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112 JUNE 2003

Index of Contents
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Editorial and News and Views
Toni Smith and Ray Broad
A Receipt to cure love
Graham Sleath
Loughborough Group Chairman Retires
France and Belgium WW1 Trip Report
Peter Cousins
Members Experiences on the trip to Belguim and France
Project Coordination – How are we doing it?
Mick Rawle
Society Projects Update
Mick Rawle
1891 Census – Odd Names
Mick Rawle
News from the Groups
Special Loughborough to Kew Bus Trip BOOKING FORM
Leicester Oral History
Chrissy Thornhill
Samuel's Daughters
Joan and Peter Shaw
Test Your Knowledge
Mining Disaster in Bendigo
David Cotton & Liz Adams
Narborough and Littlethorpe & WW1
Dave Ricketts
Playing With Names
M & J Billings
6276 Private William Buckingham
Derek Seaton
Dates for your Diary
Is This Yours?
New Books review
News from our Webmaster
George Smith
Leicester Research Centre News
A Woman's Work & News from The Record Office Pat Grundy
Query Box
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G.R.O. Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes Search Service
Mormon I.G.I Search Service
L.R.F.H.S. Bookstall, Postal Book Service
Publications Avaliable on Microfiche & Printed Publications
CD Publications of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Indexes
Soldiers Who Died in the Great War – Search Service
I85I Leicestershire Census Search Service
Leicestershire Strays Search Service
I88I Leicestershire Census Search Service
Coach Trips – Details and Booking Forms
Could These Be Yours?
Computer Section
Parish Register Tit-Bits
Snippets from Australia
Your Letters
William Green 1784 – 1881
The Wedding Dress
So! Whither My Richard Lakin Now?
Quiz Answers
New Members
New Members Interests
Mike Ratcliff
Sheila Mileham
Margaret Tasker
Trevor Drake
LRFHS Journal No. 109 - September 2002
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Editorial – Toni Smith
I am hoping that this Journal will reach you by mid September, and we will be
well on track to get the next one delivered by the beginning of December. You
will notice that there are just 2 months of Member's Interests this time, just to
get us back on track.
This Journal is the first one to be produced and delivered by out new printer,
Parchment of Oxford. We give thanks to Nigel Mooncie, who has been
producing our Newsletter / Journal for about 12 years and done a great job,
but because of the volume of members (now about 3,500), the packing had
become unmanageable (think of all those stamps to be stuck on!). We
therefore had to look for an alternative way, and starting from this edition, the
production and the packing / posting have been combined, so as to give a
more streamlined service to you all.
Under separate cover, you will all receive a new membership card when you
renew your membership for next year. Because this is a 'permanent' card, it
will not contain the usual list of group meetings. These will be sent to you
before the end of the year. A plea from the Membership Secretary is that you
all renew early, using the form in the centre of this Journal. Alternatively you
can now renew membership direct to us using our secure web site (web
address on the form).
News and Views - by The Secretary
Ray Broad
A compilation of bits and pieces derived from the Executive Committee
Meetings or those that come through the post or appear on my screen.
1901 census
For the benefit of members, the Executive Committee has decided to
purchase the 1901 census fiche for the counties that surround Leicestershire
and Rutland. In the first instance we have ordered Derbyshire, Nottingham,
Lincoln, Northants and Warwickshire. These are now available in our library.
1891 Census
A commercial company, S & N technology are in the process of producing
facsimiles of the 1891 census on CD Rom. We have so far purchased those
for London, Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Executive Committee have
decided that we will continue to obtain these CDs as they appear with the
eventual aim of covering the whole country.
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1901 census – latest news: We have great pleasure in advising you of the latest statement from the PRO:
6 August 2002
Internal testing of the enhancements to the 1901 Online Service by QinetiQ
and the independent test programme conducted for the Public Record Office
have been completed.
We are now in the next stage of testing the online service, and the site is
available for public use at the Family Records Centre, Islington and the Public
Record Office at Kew.
Staff will be monitoring the operation of the service at both sites and welcome
feedback from those using it.
For opening times, directions and other details about how to access the
service at both the FRC and PRO, Kew please telephone
020 8392 5200 or visit the PRO website at
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/visit.htm
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Editor – I went on the FH bus trip to the Family Records Centre, on 6 August,
and had the opportunity to try out the 1901 census on line. I did find errors,
but searching for names on the index was quick and easy, the staff were at
hand and VERY helpful. The index search for a name came onto the screen in
5 seconds. The printouts of the pages were of high quality. I approached with
cynicism, and came away thrilled with my finds.
TONI SMITH
A Receipt to Cure Love
Sound advice or what?………..
Take two ounces of the spirit of reason
Three Ounces of the powder of experience
Five drams of the juice of discretion
Three ounces of the powder of advice and
Two spoonfuls of the cooling water of consideration
Make these into pills for a dose and
Be sure to drink a little content after them
One dose taken considerably clears the head of maggots and whims
After which, drink a little more content for fear of a relapse
The take another dose resolutely
And you will be restored to your right senses
Now he or she that will not follow these rules
Must incurably become a sacrifice to cupity
And die for love, for all the doctors in the universe can't cure him.
Anon
Found in the Kettering Parish Chest, at Wigston Record Office
SENT IN BY GRAHAM SLEATH, 28 KINGSMEAD CLOSE, SOUTH KNIGHTON, LEICESTER
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Loughborough Group Chairman Retires
At the Loughborough Group AGM in February, Jean Perry decided not to offer
herself for re-election. Jean was a founder member of the group, worked as
group secretary for many years and as chairman from 1999.
Born in Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, she was evacuated to Shepshed in 1940
and decided to remain there after the war. She met and married Ray, and
together they ran The Blue Ball Inn.
Jean has been a keen genealogist for a long time, and many will know her
from the talks she gives to the groups on subjects such as wills, the village
constable, parish records etc - indeed she has taken classes at the local
college and so has started off many people in tracing their ancestry.
The Society is fortunate that Jean is to continue on the Executive Committee.
She made it known that she will still be there for support to the group and for
individuals.
Jean and Ray Perry with the Engraved Clock – presented to them by the
Loughborough Group of the FH Society in appreciation of all Jeans hard
work over many years.
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France & Belgium World War I Trip May 2002
Report by Peter Cousins
On Monday May 20th we started off from Leicester at 7pm, not knowing what
an amazing week we were in for! After our journey to Folkestone, we crossed
to France through the Channel Tunnel, a new experience for many aboard the
coach.
After a journey under the Channel of only 35 minutes, we entered France, and
on the way to our Hotel near Lille we stopped at Dud Corner, Loos Cemetery
& Memorial and Maroc Cemetery.
On Tuesday, after a good nights rest and refreshment, we had a full day out
visiting Villers Faucon & St. Emilie Cemeteries, Rosiers, Beaumont Hamel,
the Ulster Tower, and the imposing Thiepval Memorial, inscribed with the
names of over 70,000 missing men. During the day, and indeed for the rest of
the week, our tour guide Bill McQuade, a dedicated Military Historian, gave us
so much detail about the places we visited it was sometimes hard to
comprehend the facts and figures of World War I. At one point near Thiepval
we stopped along a country road and Bill showed us a ridge to our left where
on 1st, July 1916 the troops went "over the top" during the first battle of the
Somme - by the time he had finished explaining the events of that day we all
felt as though we had been transported back in time to 1916!
Wednesday was a very full day - out at 9.30am and not back until after 9pm.
We visited Ploegstreet, Hyde Park Corner, Messines Ridge, Hill 62 &
Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum, Essex Farm Dressing Station, Tyne Cot &
Langemark German Cemetery.
In the late afternoon we arrived in Ypres for the highlight of our day. After an
excellent meal at a Hotel arranged by Bill, we all attended the Last Post
Ceremony at the Menin Gate - an event that happens at 8pm every evening they have just passed the 25,000th ceremony. Bill McQuade had arranged
that the ceremony for that evening would be for the L.R.F.H.S. I had the
honour of laying a wreath on behalf of the members, and Mark Gamble spoke
the words of the Exultation in front of 300 or more people - an event he
assures me he will remember for a long time. That evening back at the Hotel
there was much discussion about the day's events into the early hours.
Thursday was planned as a much lighter day to recover from the long
Wednesday, and we visited Mont St. Eloi, Vimy Ridge, Arras Cemetery
(including free time for lunch in Arras) Vis En Artois Memorial and Monchy Le
Preux where recently found remains of soldiers have been buried. In the
evening most of us had a trip to the beautiful city of Bruges with time for
sightseeing and a meal.
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Friday - time for home! After breakfast we visited a couple of 2nd World War
sites - the place of the Wormhout Massacre where the German SS murdered
a number of British Soldiers, and the WW2 Memorial at Dunkirk, where we
had a group photo of us all taken. We then travelled to Calais in time for some
low tax shopping before boarding our Shuttle for the return journey under the
Channel. We all said goodbye to Bill at Calais as he was waiting for a group
arriving by ferry for another tour.
Being Friday afternoon the M25 was a bit busy to say the least, but due to our
drivers making a good decision to take the A1(M) avoiding an accident, we
arrived back in Leicester just after 9pm - greeted by a fleet of taxis and
relatives to greet the weary travellers!
The end of an excellent week, made all the better by the two drivers Alan &
Keith (the resident cabaret!) and the knowledge and information presented to
us by Bill McQuade - a better guide it would be impossible to find. From the
thanks and feedback I have received, it seems certain that the trip will be
repeated next year.
A picture gallery of the trip can be seen on the Internet at:
Members
Experiences on the Trip
http://www.lrfhs.net/france/htm
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SYD CLARKE
2 Astley Close, Market Harborough, Leics. LE16 9NL
Searching for my Uncle Bill's Name.
A highlight for me of the very enjoyable visit to the WW 1 Battlefields of
France and Belgium was to find my Uncle Bill' s name on The Arras Memorial.
Bill was 203070 Pte. WILLIAM ERNEST CLARKE of the 4th Battalion,
Alexandra, Princess of Wales. Own Yorkshire Regiment, known also as 'The
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Green Howards'. He was killed in action on Monday, 23 April 1917 in The
Battle of Arras, aged 25 years.
We visited The Arras Memorial in The Faubourg d. Amiens Cemetery in Arras,
and The Memorial, designed by Sir Edward Lutyens, consists of a cloister 25
feet high and 380 feet long , and it contains the names of 35,000 soldiers
killed but with no known graves. I knew that Uncle Bill's name was on Bay 5 of
the cloister, and my concern was that his name might be at the top of a
column 25 feet high, but fortunately Bill's name was near ground level so I
was able to take a photo of his name, which pleased me a lot.
Bill was one of 4 CLARKE brothers from Stafford in WW 1. Another brother,
Bert, was killed in November 1918, not long after being awarded the Military
Cross for bravery. The remaining brothers survived including Syd, my father.
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I know the place and time of Uncle Bill's death. On that morning, the 23 of
April 1917, an officer in my Uncle's Battalion, gained a posthumous V.C. for
bravery, and the citation stated that the attack was up a slope near W
ANCOURT under very intense machine-gun fire. The Battalion Diary for that
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day says, " the barrage opened at 4.45 am of the 23 . "W", "X" and "Z"
companies attacked. They reached the German lines at 5.25 am in spite of
heavy machine-gun fire on the slopes. At 7.30 am the Germans counterattacked and regained the ground lost. At 8.10 am remnants of the Bn. were
in the old British front line". Casualties in the 4th Bn. were 3 officers killed, 7
wounded, 1 missing - other ranks killed, wounded, and missing - 352.
