales to be discovered, of their now ‘mostly to be
forgotten’ lives and deeds during their life-time.
Very interesting but now almost forgotten by recent generations.
M Watterson
Loughborough
The Community Lounge, Burleigh Community College, Loughborough 7.30pm
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
MICHAEL HUTCHINSON, 197 Cole Lane, Borrowash, Derby DE72 3GN
MAGGIE HEGGS, 18 Tamworth Close, Shepshed, Leicester LE12 9NE
Forthcoming Meetings; Jan 14th
Feb 11th
Mar 11th
Records of Church Courts
AGM followed by Leicestershire Lives
Medical History
Dr Ann Tarver
Heather Parkinson
Dr K Feltham
Reviews
Market Harborough
The Harborough Museum, Adam and Eve Street,
Market Harborough at 7.30pm
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
JANE MOELWYN-HUGHES, 21 Launde Road, Oadby Leicester LE2 4HH
BARRY MANGER, 58 Gwendoline Drive, Countesthorpe, Leicester LE8 5SF
Jan 20th
Feb 17th
Mar 17th
Maps in Northampton Record Office
AGM followed by
Using Family Tree Maker 2005
Death and Funeral Customs
Crispin Powell
Toni Smith
Cynthia Brown
Reviews
August
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Members Evening
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December 2004
Members enjoyed an evening with Serendipity as a theme.
S. Clarke talked about aircraft wireless operator Stan Holt, who flew a
Wellington bomber in the 1940s and similar aircrew.
H. Schuttka had researched 4 men from the Countesthorpe War
Memorial starting with very little information.
L. Higgins had heard about a Family Bible, which needed a new home,
she reunited it with a relative.
M. Powell had found out about a friend of her father.
P. Medhurst had found out about his grandparents.
J. Molewyn-Hughes spoke about looking for gravestones of her
husband's family.
A varied and interesting evening.
Paul A Cockerill
September
What my mother-in-law didn’t tell me
Liz Ward
Members and guests were enthralled by the talk given by Liz Ward
about the diversity of treasures she found when she took over her late mother in
law’s home. Items ranged from old documents and chocolate tins to beautiful
shawls and numerous notebooks all dating back to the 1800’s.
Jane Moelwyn-Hughes
21 October
‘Our Vic’ A Leicestershire Soldier
Mark Gamble
The well-known speaker and Society member, Mark Gamble, gave a
talk on the results of his research about his grandmother’s brother, Vic Leonard
Foster. He was from a poor family background and joined up to be a sailor in
the Second World War.
He trained at Skegness (they used the facilities of Butlin’s Holiday
Camp) then served on HMS Royal Arthur, HMS Pembroke, HMS Trelawney,
HMS Volunteer and finally on a requisitioned Cunard liner.
He was returning from training in Anzio when he became a victim of a
U. Boat torpedo.
Mark also mentioned Vic’s brothers Bill and Eric, who were also in
service abroad.
Mark is to be congratulated on his presentation, which was superb,
with video clips from Pathe News of the time. It certainly brought the past into
life, with speeches from Hitler, Churchill and others.
P A Cockerill
Melton Mowbray
The United Reform Church, Chapel Street, Melton Mowbray
at 7.30pm
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
MICK RAWLE, 9 Witham Close, Melton Mowbray, Leicester LE13 0EA
CHERYL RAWLE, 9 Witham Close, Melton Mowbray, Leicester LE13 0EA
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Jan 6th
Feb 3rd
Mar 3rd
Genealogy on the Internet
AGM followed by ‘The Mad Hatter’
Melton Now & Then, Pt 2
Peter Cousins
Mick Rawle
Arthur Payne
Reviews
August
The incredibly heavy downpour which started Melton group summer
outing to Taylor's bell-foundry and museum in Loughborough added to the
atmosphere around the Victorian factories and workshops which make up the
bell-foundry site. Our guide, Robert, talked us through the types of bells,
materials used and their differences and then blinded most of us with science
with the physics, chemistry and musical reasons as to why some bells sounded
better than others. He then took us through to the actual workshops where
members were shown all the stages of making bells. Taylors is one of only two
bell-foundries in the country and has been in business since the late 1700's.
They make bells for several uses, not just the usual tower ringing type common
in this country. As every bell is made to order each is customised for its
purchaser, not only by sound but also inscription and design.
A fascinating visit, both for those with an interest in ringing and social
history. Many of our ancestors must have rung bells in their village churches,
some of which may well bear a legend carrying the name and date of
churchwarden, benefactor or occasion, nowadays not often seen as towers are
locked for safety reasons.
Linda Brockway.
Rutland Group
The Rutland County Museum, Oakham
at 7.30 p.m.
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
RAY BROAD, 11 Spring Lane, Wymondham, Leicestershire LE14 2AY
HILARY WALLACE, 25 Main Street, Empingham, Rutland LE15 8PR
Jan 10th
Feb 14th
Mar 14th
AGM & Family History Surgery
Oral History Interviewing
Quarter Sessions
Colin Hyde
Mark Gamble
Reviews
13 September Snapshots of School Life in the C19th
Ray Broad
Ray's talk was based on two documents discovered in the course of
researching his own family and that of his wife Maureen. One was a school log
book dating from the 1850s now in a record office and the other a register cum
notebook starting in 1816 found in the possession of a distant relation of his
wife. This was compiled by an ancestor who had been a schoolmaster, clerk to
the parish council, chairman of the roads authority and would-be pharmacist.
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This was the source of many quotes which proved both illuminating as to the
wider social conditions of the time and also highly entertaining.
Ray set the material from his two sources in the framework of the
history of education in this country starting with sponsored schools followed by
the national school movement and the Lancaster Schools of which one of the
Hitchin British Schools is an example.
11th October
Settlement & Poor Laws
Simon Pawley
Simon set out to cover the whole history of the Poor Law provisions
from their origin in the medieval period right through to abolition by social
welfare legislation in the 1930s. The related rules of settlement were accorded
the same treatment through to their end with the National Health Service Act
1946. The consequence of this latter date is that those of us born prior to 1946
had a legal place of settlement. This came as a surprise to many in the
audience. The question of where that place was requires consideration of the
eight ways in which settlement could be gained.
Contrast was drawn between what could be quite generous provision
under the poor law and the harshness of the application of the settlement rules.
John Walmsley
Previews and News from the Rutland Group
Please note that from January 2005 all meetings for the Rutland Group
will be held in the Meeting Room that is part of the Catholic Church on Station
Road, Oakham.
The meetings will start as usual at 7.30 pm and the doors will be open
from 7.00pm. There is plenty off-road parking beside the Church and Meeting
Room.
Station Road is parallel to the High Street and can be accessed from
the north end of town (near the level crossing) or from the south on Burley
Road.
10th Jan
AGM followed by Family History Surgery
This is a chance to ask the experts for help with your research.
14th Feb
Oral Family History Interviewing
Colin Hyde
The talk will look at the development of Oral History to the present day, issues
surrounding oral history, and there will be hints and tips for conducting
interviews. This talk will be ‘illustrated’ with audio extracts from the East
Midlands Oral History Archive.
14th March
Quarter Sessions
Mark Gamble
These County Courts sat four or more times a year to try certain offences or
hear appeals from the inferior petty session courts.
11th April
16 Years in Victoria’s Army or
Family History from a Skip
Ken Wheatley
This talk tells how one man’s rubbish could be a family treasure.
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December 2004
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Services Manager’s Report
Members Interests
Could I please ask any member who receives a request for help that
includes a SAE, to respond, even if there is no connection. I have had one
complaint from a member that this has not happened.
I would like to thank all those members who have renewed their
membership and have also signed the Data Protection Act provisions. We have
now had responses from over 25% of members accepting the statement.
I have been editing the listing, which appears on the web pages to
make them easier to read. In doing so I have noted that since the lists are sorted
alphabetically, it is much easier to find members with the same or similar
interests. I urge those of you who have Internet access to visit the pages at
www.lrfhs.net to check your surnames, you might find the missing relatives.
Those members who do not have Internet access can still request a postal
search. Terms are 3x 2nd class stamps (or equivalent) per surname plus s.a.e.
Due to limitations of space in the journal, only major changes and new
interest submitted via the web site will be printed in the Journal. Please do not
write to tell me that all your interests have not been printed. Those members
who have submitted interests, but not signed to accept the DPA statement,
either on the web site, or the membership form will not have their interests
published. The data is retained and can be published if you change your mind at
any time.
Mike Hutchinson – Services Manager
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An Interesting Case…………..
Recently I came across a complaint in a civil court case in June 1800
involving a lady, Margaret Blamire nee Hutchinson, as the defendant, who
lived in Cumberland, near Carlisle. As the complainants were all from Hinckley
I thought that perhaps if may be of interest to your members and so here are the
brief details:
Robert Hutchinson lived in Great Orton near Carlisle and died
intestate in 1798. His sister Margaret Blamire nee Hutchinson also living in
Carlisle area, obtained letters of administration for the deceased’s estate of at
least £2000 and distributed it, after the usual expenses, between William
Hutchinson, Edward Bayley and his wife, Richard Payne and his wife, and
Henry Sketchley and his wife, all framework knitters of Hinckley and all the
wives were Hutchinsons. The Hinckley people complained that Margaret had
not been wholly truthful about the size of the estate and complained to the
Loughborough Court in June 1800 that she be subpoenaed to attend there with
all documents to prove her case.
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I am trying, through a researcher, to see if the sequel to the complaint
can be found but meantime the names and involvement of the Hinckley men
may be of interest to someone in the Society.
My interest lies in researching the Blamire family – hence my interest
in this case.
W J Anderson, ‘Cumdivock’ 11 Poulton Green Close, Stital, Bebington,
Wirral, CH63 9FS
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Snippets
I thought the following Removal appeal found in the Quarter Session
Order Book was rather unusual.
Sarah Adkins, the wife of William Adkins a soldier in General Carr's
Regiment now serving in Germany, with Elizabeth her child aged about one
were sent by warrant dated the 13th Sept 1760 form the parish of Leicester St
Leonard's to the parish of Tugby. Tugby appealed against this order and the
court decided that the order against Sarah should be confirmed and that
the order against Elizabeth should be discharged. So the family were
completely split up. - This could hardly happen today!
I am currently compiling the Quarter Session Index and it is
surprising what interesting snippets of information can be found in there. Well
worth getting the CD when its published.
John Savage
[email protected]
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A Sad Report from the LRFHS Library
It became apparent that something was wrong recently when the library
manager noticed space in the CD storage box – when only a week or so before
the librarians were struggling to get all the discs in.
If you have borrowed any of the following, could you please return them to the
library – either in person or by post, as they were purchased for the 3,500
members at considerable cost, and we cannot afford to replace them.
Vital records
N America
Vital records ind N America
American Genealogical biographical
index
Titanic People 1912
Seamans crewlist 1851 SW Scotland,
Highland and Islands
Seamans crewlist 1851 Scotland S.E.
Seamans crewlist 1851 Renfrewshire
Seamans crewlist 1851 Lanarkshire
Robey families 1455-2002
Return of land 1873 – Leics, Lincs,
Rutland, Notts
1777 Militia list – Northants
Jardine family files
1851 census – Caister RD
1851 census – Worcestershire
1861 and 91 censuses – Market
Bosworth
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December 2004
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Corporal Ted Smout
Sent in by George Smith (Webmaster)
Corporal Ted Smout, who has died in Brisbane aged 106, was one of
the last six survivors of the 416,809 Australians in the Great War.
In September 1915, Smout lied about his age to volunteer for the
Australian Imperial Force, moved more by the pressure of young Brisbane
women handing out white feathers than by the call of King and Empire. He was
big for his age - 17 years and eight months - and conscious that most of his
mates had already gone.
Smout applied for the artillery, but found himself in the Australian
Army Medical Corps and, in 1916, in France with the 3rd sanitary section, a
27-strong specialist unit. Attached to the 15th battalion, he had to find safe
sources of drinking water, make health checks, and help with vaccinations, first
aid, stretcher-bearing and much else. It provided as grim a view of war as any.
At Passchendaele in late 1917, with the unit at rest, he was bombed
and buried in bricks, and thought his end had come. For many others, it had.
His lasting legacy of this and other experiences was a nervous condition which
was attributed to shell-shock, and which manifested itself after his return to
Australia and dogged him thereafter. In his 100th year, when he was chosen as
Brisbane's citizen of the year, he went to ground at the first shot of an artillery
salute.
He served also at Armentieres, Messines, and Ypres; on the Amiens
front and in the advance to Peronne and the Hindenburg line. But
Passchendaele, with the bomb, the mud, the great rats and all-pervading lice, he
found the worst.
When, soon after Passchendaele, Billy Hughes's Australian
government tried, and for the second time failed, to win a national plebiscite to
extend conscription to overseas service, Smout, like the majority of Australian
servicemen overseas, voted "No". He didn't want to serve with men who did not
want to volunteer.
With the Armistice, Corporal Smout drank himself silly, then cut loose
from the French village where he was stationed, and headed for Paris. There he
spent 10 days at parties and the Follies Bergere and other delights before a
British military policeman spotted him. The escapade cost him 14 days' pay. He
thought that harsh, but said later that as the paymaster of his unit he was able to
reimburse himself.
Edward David Smout was older than the Australian nation, having
been born at Brisbane in the colony of Queensland on January 5 1898, three
years before the Australian colonies federated. His father, a collector of
customs, was English.
Young Smout was a bright student, a scholarship winner, and when he
enlisted was a clerk, studying accountancy, in the state auditor-general's office.
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He found it difficult to take up civil life again after the war, and to settle his
nerves went to the Cunnamulla district, 600 miles west of Brisbane, and
familiar from is childhood, to work unpaid as a jackaroo.
In Brisbane again, he decided to go further and acquire two social
graces that he had forever found beyond him. Having always considered that
anyone who could stand up and sing socially deserved a VC, he took singing
lessons for six months. Then, having been too nervous ever to ask a strange girl
to dance, he spent six months learning to dance properly. The treatment did not
prove a complete success, but it helped.
He went on to make a valuable life and to his surprise to win official
recognition of his wartime service. He visited France in 1993 for the 75th
anniversary of the end of the Great War, and again five years later to be created
Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. In 1997 he had appeared in the BBC's 26part television documentary, People's Century, and was said to be the sole
Australian in the programme.
An accountant, Smout retired in 1962 as a senior executive in the
insurance industry. In 1974 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for
services to the community through organisations which included Meals on
Wheels, Legacy (a body caring for families of deceased servicemen and
women), the Red Cross, Rotary, and the scout and guide movements. He was a
president of the Australian Game Fishing Association.
He was a warm man, and humorous, though not about war. To the end,
he maintained his vigorous opposition to all wars, opposing the dispatch of
Australian troops to Iraq. His concern for political and social issues seemed
undiminished by age. Australia, he believed, had enough natural resources to be
a great country, but it needed to be about sharing and giving, "not about what
you can get for nothing". He warned of social dislocation and of self-interest
taking over from mateship.
Having weighed the Republican issue for a long time, he embraced it
wholeheartedly after an incident with a customs officer at Heathrow Airport
while returning from France with three other veterans, in 1998. The search
alarm sounded - touched off, they said, by their medals - and they thought it an
insult when the officer proceeded to check their persons. Thereafter he lent his
name to the republican cause, and somewhat to his amusement was made a life
member of the movement in 2002.
Smout had half-hoped to be the very last Australian survivor of the
Great War. Perhaps this would have come to pass if, before his 105th birthday,
his grandfather clock had not fallen on him while he was resetting its weights.
He was pinned for 20 minutes before he could seek help, and lost much blood.
Ted Smout died on the anniversary of his wedding, on June 22 1923,
and was given a state funeral. His wife, Ella, died in 1992, aged 91, and he is
survived by two sons and a daughter.
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Theatre History Enthusiasts
Can anyone identify this Face or Figure?
In Leicester, in an old box of family photos my mother’s younger
sister, May, had stored for many
years a battered studio portrait of
what looks to be a Victorian or
Edwardian theatrical ‘Principal Boy’.
According
to
PAYNE
family legend, two relatives from the
previous generation (pre1938) had
been ‘on the stage’. This was seldom
mentioned when I was a child
because these husband and wife
performers had finally retired to run a
public house in Leicester, much to
the disapproval of my grim
grandfather. He had also forbidden
my mother to join her aunt and uncle
in their ‘act’ when she had been very
young.
The studio portrait is
credited to Studio Karoly, 36
Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, but
there is no date and nothing more is
written on the battered cardboard.
The original photograph is in the
keeping of May’s family.
Any information, please contact:
Jim Addison, 40 Fitzwilliam Road, London SW4 0DN
[email protected]
A plea………….
Performances at Leicester Working Mens Clubs during WW2 was the
subject of an article I wrote for the Leicester Mercury a couple of years ago. On
checking at the Record Office in Wigston I discovered that only one solitary
copy of the magazine Club News was preserved there. The publication appeared
regularly for over thirty years and was packed with information. If anyone has
any copies of this magazine, Jim would be delighted if you would donate them
to the Record office, to direct to him
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William Burbage – Lock-Keeper
By Norman O Abell
On the back of this delightful old photograph
of my maternal grandfather is written:
Although 72 years of age and very feeble,
William Burbage, veteran lock-keeper at North
Bridge, Leicester, plunged fully clothed into
the deep canal on Saturday and rescued a boy
names Pilgrim from drowning.
Burbage, who has now saved 35 men, women
and children, is proud possessor of a letter of
congratulations for life saving from His
Majesty the King
William Burbage
Dated 27 April 1918, and signed
S Glendenning, 2 Lyme Road, Lester.
(I feel that the original may have been
intended as ‘copy’ for a local newspaper.)
This item suggests several lines of enquiry, which, given time, I may follow up.
Maybe fellow members may have relevant background knowledge, which
would assist meanwhile:
•
•
•
•
Was S Glendenning a reporter or photographer?
Was the item ever published, and if so, where?
Was William Burbage an employee of Leicester Corporation or of the
Grand Union Canal Company?
In those days who would have prompted, proposed or recommended
his achievements to the King?
Sadly, no trace of the King’s letter has survived the years, so I would like to
find some additional facts to support the words written on the old photograph. I
do recall my mother claiming that some of those saved had not wanted to be
saved!
Norman O Abell, 71 Crowtree Lane, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11 0QW
[email protected]
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Adventures with DNA
By Peter Wells
I have been researching my Wells ancestors for many years, tracing
my line, fairly confidently, back to Matthias Wells who was married to
Elizabeth Ward in Tur Langton, south Leicestershire on 26th October 1707.
A couple of years ago I heard that the ‘The Wells Family Research
Association’, a one-name study group, were undertaking a special DNA study
relating to the Wells surname. I was mildly interested, but knowing that my
branch of the Wells family were very static - being solidly rooted in the soil of
the Midlands – I didn’t think there would be much likelihood of finding
anything useful as most of the contributors to the study were in the USA.
However, eventually, in June this year, I decided to take part, thinking
that my results may contribute something to the overall picture, even if I got
nothing out of it myself.
Having given my family history details to the ‘WFRA’ and registered
my intention, I received from Salt Lake City, Utah (where else?) a kit
consisting of three swabs for taking a sample of cheek cells. This was very
simple and painless. The swabs were then returned by post to the laboratory in
Salt Lake City where the analysis would take place. The test is a paternal
lineage test using 26 markers on the Y-chromosome. This chromosome passes
almost unchanged from generation to generation, which means that a male will
share the same or similar Y Chromosome with all males in his paternal lineage
(father, brothers, sons). If a match is found, it can be surmised that those who
match are ‘genetic cousins’, thereby sharing a common ancestor.
Three or four weeks later I was astonished to receive an email telling
me that my DNA sample was an exact match with the American descendants of
one Richard Wells of Harbury in Warwickshire, who was born in 1618 and set
sail on the ship ‘Assurance’ from Gravesend to Virginia on 24th July 1635, at
the age of 17. My very distant ‘cousin’ is John B. Wells III of Georgia, USA,
who has documented much of the history of Richard’s descendants in the
States. We are now seeking a common Wells ancestor at least as far back as
the 16th century.
It is particularly intriguing that the aforementioned Richard Wells was
an illegitimate son of Alicia Wells, but the DNA profile shows that his father
must also have been a Wells – possibly a cousin of Alicia. I am also fascinated
to discover, from the bequest to Richard Wells from his step-father, in a will
proved in 1639, of ‘a silver spoon with crest of Welles on the handle and the
picture of his grandfather hanging in the hall.’ which suggests a prosperity and
even nobility at an earlier stage in the family’s history which was certainly lost
by the time my ancestors were living in Tur Langton!
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This discovery opens up new avenues for research as we try to close
the gap between Warwickshire in 1618 and Leicestershire in 1707. A further
interesting side-effect of the DNA information is that it shows this family line
to be of Celtic origin, rather than Roman, Saxon, Norman or later, as I would
have previously expected.
It would be of great value to the overall picture if more Wells males on
this side of the Atlantic were willing to add their genetic profile to the database.
There are one or two Wells researchers with whom I have had contact over the
years who may be able to confirm our relationship if they also were to partake
in the study. More information on the Wells DNA project can be obtained from
the Wells Family Research Association website at www.wells.org. There are
also DNA studies being undertaken by some other one-name groups.
I would be very pleased to hear from any Wells family members who
may be interested in participating in the Wells DNA Project, or who have
researched the early Wells family and may have ancestors in south
Leicestershire, or Thrussington, or Warwickshire.
Peter Wells
[email protected]
Further information
It cost £70 pounds for the test but the Wells Family Research
Association do offer subsidies to anyone who would like to participate but
cannot afford it.
The company doing the testing are Relative Genetics. They have a
website at www.relativegenetics.com
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Parish Register Tit-Bits
Here are couple of entries from the parish registers of St Andrew's,
Aylestone, found in the Leicester Record Office: The Burial Register, Temp Loan 24:
16 April 1858, Amy Waldron of Aylestone, age 101yrs 5mths.
Baptised St Mary’s, Leicester 8 Nov 1756 Amy Litchfield.
The Baptism Register, Temp Loan 3:
Richard, son of Richard & Mary Brotherton. Born May 2, 1807.
Baptised May 3. Being a private soldier in the Regiment called the Queen's
Bays and on their march through this Place was Born on the Public Highway.
Some stray! It amuses me to think that somewhere someone has
followed the family lineage back to Richard Brotherton junior and then got
completely stuck!
Dick Harrison.
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New Books Review
Tracing your Limerick Ancestors by Margaret Franklin
Limerick is a large Irish county in the province of Munster. The genealogical
sources for Limerick are diverse, ranging from the remote rural agricultural
areas to the urban population of Limerick city. This book sets out the records
available, where they can be accessed and how they can be best used in tracing
your Limerick ancestors.
Price 10.50 Euro
available from the Flyleaf Press, 4 Spencer Villas,
Glenageary, Co. Dublin, Ireland [email protected] web: www.flyleaf.ie
(A copy of this book has been given to our library and research centre)
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Sources for Irish Family History
compiled by James G Ryan
This book is a listing of books, monographs, periodical papers and articles on
specific Irish families. The references cited are mainly accounts of particular
family lines and vary from fond and emotional accounts of families and their
ancestral homes to dispassionate, well researched and fully documented family
studies and pedigrees. The aim is to put some human dimension to the barren
facts that may be obtained from the usual range of records. Examples given are
singers, dancers and romances or family arrangements. This information has
been gleaned from letters, detailed articles and books listed within.
Price 21 Euro
available from Flyleaf Press – address as previous.
(A copy of this book has been given to our library and research centre)
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Certified Insane, A Glimpse into the Past of Carlton Hayes Hospital
(Leicester)
By Peter Birkett
This book is available on CD, and gives a history of the hospital, the staff and
the patients. It demonstrated the changes, through legislation and design, of
treatment for mental disorders, from the opening of the hospital until its
66closure.
Price £5 obtainable from the author.
[email protected]
Proceeds will be given to the local mental health League of Friends
(A copy of this CD has been given to our library and research centre)
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Wigston at War
By Pamela Ward
This book contains extensive research on the names of the men listed on the
South Wigston and Wigston Magna War Memorials. The author appealed for
photographs from descendants and whilst it was not possible to acquire all of
the men's pictures, their names are all included in the appendices. Other
information relating to the men includes family connections, service records,
age, date of death and place of burial etc. Also in the appendices are the names
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of men from the war memorials at Oadby, Blaby, Cosby, Whetstone and
Countesthorpe and some limited information and photographs from Croft. The
book was written as a tribute to the men and is a useful reference for
genealogists. One gentleman from Derby found details of his grandfather's
brother, and a lady discovered a relative she knew nothing about, whilst others
have discovered unknown information about family members.
Price £12.99
ISBN 0954759109
Obtained from the author - Pamela Ward, Tel. 0116 2782156
Other outlets include:
County Record Office, Long Street, Wigston
Browsers Bookshop, 26 Allandale Road, Leicester
Tourist Information Office, Town Hall Square, Leicester
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Jennifer Hill One of the Society’s greatest treasures has had a bit of setback
recently. Jennifer Hill, our prolific transcriber of every project I can think up,
was due to go into hospital to have a knee operation in August. However, a
week or so beforehand she started to suffer from headaches that got
progressively worse.
On the Thursday before the op on the following Tuesday she was
rushed into Leicester General Hospital with a suspected stroke, but a scan
revealed that it was a brain tumour. She was transferred to Nottingham’s
Queen’s Medical Centre and instead of a replacement knee she had a bit of
brain taken away. Now don’t get carried away with the thoughts – she’d be the
first to admit it!
Her husband Ted has been a tremendous help to her, and Cheryl and I
went to see her on the Saturday after the op and she was her usual self if a little
emotional about her appearance. Since then we have delivered a bouquet of
flowers on everyone’s behalf from the Society. She is recovering steadily and
although her sight in one eye has not returned to full strength yet, she is well on
the way to a full recovery.
She came round to my house the other day and was as bright as a
button. Knowing her, she’ll be wanting the knee op as soon as she can have it
done. If you ever get to talk to her then let her tell you all about her chickens
and how she can tell if they’re alright through the colour of their poo! She has
had us in fits of laughter for ages on that one.
Best wishes and a speedy recovery to you Jennifer from all your
friends in the LRFHS.
Mick Rawle
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LRFHS Projects Update – Mick Rawle
1871 Census Index Leicestershire & Rutland
We launched this at the beginning of October and there will be packs
in the LRFHS library until its closure at Christmas. Packs will be available
from me during the closure period. Anyone outside Leicestershire, but not
outside of the UK will be able to contact me and we will post a pack to you or
arrange a pack for your collection. Unfortunately cost of postage abroad is
beyond our means. There are two different types of packs: those with
photocopies of the pages will be issued first as they come from films, and then
those that require fiche will be issued last as they require people who already
have fiche readers. You don’t require a fiche reader or a computer if you take a
pack of photocopies, so anyone can transcribe the census from these packs.
You will require a fiche reader for the packs with fiche in them.
I am aiming for project completion in about 18 months, so in about
April 2006 we should be almost there. There are approximately 270,000 names
in Leicestershire and a further 22,000 names in Rutland. There will be only one
index for the whole of Leicestershire, including the Borough of Leicester.
County Burial Index
We are continuing with this and I am receiving completed files almost
daily. We have bought more fiche recently and I have issued packs containing
those fiche. There were 215,000 names on the second CD we issued. That
figure now stands at 253,000 as we have been completing the burials up to the
last date in all the fiche in our library. I have also issued packs for people to go
to the County Records Office and get the information from their books, and
some of our transcribers have been going there and completing those tasks –
thanks very much to those people who have done that.
St Margaret’s Church Baptisms
Joan Rowbottom has now completed the inputting of the cards that were in the
boxes in the library. Unfortunately these cards are in alphabetical order by
surname – I say unfortunately because they will all have to be checked against
the originals, which are in date order. Joan and I have worked out a way to
convert the dates into an order that the computer can check, but it is a massive
task. Once they are back into date order we will have to check them before they
can be made up into a file that we can put on a CD.
Leicester Borough Burial Index
This is being checked out by Jean Kent and she is getting on well with checking
back against the original church burials.
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Welford Road Cemetery
By the time the Journal reaches members, the CD of all the burials from 1849,
when the cemetery opened, up to about 1890 will be available (see centre page
CD 44. The CD contains close to 100,000 burials and they have been
completely transcribed and thoroughly checked. There is a number of files on
the CD with the same information, but sorted into a different order. You will be
able to pick out people by surname and forename, sorted into age order.
Another file will contain all burials in date order, and a third list is sorted by
plot number, so that you can see who is buried in each grave. Pat & Malcolm
Glasse are already working on information for the next CD.
Leicester Project CD
A number of people have asked me about this, and I have been liaising with
Charleen Dunn in the USA about the next CD and she says that there has been
some delay in getting enough information transcribed so we will just have to be
patient and wait for her and her team to finish it. My guess is that it will be
towards the end of 2005, not the beginning.
More Odd Names
If you are still in the market for odd Christian names that members
have come across in searches through censuses and the BMD Indexes, may I
offer the following?
Earnest
(Ernest)
Trixen
(Teresa)
Ethel Dreda
(Ethelreda)
Fiendia
Lynal
(Lionel)
Silyrina
Sarah Chicken (both Christian
Leaher
(Leah?)
names)
Ishars
(Isaiah?)
Nathiel
(Nathaniel)
Another oddity; whilst researching my family in London, I found the
birth of one of my greatgrandfather's sisters recorded twice in the registry, thus:
Margaret Dixon Gainsford, 1856 Sep, Holborn 1b 420, then again on the next
line, Holborn 1b 422.
I don't know how common this sort of thing is. The name is, as far as
I am aware, unique. I ordered 1b 420 from Southport, but didn't think it worth
another £7 just to see what would be on 1b 422! Unfortunately Margaret Dixon
would be dead by the following year.
Michael J Gainsford.
Society Bus Trips 2005
Over the past year the Society have run the bus trips to Kew and the Family
Record Centre at a loss overall of almost £450.
The Executive Committee have therefore, made the decision to increase the
fare to £15 per person from January 2005. Providing the coaches are full, this will
only then cover the cost to the Society.
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LRFHS - Forthcoming Events
Schedule of LRFHS
Bus Trips 2005
(See your Programme Card for the FULL LIST of London Bus Trips)
Pick-up point at Holiday Inn is at the London/Airports bus stop on Narborough
Road – by the petrol station.
National Archives, Kew. Saturday 19th February
Leaves Humberstone Gate at 6.30 am, Narborough Road 6.45 am.
Family Records Centre Wednesday 30th March 2005 (FRC)
Leaves Humberstone Gate at 6.30 am and Holiday Inn at 6.45 am
Please book as usual, using the form on centre page xvi.
Make sure that you send the form to the correct person when booking
for either KEW or FRC
Leicestershire & Rutland
FHS Research Centre and Library
Barbara Harrison and Cis Taylor
^^^^^^^^^^
THE LIBRARY WILL CLOSE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE FROM 9 PM
THURSDAY 23 DECEMBER
AND RE-OPEN IN NEW PREMISES ASAP
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Recent new acquisitions include: CDs
Northampton & District Trades Directory 1916-17
Pigot’s Directory for Leicestershire & Rutland 1841
Certified Insane, A Glimpse into the Past of Carlton
Hayes Hospital (Leicester)
By Peter Birkett
Books
General Guide to the India Office
by Y. Moir.
This book was donated in memory of Pat White.
Vols. 3 & 4 of Sileby St Mary PR Transcripts
Donated by E. Wheeler.
Domesday Book in 3 Vols.
Donated by Z. Bowyer.
Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors
by M. Franklin.
Sources for Irish Family History
by J.G.Ryan.
Pigot’s Directory for Leicestershire & Rutland 1841 – facsimile copy.
We are grateful to all members and friends who donate materials to the library.
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A Glimpse into the Writing of John Nichols Book
‘The History and Antiquities of Leicestershire’
by Eric Nichols
The Author of this article writes:
I was fortunate, some years ago, in corresponding with Mrs Lucy Marshall in
New Zealand. We have common interests in the village of Sapcote. When she
heard of the Spencer letters she purchased copies from the Record office in
Lewis and had them delivered to me to read, after which I forwarded them on to
her.
From these Spencer letters I was able to find family interests etc. and also was
interested to record letters where John Nichols, the historian, I mentioned.
My research on Sapcote and my John Nichols family is continuing.
When I first traced an ancestor to Leicester I looked for a book on
Leicestershire in my local library and to my surprise found a reference to the
famous historian and antiquarian, John Nichols. Needless to say he turned out
to be not a relation of mine.
There are eight folio books in the series ‘The History and Antiquities
of the County of Leicester’, compiled and printed by and for John Nichols, Red
Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London 1792 – 1815. A wonderful help to any
genealogist searching his or her family. My research led me to the village of
Sapcote. I found in Volume 4, Part II the Sparkenhoe Hundred and the story of
Sapcote Village.
My query is ‘How was John Nichols able to write the sections
covering villages in Leicestershire?’
The village of Sapcote had previously been owned by the St John
family (Sinjun), then the Turner family and following the deaths of childless
Turners and Freevers, the Rector of Sapcote, Rev. Thomas Frewen inherited
both the Sussex and Leicestershire estates and he took the additional surname
‘Turner’. After his death, in 1791, his son Col. John Frewen Turner (JFT)
inherited these estates. Living in Cold Overton Hall, he led an active life in
Leicestershire and was benefactor of the Parish of Sapcote.
Col. John Frewen Turner (JFT) encouraged William Spencer, the son
of a framework knitter, to become the schoolmaster in Sapcote, to be Turners
Estate Agent, and was his protégé. Spencer wrote some 230 letters from 1790
to 1814 to Col John Frewen Turner. These are in the archives of East Sussex
Record Office. Amongst these letters are numbers with references to John
Nichols and the information necessary to write the article on Sapcote. An
outline of these are as follows: -
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FRE9173
12 January 1810
JFT has mentioned the publication of the Hundred of Sparkenhoe and Spencer
writed of coins found in Sapcote. (This letter is endorsed by JFT, I will write to
Nichols).
FRE9188
8 June 1810
I shall have something ready for My Nichols the Printer, by the end of next
week.
FRE9189
15 June 1810
I herewith send you an account of the Parish of Sapcote as I have hastily put
together and says he has been considerably assisted by a friend, Mr John Ward
of Hinckley. (Spencer does not send the papers)
FRE9191
3 August 1810
In a postscript Spencer writes, he has received a complementary letter from Mr
Nichols the Printer thanking him for his paper on Scraptoft and for his boys
drawings.
FRE9193
18 August 1810
Spencer says he has not sent his paper to J F Turner for Mr Nichols. There is
still enough time. Mr Nichols will not want them till September.
FRE9194
24 August 1810
Mr Ward has sent Spencer a note that Mr Nichols will be at Hinckley on 11th or
12th September. Spencer has not sent the papers as he cannot finish them to his
own mind.
FRE9195
31 August 1810
Spencer says he has at length transcribed and herewith sent my additional
papers on the Parish of Sapcote. He hopes (JFT) will correct amend or dash out
as you think proper.
‘These papers may be sent to Mr Nichols in the manner I (Spencer) pointed out
before, or if they could be returned to me another week I will deliver them into
his (JFT’s) own hands myself as I shall have the opportunity of seeing him’
FRE9198
5 November 1810
Herewith receive part of Nichols account of Sapcote, which should be returned.
Con JFT fill in the blanks in the paper John Ward has tached (attached) to it and
make any corrections. Mr Nichols didn’t intend you to see it until corrected.
FRE9199
12 November 1810
The paper and the coins arrived back in Sapcote. Minor alterations.
FRE9200
25 November 1810
Spencer has received the remainder of ‘Nichols History of Sapcote’ in 6 folio
pages, which is now at the rectory House, also his account of Sharnford.
FRE9209
7 March 1811
Spencer sends Mr Nichols finished account of Spacote as directed to do by Mr
Ward.
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William Spencer, John Ward of Hinckley and, no doubt, the Rector of Sapcote,
who Spencer does not mention, all produced information for John Nichols to
edit.