(A battalion consisted of 1,000 men, divided into 4 companies with 250 men in
each)
In this action where Uncle Bill was killed there were many casualties but no
ground was gained - a typical day in WW l!
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GILLIAN AND PETER DUCKETT,
60 St John's Road, Orpington, Kent BK5 1HY
Trip to the 1914-1918 Battlefields
We were two of the forty-eight members who were on the Battlefields of
Europe tour. We thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience and can
recommend it to other members if there are future occasions.
During the tour we visited two memorials where our relations were named. At
Ploegsteert Memorial in the Berks Cemetery Extension we found Walter
Blackley Private S/27432 5th Battalion Cameron Highlanders who died 19th
July 1918 aged 35 years. He was a half brother to my maternal grandfather
but by the time WW 1 started my grandfather and his wife and family had
emigrated to Australia.
At the Menin Gate in Leper we found Samuel Richmond Lawrence Private
187624 8th Battalion Canadian Infantry Manitoba Regiment who died 10th
November 1917 aged 35 years. He was my husband's uncle though he never
knew him. Richmond had already given 12 years service in the Royal Navy
when he was discharged medically unfit after having contracted a skin
infection in the far east, He later went to Canada where two of his sisters were
living and joined up in the Canadian Army when war was declared.
My mother-in-law says she remembers coming home from school one day
and finding her father, a strict Victorian, and her older sisters crying. She
thought it strange to see a man crying - she was 8 years old.
The dreaded telegram and medallion are now in her possession.
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SYLVIA O'SHEA
24 Grainger Ave, Nottingham NG2 7AS
Maria.Whyman@ntlworld.com
The trip was a wonderful experience – thanks to those who organised it - to
Bill McQuade and his immense knowledge he imparted to us all and to the
companionship of our fellow travellers.
Hannescamp New Cemetery – Arras
Bertie Daverage
P Chambelin (Fred)
Side by side in death they lay
Bertie and Fred
86 years since a death they
shared
on that fateful day
200 shells fell so long age
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Only two Leicesters' of the 9
Died that day in 1916, 24 May.
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Uncle to Sylvia O'Shea
Uncle to Bill Brown
Travelled in search of their kin
Met on the trip, never met before
Reunited the families
Of a friendship made in war
Side by side in life they met at
Hannescamp
To pay tribute to Bertie and Fred
For the price they paid so long
ago.
Sylvia O'Shea and Bill Brown at the graves of their uncles
86 years on Sylvia and Bill
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Project Coordination – "How we are doing it"
by Mick Rawle
Let me give you a rundown of the sequence of events for all our projects : 1. Plan Project and produce transcription sheets where necessary
2. Transcribe from the originals
3. Computerize and send files to the Data Administrator
4. Data Administrator produces printouts
5. Check printouts back against originals and send alterations to the
Data Administrator
6. Alter computer files
7. Produce query sheets for a few peculiar entries with question marks
8. Check off queries from sheets against originals
9. Enter final alterations on computer
10. Project Leader produces index.
11. Send to CD Production Team
Stages 2, 3 & 5, are by far the biggest part of any project, and are done by our
team of Volunteers, the rest is carried out by the Data Administrator and the
Project Leader. The completed files are then sent to CD Production.
If you wish to become a volunteer then please contact me, Mick Rawle, at the
address at the front of this book. There is always something to do and if you
have a microfiche reader and/or a computer and are willing to help in your
own home either transcribing or computerising then you are very welcome.
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Rutland Parish Registers Project
Mick Rawle has passed on to me the few examples of work already begun by
earlier volunteers, so completing the transcriptions for Brooke Hambleton and
Edith Weston seemed the obvious place to start. These are now on Excel
spread sheets and checking is under way. Some work has been done on
Whissendine, so I shall be concentrating on finishing the transcribing, and
converting the existing lists from Word to Excel.
If you would like to help and are able to get to Oakham library to transcribe
from the microfiches, or Leicester Record Office, where there are also photocopies of the Bishops transcripts for most parishes, please contact me and let
me know which parish you are interested in. Rosemary Ferrand has offered
to start transcribing Ryhall, and would welcome any member with a particular
interest in Ryhall or Belmisthorpe to share the work with her.
Users of Oakham library will be delighted to know that there should be two
new fiche readers and a reader-printer in place by the time you read this.
Doreen Furby - jon-dor@lineone.net
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Society Projects Update
By Mick Rawle
I would like to express my sincere condolences to Audrey Newberry after the
sudden death of her husband Ray in June. Ray Newberry was one of the
stalwarts of the Project Team and has spent many years on various projects.
He will be sadly missed by us all.
A couple more thanks for project work received - first to Harvey Bates for
more 1851 Census transcripts and second to Anthony Hood who has
completed an index of every name in the Millenium Project Books. This index
will be put on to a CD holding a number of Miscellaneous Indexes. It is in
printed format in the LRFHS Library at present.
CENSUS PROJECTS
1891 Census Index - Borough of Leicester
Now completed and on sale. Thanks to everyone involved in this project.
1891 Census Index - Leicestershire
I have split this into a pack for each microfiche, and there are 133 packs.
Cheryl Rawle the Data Administrator has produced 58 packs to date and 37 of
those have already been transcribed and computerized. If you want to help
with this massive project then you need either access to a microfiche reader
for transcribing or checking or access to a computer. There is something for
everyone - if you cannot work one of those darned computer things then
maybe you can transcribe on to sheets, if you hate transcribing then you can
help by computerizing the sheets someone else has done. If you would prefer
to check the computerized files back against the originals then there are
packs ready for that stage.
1861 and 1871 Census Projects
Leicester Street Index completed for both 1861 and 1871 and Parish Place
Index completed for the 1861 Census. All are now available in the library. I
have just started going through the films for the Parish Place Index for the
1871 Census. Name Indexes will be started as our next major project after the
1891 Census Index has been completed.
PARISH REGISTER PROJECTS
Leicester Borough Marriages 1754 - 1800
We have completed the transcription of the nine boxes of cards I was given by
the Leicestershire Records Office and are into the checking stage now.
Parish Registers
I am continuing to receive parts of various Parish Registers from people, but
have recently been in touch with a lady in the USA who has computerised
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many of our Leicestershire Parish Registers. Negotiations continue and I am
hopeful that she will provide enough material to fill a CD. She has a team of
people who live close to Salt Lake City and who are compiling them from the
microfiche.
Quarter Session Records
I have purchased photocopies of the Indexes to these for the whole of
Leicestershire (but not the Borough) - I am hoping to get these computerized,
but this project is in its infancy and with all my other little schemes it is going
to take quite some time to sort it out. The idea is to extract all the Poor Law
Cases - i.e. Settlement and Removals, Bastardy etc. - and put them into one
index. The Poor Law Indexes in the Leicester Records Office are taken from
the Parish Chest records only and do not include these in the Quarter
Sessions. Many will obviously be the same cases, but where the Parish
Chest records have been lost, these in the Quarter Sessions should fill in the
gaps.
1891 Census - Odd Names
by Mick Rawle
Here are a few names that we found in it that raised our eyebrows: Naptereia BOOTH
Ryerdinity SMITH
Reservoy SMITH
Zeruiah STEELE
Roscol WIGNELL
Tryphoda C BERRIDGE.
And just the Christian Names - Etheldreta, Euphripsas, Alizamon and
Kresencia !
Reservoy
Now where have I heard of Reservoy before? When I was a child living in
Grantham, Lincs I used to go to Denton Reservoy. Reservoy Smith (female)
was obviously the child of a travelling couple who named their children after
the place where they were born. Reservoy is a corruption of Reservoir and on
the IGI in Northants is another Reservoy Smith born in 1795. I have seen
other Reservoirs around but can't remember the surnames; perhaps you can
come up with those and other place names for traveller's children.
Forgotten Trades - by Mick Rawle
Over the next few issues of the journal I will be selecting five trades per letter
of the alphabet and explain they're meaning - here is my selection for the
letter B.
BAGMAN
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An 18 Century Commercial Traveller, so called because he carried his
samples in the saddlebags of his horse.
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BEETLEMAKER
A man who made the wooden paddles used in laundering clothes.
BELLY BUILDER
An assembler or fitter of the interior of pianos.
BODGER
A self-employed wood turner who lived and worked from his home in the
woods, he was a skilled craftsman who used a lathe to produce turned chair
legs and spars.
BOTTOM KNOCKER
These were the famous Saggar Maker's Bottom Knockers. They were young
lads who knocked off the clay from the bottom of the lump of clay that went to
make the Saggar - a rough clay tray that held the fine pottery for firing in the
kiln. When I went to the Ironbridge Gorge Pottery Museum last year I saw
'saggars' being made.
You are OK now, you can admit to having a Bodger in your ancestry - he was
a skilled man and not what we think of today. And the bagman wasn't the
partner of the bag lady!
Editor – Thank you to Mick for these explanations. The 'Bottom Knocker'
reminded me of a 'What's My Line' programme many years ago on TV when
they had a 'Saggar Maker's Bottom Knocker' on the show. Needless to say,
the panel didn't guess that one! Anyone else remember that? Can't wait for
the selection of 'C' trades………..
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News from the Groups
NEW
Computer Group
Evington Village Hall, Church Road, Evington Leicester
7.30pm
CHAIRMAN
RAY BROAD, 11 Spring Lane, Wymondham LE14 2AY
The inaugural meeting was a great success. Much to our
surprise, 38 people turned up. We now have a small
organising committee that has already met. We have
decided to run general open meetings every other month
with small hands-on workshops in between. Watch this
space for details of these. The first general meeting will
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be held at Evington Village Hall on Monday 28 October, entitled:
‘Computers in Family History – where do you begin?’
The details for bi-monthly meetings for the next year will appear in the
December journal
Hinckley
The Hinckley Library, Lancaster Road, Hinckley –
7.00 to 9.00 pm
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
BARBARA HARRISON, 114 Hinckley Road, Leic Forest East, Leics LE3 3JS
JEAN PERKINS "Majordene",Aston Lane Aston Flamville,Hinckley,LE10 3AA
Forthcoming meetings: th
6 November 2002
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4 Dec 2002
Military research on CD & Internet Peter Cousins
Bring, Show and Tell, with Christmas Festivities
Meeting Reports
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5 June
A Millennium of Time
Derek Wheeler
The talk was based on advances in timekeeping over the past 1,000 years
and local families involvement in the clock and watchmaking industry. We
learned that recording the passage of time started some 20,000 years ago
with calendars introduced some 3,000 years ago. We were given examples of
methods used down through the ages – sundials, hourglasses, waterclocks –
to the oldest surviving clock (1386), and inventions and introductions through
to Victorian times when hand-crafted clocks were mainly superseded by mass
produced ones. We heard about local families involved in the 18 / 19 C,
especially the Deacons of Barton in the Beans.
The talk was punctuated by chiming from examples of clocks brought in.
PAT CAMPTON
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Leicester
The Royce Institute, Crane Street, Leicester 7.30pm
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY.