Regarding the Rector of Sapcote, James Knight Moor was inducted in 1807 and
unfortunately died 27th June 1810, there is a lengthy description of his life in
Note 8 on Page 902-903. His successor, James Eyre Hoorington was inducted
12 August 1810.
Volume 4, Part II containing the Sparkenhoe Hundred including Sapcote was
published in 1811.
Eric Nichols, 73 Windermere Crescent, Ainsdale, Southport PR8 3QT
Editor
Details of John Nichols ‘History & Antiquities of Leicester – Volumes 1 – 4,
and a compilation of the four volumes, are available on CD from our bookstall,
see CD’s numbered 25 – 29 detailed on centre page xii
Memories of the LRFHS War Graves Trip April
2004
I've run off a few copies of the video of this year's trip to the D-Day
Beaches. If any member wishes to obtain a copy I can do them at £4.99 or
£5.99 by post. The video lasts for just over an hour.
Brian Johnson
2 Gibson Close, Wigston Magna, Leicester LE18 1AP
0116 2889883
Journal Binders
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made binders. Elasticated cords enable the magazines to be easily
inserted or removed, yet also hold them firmly in place for easy
reference. Holding up to 8 copies, depending on content, with blue covers
and Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society in gold on the
spine, they make an attractive addition to any bookshelf.
Costing £5.99 each, they are available from Society Bookstalls, or post
paid from:
Kenneth Mason, 12 Wycomb Grove, Melton Mowbray, Leics. LE13 1EQ.
Please add an extra £1 each to Europe and £2 elsewhere.
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Suffocation by Drowning
by Dick Harrison
My Great Aunt Polly (Annie Mary) kissed her husband, John Burrows,
goodbye at about 6 o’clock on the morning of Wednesday 5 December 1900
and he set off to walk the three miles from their home at 10 Justice Street to
Groby Road where he was employed as a general labourer on the construction
of the new corporation cemetery. That was the last time she saw him alive. He
failed to return home that evening so the next morning she reported him
missing at Belgrave Road Police Station. In the afternoon she heard that the
body of a man had been pulled from the canal near Holden Street bridge. She
hurried down there only to have her worst fears realised; the body was that of
her husband John. The police then removed the body to Justice Street where it
was laid out in the front room.
An inquest was convened on Friday 7 December at Belgrave Road
Police Station, the coroner was Robert Harvey, described as a “Gentleman.”
The first witness was William Mott Whitehouse, a surgeon. He stated that he
had been called to the canal towpath at about 2 p.m. the previous day to see the
body, he confirmed that he was dead and had been for a day. He could find no
marks of violence and thought the cause of death was suffocation by drowning.
The next witness was Annie Mary Burrows who confirmed that the
body was that of her 26 year old husband. She said he had left home at 6 a.m.
on Wednesday the 5th he had been all right apart from a cold, he had said
nothing unusual and had kissed her and their baby son as he went out. He had
not returned home that evening and she had reported him missing the next
morning. She confirmed that he had never threatened to take his own life. She
knew he usually walked to his work along the towpath and she thought he had
fallen into the water. Her evidence ended with the simple statement: “I identify
the body.”
Next William Pratt, an Elastic Braid Hand, of Vann Street stated that
on the morning of the 5th he had heard that someone had been heard calling as
if in trouble from the direction of the canal near Holden Street bridge. The next
day, the 6th, he heard that a man named Burrows was missing and at 10.30 a.m.
he began dragging the canal near the bridge. At about 1.20 p.m. he recovered a
body and with assistance got it out of the water.
The final witness was P.C. William Bishop of Harrison Road. He
stated that at about 1.30 p.m. on the 6th he had been called to the towpath and
saw the body which he had searched but had “found no writing to throw any
light on the case.” He concluded by saying that the wife had arrived and
identified the body and he had removed the body home.
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The inquest found that “death was due to suffocation by drowning consequent
on deceased’s having accidentally fallen in the water.”
The inquest report in the Leicester Record Office, is irritatingly vague
in places, it infers that he died on his way to work but no effort was made to
confirm this, it only required someone from the cemetery to say if he had
turned up that morning. Nor was any attempt made to find out how he came to
be in the water. It was winter; did he slip on a patch of mud or ice or did the
wind blow his hat into the canal and he got into difficulties trying to retrieve it?
What a remarkable public spirited fellow William Pratt was, as far as
is known he was not a friend and his evidence suggests that he did not know the
family but he seems to have put two and two together and spent nearly three
hours dragging the canal before finding the body and calling the police.
Although the police were aware of a missing person they seem to have done
nothing until a body was found.
Family lore has it that John Burrows drowned near Holden Street
bridge and when his body was recovered his fingers were raw to the bone from
his trying to grasp the smooth brickwork under the bridge, although Dr
Whitehouse made no mention of this in his evidence. It is also said that,
following the drowning, chains were fitted to the bank walls to prevent a
recurrence.
A canal is typically four to five feet deep and the water slow moving
so a man of average height would have little difficulty standing up. However at
Holden Street it is actually the River Soar so it could be a lot deeper and
possibly fast flowing especially in bad weather. The inquest did not enquire if
John could swim but he would have been muffled up for winter and probably
wearing heavy boots.
A search of the local newspapers failed to produce either a report of
the drowning or the findings of the inquest. There was a report of a man being
run over by a horse and cart in the town centre and of a policeman’s murder in
Whitechapel London but the drowning of a mere labourer does not appear to
have been newsworthy. The papers did not publish weather forecasts at the time
but the winter weather had not been severe enough to warrant a news item so it
is not known what part, if any, the weather played in his death. There was a
short death notice in the Leicester Chronicle and Leicestershire Mercury of 15
December 1900: “Burrows: On the 6th inst., at 10, Justice St., John Burrows
aged 26 years”.
Curiously the official date of death is the date the body was recovered
even though Dr Whitehouse was of the opinion it had been in the water for a
day.
John Burrows had been working on the construction of what we now
call Gilrose cemetery but that would not open for another two years, he is
buried in a common grave in Belgrave cemetery on what is now Redhill Circle,
there is no headstone.
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Justice Street was at the Loughborough Road end of Checketts Road,
it has long since been demolished and rebuilt as Bellholme Close.
The 1901 census, taken the following March, shows 10 Justice Street
to be empty. Great Aunt Polly and her two-year-old son, George, were living
with her parents in Anstey. Neither the inquest nor the census noted that Polly
was pregnant. Her second son, called John after his father, was born in June.
Polly married William Baum in July 1910, they had a daughter,
Millicent Amy (Millie), in 1913 and emigrated to Canada the following year.
John (Jack to the family) did not like his stepfather and remained in England
with his grandparents.
Dick Harrison, 27 Park Crescent, Retford, Notts DN22 6UF
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The Globe Trotting Family from Knighton!
1901 Census
– Parish of St Mary Magdalene, 5 Scott Street, Leicester
Ellen M
Lamb wife
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born Canterbury, New Zealand
Edith M
Lamb dau
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Family Tree? Family History?
By Pat Grundy
I have just come back from holiday in Italy where I walked among the
ruins of Pompeii and imagined what life must have been like for the people
who lived there before the eruption of Vesuvius. I expect that it was pretty
difficult for many of them since much of the damage caused by the massive
earthquake seventeen years earlier had still to be repaired, but that's another
story. Not for the first time, I wondered what tales those walls could tell if they
could speak.
I have just watched the third part of the BBC's series ‘Who do you
think you are?’, and I was struck once again by the reaction of the subject as
she discovered what life had really been like for her great grandfather. All three
subjects so far have been taken aback by the reality of life as it was lived by
their ancestors. They have started out with a little information and they have
moved from a name and a date to a man and a life. It sometimes seems that it
comes as a surprise to find that this long-dead great grandfather was actually a
living person who ate and drank, worked, loved and died.
I have always believed that there is a difference between a family tree
and a family history. The former is really just a list of names and dates whilst
the latter is a picture of real people, the way they lived and worked and their
relationships to each other. One is lifeless and the other tries to bring the past to
life.
Loosely connected to this BBC series have been our Family History
Surgeries, which have taken place in and in conjunction with, libraries in the
county, in the city and in Rutland. There I have met many people at various
stages in their family history research. The reactions of these ordinary people to
their family history, their reasons for doing it, have been just the same as those
famous people on the television series. Sadly the phrase that I hear most often
is, I wish that I'd started this earlier. Too often we leave it until parents and
grandparents are dead and there's nobody left to answer the vital questions. We
all have a need to know from whence we came. Discovering who our ancestors
were and how they lived helps us to understand ourselves. Understanding the
past helps us to make sense of the present and look forward to the future.
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Query Box
Editor – Please keep entries for the Query box
to a minimum of information as the requests are
many, and this gives scope to print more of your ancestral problems.
Always quote your membership number on all correspondence. –
FREE SERVICE ONLY TO MEMBERS.
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In the 1841 census my Gt. Gt. Gt. Grandfather Green HODGKIN (10th Mar
1786 – 1st Jan 1845), was recorded as being a publican at Great Glen. I have
searched many records but cannot find the name of the pub or Inn. One of his
daughters married a Richard Norman, who was the son of William Norman the
publican of the Greyhound.
Also does anyone know where and when his son, the last Green Hodgkin
recorded, christened 5th Oct 1819 died?
Elizabeth Butler, 5 Heath Grove, Cottesmore, Nr. Oakham, Rutland LE15
7DF
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My namesake in New Zealand wonders if there are any members who are
descended from the children of Ann Goddard who was born about 1798
(died in Leicester 27 April 1843 and said to be 45 years old). She had children
Ann (in Evington), Sarah (in Oadby) and Richard between 1817 and 1819 who
called themselves either Coleman or Goddard or both, perhaps with Thomas
Coleman. Thomas born in 1820 was baptised at Evington as the son of
"Thomas Coleman and Ann Goddard".. Then she had William Henry born
1831, John George born 1832, Arthur born 1833, Charles born 1834, Harriet
Ann born 1836 and Hannah born 1837 all who were surnamed Goddard and
were christened in Leicester St George. William Henry Goddard, who worked
as a carpenter, went to New Zealand and there married Emma Hobbs Burt from
Reading, England. He died in 1874 leaving five young children whose
descendants live in NZ and were too young to have asked about his mother! We
have large family trees of Goddards of Evington and Houghton on the Hill but
cannot yet fit Ann Goddard into them. Any information gratefully received.
Julie Goddard member B0392
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I am researching the SHAW family of Long Whatton, Leicestershire.
Thomas SHAW, Cotton Stocking Frame Work Knitter, m. ? Jemima HALL.
Children baptised LW: James Tideswell 1836, George Thomas 1838, William
1838.
James Tideswell SHAW m Ann KENELLY on 30 Nov 1856 at St Andrews
Church, Prestwold, Leicestershire.
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Children were baptised at Long Whatton:
William 1858, Thomas 1859, Elizabeth 1860, Mary 1863, at which time the
family, who had been living in Long Whatton Square, emigrated to live in
Rangiora, New Zealand and had the following children: George 1864, Bertha 1865, Annie 1866, James 1867.
I have more on the NZ family but would welcome contact with others
interested in this family.
Merril Bourne, 80 Haycock Ave, Mt Roskill, Auckland 1004, New Zealand
[email protected]
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The old photograph below was in poor condition, and has been scanned and
restored. It is labelled on the back “Anstey Home Service 1914 – 1918”. My
Grandfather is on the right of the back row in civvies.
Neither Leicestershire Records Office or The Imperial War Museum have been
able to throw any light upon this organisation. I wonder if any members of the
LRFHS can suggest what building is shown in the background, perhaps suggest
names for any of the dignitaries taking centre place in the photograph and
maybe give information about the Home Service.
Michael Roe
[email protected]
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Desperately seeking James COMPTON, my great grandfather. His father was
James, a carpenter. James's 2nd wife was Emma GREASLEY and they married
in Burton, 1876. The certificate states he was a labourer, aged 28 and widower.
He died aged 33 in Hanbury 1880. Cousin Thomas DUNN registered his death.
James was probably born abt. 1847 but unable to find a match. No census
sightings on 1851 nor 1861.
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And who was his first wife? Were there any children of the 1st marriage?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Mrs Suzie Woodward, Vestlaybanks, Burray, Orkney KW17 2SX
[email protected]
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I received today the September journal and while I was reading through it I
came across the section Odd Names of which one which one of them rung a
bell.
The name MARINTHA ALTHERA BLAND is actually my 2nd greatgrandaunt. Her parents were THOMAS BLAND born March 26 of Empingham
and LOIS LEWIS EVERTON born March 8 1834 in Walcott, Leicester.
Thomas and Lois were married on September 17, 1855 in the register office,
Oakham.
I was excited to see Marintha's name in the journal but can you or someone else
tell me where the name may have come from and what do they mean. Someone
in my family said it may be of Jewish origin but I am not so sure.
Karen Short
[email protected]
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I am trying to locate any descendants of RONALD RUCK married to GWEN
BAYLISS (born 1919 died 1998) They were married 11.1.1947. Their three
children were Suzanne, Andrew and another girl. At one time they lived at 4
Silverdale Drive, Humberstone Lane, Thurmaston, Leicester.
Gwen had two sisters ETHEL and ADA. I should be pleased to hear of any
information of this family.
Mary Powell, Flat 4 Birkdale Court, 189 Evington Lane, Leicester
LE5 6DJ
Tel 0116 2208737
[email protected]
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If there are any descendants of DAVID BELL and ANNIE OLDERSHAW
(married Leicester, 4th June 1900) amongst the current LRFHS members, I
would be interested to hear from them. I believe there may be a ‘hidden’ family
connection through Annie Oldershaw.
Paul Crooks, 52 Ladys Close, Watford, Herts WD18 0WA
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Leicestershire Calligraphers
On Saturday 19th February 2005, 2.30 - 4.30 we will be meeting at
the Record Office, Long Street, Wigston Magna, for a talk by Margaret
Bonney on Medieval Writing, illustrated with material from the archives. A
small number of places are still available. For more information contact
Judith Walmsley on 0116 276 4409.
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Query Quirks
Hello sir,
• Can you please give me at once my pedigree!
o I have not replied!
• Found you on this site, sorry don’t know anything about this, think it
could be military…………….
o This from a link on the main web site.
• Members Interests:
Please let me have contact details………..
o What all 20,000 plus a full membership list?…………….
• And finally a family tree supplied some years ago by a seasoned
researcher (now deceased), which had three generations in the middle,
connecting well researched trees which had the statement “these have
yet to be confirmed”
o I bet we could all draw trees like that.
Mike Hutchinson
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Web Masters Report
George Smith
Winter 2004
Here we are again, Winter! The years go by so quickly and it will be
nearly Christmas by the time you read this. I continue to be very happy with the
progress of this page and the appreciation of the readers by the opinions
expressed on the Guest Book.
I continue to add to the “Useful Genealogy Sites “ page and this seems
very popular with over 79,000 hits. Please keep me informed of any snippets of
news you may feel could be included on the page. And don’t forget, those of
you who have not done so and would like to be included in the “Members’ Email Directory” send me an E-mail, not forgetting to include your Membership
Number, and anyone already listed who changes their E-mail Address to let me
know.
Happy Yuletide to you all
George Smith
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Willing to Pass It On
I have some documents that may be of interest to a member. They are
settlement & removal orders for William Jacques & his wife Elizabeth, from
Odstone to Shackerstone.
I will gladly send on as I came across them by mistake when searching
for info on my William & Elizabeth from Shepshed.
Mrs. Joanne D Byrne, [email protected]
98 Glenhills Boulevard, Eyres Monsell, Leicester LE2 8UD
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Forgotten Trades - by Mick Rawle
I don’t know why, but I seem to have picked trades with a marine connection
this time.
Lair Man
Not very obvious this one – he was the man who looked after
cattle overnight in the pens by the wharves, presumably
before they were ‘shipped’ to market.
Legger
Before the use of engines, he was the man who laid on his
back on top of canal barges and ‘legged’ the barges through
the tunnels by walking along the tunnel roof.
Loblolly Boy
This is an old nautical term for the surgeon’s assistant on
board sailing ships. Are there any sailors out there who know
where this term comes from?
Lumper
Easy this one – a man who made lumps! But lumps of what I
hear you ask? Well, in olden days they used to make lumps
of fine-grained salt, so the man who made them was the
lumper.
Another job with the same name was a dock labourer employed by the Master
Lumper to discharge cargos of timber at the dockside.
I love the sound of a ‘Master Lumper’ and can just imagine him at the dockside
shouting at all the ‘Lumpers’ to “get a move on there!” You’ve just got to smile
at some of this Family History lark – has anyone got a ‘Lumper’ or better still a
‘Master Lumper’ in their family?
Lurryman
He worked in textile printing factories and was the colour
carrier. His job was to carry or transport the colours from the
Colour Shop to the Print Room. I suppose that in some
factories he may have needed a cart, I wonder if that was
called a ‘Lurry?’
Odd Names
I only have a couple for you this time because we have finished going through
the Censuses for the time being. Both these have been given to me by friends :
On the 1891 Census Transcription for Gosberton, Lincolnshire :
Plethimirn Leverton born in Surfleet.
I checked the 1881 Census (LDS CD) and it said his name was ‘Wetherims
Leverton’. I have the 1861 Census pages on CD, but can’t find him on those in
either Gosberton or Surfleet, so – “what is his name?” One of you will know
I’m sure.
And here is one to chuckle over – from the Kent Family History Society
Journal June 2004: From a reference in the year 1768.
Forename ‘Carr’; Surname ‘Horn’; making – Carr Horn!
If anyone has any odd names they want me to publish in the next
Journal then please send them to me as I don’t have any more at the moment.
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Some of the Horspools in Rutland, Leicestershire and
beyond
By William & Una Horspool
Our quest for Horspools began many years ago with the fond thought
that with such an unusual name tracking them down would be a simple task.
However, as everyone who has indulged in family history research knows, this
premise is somewhat of a joke.
You always start with the notion that your family has been there,
wherever that may be, forever. That idea was rapidly dispelled and we soon
found that our branch of the Horspools were wanderers, indeed they were
originally itinerant shepherds. That makes life far from easy, as our tale will
outline, since searching involves going to the source of the data wherever that
may be.
Our story starts in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire with a great-grandfather John
(born 31st May 1840) in Burrough-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire. John had
moved from his place of birth to Polmont near Falkirk around 1860
(presumably by train) where he married (15th November 1867) Agnes Borland
(1835-1898) from Tarbolton in Ayrshire. They ultimately moved to Ayrshire
around 1881 by which time John was a spirit merchant and became a publican
in Kilmarnock by 1891. His family consisted of Agnes (1869-1884), George
Borland (1871-1905) and Mary Ann (1875-1924 unmarried). George Borland
Horspool married (29th Jul 1897) Margaret Beattie (1874-1954) and had three
children, Elizabeth (1898 lived for two weeks), Elizabeth Robertson (19011941) and John (1903-1959) my father. John married (14th Aug 1931) Isabella
(1909-1977) and had two children George (1932) and William (1936). Both
George and William married (Charlotte and Una, respectively) and each has
two children (John & Margaret and Linda and Andrew, respectively) and
grandchildren born in recent times.
That said, the Burrough-on-the-Hill link was investigated and there we
found John’s family. His father George (1792-1878) married Ann Goodacre
(1801-1868) in Ab Kettleby cum Holwell in 1820. They had five children that
we can trace Mary (born 1822 in Oakham), Ann (born 1835 in Pilsgate died in
London 1896), George (1838-1869 born and lived in Burrough), John (my
great-grandfather) and Betsy (1844-1852 unmarried). There is a large gap
between the births of Mary and Ann but so far we have been unable to plug
this. By the time the son George comes along father George is the Innkeeper of
the Stag and Hounds in Burrough-on-the-Hill where he stayed until his death.
Ann married twice to Thomas Iliffe (no children) and then to John Linthwaite
(four children). George the son married Ann Aldwinckle but had no children.
The backward trail then took us to Oakham where George (1792) was
born. His parents are John Horspool (1747-1803) from Laxton and Elizabeth
Scotney (1755-??) from Wakerley in Northamptonshire where they married on
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12th December 1772. John Horspool was a shepherd who obviously moved to
where the work was. They had five children in all including George (1792).
These children are Frances (1780-??), Elizabeth (1781-??), William (17851863), Mary (1790-??) and of course George. The first four are born in
Northamptonshire. We do not know the death dates of Frances, Elizabeth and
Mary. We believe Frances and Elizabeth married but to whom is another
unanswered question. Mary married (1822 in London) Joseph Robinson and
lived in Melton Mowbray. William (1785) settled in Billesdon, Leicestershire
with his wife Ann. They had several children. From a distance we have found
the Billesdon records a trifle complex at the start of the 19th century and this has
led to some confusion. Were there two William and Anns begetting children at
that time? The children of our William and Ann could be Ann (may be two),
John, Jane, George, Robert, Frances and Hannah. We are certain of John (1818
marries Hannah Isitt in 1845), Jane (1821), George (1823), Robert (1828-1885)
and Frances (1831 who married Thomas Bent in 1849). Robert spent 25 year in
the Royal Artillery and married Eliza (from Scotland). Robert and Eliza (18251894) were Master and Matron of the workhouse in Billesdon from 1872 until
their deaths.
That is as far as we have got in our search. With a leap of faith we
could presume that the father of John from Laxton was also John but after that
the trail goes cold. We keep hoping for the key to it all or even for someone
else who is searching this Horspool group. So far we have been unlucky.
As a footnote: Spending our annual vacation in libraries and family
history centres can become tedious. When that happens you simply go along
the shelves and take out books and look at the indexes. This happened two or
three years ago in The Nottinghamshire Library. We pulled out a large tome
called the Thurgarton Cartulary.1 Looking up the index we were amazed to find
Horspools mentioned there. The earliest mentioned is an Adam of Horsepoole
witnessing a deed in 1172. Does anyone know if Horsepool Grange in Staunton
and the associated Abbey had earlier members of the clan or does the Horspool
name start in Nottinghamshire rather than Leicestershire?
We would be very interested to know about any of the foregoing that
might help to take us back to the beginning.
1.
The Thurgarton Cartulary, Trevor Foulds, Published by Thomas
Watkins Stamford, 1994. ISBN 1 871615 3 13
William & Una Horspool, Waulkmill, Liff, Dundee DD2 5LR
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Census Enumerator 1871 and 1881
Ken Brockway
George Bird was born on the 17th of May 1849 and lived at Corby
Glen, south of Grantham, in Lincolnshire. He left school in June 1862 at 13
having come second in the second class. He joined his father in the family
Wheelwright business and did painting and sign writing for the carts that were
repaired and made. George was a regular at church and chapel and appears to
have been a methodical young man as he kept a diary, which makes many
references to financial issues of the business.
In 1871 he acted as a census enumerator.
Wednesday 15th March 1871
I went down to Mr Willerton's at night for the Census papers and instructions.
Thursday 30th March 1871
I went to Swayfield and Counthorpe to deliver the Census Schedules, quite
enjoyed the job, was pretty well tired when I got home. A beautiful day.
Monday 3rd April 1871
I started this morning to collect up the Census Schedules. I had a great many to
fill in myself, didn't get home while 8 was very much amused at the different
questions asked about it at the poor peoples houses. Weather fine up to 5 when
it rained which made it very bad coming home
Tuesday 4th April 1871
I copied the Schedules into the Enumeration Book a good bit of writing, took
me all day.
Wednesday 21st June 1871
Mr Willerton sent for me down and paid me for the Enumeration job 26/-.
(Mr Willerton ran the principle shop in Corby, grocer, draper, Postmaster and
Registrar of Births and Deaths.)
And again in 1881,
Tuesday 29th March 1881
Delivering Census Schedules after tea.
Wednesday 30th March 1881
Working on cabinet while tea time, when I went up to Birkholme. Finished the
delivery of Schedules. Weather cold.
Monday 4th April 1881
Collecting the Census Schedules began at 6 in the morning, at it while 8 at
night, not quite done. Weather bitter cold.
Tuesday 5th April 1881
Finished collecting this morning. was writing rest part.
Wednesday 6th April 1881
Was writing all day
Ken Brockway
[email protected]
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1901 Census – Some Lateral Thinking
Mike Hutchinson
Once the shambles of the 1901 census had been sorted out, I decided
to start finding my various family members, especially my maternal
grandfather’s family. They had split up when the boys went to be educated by
the Army, and then signed on in the 1880’s. There were four boys and a girl,
the two eldest born at Lydd in Kent and the remainder in Northampton. I knew
where the three eldest boys were, but thought I might be able to find the
youngest, together with the sister and perhaps their mother.
Finding the boy turned out to be easy, there is only one Claude
Marlow, the interesting thing was that he was a Fairground Stationary Engine
Driver and was at Aberporth for the Fair, which was on the First Monday in
April.
The mother and sister turned out to be more of a problem. Entering the
name Margaret Marlow and the age of 57 gave no results, using the wild card
M* was not permitted, so I tried entering just her surname, age and sex. This
gave me the result I wanted. Recorded as M. Marlow and was working as a sick
nurse in Exeter for an Irish brother and sister. This showed up another part of
the family jigsaw, because the address given also appeared on my
Grandfather’s army papers as an address after he had been discharged. At last I
knew that the family had kept some sort of contact, and that grandfather and his
new bride had gone to his mother, prior to taking up a post at The Royal Citadel
in Plymouth.
The sister proved more difficult, she was baptised Sarah Ann, but
again nobody called either Sarah or Ann Marlow appeared. Using the lateral
thinking I had employed with her mother I entered Marlow, female age 32 born
Kent, low and behold there she was, recorded as Annie Marlow, unmarried and
working as a Domestic Cook in Southampton.
So there we have it, by employing a bit of lateral thinking, and
entering the minimum amount of details I had found everybody.
You may ask where were the three other boys, the eldest had died in
India, my grandfather was serving in the Royal Artillery in India, and his other
brother in Ceylon, also with the Royal Artillery.
Mike Hutchinson
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Census 1861
By Philip Kitchen
The lot of a Census Enumerator has never been easy, as illustrated by
this extract from the 1861 Census for East Leicester, ED No. 58 / Ward No. 4
“Comprising Abbey Street, Green Street, Lower Green Street / and all
the Courts or Yards in the said District.
This District being chiefly composed of the lower order of Prisks such
as Lodginghouse keepers, Pedlers, Rag collectors, Chip sellers, Bone collectors,
Hawkers of small wares, Beggars, etc. I found it difficult to get at the proper
description of some of the parties. T. B. Christian”
[The OED defines “Prisk” as ‘adjective; Scottish; Obscure, rare, from
the Latin ‘prisc-us’ = old (ancient), primitive, old-fashioned.]
Question:
In this context, does anyone know what a ‘Chip seller’ was
up to in 1861?
Philip Kitchen
[email protected]
From An Article in The Observer dated 24 October
2004
200 Years of the Census
The first census in 1801 was run by vicars and asked just six
questions. The 2001 census asked 40 questions and was the first to be put on
line.
In 1931 the population was 44.5 million; average male unemployment
was 13.3%; and 68.4 out of 1,000 babies died before the age of one. The 2001
census recorded 57.1 million people; 6.2% male unemployment; and infant
mortality of 5.1 in 1,000
In 1951 more than one in 5,000 households still didn’t have its own
indoor loo. It is now less than 1%.
In 1931 there were 1,800 local government districts in England and
Wales; now there are 376
It took 10 years and £1.5m to create the website – including 10 million
census statistics and computerising up to 17,000 parish boundaries.
Welford Road Cemetery (Leicester) Burials CD
Now Available - Covering dates from 1849 to 1890
See details of the CD (No. 44) in the Centre Pages
A ‘Must’ for Christmas!
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Useful Web Sites
This is worth a look if you have ancestors in Australia who may have
been in WWII. I did find a relative. I was surprised in that he had joined the
Australian Army at the ripe old age of 49 years. He was discharged at the age
of 55 years. I had no idea that he had been in the services.
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/
Mark Gamble gave a superb presentation to the Market Harborough
Group at the October meeting, entitled ‘Our Vic’ – an ancestor who was in the
Navy during WWII. Marks presentation included many clips of movie from the
war – which are free to download from:
http://www.britishpathe.com/
Editor: - I have visited this site, and there are thousands of Pathe News Clips to
see, which could make your family history really come to life. You know you
can ad video clips to your scrap books in Family Tree Maker.
I was excited when I read about this site in the Observer telling me
that the launch was on Tuesday 26th October 2004
www.visionofbritain.org.uk
For a web site giving a searchable database of places, by postcode or
name of place.
But oh dear, another underestimation from the government-run web
managers: The public launch of the ‘Vision of Britain’
web site has been very successful!
Unfortunately, this meant that as soon as we launched on October 26th
we got many more requests for information than this database-driven site was
designed and tested for. We based our testing on the numbers of people who
visit the government's Neighbourhood Statistics site, which is a good place to
look for modern data on your locality.
We are working hard to increase the number of visitors we can serve while still providing each of them with historical information on the particular
towns and villages they are interested in - and will be back in business as soon
as possible.
http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
Makes us wonder about the next census!
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Computer Bits
by Mike Ratcliff
[email protected]
1837 Online and FreeBMD
Visiting www.1837online.com could prove expensive if you were
looking for a common surname as the pages were catalogued, like the original
BMD records, by the first three letters of the surname. The good news is that
the entire collection has been re-indexed by both the full surname and given
names. In the past searching for John Smith in a given quarter could produce a
dozen or more pages with ‘SMI’ as the initial letters, and with a charge being
made for each page viewed, the costs soon escalated. With the new index I
looked for John Smith born in the first quarter of 1860 and found there were
only two pages I needed to view. With each page costing 10p to download there
are considerable savings to be made with the new system.
In its early years the quarterly indexes were handwritten after all the
records from around the country had been arranged in alphabetical order. This
monumental task may explain why the quality of the scribes’ writing
occasionally falls to the point where it’s hard to decipher. Some of 1837
Online’s scans of the original records are poor and these are marked as being
free to view. If you find any unreadable scans they’ve missed click the Report
Image fault button.
Free records are to be found at www.freebmd.org.uk covering 1837
to 1910, but this is an on-going project with the transcriptions provided by
volunteers. Coverage varies greatly across the years with marriage records from
1866 to 1903 achieving almost 100%, while 1861-65 lingers frustratingly just
above zero. If you want to check the availability for a particular year click
Information on the home page and then Coverage Charts under Statistics.
One advantage of FreeBMD over 1837Online is the ability to narrow
the search for an unknown spouse to one of two names. When you find one
partner to the marriage their name is followed by the district, volume and page
number - click on the page number and the other names on that page are
displayed. With only two marriages to a page you now have only two possible
spouses to pursue. The format of the records did change sometime in the
twentieth century as I found when I was searching for a 1940’s marriage on
1837Online. By that time the full name of the person was recorded followed by
the surname of the spouse, which saved me checking several possible entries.
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FreeBMD has become a victim of its own success and at times the
servers struggle to cope with the demand. In the first half of 2002 the site was
coping with 1.2 million searches per month, but this has now trebled to 3.6
million. The good news is more servers are being installed and by the time you
read this they should be online and speeding up your searches.
...and while we’re on the subject
The first time I used FreeBMD the search results failed to appear and
instead was a polite message along the lines of “We’d like to send you the
results, but your firewall is stopping us”. Fortunately there was a link to the
website of Symantec, who produce Norton Internet Security, explaining the
small change to the settings that was required. Everything worked fine for a few
weeks until I followed a link to FreeBMD on a family history website and the
firewall message reappeared. I checked my settings, but still couldn’t get the
results of my search. After a bit of thought it dawned on me that the website is
also available on http://freebmd.rootsweb.com and that was where the link
had taken me. The changes to the firewall only apply to a specific website
address, so when I used a different one the program refused to play ball.
Boxed Sets
We’ve recently seen the release of the much-improved Family Tree
Maker – now called 2005. Details of the program were always hidden away in
Ancestry.com’s website, but under the new owners, MyFamily.com, a
dedicated site has appeared at the logically named www.familytreemaker.com
Apart from the single-disc version they’ve also produced boxed sets that
include lots of family history records. These had a bad reputation a few years as
the contents were mostly American and had little relevance to British users.
Two sets are available with entirely British content: the 6-CD Deluxe UK
Edition and the 12-CD UK Collectors Edition. Take a look at
www.twrcomputing.co.uk for full details of the records that are included. If
you’d like to learn more about the new-look FTM I’ll be talking about it and
demonstrating its capabilities at the Computer Group meeting on 21st March.
A program to rival FTM is RootsMagic and this too is now available
with a collection of British records. The UK Platinum Edition comes on seven
CDs with vouchers to save £5 on each of fifty census CD sets and a £5 trial of
the records at www.BMDIndex.co.uk I particularly enjoyed the
Bartholomew’s 1898 atlas and gazetteer of England and Wales, which also
comes with the Standard Edition and costs £15 less than the full set. Details of
the program are to be found at www.rootsmagic.com and the UK editions are
on S&N Genealogy’s website www.genealogysupplies.com
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Family Historian
In case you missed it, Family Historian has now moved on to version
2.3 with the release of its latest, free upgrade. Numerous features have been
added to make it easier to use, including better support for sources, a unique
copy-and-paste feature and fully indexed PDF manual. Narrative reports, which
link facts with standard phrases to form a readable story, were requested by
many users and have now been added. Don’t look for the latest version in the
shops as incremental upgrades are rarely released through the retail chain.
Simply buy any version and download the single upgrade from
www.family-historian.co.uk to have all the latest features.
Genes Connected and Reunited
Back in issue 114 of this journal I mentioned Genes Connected, the
sister site to Friends Reunited, and said I wanted to spend more time exploring
it. Since then it’s changed its name to Genes Reunited, which was a great help
to me, as I could never remember whether the genes were united, reconnected
or whatever. Also the number of names on the site has risen from eight million
to over nineteen million.
The idea is that you put your tree on the site and it searches for
possible links to others and reports back to you. An alternative is to use the
search facility to enter details of one of your ancestors and see if there are any
matches. The only problem with the site is that the matches must have the
exactly the same spelling as each other. Many sites use the Soundex system that
recognises other names that sound similar even though the spelling is different.
With a name like Ratcliff it can be a problem as over the years it has been
recorded as Radcliffe, Ratcliffe and Radcliff.
One name that did result in a match was Annie Causebrook. She had
been born in Wappenham, Northants in 1857 and it seemed very unlikely that
two had been born in a small village in the same year. If I’d been looking for
Ann Smith in London it would have been a different story. So I paid the £7.50
that entitles me to contact any members of the site for the next twelve months
and sent a message to the person who had posted the information. All the
messages are relayed through the website so the identities of both the sender
and recipient are withheld. Since then we’ve exchanged email addresses and
I’m now in regular contact with my grandfather’s sister’s grandson – I’ll have
to check what that is on my relationship calculator.
Any comments or queries? Please feel free to contact me.
Mike Ratcliff [email protected]
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Your Letters
The Executive Committee Members are happy to receive
letters from any member, whether delivering a brickbat or bouquet, and these
will be dealt with according to content. However, we cannot give credence to,
or print material that is received anonymously. Any member who wishes to
contact the Chairman or any other committee member in total confidence
may do so
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Dear Toni
I was sorry to hear that Tom Shaw is in poor health. Both he and
Margaret have been magnificent servants to the Society and I would like to add
my thanks to everyone else's, and to wish them all the best for the future.
Best wishes
Kate Thompson (The President of our Society)
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What a lovely surprise to find the 30th Anniversary Issue journal
waiting on my return from holiday. What an even greater surprise to find my
great uncle looking out at me. He is the young lad (aged 17), without a hat or
cap, walking behind the two officers conferring in the foreground. He was
Charles Edgar WILLIAMS, known as "Eddie", born 20 June 1891 in Highcross
Street, Leicester to George and Sarah (nee MEASURES) WILLIAMS. The
family moved to Great Bowden sometime between 1893 and 1895, where they
settled permanently. Eddie had an older brother, Ernest George, "Ernie", born
21 June 1887, who was also in the Territorial Army. They both served during
WWI and both survived the war. I have not been able to locate Ernie on the
cover photograph but do have other photographs of their Territorial and War
service.