PETER COUSINS, 13 Langton Road, Wigston, Leicester LE18 2HT
ANN COUSINS, 13 Langton Road, Wigston, Leicester LE18 2HT
Forthcoming Meetings: 13 November 2002
11 Dec 2002
The Leicester Town Crier Norman Roberts
Christmas Social
Meetings Reports
12 June
The Story of the Early Post
Derek Smeathers
The history was traced from the days of The King's Messengers to the Penny
Black Stamp.
The early post was instituted by the Stuart Kings and letters were charged by
the length of the paper, not weight.
The talk was illustrated by maps of the routes travelled by the post boys in all
weathers. Eventually the mail coach was introduced – which enabled the post
to be carried further and faster - and finally the railways.
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Glimpses of the Great War
Mark Gamble
Mark Gamble kindly replaced the advertised meeting. He started the talk with
a tape recording of songs from the time, to demonstrate the mood of the
people.
Mark used slides for a tour of the Weston Front, and he demonstrated how
regiments can be identified from badges on photographs. The emphasis was
on conflict, camaraderie, loyalty and friendship.
We certainly had a touching look at life in the trenches.
E. E. 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; th
8 November 2002 The Sinking of the John
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13 December 2002 Bring, Show and tell
Mick Rawle
Meetings Reports
May 2002
Our speaker this month was Hilary Pressbury who gave a light-hearted talk on
Wills. As wills are cast iron evidence and have no geographical bounds.
Much information regarding families can be given in wills. Hilary gave us
many examples of wills where the deceased showed his/her feelings for
members of the family by what was left to them. Some of the examples were
of well known people and some of lesser mortals, all of which gave rise
to much amusement. It was a very interesting evening.
MAGGIE HEGGS
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June 2002
Our speaker for this meeting was George Gamble, who talked about medals
and how they were won.
George told us he started collecting medals when given his Fathers from
WW1. UK is the only country in the world that puts name, rank and number
round the edge of the medals or on the reverse with the exception of WW2.
His talk was about 3 medals that he had in his possession and he had a story
to tell about each one as he had researched each person that had received
the medal, giving their story.
This was an extremely fascinating talk.
July 2002
Loughborough Group organised an outing to Snibston Discovery Park in July.
Everyone who attended had a very enjoyable afternoon and the Park is
definitely worth a visit.
MAGGIE HEGGS
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SPECIAL KEW TRIP
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ON MONDAY 30 DECEMBER 2002.
Leaves Loughborough from Granby St, Near Library
at 6.30am.
WILL ALSO PICK UP AT Leicester at 06.45am
at Holiday Inn (Formally The Post House)
on Narborough Rd.
We shall leave Kew at 4.30 pm for the return journey.
BOOKING FORM.
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PLEASE RESERVE ……….. seats at £10 each for Mon 30 Dec 2002.
Cheques payable to LRFHS
Name_________________________________________________________
Address______________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Telephone Number_______________. E mail: ________________________
Please indicate where you wish to be picked up.
Loughborough______________
Leicester. __________________
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please send me a Stamped Addressed Envelope size A5, and I will send you
an application card for Kew if you have not already got one. This should be
filled in and sent back to me, not the PRO, at least 28 days before the
trip. The staff at Kew will then process our tickets in advance, ready for
collection on arrival.
Remember to take proof of Identification with you. Return this form with your
remittance and S.A.E. to: JEAN PERRY. 48 BLACKBROOK CLOSE, SHEPSHED,
LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICS. LE12 9LD
(further details on centre pages regarding the need for readers tickets at Kew)
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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
Preview of Forthcoming Meetings: st
21 November 2002 John Henry Stokes, an Edwardian Horse Dealer
Lois Edwards
This is a talk about a very colourful character from this area.
th
10 December 2002 Christmas Party together with the Market Harborough
Historical Society
Get in the festive mood and join the fun. Tickets available from the chairman
and secretary above. Tickets include supper.
Meeting Reports
June
About 18 members enjoyed a most interesting walk around Little Bowden on a
lovely summer's evening. Steph Mastoris lead the walk and enthusiastically
gave us the history of the church and many other houses in the village. He
was ably assisted by a couple of members who added memorable anecdotes.
JANE MOELWYN-HUGHES
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
Forthcoming Meetings: th
7 November 2002
Gunpowder Plot
th
5 December 2002
Christmas Customs
Sally Henshaw
Steve Tunnicliff
Meetings Reports
6th June
Greeting Cards History Mrs C. A. Eccleshare
The focal point of this talk was a private collection left by a close family
friend who had been connected with the theatre prior to WW2. Mrs
Eccleshare's talk also included information about the history of cards of
all types, including the fact that today's Father Christmas owes much to a
certain soft drinks manufacturer.
LESLEY CHANEY
July
Melton Branch of the Leicestershire Family History Society was full to
capacity on Thursday when professional researcher Mick Rawle, of Melton,
gave a talk on researching early family history. He took members through the
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possible records they might find to help in their research in the period before
parish registers were kept. Using his own family tree from 1500 he showed
how different documents including wills, inventories, tax returns, leases and
legal documents had given clues to family members and relationships.
KEN BROCKWAY
August
The August outing to Southwell Workhouse took place in torrential rain which
added to the atmosphere of what must have been a sombre building in its
heyday. Members were given a personal guided tour courtesy of the
National trust audio commentary which describes the inmates living
conditions, diet, clothing and work. The imposing building has been totally
refurbished to show how it would have been in the 1800's, with the exception
of furnishings, which have been left to ones own imagination. The
commentary even includes the master's attempts to run away with the
attractive young schoolmistress, but you will have to visit to see what
happens next!
Towards the end of the tour are computer screens with details of workhouses
around the country and a database showing people who were known to have
been in Southwell workhouse, which of course we all had to check, one
never knows - of course "it wasn't our branch" was a common refrain at this
point!
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
Forthcoming Meetings - preview
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14 Oct - Life on the Lower Deck in Nelson’s Navy – Eric Orbell
The subject of Eric’s talk will be what life was like on the lower deck for the
average volunteer or press-ganged member of the crew of a man –o- war
during the French Wars of 1793 to 1815.
th
11 Nov - CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND SUBJECT
The RAWLE family History 1500 to 1800 - Mick Rawle
The continued story of the RAWLE family back to well before the earliest
Parish Registers. Many more sources discovered and used to piece together
the family. Old Wills and Deeds in prominence, use of Bishop’s Transcripts,
Marriage Licences, Protestation Returns, Hearth Taxes, Glebe Terriers,
Subsidy Rolls – in fact something old and something new for everyone.
th
9 Dec - Xmas Get-together + more!
th
13 Jan 2003 – 'Pop to Uncle' – A Pawnbroker's Life
Ken Day
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Three Golden Balls outside a shop indicate the business of a pawnbroker. He
provided a much valued service to poor people in earlier times, and is still
active today! The talk refers to amusing aspects in the life of ‘Uncle’, including
the story of the frying pan!
Meetings Reports
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10 June Agricultural Labourers
Dr Simon Pawley
An insight into the problems the Ag. Lab. and Farm Servant encountered –
how it affected every aspect of their lives.
th
8 July
- A guided walk round Historic Uppingham - Colin Crosby
An interesting tour that gave an overall picture of this lovely ancient town.
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9 Sept – Computing and Family History – Ray Broad
Demonstration of some well known Family History programmes to help the
user in following their family history trail
Leicestershire Oral History
Have you considered using oral history sources for Family History and Local
History research? Oral history provides a rich vein of material that informs us
about the past through the voices of everyday people. Rural life as it was lived
in the villages and hamlets of Leicestershire over the last one hundred years
and more is vividly captured in many oral history recordings contained in the
East Midlands Oral History Archive collections, held at the Record Office for
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. These oral testimonies provide unique
descriptions and memories of places and events that enhance and
compliment other methods of research. Work and leisure experiences are just
two of the areas recalled in oral testimony which can provide information and
insights for the family historian.
The East Midlands Oral History Archive catalogue, with its unique Leicester,
Leicestershire and Rutland based collections of oral history, has recently gone
on line at http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/catalogue.html . So far the EMOHA
project has catalogued the Mantle Collection, 140 recordings from the
Coalville and Whitwick areas of Leicestershire, the Leicester Oral History
Archive Compilation Collection which comprises 49 tapes with extracts on
many themes from all over Leicester and Leicestershire, and part of the David
Wood Collection focusing on Barwell and Hinckley. The catalogue is being
constantly updated. Full details of how to access the EMOHA archive can be
found on the website or by contacting Chrissy Thornhill, Cataloguing Officer,
on 0116 2525065 or 0116 257 1080.
CHRISSY THORNHILL
CATALOGUING OFFICER
EAST MIDLANDS ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE
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Samuel's Daughters
By Joan and Peter Shaw
In 1676, a gentleman called Samuel Shalcrosse negotiated with the Hudson
family to buy 340 acres of land in Burton-on-the-Wolds. In 1680, he acquired
a messuage, two cottages, three gardens, three orchards and 154 acres of
land in Quorn, Woodhouse, Mountsorrel and the Forest of Charnwood from
John and Joseph Earle of Quorn, and in 1700 he purchased a cottage in
Burton and two cow pastures in Twenty Acre at Six Hills.
We do not know when or where Samuel was born but he could have been
related to William Shalcrosse BA who was an usher at the Loughborough
Grammar School in the 1630s. He was one of several men of standing and
influence to be appointed trustees of the Quorn Charity funds in 1687 when he
was said to be 'Samuel Shalcrosse of London, gent'. We don't know exactly
when he settled in Leicestershire but by this date he probably already had a
home at Burton-on-the-Wolds because four years earlier his thirteen-year-old
daughter, Hannah, had been buried in the church at Prestwold.
Samuel's wife, Elizabeth, died at Crestwood in 1689. Later that same year he
married Ann Bushnell at St Mary's Marylebone. Ann was a widow, and
brought with her two young daughters: Roe Bonfoy and Ann Bushnell. She
had married John Bushnell at St Mary's Marylebone in 1683, and the
assumption must be that Samuel was her third husband. We have no record
of her first marriage, but she may have been a local girl. John Nichols
(History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester) records that she was 'aged
about 57 years' when she died in 1713, which would fit exactly the date of
baptism given in the Prestwold registers for Ann, the daughter of John Rowe
(or Roe) in 1656.
It was autumn 1698 when Samuel Shalcrosse proudly walked arm in arm to
Prestwold Church with Roe Bonfoy and gave her in marriage to William
Stevens 'citizen of London, gent'. No doubt he felt like any other father of the
bride - proud and more than a little apprehensive. William Stevens was
obviously no pauper, but just to make sure the marriage got off to a good
start, Samuel gave, as a wedding present, the house in Quorn, which he had
bought all those years ago. It stood on the north side of Meeting Street, and
in Quorndon Records, published 1912, George Farnham refers to it as the
White House.
Samuel, now in his seventies, found himself playing a new role - that of
grandfather to Shalcross, Samuel and William, who were quickly followed by
Thomas, Elizabeth, Charles, Morton, Hannah, Ann Juliana, Robert, George,
Hannah-Shalcrosse and Roe. At times there was grief - little Morton died of
convulsions when he was just 'three quarters' and Hannah, Juliana, George
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and Hannah-Shalcrosse also died when they were young - but most of Roe's
children survived, succeeded and multiplied.