Ernie and Eddie's sister, Elsie Annie WILLIAMS, born 14 October
1895 in Great Bowden, was my maternal grandmother. Her experience of
having two older brothers fighting in WWI was repeated in the next generation
by my mother, whose two older brothers both fought and survived WW II.
Do you have any further details about this photograph that you are
able to pass on?
Liz Harris
Editor
I am sorry Liz, but I do not have any more details about this photograph. I am
delighted that you found it of interest.
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I have enjoyed reading your 30th Anniversary Journal despite the
brown on brown print!
But….your “delightful” photograph on the cover depressed me as soon
as I pulled it out of the envelope.
I never saw such a group of FED UP people as those soldiers! There’s
no flicker of any other emotion in sight. They all look as though they’ve given
up hope of ever getting their meal – and what will it be when it arrives? I dread
to think. I think the men queuing are the chaps detailed off to carry the cans of
stew and spuds – or whatever – back to their waiting mates (note the absence of
eating utensils amongst the queuing men. The said men will be fretting in their
bell tents, wondering where the blazes the fetchers have got to.
Depressing indeed – of course by the time it’s dished up it’ll be luke
warm at best. Joys of soldering.
Please can we have a cheerful cover next time? Interesting, I would
allow, but delightful? – Oh dear………
Thanks for your Journals – you cannot know how much I enjoy getting
them.
Mr Jim Colver, Willow Springs, Laverton, Ripon HG4 3SX
Editor
Just goes to show that we cant please everyone all the time………….
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I joined the LRFHS earlier this year (membership number W0674) and
find the journal very interesting. I am sure that many members, like myself,
have their own web pages about their family history research. I think it would
be useful to publish a list of member's web sites in the journal and wondered if
you would consider including such a list as part of the member's interests
section? I feel this would be of general interest to other members as well as
providing another source of research for people with similar surname interests.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
Regards,
Carl White
Editor Sounds a good idea to me. Any member who would like their web site
address publishing, please send it to me at the email address in the front of this
Journal and I will list them in the next Journal. A good idea would be to add a
little about the content (just one short sentence will be great).
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The following email was sent to Diane Merryweather – our Vice Chairman
Dear Diane,
I did not see you at the end of the fair on Sunday to thank you and all
those involved for organising the fair. It appeared to run very smoothly
and every one seemed pleased. I hope the conference ran as smoothly and was
successful. Certainly, those I spoke to appeared to be enjoying it. I would
like to express my appreciation for the hard work that you must have put in to
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make it a success and would be grateful if you would pass my thanks on to
all those concerned in organising it.
From my point of view it was very successful and I made a lot of new
contacts. Once things got started we were constantly busy until just before it
closed.
I would normally have written a letter, but time is catching up, as I have to
repair the stock for the next fair at Llandudno on Saturday.
Once again, many thanks to you and the others involved in organising
the event and making it a successful day.
Chris E Makepeace
Editor: The Executive Committee and many members echo the words here.
Thank you everyone, especially to Diane and also Jean Perry, for all the hard
work that went into making this a very successful day for us all.
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Here are just a couple thoughts of members regarding the last Journal. Never
again! Everyone that got in touch, received a black and white copy.
Sorry to have to whinge, but am most disappointed with the
presentation of the latest edition of the LRFHS Journal.
For the first time in all my many years' membership of the Society my
copy lies largely unread -- difficult to decipher in natural light it becomes
impossible in artificial light. I am surprised that the Society's printer let it get
beyond draft stage. Whatever could he have been thinking about? -- Maybe it
was supposed to be a special edition to celebrate the Society's thirtieth
anniversary -- whatever it was it was a disaster and I hope we very quickly
revert to 'normal'.
I hate having to moan when so much is put into the Society by so
many people to make it what it is -just about the best in the Country!
Sheila
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I have just received the "Special 30th Anniversary Issue" (September)
issue of the LRFHS journal and I am puzzled. Why use an ink-and-paper
colour combination that is almost impossible to read? It seems rather
elementary that brown ink on brown paper will not produce legible copy.
The photos are even harder to understand than the text.
This is obviously intended to be a very special issue, and in terms of
content it may be, but I haven't the patience to make my way through it.
Such a milestone in Society history should be a pleasure to read, but it
is in fact a challenge to decipher. Maybe my copy is not representative
of the full press run. I hope that is the case; otherwise this will be
the least-read issue ever. Otherwise, I am a happy and content long-term
member of the LRFHS.
Bill
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My definition of a ‘higgler’ differs somewhat from Mick Rawle in his
interesting article ‘Forgotten trades’. I can do no better than send a copy of a
letter written by my father to the Eastern Daily Preir’ when the question of
Higglers had apparently cropped up in parliament!
He was brought up in Terrington St Clements, in the marshland area of
Norfolk.
Patricia Atkins, Willowbrook, 9 Tolethorpe Close, Oakham, Rutland LE15
6GF
“Higglers
Sir – With reference to your report of March 26
(1959), headed ‘Lords in Difficulty over
Higglers’, in my young days (early 1906),
stones for the roads were carted by men known
as ‘higglers’. They generally had two of three
‘strings to their bow’ – having a small portion
of land in not sufficient quantity to keep two
horses regularly occupied, and also acted as
coal vendors, and worked for anyone in need of two horses and a man on the
land.
Yours faithfully J W Offley, Low Farm, Carbrooks”
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Sent to George Smith – our Web Master in Jersey
I came across your incredible web site today while searching the web
for information about WW2 in which my father, now deceased, served in the
Pacific Theatre as an antiaircraft machine gunner, in New Guinea, Philippines,
Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Bora Bora and other places which have no name that
I know of. I just wanted to tell you how much some of your American brothers
appreciate what you have done to honor your incredible heritage of service.
Bravo to you and all who served. I salute you!!!
Yours truly and in your service I remain,
Sgt. John Epperson, veteran USAF, 15th Air Force
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includes large scale town plan dated 1851/61.. in excellent condition.. £20.00
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Also: A 1973 publication of the Pittancer's Rental for 1410 - 1411.The
Cathedral Priory of St Mary, Coventry had extensive properties in Coventry
and this 75-page booklet is a list of the tenants and the rents they paid. It
contains a wealth of detail about the properties and is indexed by tenants'
name...£2.00 plus postage.
Peter Birkett 01455 290864
75 Bagworth Road, Barlestone, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV13 0EQ
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The Story of the Grandfather Clock
Phil Hamilton
The picture shows a Longcase (Grandfather) clock made by
clockmaker Thomas Boyfield of Melton Mowbray
and purchased by John Oswin on the occasion of
his marriage to Mary Waite in the year 1811.
How can so much be known about a
clock, which is nearly 200 years old?
My hobby is restoring longcase clocks to
their former glory. A few years ago I was given
the opportunity to buy such a clock, which was
from the Georgian period around about the turn of
the century 1795 –1815. These clocks are quite
finely featured and small in proportions when
compared to the later Victorian examples. The
clock on offer was of the 30 hour 11 inch square
painted dial type, which are quite popular with
collectors due to their more acceptable height of
around 6 feet 6 inches. At this height these clocks
can be accommodated easily in modern properties.
I bought the clock. It came complete with original
pendulum, weight, bell etc., parts that are more
often than not missing from these clocks which
have been neglected for many years.
My first task with this project was to get
the trunk door open! The lock had a generous
coating of rust and was stuck in the locked
position. When I finally opened it, much to my
surprise, there was a paper note stuck to the back
of the door on which was written,
“This clock was purchased by John ?????
on the occasion of his marriage to Mary Waite in
1811”. I have put the ?????s in above because until I met Mr. and Mrs. Rawle
(see later text) I could not read the old English script. When I subsequently
showed a copy of the note to Mr. Rawle he instantly recognised the surname
‘Oswin’
Once I had released the dial from its mechanism I took it along to a
professional painted dial restorer for cleaning. With his trained eye he could see
the name ‘Boyfield’ and the town name ‘Melton’ which had been left as an
impression on the white background. A light clean revealed the initial ‘I’ or ‘T’.
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I looked in my road atlas and found there to be quite a number of
towns named Melton in the UK. I then looked in my copy of ‘Watchmakers and
Clockmakers of the World’, second edition 1947 by G.H.Baillie, and found the
clockmakers Boyfield listed as working at Melton Mowbray. There were no
other listings for the name Boyfield in any other similar publication.
I contacted Melton Mowbray Council Offices (T.I.C. temporarily
closed) and was given the number for The Family History Society. I contacted
Mr. And Mrs. Rawle and called in to see them on my way through to
Lincolnshire. I now have the family history for John and Mary Oswin up until
the 1901 Census. (see article following)
The clock has been cleaned and restored for some time now and
performs well. Many thanks to Mick and Cheryl Rawle for their kind
endeavours.
Phil Hamilton
01260 279263
[email protected]
Editor:
Phil wishes to return the clock to a living descendent of the family of John
OSWIN so if have him in your family tree, it may be worth getting in touch with
Phil. Read the following article and see if it is yours!
Can you help us to get this clock back to descendents
of its 1811 owners?
By Mick Rawle
Phil Hamilton came to see me on the 16th October and showed me a
photograph of the note he had found on the door of a Grandfather Clock he had
bought and restored.
The note read as follows: “This clock was purchased by John Oswin
on the occasion of his marriage to Mary Waite in 1811”. Phil would like to
contact living relatives of this Oswin family if possible with a view to reuniting
the clock with them.
Our first task was to verify the information written on the note, so
Cheryl and I looked it up on the IGI for Leicestershire because Phil told us the
clock was made by a Boyfield and he had tracked them down as clock
manufacturers in Melton Mowbray. We found that John Oswin had indeed
married Mary Waite on Christmas Day 1811 in Melton Mowbray, so the clock
was a Christmas present as well as a marriage present.
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With the resources available to us, we traced John Oswin’s baptism in
Scalford on the 22 Aug 1790, which told us that he was the son of Henry Oswin
and his wife Mary Brutnal, who married there in 1787. In all we traced six
children to Henry & Mary Oswin, all in Scalford.
After his marriage to Mary Waite, John Oswin moved to Eaton and
settled there. He was with his wife Mary and the two youngest surviving
daughters on the 1841 Census. John is shown as an ‘Ag Lab’. Sticking with
only the name Oswin, we soon found out that John and Mary had at least nine
children in Eaton, three boys and six girls. After having at least two girls first,
they had two sons - John in 1819 and James in 1822. Their only other son
William was born and died in 1827. We traced James Oswin and his family on
the 1851 census but couldn’t find Henry (born c1841 Eaton) on the 1881 or
1901 censuses, so had to give up with him. We found William (born c1846
Eaton) on both the 1881 and 1901 censuses with a different wife on each, but
didn’t find any children, so we had to give up on him as well.
We did however come across John Oswin (baptized 8th Aug 1819) and
his wife Ann and their four-month-old son Matthew on the 1851 census and
then again found Matthew on the 1881 and 1901 censuses. We can’t tell who
Matthew Oswin married because he appears on the 1901 census without a wife
but with three of his children – George (born c1887), James (born c1889) and
Elizabeth (born c1892). Matthew was a Railway Signalman, and shows his
birthplace as Eaton, Leicestershire. His two boys were born in Sculcoates (now
part of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire) and his daughter Elizabeth was born in
North Cave just a few miles to the east of Hull. They were all living together in
Sculcoates in 1901, but we don’t know if Matthew had any more children.
Phil would like anyone who is a direct descendent of this family to
Email him. If anyone wants to check this family out, I have produced a family
tree on my computer in Family Tree Maker format and I can Email it to you in
GEDCOM format. I have put as much detail as I could find on the family tree
as well, so it as complete as I can make it for the people I have mentioned
above, and for the females I haven’t mentioned. My Email address is in at least
two places in this Journal, (inside front cover) but Phil’s Email address and
phone number is at the end of the piece he has written before this article (page
49 and 50).
Someone out there must know this family, or be connected to it, so
please check if you have OSWIN ancestry in Scalford or Eaton, Leicestershire,
or Hull in Yorkshire. Phil or I are just waiting to hear from you.
Mick Rawle
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LRFHS 30th Anniversary Project
This year is rather special. In September the Society
celebrated it’s 30th Anniversary.
To this end, the Executive
Committee invite members to send in wartime memories
to mark this Anniversary. If you have stories of any kind
about any war, whether it be army, navy, airforce, living
through the bombing or being an evacuee - or any
recollections by your parents or any other relatives, we
would like you to submit them to us for publication.
These stories need to be written for future generations to
read and learn about the times our families lived through.
Memories are not exclusive to WW2; tell us your memories
of any war that has been part of your family history. These
stories will be placed in a
Commemorative
30th Anniversary
publication.
Subscribers will receive a free copy. The book(s) will
also be on sale through our bookshop, and further
details about this will appear in
the March 2005 Journal.
Your entry should be on A4 paper,
portrait style. The first line should have your name and
membership number. The second line is the title “Wartime Memories” then the
script is up to you. You may include relevant photographs or images if you
wish. Handwritten entries are as welcome as typed ones. Please note that photos
cannot be returned.
A Prize of a complimentary years subscription to the LRFHS will be awarded
for each of the following categories: a) The Most Amusing,
b) The Most Unusual,
c) The Most Moving.
The judges’ decision is final.
By entering this competition you agree to
give publishing rights to the LRFHS.
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The submission date has been extended to give those who have just joined the
Society to have a chance to join in this important project.
Send your entry, together with your name and address on a separate slip,
(address will not be published) to reach us no later than 31st March 2005.
Entries can be sent as follows: As an attachment to an e- mail, to Jean Perry at
[email protected]
Subject must be Wartime Memories
Post: to Mrs J Perry. 48 Blackbrook Close, Shepshed, Loughborough,
Leicestershire. LE12 9LD
Do it yourself on line
http://www.lrfhs.net/warstories.htm
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Family
History
Services
Genealogical Research in the East Midlands
Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, Rutland, Northants & Huntingdon
All types of Records researched
Documents photocopied or photographed
Advice sessions, Talks to groups
Mick Rawle
28 Abingdon Rd, Melton Mowbray, Leics, LE13 0SB
Tel : 01664 - 854691
Email : [email protected]
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mick.rawle/index.html
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IT Ends Paper Births Register
Article from Computing – 19 August 2004
Birth certificates will no longer exist within five years, as plans for an
electronic births, marriages and deaths registration system are rolled out.
The digitisation of vital events (Dove) project run by the office of
National Statistics (ONS) includes the creation of a national database, a webbased access system and links to other government departments.
The database will include the 100 million records back to 1935 and
will replace the current system of face-to-face registration and paper legers.
‘The ultimate aim in the long term is to do away with the need for
having a paper birth certificate. The information will all be there electronically
and publicly available as it is now’, said a spokesman for the ONS.
Citizens will no longer need a birth certificate because government
bodies will be able to automatically check the electronic system. Planned links
include the Department for Education and Skills, the UK Passport Service, the
NHS, the Department for Work and Pensions, the DVLA, Inland Revenue, the
Immigration and Nationality Directorate and the proposed ID cards and citizen
information projects.
The database will also automatically update departments’ internal
systems so, for example, bereaved citizens will no longer have to send death
certificates to many different places, says the ONS.
The register will be accessible on the internet and citizens registering a
birth, death or marriage will have a choice of doing so face-to-face, over the
telephone or on-line.
Birth registrations by registrars are planned to be up and running by
February 2006, and online birth registrations by the public by the end of that
year.
The plan for the registration of deaths has not yet been finalised, as the
implications of the inquiry into Harold Shipman murders have not been fully
resolved.
Suppliers interested in the deal, estimated to be worth £25-£50 million
over seven years, have until 6 September (2004) to submit initial proposals. The
contract is expected to be signed in February.
A pilot exercise with UKPS has already taken place and another is
planned with Inland Revenue
John Stevenson
Further reading
www1.computing.co.uk/specials/1153206
Editor:
Does this mean that genealogists will have access to these
databases? – I don’t think so!
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Update On Australian & Chilean Relations
By Bill Buchanan
I did some local research work for a lady in Victoria and she
reciprocated. One of my father’s cousins emigrated to Bairnsdale and during
my research, information about him was very limited. The lady provided me
with 3 index references and I obtained the necessary certificates in 4 days after
ordering them by email. The cousin William Buchanan married in Scotland and
had 2 sons, William and John before emigrating to Australia in 1920. William
senior sadly died of heart trouble in 1929 and his wife died in 1952. His son
William was knocked down by a train in 1972 and died from his injuries.
William only had one son Noel who I am hoping to track down along with
information about his brother John.
In March I visited Chile hoping to find more information about the
family of William Archibald McQueen mentioned in my previous article. With
the help of the reception staff at my hotel in Santiago, I was able to obtain 3
phone numbers and addresses of three McQueen relatives in Chile. I chose the
one whose first names were Helen Joste, - Joste being the maiden name of her
mother. Helen told me she was coming to Europe in May to visit her relations
and would contact me in England and I promised to write to her prior to her
visit. On arrival in England we had a phone chat and she mentioned that she
had visited a niece Jane Bougrine in France and Jane was a keen family
historian and would like to exchange family information with me. Jane and I
have exchanged several long emails, which has updated me on my Chilean
relations. Jane has lived in France for some years and teaches English at a
school north of Paris. It is rather amusing that information about my Chilean
relations has come from a lady in France who until his death 3 years ago was
married to a Russian.
As mentioned in my previous article, William Archibald McQueen
and his wife Sybil Joste had six daughters and one son. I will now give some
brief details about this family omitting foreign surnames to. The information I
obtained from the Society of Genealogists is now out of date as not all the
family are still living in Chile. Those still living in Chile mainly live at Vina del
Mar just south of Valparaiso. My tour stopped at Vina del Mar for lunch and I
did not know at the time that many of my relations lived in this seaside town.
(1) Beatrice Doris McQueen married Colin MacGillivray in London in
1944. They had a son John Nigel and daughter Jane Sybil. John is unmarried
and Jane married Vladmir Bougrine. Their father was a bank manager in Lima
Peru and John and Jane spent their early years in Peru. Jane has a son and two
daughters, all born in Paris. Jane visited me recently on the way to her
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daughter’s degree ceremony at Nottingham University. Her mother Beatrice
now lives at Chorleywood.