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Roe's half-sister, Ann Bushnell, was married at Leicester St Mary's on 26
August 1707 to Nicholas Mason from Walton. Their first son died in 1718.
Two years later they were blessed with a second son whom they named
William Shalcrosse. William grew up in the company of four sisters - Hannah,
Ann, Elizabeth and Lucretia - perhaps on the Wolds, possibly at Rempstone.
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Samuel Shalcrosse died in 1729. He was in his 90 year. He was buried
beneath a stone on the south side of St Andrews Church at Prestwold (the
stone is no longer there and his only memorial is a small brass plaque low
down between the pews). He left his personal and real estate to 'my daughter
Ann Mason', and in the event that Ann and her husband predecease him
leaving no children, to sons of Roe Stevens, all London businessmen: Samuel
the distiller, William the cheesemonger, Thomas the grocer.
The estate was passed down to William Shalcrosse Mason. William was
seven years old when Samuel wrote his will. At the age of 17 he was a very
wealthy young man, having inherited the Shalcrosse estates from his mother
and Mason property from his father. He was not Lord of the Manor of Burton,
which honour was held by Lord Rawdon, but he was the most important man
in the village. He married well. His wife was Judith Jenkinson, whose mother
was the daughter and sole heiress of William Fiennes and granddaughter of
Viscount Saye and Sele, and he was related by marriage to the Packes of
Prestwold and the Pochins of Barkby.
William Shalcrosse Mason is often credited with building Burton Hall, but
although he may have begun work on the building towards the end of his life,
the project was probably completed by his successor, John Noon, son of his
sister Lucretia.
Despite their London business interests, the Stevens family retained their
association with Quorn for many years. They were considerable property
owners there and received one of the largest allotments under the Quorndon
Enclosure Award in 1763. They were related to the Hyde family, and following
Roe's death in 1738, William married Ann, the daughter of Henry and Martha
Farnham. In 1740 his son Samuel purchased Quorn Place (now the
Quorndon Fox Hotel).
In his contemporary account of Quorn, John Nichols lists the Rev Thomas
Stevens DD among the principal landowners and says he owned a good
house within the village. Another house mentioned is that of Mrs Peach,
presumably Roe Peach, granddaughter of Roe Stevens.
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In 1811 John Noon died, leaving Burton Hall to the son of a friend. By that
date the name Stevens no longer appears among the list of freeholders in
Quorn.
Roe Stevens and Ann Mason had between them several daughters, many of
whom married, and genealogists researching their family trees among the
Hentons, Greasleys, Kings, Noons, Loes, Warwicks, Bostocks and other wellestablished Leicestershire families may find the odd Shalcrosse hidden
among the branches. The story may be far from complete. Roe and Ann had
at least one brother, John Bushnell, and Samuel had a much-loved Godson
John James. There may be many others who knew the love and care of this
benevolent father and had cause to remember him with affection.
JOAN AND PETER SHAW, 35 BARROW ROAD, BURTON ON THE WOLDS, LOUGHBOROUGH
LE12 5TB - S291.
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Test Your Leicester Knowledge (answers on page 63)
Question 1
Leicester has enjoyed a supply of safe water since 1847 when an Act of
Parliament was passed allowing the growing town to establish its own
waterworks company. Where did they build their first reservoir?
Question 2
In what year was the streets of Leicester first lit by gas?
Question 3
What major change to the trams in Leicester happened in 1916?
Question 4
In 1887, which new building opened in Granby Street?
Question 5
In 1881, a new communication device came to Leicester. The headquarters
was in Granby Street – what was it?
Question 6
In 1905 the Leicester General Hospital opened, what was the name of the
building then?
Question 7
In 1911, a church in Leicester was destroyed by fire – which one?
Question 8
A census of traffic passing through Eastgates in 1861 recorded how many: Pedestrians between 8am and 10pm 22,500, or 33,600 or 54,300?
Vehicles between 8am and 10pm
1,563, or 2,966, or 4,258?
Question 9
In 1883 the present Register Office in Pocklington's Walk opened – what was
its purpose then?
Question 10
When and where did the last tram run in Leicester?
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Mining Disaster in Bendigo
Last year we published a story about a Leicestershire family – the
Beebys from Rutland - who emigrated to Bendigo Australia. Our contact
in Bendigo - David Cotton - has unearthed information about another
Leicestershire family, the Jacksons from Saltby. The following article
has been written by Liz Adams, using information provided by him from
a newspaper – the “Bendigo Advertiser” – and from his own research.
Samuel Jackson was born in Saltby, Leicestershire c1830. He was the son of
Samuel Jackson and Catherine Jackson who married in July 1818 in Saltby.
Samuel married Jane Elliott in Nottingham in 1853 and their son George was
born c1854 in England. By 1857 they were living in Eaglehawk, Australia and
Samuel was working on the Bendigo Goldfields. At the time of his death in
May 1872 he was working as a blacksmith and steam engine driver for the
Catherine Reef Company in Bendigo. Samuel and Jane had a large family of
10 children, one of who died in infancy of bronchitis and measles.
On the evening of 30 April 1872, Samuel was at work at the Catherine Reef
Company works. He was driving a steam engine boiler and acting as stoker. A
fellow workmate was concerned that the boiler valve was blowing off steam,
even though, according to the gauge, it was under low pressure. Although it
was obvious something was wrong, Jackson put bricks on the lever to
increase the pressure. As a result of this the boiler exploded, with, according
to a witness “the sound of a thousand cannons” Samuel Jackson suffered
terrible injuries, from which he later died. According to a report in the “Bendigo
Advertiser”, “his injuries were most severe and his sufferings intense. For no
less than a quarter of an hour was he under an immense mass of timber and
debris, unable to escape, and unable to save himself from being burnt by the
boiling water and steam which was blowing about him” Two other workers
were seriously injured.
However, this concern for the sufferings of one of the workers was but a very
small part of the report of the disaster. The greater part of the report showered
praise on the owners of the Catherine Reef Company. It said “The directors
and the manager certainly deserve great credit from the shareholders for the
vigour and promptitude with which they met the unparalleled emergency. Not
a moment was lost. Time, to the Catherine United Company, was too valuable
to lose, and accordingly early in the morning as many hands as possible were
put to work to undo the confusion and ruin wrought”. According to the report
the mine was in some financial difficulty, stating that “dividends had been few
and that they have had to deal with impatient banks” The mine was due to
reopen in 2 weeks and “the mine will then go on again as if nothing had
happened”
One can only imagine the pressures under which the workers carried out their
hard and dangerous work. To the mine owners it was obvious that time was
money and any delays caused by the investigation as to why a boiler
appeared faulty would not have been favourably received. According to the
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government inspector the plate and flue of the boiler were “considerably
reduced from their original thickness” Poor maintenance and lack of safety
devices on the boilers contributed to the death of the unfortunate Samuel
Jackson. Indeed, in the inquest report into Samuel’s death, the Government
Engineer Inspector states that “a valve should be arranged indicating a safe
pressure which could not be added to by the engineer; had such a valve
existed in this case, the explosion would probably would not have occurred”.
Boiler explosions were common in Bendigo, with almost weekly inquest
reports in the Bendigo Advertiser into some death in the mines. The inquest
jury recommended “the safety valve suggested by the Government inspector
should be added to the boilers in the district” The jury decided that Samuel
Jackson died “from scald and wounds caused by a boiler explosion, which
occurred through an error of judgement on the part of the deceased when
attempting to rectify some irregularity in the working of the gauge and valves
of the boiler”
No mention was made in the newspaper reports of the family left fatherless as
a result of the accident. Samuel’s widow Jane was left to care for 9 children.
Six of the children were under the age of eleven and the youngest only two
weeks old. Life must have been hard with so many children to feed and
clothe. In 1882 she was fined 2/6 with 2/6 costs for failure to send her children
to school. One can only guess at the reasons for this – lack of shoes, hunger
or the need for the extra income to be had from children sent out to work.
Jane must have been a tough woman as she lived to an old age. She died
aged 80 in 1911.
If you think you are related to Samuel Jackson and Jane Elliott, please contact
the editor, Toni Smith, who can put you in touch with David Cotton in
Australia. David has said he will be happy to try and trace any ancestors of
Samuel Jackson if anyone is interested.
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Narborough and Littlethorpe & WW I
I am researching the people of Narborough and Littlethorpe during the First
World War. Therefore can I appeal for any members who had family who were
born in the Parish, or lived or worked there, and were in the armed forces in
the 1914 – 1918 war, whether at home or abroad, to contact me with any
information that they can provide? I have a list of 2000 names of men who,
evidence indicates, were in uniform. These are chiefly gleaned from the
Electoral Roll, although I have a number of other sources.
Any details of the lives of those who served concerning the pre-war period,
service during the war, or what happened to them after the war would be of
interest.
I am also keen to hear about those men who didn't serve, because they were
doing war work, and the women who served in the uniformed services or
VAD, as I have no leads for these categories.
All help appreciated
DAVE RICKETTS, 5 WARWICK ROAD, LITTLETHORPE, LEICESTER LE9 5JA
narb_littleww1@hotmail.com
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Playing with Names
By Michael and Joyce Billings
Trees drawn up from names in the Parish Registers
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6276 Private William Buckingham
BY Derek Seaton
At long last I have managed to clear-up the mystery surrounding William
Buckingham’s early life, which has proved to be quite a challenge but
extremely rewarding and with quite exciting results!
Firstly, although most of the books on the VC holders refer to him as being
born in Leicester in February 1886 this is not the case. Initially, I followed up
all of the William Buckinghams born, nationally, between 1885 and 1888 and
drew a complete blank. The breakthrough came when I examined the
Leicester Union Workhouse records and found the following entries relating to
the Buckingham family: Admissions
20 June 1892
Buckingham Annie
Buckingham Joseph Henry
C/E
C/E
born 1866
born 1891
Reason for admission: Neglected by Husband
21 June 1892
Buckingham William Henry
C/E born 1886
Buckingham Frederick Ernest
C/E born 1887
Reason for admission:
Transferred from Bedford, Mother in House
I then obtained a copy of the birth certificate of Joseph Henry Buckingham
which shows his father as being Thomas Henry Buckingham and his mother,
Annie Susan Buckingham formerly Billington. My next step was to look at the
Billingtons - were William and Frederick born illegitimately?
I searched the National Register of Births and came up with:
June Quarter 1886
June Quarter 1887
Billington, William Henry born Bedford
Billington, Frederick Ernest born Bedford
I duly obtained copies of their birth certificates.This further information proved
that the mother’s maiden name was Bennett and posed the question - what
happened to the boys’ father, William John Billington. It also raised further
questions - when did Annie Susan Bennett marry: firstly William John
Billington secondly Thomas Henry Buckingham
Further research revealed the answers:
1 Feb 1886 Annie Susan Bennett married William John Billington at St
Cuthbert’s Church, Mill Street, Bedford
5 Mar 1888 William John Billington died at New Spring Road, Kempston, Beds
aged 19 years.