(2) William Archibald McQueen is ex RAF and is now a civil airline
pilot in Chile. He has been married twice and the two marriages have produced
five daughters. Carolina Isabel of the first marriage is living in Dallas Texas.
The second daughter of that marriage, Marilyn Sylvia was killed in an Eastern
Airlines plane crash in Bolivia in 1984
(3) Audrey Sybil McQueen married Frederick Charles Melrose and
they live at Banstead Surrey. They have a son Peter William and daughter
Diana. Diana was born in Rhodesia in 1952 and was an adviser to the Foreign
Secretary in 1997 Labour Government.
(4) June Sylvia McQueen married Reginald Thomas McKenzie in
Santiago in 1949 and they still live there. They have two sons and two
daughters. Son Patrick Alan was drowned in a swimming pool in 1956.
Daughter Anthea married her husband in Geneva and still lives there. The
unmarried daughter Joanna Lucy works in Human Relations for Coco Cola in
Chile
(5) Gillian Evelyn McQueen is a retired schoolteacher and married Dr
Lionel Cooper and they live in Chile. They have two sons and one daughter.
Son Anthony married Patricia Ward in Chile and they now live at Vers
L’Eglise Switzerland
Anthony Cooper and his cousin Anthea have returned to the ancestral
home of their grandmother Sybil Joste. The Joste family originated from Chur
in Switzerland and then emmigrated to France. The family fled to St Helier,
Jersey during the French Revolution. The family settled in the Channel Isles
and descendants are still there. Sybil’s father helped on his father’s farm until
he went to sea in 1862. He emmigrated to Chile in 1870 and became a Captain
for Pacific Steam Navigation Coast on the west coast of the Americas. He
married Emily Jane Fox formerly of Birkenhead at Valparaiso in 1889 and
Sybil was their youngest child.
(6) Helen Joste McQueen married Frederick Horn in 1951 and they
had three daughters and one son. After marriage daughter Sandra lived in
Norway for some years but has now returned to Chile. Daughter Marcelle
married in Brazil, lived there for a few years before emmigrating to Florida.
Bill Buchanan
16 Oldershaw Shaw Rd., East Leake, Nr Loughborough, LE12 6NG
[email protected]
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Gateway to Antiquity
By David A Jackson
The last issue had an article from Maurice Boddy about tracing one's
family back to Charlemagne. That however need not be the end of the story.
Charlemagne himself has known ancestors and it may, if certain conjectures are
correct, be possible to go back a good deal further. Charlemagne was the son of
Pepin III King of the Franks who had started out as mayor of the palace for the
Merovingian Kings of France but at the Pope's suggestion assumed the throne
himself - he reigned 751-768. His wife was Bertha of Laon. It has been
suggested that this lady had Merovingian ancestry but that is not certain.
Pepin was born in 715. He was the son of Charles Martel, mayor of
Austrasia (now part of France) and his wife Rotru. Charles Martel defeated the
invading Arab army at Toulouse. This is sometimes regarded as the turning
point in the attempt of the Arabs to conquer Europe.
Charles was born in 676, the illegitimate son of Pepin II of Herstal,
mayor of Austrasia, by a lady called Aupais or Alpaidis. Pepin was bom about
635 the son of a mayor called Ansegesil who died 685 and his wife St Begga.
Begga was the daughter of Pepin of Landen, mayor of Austrasia 613 - 640 by
Itta of Aquitaine. Ansegesil was the son of St Arnulph Bishop of Metz 613-41
and previously mayor.
For St Arnulph's ancestry we are dependent on a saint's life which says
he is the son of Duke Bodegesil by Palatina daughter of Gallus Magnus, Bishop
of Troyes. This Bodegesil is said to be a son of Munderic died 532 who
belonged to a branch of the Merovingians that were subkings of Cologne.
Bodegesil was half brother to St Gundulf, son of the same father by Artemia, a
daughter of Chlotar I, King of France, who by her first husband Senator
Florentinus, Bishop of Geneva, was an ancestor of Gregory of Tours. St
Arnulph’s ancestry is further complicated by a ninth century pedigree of
Charlemagne, which asserts that Arnulph was the grandson of Ansbert a senator
and Blithilde. Blithilde is the above Artemia's sister.
Returning to Charles Martel's wife Rotru, we have the benefit of an
article by Professor David Kelly, which was published in the New England
Genealogical Register for 1947. According to this Rotru was the daughter of St
Lieven, Bishop of Treves, who was the son of Warin, Count of Paris, by his
wife Kunza. Count Warin was brother to St Leger and they were children of
Sigrada daughter of Ansoud, Bishop of Poitiers. Ansoud’s wife was sister of
Erchenaud, mayor of the Palace, +647. They were children of Leutherius and
Gerberga daughter of Duke Ricimir. Leutherius was the son of an earlier
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Erchenaud who was son of Ansbert the Senator. Now David Kelly advances
arguments designed to show that this Ansoud was the son of a Tonantius and
grandson of Tonantius Ferreolus who was Praetorian Prefect of Gaul 451-2 and
Roman Consul in 453, himself grandson or great grandson of Flavius Afranius
Syagrius Praetorian, Prefect of Gaul, in 382.
Now this is sufficiently startling, but Kelly has not finished. In an
article "The Anicii of Gaul and Rome” co-authored with T S Mommaerts in
"Fifth Century Gaul: A crisis of identity" edited by J Drinkwater and H Elton,
they, by using recurring name patterns, postulate that Papianilla wife of the
above Tonantius was a sister of Ruricius of Clermont Bishop of Lomoges, and
that they were grandchildren of Petronius Maximus, Consul 433 and Emperor
in 455 by his wife, a sister of his successor Eparchius Avitus, who himself had
a daughter Papianilla, wife of the letter writer Sidonius Apollinaris. This
Petronius Maximus was a member of a large aristocratic family with the nomen
Anicius. A nomen was the main Roman family name, which came in the
middle. In front was a praenomen, which was particular to the individual. At
the end came a cognomen, which indicated the particular branch of the family
the individual belonged to.
Using the Kelly/Mommaerts conjecture as a new starting point the
immediate ancestry of Petronius Maximus is known. His grandfather would be
Sextius Claudius Petronius Probus who collected offices the way some people
collect stamps, At various times he was Prefect of Gaul, Africa, Illyria and
Italy. He was consul in 388 and died 393. Sextus was the grandson of a
Petronius Probus, Consul in 322, and Anicia daughter of Anicius Faustus,
Suffect Consel in 298. Anicius Faustus was son of Sextius Cocceius Anicius
Faustus Paulinus a Proconsul of Africa.
The next problem concerns his parentage. Two suggestions have been
made (a) Anicius Faustus Paulinus Praetorian, Prefect of Lower Moesia in 230,
and his wife assumed to be a Sextia Cocceia and (b) Sextus Cocceius Vibianus
a senator in 204 and his wife an Anicia Fausta. Both Anicia and Anicius are
thought to descend from Quintus Anicius Faustus, Govenor of Numidia 197201, and his wife Sergia Paulla.
Sergia Paulla is thought to come from the family of Sergii Paulli
settled originally in Antioch in Pisidia one of whose members was that
Governor of Cyprus who interviewed St Paul an his first missionary journey.
As indicated the line is not free from problems, but offers an
interesting possible gateway to Antiquity.
David A Jackson, 10 Dale Street, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 9BA
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Useful Information Pages
Radio Leicester Worldwide!!
From Peter Cousins
You can now listen to the BBC local radio station Radio Leicester
anywhere in the world via the Internet. Log on to:
www.bbc.co.uk/leicester
and click on the link for “Listen Live”. You will need software called
Realplayer to listen to the broadcasts, which if you have not already got you
can download either from the link or find it on the Internet. In the coming
months all BBC local radio stations will be broadcast in this way on the
Internet.
The LRFHS has a Family History Phone-In once a month usually around the
2nd Tuesday of the month just after 11am on the John Florance program called
Talkback. On Fridays, between 10am and 11am, on the John Florance show
the feature called "Memory Lane" should interest many ex-Leicester people
now living abroad.
Please let us know where you are listening from in the world and your
comments on the programs via
[email protected]
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Parish Register Transcripts
From Bill Buchanon
I have computerised transcriptions of the following parish church records: (1) East Leake
(2)West Leake
(3)Rempstone
(4)Costock
(5)Stanford on Soar
(6)Normanton on Soar
(7)Ratcliffe on Soar
(8)Gotham
(9)Bunny/Bradmore
(10)Wysall
(11)Sutton Bonington (both churches)
(12) Wymeswold
(13)Hoton/Prestwold (in preparation)
I have allowed Loughborough Local Studies to make hard copies of some of
the above particularly villages on Notts / Leics border
I have also computerised copies of the following 1841-1901 censuses
(1)East Leake
(2) West Leake
(3)Rempstone
(4)Costock
(5) Stanford on Soar
(6)Normanton on Soar
My e.mail address is
[email protected]
I do not charge for my research but a small donation to East Leake & District
History Group is always appreciated
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For reader's information, the censuses of Wymeswold and Bunny only are
already on the Internet (I do use them in answering family history enquiries but
they are not my work)
NOTE Bradmore has never had a church only a chapel, which was burned
down about 1700 (a spire remains) so all Bradmore baptisms, marriages and
burials occur at Bunny. Bunny History Group has put the censuses on the
Internet for Bunny only, also a very incomplete copy of church records of
Bunny residents only ignoring anyone associated with Bradmore. Their
work contains: - Baptisms 1700- 1769,1799-1818 (no further records beyond
1818). When I transcribed the records I found those from 1770-1798 perfectly
easy to read, Burials 1700-1899, Marriages 1560-1812.
I frequently get enquiries involving Bunny/Bradmore, which I used to look up
in Nottingham Archives and I felt the best solution was to transcribe the
records.
Bill Buchanan,
16 Oldershaw Shaw Rd East Leake Nr Loughborough LE12 6NG
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Offer of Help
I have been researching my Smith family and have a copy of all the baptisms at
Newton Burgoland Independent Church up to 1892. The record office at
Wigston only goes up to 1836. I also have a copy of Sunday School children
from 1806-1906. If you wish to inform your members if any of them are
interested they are welcome to contact me.
Terry Pearce
[email protected]
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Genealogists Visiting Leicester
Thinking of visiting Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland County Record Office
at Wigston?
If so, you may be interested in the following: The Plough (0116 2810078) in Bushloe End, Wigston have started doing B&B
(en-suite). They are only a few hundred yards from the Records Office and
could be very useful to members visiting.
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Can You Help?
I am making an appeal for help in tracing former Post Office supervisors and
telegram boys. I am currently researching the History of the Post Office in
Leicester, having previously published a book on Leicester’s telegram boys,
called Red Bike Boys in 2003. I am sure some members may have family with
Post Office connections and I would be really grateful for any help with
information, photographs etc of either themselves or their forebears.
Andy Marlow
[email protected]
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HIGGS, MR CHRISTOPHER A 2 MARSHALL AVE, SILEBY, LOUGHBORO.LEICS, LE12 7QT
JAMES, MRS. NORMA 19 COPT OAK ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE9 5EF
KERFOOT, MR. CLIFFORD T, 5 SPENDLOVE DRIVE, GRETTON, CORBY,NTS. NN17 3DW
LOFQUIST, Ms. CAROLYN L. 384 WOODBINE AVE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, M4L 3P6,CANADA
LEWIN, MR. DENNIS 17 ERIDGE GREEN, KENTS HILL, MILTON KEYNES, MK7 6EJ
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63
L0247
M0215
M0400
M0424
M0442
N0113
O0094
P0084
P0303
P0349
P0376
P0423
R0173
R0268
R0330
S0282
S0461
S0522
S0660
S0698
S0735
S0755
T0256
T0276
T0321
W0248
W0285
W0317
W0514
W0678
LORD,MR. M. & MRS. A. 3 AVON ROAD, BRAUSTONE TOWN, LEICESTER, LE3 3AB
MAIDES, JOHN & RITA, 20 NORFOLK DRIVE, MELTON MOWBRAY, LEICS, LE13 0AZ
MANSHIP, MRS. JILLIAN M 35 GOOSEHILLS ROAD, HINCKLEY, LEICS, LE10 2RY
MAYOH, MRS. JUDITH, GROVE STABLES, 16 BURROUGH RD, SOMERBY, M. MOWBRAY,
LEICS. LE14 2PP
MONK, MRS. VILMA 128 COLERIDGE DRIVE, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE19 4QG
MR. KEITH AUGUSTUS NEWTON, 31 TENNYSON RD, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICS, LE11 4LE
O'CONNOR, MRS. JULIE 29 THE POPLARS, EARL SHILTON, LEICS. LE9 7ET
PERRIN, MRS JEAN I. 86 STATION RD, ROLLESTON ON DOVE, BURTON UPON TRENT,
STAFFS. DE13 9AB
PATCH, MRS. SALLY A. 80 EDWARD RD, HAYWARDS HEATH, WEST SUSSEX RH16 4QF
PHILLIPS, MRS. ELAINE F. 36 TANSEY CRESCENT, STONEY STANTON, LEICS, LE9 4BT
PHILLIPS, MR. VICTOR G, 6 LOWESBY CLOSE, MELTON MOWBRAY,LEICS, LE13 1HW
POTTER, MRS. MARGARET A, 34 FEATHERBY DRIVE, GLEN PARVA, LEICESTER LE2 9NY
ROBINSON, MR. DAVID STANLEY 141 MARWOOD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE4 2EQ
ROBINSON, MR. M.J.- MRS. M, 18 CANADA FIELDS, LUTTERWORTH LEICS, LE17 4NB
RANDALL, MR EDWARD 54 WESTFIELD ROAD, HINCKLEY, LEICS, LE10 0OW
SINGLETON, MR. HAROLD JOSEPH 80 BROADMEAD ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4AB
SAYARER, MRS. CAROL ANN 31 ALEXANDER AVE,, EARL SHILTON LEICS, LE9 7AF
SHEFFIELD, MRS. KARAN FRANCES 14 BROOM LEYS LANE, COALVILLE, LEICS. LE67 4BN
SHARPE, MR.SYDNEY L 4 GLOVER COURT, MARSDEN LANE, AYLESTONE, LEICS,LE2 8LY
SYLVESTER, MR. FRANK 38 FREEMONT PARADE, SUNSHINE WEST, MELBOURNE 3022,
AUSTRALIA
STEVENS,MRS. LINDA, 14 MEADOW ROAD, BARLESTONE, LEICS. CV13 0HQ
STRINGER, Ms. WENDY 29/39 KARALTA ROAD, ERINA, NSW 2250 AUSTRALIA
TAYLOR, MR. MAURICE A, 42 KENDAL RD, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICS. LE12 7PF
TOPLEY,,MRS. ADRIEN 41 OAKLAND AVENUE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 3DT
TOOLE, MR LIONEL HEATER COTTAGE, KNOCK, APPLEBY, CUMBRIA, CA16 6DN
DWYER, MR. A.M. + MRS. R.C. KIYI TUR NAZILLI SITESI, CIKMAZ SOAK No 170,
ALTINKUM 09240, DIDIM, AYDIN, TURKEY
WHEELER, MRS. SUSAN & MR. D. 25, EYE BROOK CLOSE, LOUGHBORO, LEICS. LE11 4PS
WEBB, MISS TRACEY M. 2 CLOVER PLACE, THRINGSTONE, COALVILLE, LEICS. LE67 8LD
WRIGHT, MRS. PAULINE E. 14 COLESBOURNE DRIVE, DOWMHEAD PARK, MILTON
KEYNES, BUCKS, MK15 9AU
WILSON, MISS CINDY J, 1 QUANTOCK RISE, SHEPSHED, LOUGHBORO’, LEICS,LE12 9RJ
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Members Interests
ABELL
ADAMS
ADAMS
ADAMS
ADDISON
ADKINS
AKROYD
AKROYD
ALLEN
ALLEN
MARKFIELD, LEI, 1700 – 1900
NOTTS, 1858 - 2002
SALISBURY, HAM, 1950 - 2002
SHEARSBY, LEI, c1830
LEICESTER
LEICESTERSHIRE, 1800 - 1860
LEICESTER, 1850-1923
LEICESTER, 11910 – 1940
COSSINGTON, LEI, PRE 1800's
WALTON / WOLDS, LEI,
PRE 1800's
ALLEN
LEICESTERSHIRE, 19c
ALLEN
St MARG’s LEICS, 1870 - 1920
ALMEY
OAKHAM, RUT, 1800 - 1880
ANDREWS LANCASHIRE, 1800 - 2004
ANDREWS GLANMORGAN, 1860 - 1880
ANDREWS LEICESTER, 1700 – 1900
ARMSTON BARWELL, LEI, 19c
ARNETT LEICS’SHIRE ALL DATES
ASH
RUTLAND, PRE1870
ASHBY
BUGBROOK, NTH, PRE 1730
ATKIN(S) LEI & RUT, 1800 +
AUGER
M.MOWBRAY 1870-1950
64
A0251
M0548
M0548
T0321
A0243
A0242
A0146
A0146
A0275
A0275
E0169
G0403
P0482
A0273
A0273
B0941
T0321
H0685
P0303
G0422
L0304
A0247
AUWOOD LEICESTER & LEI, 1800 - 1900 T0276
AUWOOD DERBYSHIRE, 1800 - 1900
T0276
BACON
HINCKLEY, LEI, 19c
T0321
BACON
LEICESTER, 1880+
T0321
BACON
PECKLETON, LEI, c1900
T0321
BACON
RATBY, LEI, 1880+
T0321
BACON
STOKE GOLDEN, LEI, 1890+ T0321
BACON
WITHERLY, LEI, 1837 - 1854
T0321
BACON
BURTON LAZARS, LEI, 1924 T0321
BACON
EARL SHILTON, LEI, 1910+
T0321
BAGULEY LANCASHIRE, 1830 - 1900
A0273
BAINES
EMPINGHAM, RUT, 17c
J0213
BAKER WIGSTON MAGNA, LEI,PRE 1850 W0683
BAKEWELL DESFORD, LEI, c1865
T0321
BALDING LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1930 H0749
BARNES LEICESTER, ANY
O0094
BARRS
HATHERN, LEI, PRE 1912
Q0007
BARRS
GLENFIELD, LEI, PRE 1970
Q0007
BARRY
LEICESTERSHIRE, 1700 - 1980 M0215
BARTLETT MILVERTON, WAR, 1880
P0349
BARTLETT LEAMINGTON SPA, 1900
P0349
BAXTER LOUGHBORO, LEI, 1700 - 1900 B0941
BAYLESS LUTTERWORTH, LEI,1860-1870 B1008
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December 2004
BAYLISS LUTTERWORTH, LEI,1860-1870 B1008
BEALE
SAPCOTE, LEI, ANY
M0442
BECKHELLING LEICESTER, 1872+
L0304
BELL
KNIGHTON, LEI, PRE 1760
B0982
BELL
KNIGHTON, LEI, 1945 - DATE B0982
BELL
LKS, PRE 1900
L0245
BENNETT SHEPSHED, LEICES,1750-1850 F0282
BENTLEY THURMASTON, LEI,1800–1920 B0937
BENTLEY BURBAGE, LEI, 1750 +
S0735
BILLSON LOUGHBOROUGH, LEI, 1800+ M0546
BILSON
M. MOWBRAY, LEI, PRE 1900 B0899
BILSON
LEICESTER, 1900 - 1910
B0899
BILSON
DONCASTER, YKS,1900-1910 B0899
BIRD
PACKINGTON, LEI,1600-1800's B1014
BIRD
ASHBY/ZOUCH, LEI,1600-1800sB1014
BIRD
BREEDON ON THE HILL,
LEI, 1600 - 1800's
B1014
BIRD
OAKTHORPE, LEI, 1600 - 1800'sB1014
BIRD
WORTHINGTON, LEI,1600-1800's
B1014
BIRD
DISEWORTH, LEI,1600-1800's B1014
BLACKBURN MARKET RAISEN, LIN,1800+
H0750
BLOWER LEICESTERSHIRE, 19c
E0169
BOND
HESKETH, LAN, ALL
B1007
BOND
BECCONSALL, LAN, ALL
B1007
BOND
HINCKLEY, LEI, 1800 - 1900
W0687
BOOTH
HARBY, LEI, 1780 - 2004
B0974
BOTT
MANTON, RUTLAND, 1750+ F0281
BOTT
LANGHAM, RUTLAND, 1750+ F0281
BOTT
OAKHAM, RUTLAND, 1750+ F0281
BOTTERILL WELFORD, LEI, PRE 1839
B1008
BOWELL OXFORDSHIRE, ANY
W0285
BOWN
RATBY, LEI, 1800 – 2000
T0256
BRADFORD LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
C0632
BRADSHAW DERBYSHIRE, 1800 +
T0276
BRADWELL EAST LEAKE, NTT, PRE 1840 G0422
BRAMLEY LOUGHBORO, LEI, PRE 1860 S0755
BREEDON LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
C0632
BREWIN THORPE ACRE, LEI,
B1006
BREWIN DISHLEY, LEI
B1006
BREWIN MARKFIELD, LEI
B1006
BREWSTER LIDDINGTON,RUT,1800-DATEL0226
BROTHERHOOD MARKFIELD, LEI, <1881 B1003
BROTHERHOOD IBSTOCK, LEI, <1881
B1003
BROTHERHOOD ULVERSCROFT, LEI,
1788 - 1850
B1003
BROWN HIGHAM / HILL, LEI, PRE 1841 B0963
BROWN (JOHN)EMPINGHAM, RUT,
1870 - 1880
N0146
BROWN (JOHN) OUSBY, CUL, 1830 – 1860 N0146
BROWN (JULIA)OUSBY, CUL, 1830 - 1860 N0146
BRUCE WIGSTON MAGNA,LEI,PRE 1900 B1005
BRYAN(T) BURTON OVERY,LEI,1772- 822 H0676
BRYAN(T) FLECKNEY, LEI, 1813 - 1833
H0676
BUCKINGHAM EARL SHILTON, LEI,
PRE1900
B1005
BULLOCK CLAINES, WOR, 1700 - 1800
J0137
BURTON RUTLAND, 19c
BUSZARD CHCH LANGTON, LEI, 1600-1800
BUXTON UPPINGHAM, RUT, ALL
CARTER SHARNFORD, LEI, 1840 - 1900
CAVE
MARKFIELD, LEI, 18 - 19c
CHADBON LEICESTERSHIRE, 1800 - 1880
CHAPMAN MARKFIELD, LEI, 1800 - DATE
CHAPMAN ANY, LEI, 1600 - 1800
CHARLES HARTSHORN, LEI, 1881
CHERRY LEICESTER 1790 - 1800
CHERRY GT.WIGSTON, LEI, 1780 - 1800
CHERRY CLAINES, WOR, 1700 - 1800
CHERRY COVENTRY, WAR, 1750 - 1800
CHERRY MOUNTSORREL, LEI, 1780 - 1800
CHERRY BODENHAM, WOR, 1700 - 1790
CHORLEY WORCESTER, 1840 - 1900
CLARK
CLARK
LIVERPOOL, LAN, 1900 - 1915
CLARKE LEICESTERSHIRE, 1800 - 1880
CLARKE HAMBLETON, RUT, 1850+
COBLEY LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
COE
LANCASHIRE, 1830 - 1900+
COFFEY KINNEGARD,W.MEA,IRE,
1800-1900+
COLEY
LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
COLLINGTON WYMESWOLD, LEI, <1881
COLLINS GREATFORD, LIN, 1800's
COLLINS BASTON, LIN, 1800's
COPELAND HINCKLEY, LEI, ALL
CORCORAN IRELAND, ANY
CORCORAN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ANY
CORRALL LEICESTER, 1800 - 1900
COTTERILL LEICESTERSHIRE, 18 & 19c
COTTON ANY, 1800 - 1900
COULING SLEAFORD, LIN, 1800+
COULSON WIGSTON, LEI, ANY
CRAY
FROME, SOM, ALL
CRESSWELL LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
CRICK
CROUCH OLNEY, BKM, 1820 - 1900
CUNNINGTON EGLETON, LEICSSHIRE, 1746
CURTIS
DAFTE
N. LUFFENHAM, RUT, 17c
DALBY
BARROWDEN, RUT, 1870 - 1880s
DALBY
MORCOTT, RUT, 1870 - 1880s
DALBY
FOLKINGHAM, LIN, 1881 +
DAWSON SAPCOTE, LEI, ANY
DEACON NAILSTONE, LEI, PRE 1840
DERRY
LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1818
DERRY
SHROPSHIRE, PRE 1818
DINSDALE GARSDALE,WRY, ALL
DOLMAN MARKFIELD, LEI
DRENCHER GREAT GLEN, LEI, 1800 +
DRENCHER ANY, ANY
DURRANCE M MOWBRAY, LEI, PRE 1880
DWYER W. MIDLANDS & BIR’HAM
DWYER IRELAND
DYSON
LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1930
EARL
SOUTWARK, LDN, 1800+
_______________________________________________________________
December 2004
R0173
G0385
T0324
P0349
W0685
A0242
H0748
H0748
B1003
J0137
J0137
J0137
J0137
J0137
J0137
B0937
H0737
H0737
A0242
S0799
L0247
A0273
A0273
C0632
B1003
G0251
G0251
P0481
T0329
T0329
W0692
R0173
M0215
H0750
H0685
P0423
C0632
S0660
H0744
A0221
S0660
J0213
H0744
H0744
H0744
M0442
R0268
K0194
K0194
B1007
B1006
S0522
S0522
D0325
W0248
W0248
H0749
H0737
65
ENGLAND LEICESTERSHIRE, 18 & 19c
R0173
EXON
M0545
FIELDING SNARESTON, LEI, PRE 1840
S0755
FLATT HARLESTON, NFK/SFK,1750-1900 B0937
FLETCHER CASTLE DONINGTON,PRE 1800B0963
FORKNALL WARWICKSHIRE,18&19c
R0173
FURNISS LEICESTERSHIRE,1900-1980 M0215
GAMBLE LOCKINGTON, LEI 1700-1850 B0342
GEARY
LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
C0632
GEE
COSBY, LEI, 1750 - 1850
G0435
GEE
LEICESTER, 1840 – 1850
G0435
GENT
LEI & NTH, 1700 - 1900
M0215
GERMANY LEI & NFK, PRE 1900
L0247
GILL BURTON LAZARS,LEI,1750-1800
B1001
GILPIN
KENTMERE, WES, ALL
B1007
GOODALL LEICES, MID 1500 - DATE
G0434
GOODMAN MKT. HARBORO, LEI,18-19c B1007
GOODMAN BIRMINGHAM, WAR, 19c+ B1007
GOODYER FENNEY DRAYTON, LEI,1800+S0735
GREEN
BLABY, LEI, ANY
G0267
GREGORY MANCHESTER, LAN,1800-1900 T0327
GRIMMER SPALDING, LIN, 1750+
G0251
GRIMMER GREETHAM, RUTLAND, 1750+ G0251
GUDGEON WIGSTON, LEI, 1870 - 1880
S0660
GUEST
NORTHANTS, 18 & 19c
R0173
GUEST
YORKSHIRE, 18 & 19c
R0173
GUMLEY LEICESTERSHIRE, ANY
G0267
HAINS
ANY,OXFORDSHIRE,1700-1950 T0329
HALFORD LOCKINGTON, LEI, PRE 1841 B0963
HALFORD PRESTON, RUTLAND, 1800+ M0424
HALFORD UPPINGHAM, RUT, 1800+
M0424
HALL
STAMFORD, LIN, 19c
J0213
HAMES
LEICESTER CENTRAL, 1800+ S0735
HAMPSON STATHERN, LEI, 1831 - 1920
H0744
HAMPSON CROPWELL BISHOP, NTT,
1831 - 1920
H0744
HAMPSON BARROW ON SOAR, LEI,1920 +H0744
HAMPSON QUORN, LEI, 1920+
H0744
HANCOCK NORTHANTS, 1700+
H0236
HANDLEY WARWICKSHIRE, 17 - 18c
S0461
HARDIMAN GREAT GLEN, LEI,1750-1850 T0327
HARDIMAN LEICESTER, 1850 - 1900
T0327
HARVEY LOUGHBOROUGH, LEI, ALL T0324
HARVEY SHEPSHED, LEI, ALL
T0324
HARWOOD BINGHAM, NTT, 1700 - 1980 B0974
HARWOOD STATHERN, LEI, 1700 - 1980 B0974
HARWOOD HARBY, LEI, 1700 - 1980
B0974
HASLAM DERBY, PRE 1860
S0755
HAWTHORNELEICES, PRE 1930
H0749
HAYNES ANY,OXFORDSHIRE,1700-1950 T0329
HAYWARD GUYS CLIFFE,WAR,1860-1890 P0349
HAYWARD LEAMINGTON SPA,WAR,1900 P0349
HEATHCOTE ILSTON/HILL, LEI, PRE 1878 B1008
HEATHCOTE BILLESDON, LEI, PRE 1878 B1008
HEATHCOTE WIGSTON, LEI, ANY
G0267
HENSHAW LEICESTER, 1915 - 1925
A0146
HENSHAW LOUGHBOROUGH, LEI, 1840 C0618
HERBERT COUNTESTHORPE, LEI,
1800-1900
B0999
66
HERITAGE OXFORDSHIRE, PRE 1900
HILL
CHESHIRE, 1800 - 1910
HILL
LTLE GLENHAM, SFK,1870-1881
HILL
HILL
HILL
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 1900 - 2002
HINCKS BARWELL, LEI, 1800 - 1900
HINDLEY LANCASHIRE, 1800 - 1900+
HOLLAND LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1818
HOLMES MOUNTSORREL, LEI, 1800+
HOLMES (JOSEPH) LEICESTER, 1920 - 1925
HOLT
LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
HOLT
ROCHDALE, LAN, 1750 - 1900
HOOD
QUORN, LEI, 1880 - 1940
HOPKINSON LEICESTERSHIRE
HORSPOOL BINGHAM, NTTE, PRE 1860
HORTON WALTON, LEI, PRE 1890
HOUGHTON ASFORDBY, LEI, 1600+
HOWARD LEICESTER, 1845 - 1860
HUBBLE WARWICKSHIRE, ANY
HULL
W. HUMBERSTONE, LEI, 1840+
ILLIFFE
KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP, LEI,
1600-2000
IMMINS COUNTESTHORPE, LEI, ANY
IMMINS LEICESTER, ANY
IMMINS LEICESTER, 1885 - 1945
IRONMAN ANY, ANY
ISAAC
GRIMSBY & HULL, LIN, 1800's
JACQUES HINCKLEY, LEI, PRE 1841
JARRAM LOUGHBORO, LEI, 1800 - 2000
JARVIS
KNIGHTON, LEI, 1850 - 2004
JARVIS
NORFOLK, 1910
JEE
LOUGHBOROUGH, LEI, 1750+
JEE
St MARTINS, LEICESTER, 1700+
JESSON
WHITWICK, LEI, 1700 - 1820
JESSON
ANY, LEI, 1800 - 2000
JUDD
LEIRE, LEI, PRE 1860
JUDD
LEI & RUT, 1700 - 1900
KENDALL GOADBY, LEI, ALL
KERFOOT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ALL
KIDGER COUNTESTHORPE, LEI, ANY
KIDGER LEICESTER, ANY
KILBURN PICKWELL, RUT, PRE 1800's
KINGSTON SHUTLANGAR, NTH, PRE 1680
LAMBERT WHEATLEY, OXF, PRE 1920
LAMBERT HORSPATH, OXF, PRE 1920
LAMBOURN HORSPATH, OXF, PRE 1920
LAMBOURN WHEATLEY, OXF, PRE 1920
LAURIE AYRESHIRE, 1870 - 1915
LAURIE LEICESTER, 1870 – 1915
LAXTON COTTESMORE, RUT, 1800-1870
LAXTON WYMONDHAM, LEI, 1870 - 1910
LEACK
BURBAGE, LEI, ANY
LEADBETTER AB KETTLEBY, LEI, 1700+
LEADBETTER HOLWELL, LEI, 1700+
LEEKE
BURBAGE, LEI, ANY
LEWIN
LEI & RUT, 1700 - 1900
LIGGINS LEICESTERSHIRE, 1930-2002
LIGHTBOWN LEICESTERSHIRE, 1919 +
_______________________________________________________________
December 2004
W0285
B0999
H0744
H0744
L0304
M0548
W0687
A0273
K0194
H0737
H0685
C0632
T0327
H0098
H0748
S0755
W0683
S0735
A0146
L0247
F0281
G0385
O0094
O0094
S0282
T0329
G0251
B0963
W0690
J0212
W0688
M0546
M0546
T0256
T0256
B1008
L0229
K0134
K0134
O0094
O0094
A0275
G0422
W0285
W0285
W0285
W0285
B0899
B0899
V0042
V0042
M0442
M0424
M0424
M0442
L0229
M0548
B0869
LIGHTBOWN BURY, LAN, 1919 +
LOWER
SUSSEX, 1700 - 1900
MACKLEY GARTHORPE, LEI, 1767
MAGEAN WORKINGTON, CUL, c1850
MAGEAN COCKERMOUTH, CUL, c1850
MAIDES MKT BOSWORTH, LEI 1800 2000
MAIN MELTON MOWBRAY 1870-1950
MANSHIP LEICESTER, ANY
MARLOW LEICESTER, 1900 - 1920
MARRIOTT LEICESTERSHIRE
MARRIOTT GRANTHAM LIN, c1833
MARSHALL LOUGHBORO, LEI, 1830+
MARTIN SKEGNESS, LIN, 1903+
MARVIN THORNTON, LEI, 1816
MATTOCK SMEATON WESTERBY, LEI,
1600 - 1800
MATTOCK BURTON OVERY, LEI, 1850 +
McROBIE SCOTLAND, 18 & 19c
MEADOWS SOMERBY, LEI, 1700+
MEADOWS TWYFORD, LEI, 1700+
MEADOWS TILTON, LEI, 1700+
MEADOWS BRAUNSTON, RUT, 1830+
MEADOWS BROOKE, RUT, 1830+
MERRILL HOUGHTON/HILL, LEI, 1898 +
MILES
MILES
SOMERBY, LEI, 1798 - 1901
MILLER St PAUL ELSWICK, NBL, 1866
MOORE
GAYTON, NTH, PRE 1800
MOORE
MORRIS UPPINGHAM, RUT, 1700 - 1950
MORRIS GT EASTON, LEI, 1700-1950
MOSEBY WAR & LEI, 1800 +
MOULD EAST LEICESTERSHIRE, ANY
MUMFORD OXFORD. 1820
NASON
RUGBY, WAR, 1800 - 1920
NEAL
LEICESTERSHIRE, ALL
NEWMAN M MOWBRAY, LEI,1900-1964
NEWMAN AB KETTLEBY, LEI,1900-1964
NORMAN LATCHFORD, CHS, 1800 - 1900
NORTH
LOUGHBOROUGH, LEI, 1900
NORTON STONEY STANTON, LEI,
1800 - 1917
OATHAM ANY, ANY
OVERTON LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1818
OVERTON WARWICKSHIRE, PRE 1818
PALMER KINGSCLIFFE, NTH, 1800's
PARTRIDGE BILLESDON, LEI, 1500+
PARTRIDGE SOMERBY, LEI, 1500+
PATEMAN TUGBY, LEI, 1700 - 1800's
PATEMAN GOADBY, LEI, 1802
PAULSON FARNESFIELD, NTT,1780-1855
PAWLEY WIGSTON MAGNA, LEI,
PRE 1800
PAYNE
LEICESTER
PEACH
DERBY, PRE 1860
PEARSON LOUGHBORO, LEI,PRE 1810
PEGG
LEICESTER, ANY
PELL
OAKHAM, RUTLAND, 1750+
PELL
BELGRAVE, LEI, 1750+
B0869
P0376
M0552
H0737
H0737
M0215
A0247
C0561
A0146
B1001
B1001
M0546
D0265
M0549
B0137
W0514
R0173
M0424
M0424
M0424
S0799
S0799
W0514
G0435
W0692
T0328
G0422
M0400
T0329
T0329
T0276
G0267
P0349
B0937
C0632
W0692
W0692
T0327
N0113
B0999
W0285
K0194
K0194
G0251
M0424
M0424
B1008
B1008
B0342
B1005
A0243
S0755
B0963
G0267
F0281
F0281
PICKERING LEICES & RATBY, LEI,1800-2000 T0256
POLLARD NOTTINGHAM, ANY
W0678
POLLARD SHEPSHED, LEI, ANY
W0678
POPPLE
TUGBY, LEI, 1700 - 1800's
B1008
POPPLE
BARROWDEN, RUT, 1700 - 1800's B1008
PORTLOCK WARWICKSHIRE, 18 - 19c
S0461
PORTLOCK GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 17 - 18c
S0461
POTTS
BREEDON /HILL, LEI, PRE 1830 B0963
POWERS HINCKLEY, LEI, 1840+
P0481
RANDALL LEICESTER, 1954
R0330
RANDALL LEICESTER, 1962
R0330
REDPATH DEVON, ANY
W0285
REVITT
GRENDON, NTH, PRE 1820
G0422
ROBINSON LEICESTERSHIRE, 18 & 19c
R0173
ROBOTTOM HINCKLEY, LEI, ALL
P0481
ROOK(E) BIRMINGHAM, WAR, 18 - 19c
S0461
ROOK(E) GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 17c
S0461
ROSS
St MGTS, LEICESTER, 1910 - 1940 G0403
SCOFFINS ALL, LEI, ALL
A0275
SCOFFINS ALL, LIN, ALL
A0275
SCOTT
St STEPHEN, ELSWICK, NBL1891 T0328
SELLERS HINCKLEY, LEI, ALL
P0481
SHARPE N. LUFFENHAM, RUT, 17c
J0213
SHARPE LEICESTERSHIRE, 1901
S0660
SHAW
LOCKINGTON, LEI, PRE 1841
B0963
SHAW
BARROW HILL, CHESTERF'LD,
DBY,1910
S0698
SHERRIFF LEICESTERSHIRE, ANY
G0267
SHIPLEY St MARGARETS LEICESTER1800 L0304
SHIPLEY LEICESTERSHIRE, 1800
L0304
SHORT
M MOWBRAY, LEI,1860 - 1900
G0251
SHORTEN NEWARK ON TRENT, NTT
W0248
SHORTEN NORFOLK, ANY
W0248
SHORTIN NEWARK ON TRENT, NTT
W0248
SHORTIN NORFOLK, ANY
W0248
SHORTING NEWARK ON TRENT, NTT
W0248
SHORTING NORFOLK, ANY
W0248
SIMMONS ANY, 1700 - 1900
M0215
SIMPSON STONEY STANTON, LEI,1850-1944B0999
SKERRITT M MOWBRAY, LEI, PRE 1800's
A0275
SMITH
HATHERN LEICS C1700-1870
B0342
SMITH
WHITWICK, LEI, PRE 1800
B1005
SMITH
PEATLING, LEI, PRE 1837
B1008
SMITH
BARROWDEN, RUT, PRE 1837
B1008
SMITH
ENDERBY, LEI, 1800-1850
L0304
SMITH NEWTON BURGOLAND,LEI,1800's P0480
SMITH
SWEPSTONE, LEI, 1800's
P0480
SMITH
BARWELL, LEI, ALL
P0481
SPARROW LEICESTERSHIRE, 1800 - 1880
A0242
SPENCER MEASHAM, DBY, 1700 - 1800
B0342
SPENCER SHEPSHED, LEICES,1750-1850
F0282
SPINKS
M MOWBRAY, LEI, PRE 1880
D0325
SPRIGETT LEICESTERSHIRE, 19c
E0169
STAFFORD GT. CASTERTON, RUT, 18c
J0213
STANIFORTH BARWELL, LEI, 1800 - 1900
W0687
STANLEY DERBYSHIRE, 1700 - 1900
B0941
STANYON LEICESTER, 1750 - 1900
T0327
STARR
AYMESTREY, HEF, PRE 1800
B1005
START
YORKSHIRE, 1800 - 1901
M0400
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START
NORFOLK, 1800 - 1901
M0400
STEVENSON SHEPSHED, LEI, 1860 - 1883 H0744
STRINGER WARTON , WAR, PRE 1860
S0755
STRINGER POLESWORTH, WAR,PRE 1860 S0755
STURDY SPELSBURY, OXF, ALL
B1007
STURGESS GRT. WELDON, NTH, 1870's
G0251
SUTTON M MOWBRAY, LEI, 1600 - 1700 A0063