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3 Aug 1891 Annie Susan Billington married Thomas Henry Buckingham at
Holy Trinity Church, Regent Road, Leicester
At the time of the 1891 Census, Annie Billington (shoe fitter) was lodging at 16
Park Street, Leicester and Thomas Henry Buckingham (shoe riveter) was
living with his parents at 21 Upper Charles Street, Leicester. The next query
was - where were William and Ernest in the spring of 1891 ? I suspected that
they were at Bedford and, therefore, my travels took me to the Bedford &
Luton Archives and Records Service at Bedford in order to examine the 1891
Census details. I discovered the following:Frederick (3 years) was living with his maternal grandparents, Joab and Flora
Bennett at 14 Bower Street, Bedford
William (4 years) was an inmate of the Bedford Union Workhouse, where he
had been admitted on 11 May 1889
Examination of the records of the Bedford Board of Guardians, for May and
June 1891, revealed that news had reached the Board of Guardians at
Bedford of Annie Billington’s marriage to Thomas Buckingham.
Correspondence with the Leicester Union Workhouse, regarding the
settlement of William and Frederick, resulted in the decision being taken to
transfer the brothers from Bedford to Leicester to join their mother in the
Union Workhouse there on 27 June 1892.
Sadly, their little half-brother who, indirectly, provided the clue to enable me to
unravel the mystery, died in Leicester Union Workhouse on 4 September
1892.
From the time when the two young Billington brothers arrived in Leicester they
took their mother’s new surname, ironically the name of a man - Thomas
Buckingham - who they never knew. William and Frederick Buckingham were
admitted to the Countesthorpe Cottage Homes (Cottage No 6) on 15 July
1892. They remained there until they were discharged in 1901 and 1902
respectively. Details of William’s discharge are given as follows:th
Discharged 29 November 1901 to the 17 Foot (Leicestershire Regiment),
The Barracks, Glen Parva. He enlisted as a Boy Soldier and his trade was
shown as Tailor’s Boy.
I doubt whether any of this will do me any favours as I am a member of the
Royal Tigers’ Association. (The Royal Leicestershire Regiment). Private
Buckingham remains one of the Regiment’s heroes (one of four Tigers to be
awarded the Victoria Cross) and my revelations will probably result in me
being drummed out of the Association. However, perhaps Bedford, who can
now claim, for the first time, to have a VC winner born in the town, will receive
the news with rather more alacrity.
DEREK SEATON
Derek Seaton has kindly donated a copy of his new book “A Tiger And
A Fusilier” to the Society for the Library.
(SEE BOOK REVIEW ON PAGE 29)
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Dates for your Diary
DATES FOR LONDON & KEW COACH TRIPS
(See booking forms in the centre pages – page xxiv)
THE FAMILY RECORD CENTRE. - LONDON
Tuesday 22 October 2002
Thursday 28 November 2002
Contact Hilda Cobb
Canaan Farm, Ashby Parva, Lutterworth
LE175JD
or phone: - 0I455 202082
THE PUPLIC RECORDS OFFICE - KEW.
Thursday 12 September 2002
Dates for 2003 will be in December's Journal
Contact Gregg Chapman
22 Jacqueline Road, Markfield, Leicester LE67 9RB
or phone
01530 242815
The first trip from Loughborough to Kew will be on
Monday 30th December 2002.
This trip will be happy to make a pick-up at the Holiday Inn (former Post
House), Narborough Road
Booking Form On Page 15
For further details please contact Jean Perry at: jr.perry2@ntlworld.com or
address inside front cover
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Shard*low One-Name Study Meeting
to be held in the village of Shardlow, Derbyshire, on the Late Summer
Holiday, 2003.
All people interested in the name are welcome.
Further information can be obtained from
Gerry Langford, 136 Leicester Road, Groby, Leicester LE6 ODP
Glangford@compuserve.com
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Association of Local History Tutors
"The Market Town in its Rural Setting"
Annual Conference
25 - 27 April 2003 - Oakham, Rutland
This is a residential Conference cost £130 single, £100 shared room.
There are outings to Normanton and Stamford included.
Details from Uppingham Seminars, Noel Close, Adderley Street,
Uppingham Rutland LE15 9PP
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Whitwick Historical Group and Swannington Heritage Trust
FAMILY HISTORY DAY
VILLAGE HALL SWANNINGTON
10 am to 5 pm, Saturday, 19th October 2002
A number of fiche readers and computers with 1901 census for
Leicester and Leicestershire and 1881 census for Scotland
England and Wales. Transcripts of local parish registers and
census returns. Small displays by other villages and material
relating to Coleorton (mainly 1700s), Loughborough and
Shepshed. Information about local families with family trees and
ancestor charts.
Please send us yours soon.
Sources not available elsewhere include transcript of Whitwick Catholic
Baptisms and of burials in Coalville London Road Cemetery.
It is hoped to have an exhibition of early school photographs and
information about Great War soldiers particularly those who survived.
Light refreshments in the Hall. Meals available nearby.
Admission 50p.
For details telephone Lesley Hale 01530 832704
or write to her at 58 Main Street Swannington LE67 8QN 8QN
Is This Yours?
I have a copy birth certificate for a Sarah Timson which I purchased in error
whilst looking for my grandmother, another Sarah Timson. I am willing to
pass it on to someone who is researching this line for the postage please.
The certificate is as follows:
Name Sarah Jane Timson
th
Born 10 February 1872 at 28 Upper Conduit Street, Leicester
Father William Timson
Mother Kezia Timson formerly Buckston
MRS CAROL WOODS, 105 GREENGATE LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER LE4 3JH
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Found [not in a handbag] but in an old notebook.
Documents referring to Walter Alderman who served in the Northumberland
Fusiliers with an address in Rugby and Francis Alderman from Derby.
Would anyone researching this family get in touch with: David McCollum Tel: 0116 2856078
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At Easter this year I visited Poznan in Poland, whilst there I visited the Poznan
Old Garrison Cemetery. In the Commonwealth Section I recorded the details
of five graves of men from the Leicestershire regiment, that I thought might be
of interest to some of our members. They are: th
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Private H Earnshaw
25 July 1918
th
4858224
Private F S Outram
19 January 1945 aged 26
th
4860088
Private E R Neale
14 December 1940
st
4859242
Private J J Mallon
21 July 1943
aged 22
th
12127
Private J Dennis
5 August 1918
If any member has an interest in any of the above I can let them have a
photograph of the grave if they contact me.
C A SMART, 197 QUEENS ROAD, LEICESTER LE2 3FN as15@leicester.ac.uk
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New Book Review
A TIGER AND A FUSILIER – Leicester's VC Heroes – by Derek Seaton
The stories of two young boys of whom were in the care of the Leicester
Board of Guardians and were admitted to the Leicester Union Workhouse and
then transferred to the Countesthorpe Cottage Homes. Each of them went on
to be awarded the world's most coveted decoration for gallantry during WW1.
Both Private Buckingham and Captain Gee received the Victoria Cross from
King George V at Buckingham Palace
Price: £7.99 + P & P from the author
78 SPINNEY DRIVE, KIRBY GRANGE, BOTCHESTON, LEICESTER LE9 9FG
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The page continues to attract readers and we are now approaching the
100.000 mark, which I find very gratifying. You will notice that the Audio page
has disappeared. This is due to lack of use.
The Members E-mail Directory is growing apace. Remember Addresses are
not automatically entered. For yours to appear you must send them to me for
inclusion. Also do not forget to notify me of any changes. Any complaints from
members of mails bouncing will result in that address being deleted.
NOW I AM ASKING FOR YOUR HELP!
I need volunteers to Check the links regularly for me. With the size of the site
growing and the traffic I have to deal with I need help. Could you check , say,
6 links regularly ? if you can help contact me and I will allocate you 6 links for
this purpose. Sites do get withdrawn and become dead without me knowing
and I do like to keep things up to date. There is nothing more annoying than
clicking on a link only to be met with the “Not Available “ sign.
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland members. Is there a picture of your
parish Church on the Picture Gallery page? If not will you take one and send
to me for inclusion. Personally I would like a picture of St. Andrews Church,
Jarrom Street Leicester. Can anyone oblige?
G.Smith (Web Page Co-ordinator)
Home Page: http://www.localdial.com/users/airforce
LRFHS Web Site: http://www.lrfhs.org.uk
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Leicestershire & Rutland
FHS Research Centre and Library
www.lrfhs.org.uk
NEW TO VIEW AT THE FH LIBRARY
Recent new acquisitions include: -
Books
First 90 Years of Scouting in Syston, by D. Wilkes
Victoria Histories of Leicestershire & Rutland
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WW2
Street Atlas of Leics & Rutland 2002.
Glenfield Parish Registers 1604-1837
Houghton Pr's 1582-1750
Evington probate Inventories 1557-1819
Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650, by Dawson & Kennedy-Skipton
Armigerous Ancestors, by C. R. Humphrey-Smith
Lady Jane Grey, by H. W. Chapman
Boy Who Shot Down An Airship, by M. Green
Fiche
Bedfordshire PR's
Anglo-German FHS - London marriages
We are grateful to Miss Druscilla Armitage, Mr Fryett & John Whittacker who
donated several of the above items.
CD's
1891 Census Index of Leicester
Leicester & Leicestershire Marriage Index 1801-1837
1891 Census Lancashire
1891 Census Yorkshire
1841 Census Glamorgan
1841, 51, Census Index Nottinghamshire
1851 Seamens' Crewlists for Angus, Aberdeenshire & Cornwall
The Complete Parish Officer 1772
Universal British Directory 1791
Nottinghamshire Marriage, Burial & Baptism Indexes
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You can now renew your membership on the
internet at: www.lrfhs.net/onlinesales.htm
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THE RECORD OFFICE
FOR LEICESTERSHIRE
LEICESTER & RUTLAND
Long Street, Wigston Magna,
Leicester LEI8 2AH
Telephone: 0II6 257I080
Fax: 0II6 257II20
A Women’s Work – by Pat Grundy
I am always interested when I come across a woman who was not only not
doing a traditionally female job but was doing work that was traditionally male.
And so it was with Ann James, butcher and farmer of
Sparrow Hill in Loughborough as she was listed in
White’s 1846 directory.
With the editor’s deadline hanging over my head, I
gave myself an hour to discover something about Ann
James. Who was she? Was this her career or was
she holding the fort?
First the trade directories: The latest one with mention
of Ann was Melville’s 1854. Ann was described as a
farmer and also there was a Charles James, butcher,
listed. In the other direction I found Ann described as
a butcher both in 1849 and 1841. In 1831, a Henry
James was mentioned and it is reasonable to assume that he could be Ann’s
father.
The 1851 census for Loughborough produced a very interesting household.
Ann was 55 years old and at the head of a household which included her
brothers Henry and Charles, 51 and 41 years old respectively who were both
butchers, and a younger sister Mary aged 35 years. Ann described herself as
a farmer of 75 acres but Mary had no occupation. Perhaps she kept house.
What struck me about this was the fact that this woman, although the eldest,
was head of a household which included two of her brothers at a time when
men normally took precedence.
Assuming that Henry had died between 1831 and 1841, I looked for a will in
the name of Henry James. I found the will. Henry had died on 28 April 1834,
three months after making his will. Henry left everything initially to his wife
Ann, except for his butcher’s tools that he left to his son Henry. His son
Edward was to be an executor along with a friend of Henry’s and Henry’s wife
Ann. After Ann’s death, some money was to be set aside and invested to
provide an income for the support of another son Thomas, for the rest of his
life. It was made clear in the will that Thomas could not have any control over
this investment. Edward was to receive a small legacy and the remainder was
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to be divided between Henry’s five other children, Ann, Henry, Joseph, Mary
and Charles.