SWAIN
LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1800 B1001
SWANN LEICESTERSHIRE, PRE 1818 K0194
SYKES
LEICESTER, PRE 1880
Q0007
TAGGART COCKERMOUTH, CUL, 1843+ H0737
TAGGART WORKINGTON, CUL, 1843+
H0737
TAILBY LEICES/NEWFOUNDPOOL.1890+A0270
TARRY
LEICESTERSHIRE, 1737-DATE O0094
TARRY
NORTHANTS, 1737 - DATE
O0094
TARRY
S0282
TATHAM ILKESTON, DERBYS,1700-1800 B0147
TAYLOR W'LBY WATERLEYS, LEI,
1800-2000
T0256
TAYLOR LEICESTER, 1800-2000
T0256
TAYLOR OLDHAM, LAN, 1750 - 1900
T0327
TAYLOR SULGRAVE, NTH, 1700 - 1950 T0329
TAYLOR QUORN, LEI, 1860 - 2000
W0690
TAYLOR LEICS,BRAUNSTONE,1800-1901W0692
TAYLOR LEICESTER 1800 - 1901
W0692
THOMAS LIVERPOOL, LAN, 1800 - 1900 T0327
THOMPSON W'LBY WATERLEYS,
LEI,1800-2000
T0256
THOMPSON WESTON ON TRENT, DBY,
1800 - 1900
T0276
THORPE LANGHAM, RUT. 1600-1800
P0084
TICKLE
M0545
TIDD
SOMERBY, LEI, 1860
B0899
TOMLINSON WHEELTON, LAN,1750- 850 T0327
TOMLINSON CHORLEY, LAN, 1840-1900 T0327
TOWNSENDLEICES, 1800-1900
T0256
TRICKLEBANK ANY, ANY
H0699
TWEEDLE WALKER, NBL, 1837+
T0328
TWIG THORPE LANGTON, LEI, PRE 1800 B1005
TYLER
HALLATON, LEI, ALL
T0324
UNDERWOOD IBSTOCK, LEI, ANY
UNDERWOOD NEWBOLD VERDON, LEI,
1908+
WADSWORTH WARWICKS, 18 & 19c
WAIN
BARROW ON SOAR, LEI, 18c
WAIN
LONG WHATTON, LEI, 19c
WAIT
WAIT
BURTON, STS, 1784 - 1898
WALKER SHEPSHED, LEI, 1780 - 1900
WANN
EMPINGHAM, RUT, 17c
WARD
APPLEBY MAGNA, LEI, 1851
WARING CHORLEY, LAN, 1750 - 1900
WARNER LOUGHBORO, LEI, 1780 - 1920
WAUDBY LEICESTER, 1910
WELLS
LUTTERWORTH, LEI, ALL
WESTON LEICESTERSHIRE, 1900 - 1923
WESTON LEICESTER, 1910 – 1940
WESTON HARBY, LIN, PRE 1800's
WHEELER FENTON, STS, PRE 1890
WHITAKER LUDLOW, SAL, PRE 1818
WHITE
WIDMERPOOL, NTT, PRE 1800's
WHITE
DERBYSHIRE
WHITEACRE ASTON-U-TRENT, DBY,
1700 - 1800
WHITTAKERCSTL DONINGTON, LEI, 1800's
WILFORD NASEBY, NTH, 1800 - 1850
WILKINS LONG WHATTON, LEI, 19c
WILLARS LEICESTER, 1800 +
WILLIAMSON LEICESTER, 1800+
WILSON ACTON GRANGE, CHS,1750-1900
WING STANTON St JOHN, OXF,PRE 1900
WOOD
BARNESLEY, GLS, PRE 1880
WYNN
BELGRAVE. LEI, 1875+
YEOMANS CHESTERFIELD, DBY,1919-1920
W0317
W0317
R0173
W0685
W0685
W0692
W0692
B0937
J0213
B1003
T0327
B0937
W0688
P0481
A0146
A0146
A0275
W0683
K0194
A0275
W0248
B0137
B0137
A0270
W0685
T0276
S0735
T0327
W0285
W0683
S0735
S0698
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The new words and clauses are in italics and underlined, and the letters and numbers CC22 and
GD3 are Charity Commission documents and can be seen on their website.
LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION
The original constitution was adopted on the 12th August 1998
with minor revisions on the 13th April 2002
1.
2.
3.
Name
The name of the Society shall be the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society
(the Society).
Objects
The objects of the Society are :2.1
To promote & encourage the public study of Family History, genealogy, heraldry,
and local history with particular reference to the historical counties of
Leicestershire & Rutland (the Counties).
2.2
To promote the preservation, security and accessibility of archival material.
Powers
CC22 A4
3.1
In addition to any other powers it has, the Society may exercise any of the
following powers in order to further the objects, but not for any other purposes:3.1.1 To hold lectures, discussions, meetings, outings, issue publications and
organize research visits for the members of the Society and interested members of
the public.
3.1.2 To hold and maintain a library of printed and other works for the use of
Society members and members of the general public.
3.1.3 To preserve, transcribe and publish historical and genealogical source
information in any relevant format.
3.1.4 To pursue collaborative actions with similar societies and with established
supportive bodies such as churches, libraries, records offices and educational
institutions.
3.1.5 To support the activities of the Federation of Family History Societies in its
pursuit of these and similar objectives.
4.
5.
Affiliation
4.1 This Society shall be affiliated to the Federation of Family History Societies and with other
charitable organizations whose objectives are deemed compatible and mutually supportive.
Membership
5.1
Membership of the Society shall be open to all persons, resident in this country or
abroad, or Institutions showing genuine interest in the support of the Society’s
objectives. Application for membership will be on the forms authorized by
the Executive Committee.
5.2
Classes of membership shall be determined by the Executive Committee of the
Society.
5.3
Subscriptions shall be payable on the 1st January each year in respect of the
calendar year just beginning, at rates determined by the Executive Committee
and approved by the previous Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members
provided that after such approval the rates so approved may be varied at an
Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) convened at the request of the
Executive Committee and taking place before the relevant 1st January. There
shall be rates set for each class of membership.
5.4
The Executive Committee may suspend from membership any member whose
activities, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, are determined to be
prejudicial to the Society. Such suspension shall not take place until the
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6.
Executive Committee has heard representations from the member. Such
members shall have the right of appeal to the next General Meeting of the
Society. The final suspension shall be on a vote by members at the General
Meeting and shall be by a simple majority of those members voting.
5.5
If members of the general public who are not members of the Society wish to
participate in any of the activities set out in Clause 3.1.1 above, then a
reasonable charge shall be made at a rate or rates which the Executive
Committee shall from time to time decide. This charge may or may not be
the same as any charge levied on paid up members of the Society for their
participation in those activities.
Administration
6.1 – 6.4 follow guidelines in GD3 16
6.1
The Society shall be administered by an Executive Committee consisting of not
more than ten members who will be elected annually at the AGM.
6.2
The Executive Committee shall include a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary,
Treasurer and a maximum of six other members.
6.3
A quorum of the Executive Committee shall consist of 50% plus one member and
if necessary the Chairman shall have a casting vote.
6.4
Vacancies on the Executive Committee occurring between AGMs may be filled
by co-opting members. If they wish to remain on the Executive Committee,
those co-opted members must then submit their names for election by the
membership at the next AGM.
6.5
The electorate for General Meetings shall consist of all fully paid up members of
the Society. A fully paid up member is one whose subscription for the
current calendar year has been received by a member of the Executive
Committee 28 days before the date of the General Meeting. The result of the
vote shall be on a simple majority. Voting will be by a show of cards
supplied to current members on signing in at the General Meeting.
6.6
All Executive Committee members shall be eligible for re-election upon
completion of their term of office.
6.7
The Executive Committee shall have the power from time to time to nominate a
Patron and/or a President of the Society to continue in office for as long as
they are willing or until the Executive Committee otherwise decide.
6.8
The Executive Committee shall have the power to establish Groups within the
Counties, for furtherance of the Society’s objects. Each Group so established
shall comply with and be subject to the following regulations :6.8.1
6.9
7.
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Meetings
7.1
Each Group shall act in accordance with the objects of the Society
as in Clause 2 and shall be subject to such conditions as may from
time to time be laid down by the Executive Committee.
6.8.2
Each Group shall be administered by a Committee and
administration guidelines shall be provided by the Executive
Committee.
6.8.3
A Group may be suspended at any time by a resolution of the
Executive Committee and, upon suspension, shall cease all
operations. Any assets shall be frozen until a resolution has been
approved at a General Meeting dissolving the Group or otherwise
All Society goods and equipment assigned to Groups or individual members of
the Society is to remain the property of the Society and cannot be disposed of
without the written permission of the Executive Committee.
An AGM shall be held during the month of March at which members of the
Executive Committee present their reports and the Treasurer submits a financial
statement. Notice in writing of this meeting shall be given at least 28 days prior
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to the event. A quorum at an AGM will be a minimum of 50 members of the
Society which must include more than 50% of the Executive Committee members.
7.2
An EGM may be convened at the request of the Executive Committee or at the
request of 50 members, with prior written notice being sent to the full
membership at least 28 days before the meeting. A quorum at such a meeting
shall consist of not less than 50 members which must include more than 50%
of the Executive Committee members if the EGM is convened by the
Executive Committee and of whom at least 35 shall be signatories to the
notice calling the meeting if it is convened by 50 members. Decisions at the
meeting shall be by simple majority except where the resolution refers to
items in Clause 8. Voting shall be in accordance with Clause 6.5.
8.
Amendments
CC22 A13
8.1 Subject to the following provision of this clause the constitution may be amended
by a resolution passed by not less than two-thirds of the members present and
voting at a General Meeting. The notice of the General Meeting must
include notice of the resolution setting out the terms of the amendment
proposed. Voting shall be in accordance with Clause 6.5.
No amendment may be made which would have the effect of making the Society cease to
be a charity at law.
8.2 The annual subscription rates may be amended at a General Meeting, by a simple
majority of those attending and entitled to vote. The Chairman of the Meeting
shall in this instance have a casting or second vote. Voting shall be in
accordance with Clause 6.5.
9.
Finance
CC22 A5
9.1
The Executive Committee shall comply with the accounting requirements of the
Charities Act 1993, relevant to the income and expenditure of the Society with
regard to :
9.1.1
The keeping of accounting records of the Society
9.1.2
The preparation of annual statements of account for the Society
9.1.3
The auditing, or independent examination, of the statements of
account of the Society
9.1.4
The preparation of an annual report and the sending of it together
with the statements of account to the Charity Commission
9.1.5
The preparation of an annual return and its transmission to the
Charity Commission
CC22 A6
9.2
All bank accounts for the Society and its Groups shall have the name of the
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society in their title, and shall have
at least two signatures of members of either the Executive Committee or the
relevant Group Committee for each transaction.
GD3 4.1
9.3
The income and property of the Society shall be applied solely towards the
promotion and execution of the objects of the Society (see Clause 2). Payment
may be made in good faith for reasonable and proper out-of-pocket
expenses
incurred on behalf of the Society.
CC22 A5
9.4
The Society shall provide funds to the Groups appropriate to their size and
activities. Each Group shall open a bank account which shall be run in
accordance with the Charities Act 1993. The monies in the Group bank
accounts shall remain at all times the monies of the Society as a whole, and
shall be subject to the same rules as in clause 9.1.
9.5
The Financial year of the Society shall end on the 31st December each year.
10. Trustees
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71
GD3 4.8
In the following clauses ‘Trustee’ shall include any person firm or company connected
with the Trustee.
10.1 Under the terms of the Charities Act 1993 all members of the Executive
Committee as constituted in Clause 6 shall be Trustees.
GD3 26
10.2 For the purposes of any lease held by the Society, three Trustees shall be
nominated by the Executive Committee as parties to the lease for the Society.
GD3 4.2
10.3 A Trustee may pay out of, or be reimbursed from, the property of the Society
reasonable expenses properly incurred by him or her when acting on behalf
of the Society.
GD3 4.4
10.4 No Trustee may be paid or receive any other benefit for being a Trustee.
GD3 4.5
10.5 Provided that he or she is not prevented from doing so by Clause 10.4, and
adheres to Clause 10.6, a Trustee may :
10.5.1
Sell goods and services to the Society.
10.5.2
Be employed by or receive any remuneration from the Society.
GD3 4.6a
10.6 In cases covered by Clause 10.5, the Trustee must :
10.6.1
Declare his or her interest in the proposal
10.6.2
Be absent from that part of any meeting at which the proposal is
discussed and take no part in any discussion of it
10.6.3
Not be counted in determining whether the meeting is quorate
10.6.4
Not vote on the proposal
GD3 4.6b
10.7 In cases covered by Cause 10.5 those Trustees who do not stand to receive the
proposed benefit must :
10.7.1
Satisfy themselves that it is in the interests of the Society to
contract with or employ that Trustee rather than with someone
who is not a Trustee.
10.7.2
In reaching a decision the other Trustees must balance the
advantage of contracting with or employing a Trustee against the
disadvantage of doing so (especially the loss of the trustee’s
services as a result of dealing with the Trustee’s conflict of
interest.)
10.7.3
11.
Dissolution
11.1
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They must record their decision in the Minutes of the Executive
Committee Meeting.
CC22 A14
If the Executive Committee decides that it is necessary or advisable to dissolve
the Society, they shall call a meeting of all members of the Society giving a
minimum of 21 days notice stating the terms of the resolution to be proposed.
If the proposal is confirmed by a two-thirds majority of those present and
voting, the Executive Committee shall have power to realize any assets held
by or on behalf of the Society. Any assets remaining after the satisfaction of
any proper debts and liabilities shall be given or transferred to such other
charitable institution or institutions having objects similar to the object of the
Society as the members of the Society may determine, or, if that cannot be
done, shall be applied for some other charitable purpose.
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