There are two probate entries attached to this will. The first was dated 3 July
1834 and the second on 11 July 1834. During that week Edward James, a
grocer living in Burbage, decided that he wanted nothing further to do with the
administration of the will. He ‘declined to act further’.
What an interesting family this is. Why did Edward resign as an executor?
What was wrong with Thomas and where was he in 1851? How was it that a
daughter clearly had control of something that was supposed to have been
divided between five of seven children and where was Joseph? A bit of
patient research might provide the answer to some of these Questions or it
might not. Either way a brief line in a trade directory can hide a very
interesting story.
And other news…
The last time that I wrote this piece I was at home with my leg in plaster.
Today happily, I am at my desk with only a neat scar and some internal
metalwork to remind me of a very long three months.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said of my colleagues. Currently three
members of staff are absent for medical reasons and a fourth expects to be
off quite soon. Absences through minor ailments and holidays mean that our
already overstretched resources are stretched even further as the
searchrooms continue to be really busy.
If you think that some of the searchroom staff are looking tired and stressed,
you know why. If you have to wait a bit longer for your photocopying or a
reply to an enquiry, please be patient. As for me, I am steadily working my
way through the backlog that accumulated whilst I was off and I would like to
say thank you to all the people who have sent their good wishes and who
have waited so patiently for the results of their research.
And finally….
During September and October we shall have a fascinating exhibition on loan
from the Public Record Office. From Strangers To Citizens, 1000 years of
Immigration to Britain is of national importance and to it we will be adding two
panels of local interest. One of these will be concerned with the connections
of some local county families with slavery in the plantations and the other will
be marking 30 years since the coming of the Ugandan community in 1972. I
hope some of our local readers will find time to have a look at it.
Did You Know?
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On 11 June 1920, Ronald Light was acquitted of the murder of
Bella Wright in the "Green Bicycle" case, after a three day trial at
Leicester Assizes
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On 29 April 1919, Ald. Jonathan North, Mayor of Leicester from
1914 to 1918 was knighted
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8 April 1908 saw the funeral of Police Constable John "Tubby"
Stephens, England's heaviest constable weighing 23 st 3 lbs. He
is said to have inspired the song The Laughing Policeman
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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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I'm after any information on ELIZABETH HAVEL who married GEORGE
BRAMLEY in 1814 at All Saints Church. JOHN TATE christened in 1797 at
Bishop Street Wesleyan Church and finally JOHN HURST christened in 1775
in Flecney. I've tried parish records and the IGI but there not a great help, so
I'm hoping someone out there will have some more ideas to help me. Many
thanks for your help.
TERRY RATCLIFFE - telbar@bigpond.com
18 JAYWICK CLOSE SAFETY BAY W. AUSTRALIA 6169
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Dear Editor
I too, like many other members, have come across an unusual Christian name
in my family tree. My gt gt grandfather was called BAMKIN PRESTON. He
was born in Rothley in about 1828, and I have no idea if it is a family name or
a nickname, or whether anyone else has an ancestor with this unusual first
name.
Can anyone please help?
BARBARA ASH, 32 DEVONSHIRE DRIVE, STAPLEFORD, NOTTS NG9 8GY
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On tracing my family (Towers), I have come across, my great x 3 grandma in
the Leicester County Prison, in the 1881 census, I have been to the records
office and had a look through the admissions for 1880-1886, and cant find a
trace of her! Would you happen to know where else I might look?
Also, if somebody is born illegitimate and this is said to be on their birth
certificate, in the year 1877, but when that person gets married, in the year
1899, the name of the father appears on the marriage certificate as deceased,
how do I go about finding if this person really existed? I do know that the
person in question was a real person and not make belief, but this is some 44
years later as somebody else's father, I just wondered if you may be able to
help me.
TRACY A TOWERS, 54 BURGESS ROAD, BELMONT PARK, COALVILLE, LEICESTERSHIRE,
LE67 3PX.
tracy@trs-net.co.uk
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In 1904, William Marvin was Postmaster of Brunswick Street Post Office (now
pulled down). In 1928 Mrs Caroline Marvin was Postmistress. In 1947 it was
Percy Marvin. In 1951 Philip Marvin, whose wife was Annie, and they had an
adopted daughter who would by now be probably late 60's.
My grandmother, Violet, used to refer to Caroline as old Aunt Carrie.
Presumably this family were related to the Mee family.
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Has anyone any information regarding this Post Office?
Sadly, we have no living relatives to our knowledge in Leicester, the last being
Dorothy (Dolly) Walker – nee Roche, and her brother Leonard Francis, who
lived at 64 Tenniscourt Drive, Humberstone.
MARGARET BROOME (NEE JONES) 13 STUART RD, AYLSHAM, NORFOLK NR11 6HW
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Seeking any descendants of ALFRED BIRD born c1842. Married ELIZ RILEY
(children Jesse and Charles Richard. Last link in Burton Overy Leics – 1881.
Harriet S Bird – born c1849
Charles S Bird – born c 1845
All born Warmington, Northants, children of Charles and Mary Blisset Bird.
Also seeking any information on descendants of MARIA DUFFY born c1903
and ANNIE DUFFY born c1906, both born in Leicester
Maria married PATRICK LOFTUS and had children Michael, John and
Stephen
Annie married JAMES P SHIEL and had children Martin, Ellen and Norah.
Both lived in Rotherham for a while where Maria kept a pub. I think they
emigrated to Australia mid 1930's but may have returned. No trace found in
Australia mainly due to not being able to look at recent records for this.
,BARBARA BIDDLE 2 PRINCESS AVE, OADBY, LEICESTER LE2 4SD
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Four children were baptised on the same day, 11 Oct 1813, at Barrow upon
Soar. Their parents were JOHN & MARY HARRIMAN. One of the children,
NATHANIEL, was my ancestor, but I am unable to prove whether it
was JOHN HARRIMAN and MARY HOLLIN who were married 27 Dec 1801
at Woodhouse, that were his parents. Does anyone have information on any
of these names, that may help me to solve this puzzle please ?
MRS V. WITHERS, 5, WHORLTON CLOSE, GUISBOROUGH, CLEVELAND, TS14 8LW.
val@withersv.freeserve.co.uk
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Contained within the CD-ROM are full transcripts of the 12 volumes of
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Parishes included are;
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1604- 1837, Ashby Parva – 1589-1837, Aylestone with Glen Parva and
Lubbesthorpe – 1561-1837, Barkby – 1586-1812, Barkston – 1569-1837, Barrowon-Soar – 1563-1837, Beeby – 1538-1837, Belgrave – 1653-1837, Birstall – 15741837, Bitteswell – 1558-1837, Blaby – 1568-1837, Bottesford – 1563-1812, Branston
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Cossington – 1754-1837, Coston – 1561-1812, Croxton Kerrial – 1558-1837,
Eastwell – 1588-1837, Eaton – 1724-1837, Evington – 1601-1837, Freeby – 16011775, Frisby on the Wreak – 1659-1837, Frolesworth – 1538-1837, Gaddesby –
1569-1812, Gilmorton – 1611-1837, Glenfield – 1604-1837, Goadby Marwood –
1657-1837, Great Dalby – 1581-1812, Grimston – 1635-1837, Harby – 1700-1837,
Harston – 1707-1837, Hoby - 1562 -1812, Hose – 1688-1837, Hoton – 1653-1837,
Houghton on the Hill – 1584-1837, Humberstone – 1559-1837, Hungerton [which
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Kirby Bellars – 1713-1837, Kirby Muxloe – 1619-1837, Knighton – 1672-1837,
Knipton – 1562-1837, Leire – 1559-1837, Little Dalby – 1559-1812, Long Clawson –
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Burton Lazars, Freeby, Sysonby, Welby and Eye-Kettleby] – 1546-1812,
Mountsorrel (North End) – 1677-1837, Muston – 1561-1812, Nether Broughton –
1577-1837, Old Dalby – 1725-1837, Owston-cum-Newbold Saucy – 1701-1837,
Pickwell – 1570-1841, Plungar – 1695-1837, Prestwold [including Burton-on-theWolds, and Cotes] – 1560-1837, Queniborough – 1562-1837, Quorndon – 15761837, Ragdale – 1668-1837, Ratby – 1695-1812, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak – 16981837, Rearsby – 1653-1837, Redmile – 1653-1837, Rotherby – 1561-1812, Rothley –
1562-1837, Saxby – 1680-1837, Saxelbye – 1555-1837, Scalford – 1558-1812,
Scraptoft – 1539-1812, Seagrave – 1682-1837, Sharnford – 1595-1837, Sibson –
1569-1812, Sileby – 1568-1837, Somerby – 1601-1812, South Croxton – 1662-1837,
Stapleford – 1655-1837, Stathern – 1567-1837, Stoughton – 1537-1837, Swithland –
1624-1837, Syston – 1562-1837, Thorpe Arnold with Brentingby – 1558-1840,
Thrussington – 1660-1812, Thurcaston cum Cropston – 1561-1837, Thurmaston –
1719-1837, Thurnby cum Bushby – 1564-1837, Tilton on the Hill – 1631-1837,
Twyford cum Thorpe Satchville – 1562-1812, Walton on the Wolds – 1568-1837,
Wanlip – 1563-1837, Wartnaby – 1633-1838, Wigston Magna – 1567-1837, Withcote
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Could These Be Yours?
I have recently received a Boots folder containing some 20 or so
photographs which the owner probably picked up at a sale. They
are snapshots, and there are also several negatives. I would guess
they were mostly taken between 1930 and 1970. One photo is of a grave
stone inscribed "In loving memory of a husband and father ROWLAND HILL"
The Boots folder names the depositor as Mrs Williams, and another folder is
from Oliver Clear MPS Chemist, 66 Belgrave Gate, Leicester.
The following is a sample of the photos: -
If you would like to claim these photos, please write to the editor.
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Computer Section
By Mike Ratcliff
mratcliff@ntlworld.com
CENSUS CD SWAPPING
In the previous edition of the Journal I was complaining that I always had to
swap between the Index and Census CDs when using the 1881 census. Even
though I have two CD drives on my computer (one is also a writer) the
software insisted that only one could be used. Guy Etchells’ (E43) website at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/farmland/1881.htm
clearly spells out the steps required to make the system more user-friendly.
Do take heed of the warnings given on the site and be sure to backup your
Windows Registry before starting.
PICTURE FORMATS
Storing images on computers and emailing them to friends can cause
problems. In Journal No. 108 I discussed the number of pixels (or dots)
required to fill the computer screen and pointed out that any more than that
will not add to the quality of the picture. Emailing huge picture files not only
takes a long time for yourself and the recipient, but also bumps up the phone
bill. The second possible problem is the format used to save the picture. Over
the years many different companies and groups have devised formats for
storing images, and these may, or may not, be readable by any other
company’s software. The format used to store the image is indicated by the
three letters after the dot in the file’s name. E.g. picture.bmp or picture.tif.
One common format is Windows Bitmap (.bmp), which is only for use on
Windows systems. Each dot in the picture is stored with its values of the three
primary colours, which results in a large file. Fine for a high quality image to
use on your own computer, but not one to fit on a floppy disk or send to a
friend who is not using Windows (such as an Apple Mac computer).
Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) was designed for interchanging graphics
(which probably means it is one of the few things in the computer world that
has a meaningful name). It is very good for images with a few blocks of
distinct colours and well-defined lines. For this reason it is the most popular
format for the logos and small images seen on web pages.
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg) format is not as well named as
some, but is very useful. It is commonly used for photographs and similar
images and has the advantage that the file is compressed. Compression is a
complex method of discarding some of the bits in the file with only a small loss
of image quality. Most graphics software allows the user to select the level of
jpeg compression when the file is saved. If you are not sure what level to
select then save your image with several different levels and view the stored
pictures to choose which is acceptable. As a quick test I scanned a 6x4 inch
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colour photograph at 300 dots per inch and saved it as a bmp and the file size
was 6.1 Megabytes. My software allows the user to vary the jpeg compression
between 1 (best quality, largest file size) and 100 (worst quality, smallest file
size), so I stored the image with compressions of 1 (1.1Mb), 20 (166kb) and
60 (85kb). Even at a compression of 60 the image looked good on my
computer screen, though the loss of quality would probably show if I did a
large print from it. So jpeg can really shrink the size of the file with little loss of
quality and it can be read on the Apple Mac.
Finally Tag Interchange File Format (.tif) produces a high quality image, but
with a large file size. Its advantage over Windows Bitmap is the fact that it can
be exported to Macintosh or even UNIX based systems.
CONSUMABLES
That bargain-priced printer that you purchased can turn into a drain on the
wallet when you find out the cost of ink cartridges and glossy paper. Members
in the UK, Ireland, France and Germany can take a look at www.mx2.com. It
is a mail order service that I have used for a couple of years and the claimed
delivery of 3 to 7 days has always been met. If I have ordered an item that is
temporarily out of stock an email has been promptly sent informing me of the
fact and giving an expected delivery date.
The following are a few prices from the website with typical UK shop prices in
brackets afterwards. Epson 20110 colour cartridge £9.90 (£13.99), Epson
20093 black cartridge £12.90 (£16.99), Epson 41126 A4 glossy paper – 20
sheets £5.25 (£6.99). If you are willing to try the compatible, non-Epson
products they are a fraction of the prices quoted.
I know that many members also take photographs as part of their researches,
so it is also worth looking at the film prices on the site. Kodak Gold 200,
35mm, 36 exp, £2.09 (£4.70), Fuji Superia 100, 35mm, 36 exp, £1.45 (£4.49),
Panasonic 2CR5 lithium camera battery £2.15 (£7.99). There is a £1.95
charge per order for packing and postage, but the savings on just one
cartridge easily covers this. Another supplier offering similar products and
prices is www.7dayshop.com, but as I have never used them I cannot
comment on their service.
I’m sorry if I have bored our overseas’ readers, but I would like to know how
our UK prices compare with yours. Us Brits always think we are being ripped
off, so let me know via the email address above.
USEFUL OR INTERESTING LINKS
The following links have all been pasted directly from my web browser, to
avoid typing errors, and were working when I tried them. Some of them may
be familiar to experienced users, but could be of interest to newer members.
One set of links I have not mentioned, probably because I am so used to
using them that I assume everyone knows they are there, are the ones on our
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Society’s website. They have clearly been added to over a long period and
represent a very comprehensive list: www.lrfhs.org.uk/links.html
Lists of links do gradually become out of date as sites vanish or move
elsewhere. We do hope to check the links in the above list at regular intervals,
but until we get that organised please report any broken links to George Smith
at airforce@localdial.com
I must confess that I had never heard of the Historical Manuscripts
Commission, but rummaging around their slightly confusing site may just turn
up something of interest: www.hmc.gov.uk/index.html
If you have ancestors who went to Australia this site is a good place to start as
it points you to the resources available: www.coraweb.com.au/index.htm
I try to have a nostalgia link in each Journal, if only for my own pleasure. This
time it’s the Eagle comic, which in the 1950s was the leading boys’
publication. See: http://members.aol.com/nicholashl/homepage.htm
Searching the International Genealogical Index (the IGI) is not always
straightforward given just a surname, but no Batch Number. Try the following:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers
.htm#Page
Mailing lists are a very useful way of gaining and sharing information (as I was
reminded by Liz Harris, H373). These lists are organised by specific interests,
such as an individual British county. Subscribers can email a genealogical
query to the list and this is forwarded to all the members of that list. Anyone
can email a reply either directly to the questioner or back to the list, if they
think the reply is of general interest.
Most lists allow the user to subscribe as described above or to a digest that
combines a lot of messages into a single email. If you find that it is not what
you wanted it is simple to unsubscribe at any time. If you are going on holiday
for a couple of weeks it probably worth unsubscribing because if you belong to
a busy list you could find a few hundred emails waiting in your inbox.
For an index of lists go to www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html and
follow the link for England to a complete list of counties and interests.
Starting in genealogy can be very daunting. Microfiches, the GRO and
Catherine, who was made a saint for writing an index; these were just a few of
the puzzling bits. The following web page will help to get you started, but while
you are there have a look at the rest of the site which contains a lot of useful
information. www.genuki.org.uk/gs/
If you want to contact me please use the address below. I can’t mend your
computer or answer queries about your software (I’ve probably never used it),
but if you would like to discuss anything in this column or suggest links or
ideas for future editions then please feel free.
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MIKE RATCLIFF
mratcliff@ntlworld.com
Parish Register Tit-Bits
By Jacqui Simkins
Church of England Records: Registers
There can be confusion over the whereabouts of registers of births, marriages
and deaths; not only those of the non-conformists, but also those kept within
the Church of England. I felt some enquiries were needed as to any
requirements on the deposit of old registers after a recent incident involving a
friend who, having made a generous donation to her local church to “enable”
registers to be “handed in for filming”, found that her cheque was banked but
no action had occurred some months later.
Rules passed by the General Synod of the Church of England are regarded
as being of the same standing as those passed by parliament, so my
enquiries began with the Synod offices in London. They provided a glossy
book advertising their publications Essential Resources from the Church of
England, and an offprint of the Parochial Registers and Records Measure
1978. This latter can be accessed on-line at : http://wellington.butterworths.co.uk/wbs/NETbos.DLL?POView?sk=BEILGFN
A&bk=0&
Enquiries were also made at the local diocesan office, which kindly provided
The Care of Your Parish Records produced in 1994 by the Church of England
Record Centre. This booklet states quite clearly that the 1978 Measure had
been brought up to date (their words) by the Church of England
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(Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992, which had become operative on 1
January 1993. The booklet is easy to understand!
Registers of baptism, and/or marriage, and/or burial and of confirmations
should not be held within the parish once they have been out of use for 30
years (no limit set on age if still in use). They are required to be preserved.
The definition of “current” for registers is simple: when the register has been
replaced/out of use for 30 years it has to be handed in. That cannot be
misinterpreted surely? If the register is not full, but another has superseded it,
then it is no longer current.
Where are the parishes obliged to lodge registers? In the diocesan records
office. The 1978 Measure states that every diocese shall have such, and that
the “bishop shall not designate a place as a diocesan record office unless that
place:
(a) is a depository provided by a local authority under the Local
Government (Records) Act 1962 or the Local Government Act 1972
for documents deposited with or belonging to that authority; or
(b) is a place of deposit appointed under the Public Records Act 1958;
or
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(c) is in the opinion of the bishop a suitable place to be appointed as a
place of deposit under that Act;
and before he designates any such place as a diocesan record office he shall
obtain the agreement of the authority who will be responsible for register
books and records deposited in that place under this Measure.”
The 1978 Measure requires the depository concerned to make the registers
available to the public for searches, and only when held by a depository other
than that of a local authority, can a charge for such be made.
So what do you do when registers from a church are not available? Firstly,
check with the relevant County Records Office: are they also the diocesan
records office, and if not where is it. Next, ask if the registers are deposited or
if they are known to be lost (if lost, try Bishop’s Transcripts).
Some rural parishes will have few entries and registers will be in use for very
many years. If the register is not deposited, a polite enquiry as to the current
whereabouts of the registers should be made with the incumbent, parish
priest, or if there is not one, with the churchwarden. It might be useful to
establish if there is more than one register, and for what periods of time each
operated. If it appears that the older register has been superseded for 30 or
more years, perhaps a gentle reminder about the Measure will get some
action without you needing to “grease the palm” as my friend did! Please bear
in mind that the incumbent at the church in question may be blissfully unaware
of these measures, one said to me “it’s not something they cover much in
clergy training – you’re supposed to pick up these things by osmosis”. You
may find that the “designated depository” would help in securing care of the
originals: having them available would much reduce the number of enquiries
they had to deal with from those wishing to use the registers for research.
Incidentally, within the parish the person holding the registers can make a
charge for looking up entries, but if by a priest-in-charge the fees go to the
diocesan coffers which may lead some to being less willing to expend their
time and energy. On the other hand, one incumbent has said that he will not
release any registers as long as he can charge £20 for each entry he looks
up! Family historians again being held to ransom by the few for information
that is supposed to be in the public domain. However, my local friendly priestin-charge advises that the charges are £14 for the first hour including copy of
an entry in certain registers, with £11 per subsequent hour or part of an hour;
if you require additional copies of an entry, they are £14 each; these charges
should be posted on the church notice board (not much help for enquiries
from outside the parish).
These notes are brief but I hope those involved with their local church will feel
able to encourage incumbents in charge of registers to deposit these sooner
rather than later: for safety as well as for the benefit of family researchers. My
“local friendly priest-in-charge” when coming to the parish rapidly deposited
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19 century registers with the County Record Office for their safety! I also
hope these notes will inform family historians so that they can make the right
enquiries, at the right place, and not berate the wrong people!
JACQUI SIMKINS
jas@langleymill.freeserve.co.uk
Snippets from Australia
By David Cotton
The following were found whilst browsing through some documents: The ship EPAMINONDAS left England 13 April 1852 arrived Adelaide South
Australia on 2 August 1852.
Amongst the migrants on board are the following said to be from Rutland
John Bottom age 27 - appears to have died in South Australia (SA) aged 49
in 1873
Amos Bottom age 20 - married in SA to Ellen Haines and had a family
Thomas Clarke 23, Eliza 24, John E age 2 and Henry age 1 - (I don't know
where they are from in Rutland and cannot find what became of them)
Vincent Percival age 31, Jane Ann age 26 and William 1 – found in 1851
census Oakham. They married 4th qtr 1849 Oakham.
(see my extraction list (deposited in the LRFHS library) Jane E Vines I have
missed Vincent Percival in extractions but he is in GRO index page 1358)
Vincent Percival died in SA in 1864.
Thomas Seaton age 42 and Mary J aged 37 - unable to trace further. (maybe
married 4th qtr 1838?)
On board ship "CAUCASIAN" arrived Adelaide in 1853 and said to be from
Rutland are: Henry Skellett and wife Milllicent and some children. They are obviously the
couple married 4th qtr 1845 Stamford Reg dist
Henry Skellett and Melicent Atkin - parish unknown? GRO index 1045
Editor – David Cotton has extracted marriages from the GRO indexes
and parish records for Rutland and also Stamford, and they are
deposited
in
our
Research
Centre
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In her article in the April journal about the 1851 Borough of Leicester
census, Celia Cotton pondered on a few town or village names, supposedly
from Leicestershire, which offered "opportunities for interpretation". I may be
repeating suggestions which have already been made to her, but the following
are my guesses at some of their origins:
Barral Barwell, near Hinckley
Witckit Whitwick, near Coalville or Withcote, near
Oakham, Rutland.
Boilstone Barlestone, between Coalville and Hinckley in
Leicestershire, but has a Warwickshire postal
address nowadays.
Owdley Oadby.
Horbling Harby, near Melton Mowbray.
Highthorne has defeated me I'm afraid.
KIM WINSPEAR
W562
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I noticed on the back cover of the April issue of the journal the cricket
photograph and it made me think of my Gt. Grandfather who was a very keen
cricketer.
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He was born Thomas Em(m)erson in Belton in 1847 being the 4 son (of 5) to
Francis Emmerson & Fanny (Hickling). His eldest brother John ran the
George Hotel in Belton and on the 1881 census I found him there with his wife
and 10 children plus one married daughter, son in law and granddaughter
along with the father of the son in law plus a lodger, so it was quite some
family. I would, therefore, imagine there was no room for any paying guests at
the hotel.
Thomas married Hannah Mee b. 1842 Peggs Green whose Father was
Joseph the local Blacksmith, which incidentally if this is published I should be
grateful to know if anyone has any photo or postcard of this Forge. I believe it
is not too many years ago that it was still standing.
His career progressed through a Merit Constable, Detective Sergeant I" Class
Sergeant with pay of 33s.0d, per week. In l896 he was promoted to Acting
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lnspector of the Police Fire Service and then to Superintendent of the Police
Fire Brigade.
He was an active member of the Hull Police Cricket Team and a friend of the
famous cricketer, W.G. Grace. I believe my cousin still has a bat signed by
Grace, which was presented to Thomas. I have his fire chief's helmet and axe
and also a tartan rug, which he was presented with on retirement.
He had to retire owing to an accident when he was thrown from the tender; he
sustained injuries, which incurred amputating his right leg. He retired to live
with his daughter in Cleethorpes, died in 1924 aged 76 and was buried in Hull.
Also if there are any descendants of his brother's families - John, George,
Isaac, or Francis, Em(m)erson I should be delighted to hear from you.
Ann Henderson (H 546).
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Dear Editor
In response to my letter about the double marriage of Henry Groocock printed
in the Spring Journal, I had a letter which I believe may be of interest to other
members: "With reference to your query in the LRFHS Journal, regarding the two
marriages of Henry Groocock and Emma Mason…….
When Henry gave notice for the first of the two marriages, he must have
stated that he was a Bachelor. As this was incorrect (and may seem a small
mistake) the marriage would be recorded as 'void' by law; hence the second
marriage.
Had this have been an error on the part of the clergy or registrar, it could have
been corrected on the authority of the Registrar General.
When a widow or widower gives notice that they intend to re marry, they have
to produce their late partners death certificate.
However minor, incorrect information given intentionally for registration
purposes, is taken seriously: the law considers it is perjury. Henry perhaps
thought he was a bachelor, as he was free to marry, and no-one else was
harmed. I have just had another thought – when notice was given, if they both
lived in the same area, the lady could be the one who gave notice, and may
be the lady thought he was a bachelor!
CHRISTINE KEIGHTLEY"
I hope this has helped others with similar anomalies in their family history.
NORMAN GROOCOCK
NGROOCOCK@nimrodwater.fsnet.co.uk
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An excellent Journal for July!
1. Karrenhappuch again (p20). On Thursday evening I had a phone call
from a lady member to tell me that the ‘stray’ I had found at Ratby
was her great aunt and a witness at her parents’ wedding.
2.
Your para on Onnie becoming Winston (p20): at the risk of teaching
granny to suck eggs, were you aware that it was – and still is – quite
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permissible to change a child’s name within a year of first
registration? I wasn’t until I got my own birth certificate and found I
had been registered as Jonathan. My actual name – George Brunt –
is in the last column under the heading Name entered after
Registration.
GEORGE BALL
Editor: Thank you, George – in my case at the time of the census the child had not
been registered, so I believe that the family just 'changed their minds' between
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the census date and the registration date of 20 April!
I have had correspondence also from George Ball regarding his frustration
about the 1901 census. Indeed he has had a letter published in the Times
newspaper. I think he has voiced the opinion of us all in the unacceptability of
the delays in getting the 1901 census 'on line'. (see latest news on page 3)
Remember, the LRFHS Library now has the 1901 census on fiche, and it is
indexed by villages for Leicestershire and Rutland, and street indexed for the
Borough of Leicester. Most large libraries also have it for the local areas,
although it is not indexed of course.
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George Ball's letter re Kerrenhappuch (p 38 of Journal 108) reminded me that
seven years ago the name Keren-Happouch was the subject of
correspondence in the journal of the Somerset and Dorset Family History
Society. I wrote to them as follows: In the course of an ongoing one-name study I have acquired a copy of the
marriage certificate of John Hooper, widower, tailor of Marnhull, Dorset and
Karen-Happuch Spinney, widow of Woolland, Dorset. Their marriage took
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place on 30 August 1854 in Woolland Parish Church.
The name Keren-Happuch appears in the Bible (Job 42:14) as that of the third
and youngest daughter of Job after his prosperity had been restored. Her
sisters names were Jemmima and Keziah –"and in all the land were no
women found so fair as the daughters of Job" (Job 42:15)
The New Bible Dictionary (Leicester, Inter-Varsity Press, 1982) gives it as
"horn of eye-paint", i.e. source of beauty. Could it be that Job's daughters
owed at least some of their beauty to their use of cosmetics?
ALAN HORDER, 15 CHURCH LANE, KNIGHTON, LEICESTER LE2 3WG
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I would like to thank the people that responded to my request last month
regarding George Hodges and Ellen Bennett. It proved very fruitful and have
opened up a new avenue in my research. I wish to find any person trying to
find Thomas Hodges and an Ann Bishop these people are the parents of
George Hodges. I discovered that George had four brothers, Thomas William,
William, James and Frederick Hodges. They apparently moved to Leicester
around 1815 because I found one baptisim I think for Frederick.
MICK HODGES
Peter4@hodg.freeserve.co.uk
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William Green 1784 – 1881
By Sheila Mileham
The research into William Green’s Leicestershire background was
prompted by an appeal by Mel Siddons on BBC Radio Leicester for
information about William’s burial place and also details of William’s
wife’s background
William Green was the second child of John and Elizabeth Green who arrived
in Lutterworth with a Certificate of Settlement from Welford,
Northamptonshire, dated, 22 March 1783. William was born on 7 June 1784
and his baptism into the Church of England took place privately, on 9 June
1784. John and Elizabeth Green turned to the non-conformist church for the
baptism of their other children, which suggests that William was a frail child
and that there was perhaps some doubt about his chances of survival.
In June 1803, William Green, aged just 19 years, enlisted in the Leicestershire
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Militia. On 18 April 1805 he joined he ‘Old 95 ’ or Rifle Brigade at Canterbury.
William’s first two sorties overseas were unremarkable.
Having completed his rifle drill William Green was ordered to leave England
on 5 November 1805, as part of a contingent of 20,000 British troops under
the command of General Donn, to check the French in Low Germany. They
landed at Cuxhaven on 19 November. This was known as the Coffee
Expedition because there was no fighting. The Rifles returned to England in
the spring of 1806. William’s company was then ordered to march to Harwich
to embark on an expedition to Sweden under the command of Sir John
Moore, to assist the Swedes against the Prussians. Here again there was no
fighting and after being anchored for six weeks in Gothenburg harbour the
Rifles were sent back to England.
William’s next trip was in July 1807, when the Rifles left England for
Copenhagen under the command of Lord Cathcart. They arrived on the
outskirts of Copenhagen on 16 August 1807 and took part in the capture of
Copenhagen. William remembered his pleasant quarters at the King of
Denmark’s Country Palace where rum, wine, brandy and the best ‘eatables’ in
Denmark were profusely provided.
The cutlery was all silver, which
impressed William greatly. The garrison surrendered on 5 September and as
William sailed back to England at the end of September, he thought what a
ruinous plight Denmark must be in, their crops destroyed, their fine city burned
and the whole of their fine fleet gone.
On his return to England from Copenhagen, William Green took part in the
expedition to Portugal. With his regiment he sailed from Spithead on 24 May
1808 en route to Lisbon, but because of severe weather the ship had to put
into Vigo Bay in the north of Spain. From there they sailed for the Burling
Islands and landed at Vimeiro on 28 August. The battle there had been
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fought seven days previously, on the 21 and the regiment had to march over
the battlefield where many English, Portuguese and French lay unburied.
After concluding an armistice, Sir John Moore led his forces into Spain where
they lay quartered in convents in the villages around Salamanca from 13
November until 12 December.
The laying down of arms by 50,000 Spanish troops led to the retreat to
Corunna, a distance of 250 miles, which commenced on 23 December
1808.There had been very heavy snowfall and the troops had no tents; a
blanket had been served out to each man. Bullocks were driven before the
men, but the meat was so tough and the available cooking time so short, that
the best they could count on was a sort of insipid soup. Eventually, the
Colonel gave orders to throw away knapsacks and keep either the greatcoat
or blanket whichever they chose. William Green said of this time ‘We did not
mind parting with our kits, orders must be obeyed, so we left them by the
roadside, but we then had to carry 50 rounds of ball cartridge, 30 loose balls
in our waist belts, a flask and horn of powder, and rifle and sword, the two
weighing fourteen pounds. Those who could use tobacco held out the best. I
was one of that number.’ The Hussars’ horses were shot at the rate of 30 or
40 a day and the riders, carrying their saddle-bags on their shoulders, had to
walk with knee boots and spurs to Corunna. There were several bridges to
cross and, once all the troops were over, the bridges were blown up to halt the
French in their pursuit and allow the soldiers to get on a mile or two. With all
their encumbrances the British were only moving about 2 miles per hour. They
eventually arrived at Corunna on 12 January 1809.
During the retreat, near to a town called Kankabella, William Green had the
misfortune to fall into a well. While limping away the French drew close and he
managed to remain unobserved by lying low until they had passed, because
his dress, like his name was green. (We have to assume that the thaw had set
in at this stage). It was just after that time that the soldiers passed a cart
drawn by oxen, which couldn’t go any further. The cart was laden with
English stores including boots and shoes, which were distributed among the
English troops. After four miles marching the sole had dropped off one boot
that William Green was wearing. He lost the other sole three miles further on.
The soles and heels had been glued or pegged on (not in the Leicestershire
tradition) no wax or hemp having been used. It was the general view that
whoever contracted with the Government for the supply of those boots ought
to have been tried by Court Martial and been rewarded with a good flogging
by cat-o’-nine tails. William Green said that he would cheerfully have
administered 200 lashes.
Sir John Moore fell during the Battle of Corunna on 16 January 1809. The
English were well and truly overpowered and began to march through the
town from the battle to the waiting warships. Throughout the night the
exhausted soldiers moved through Corunna, still in good order but with
uniforms in tatters, covered with blood and filth and with gaunt hollow faces.
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Citizens in the streets made the sign of the cross as the soldiers passed
through the flickering patches of lamplight because they looked so terrible.
Just after dawn the following day Sir John Moore was buried near the
landward bastion of Corunna Citadel, his body wrapped merely in his
General’s dirty military cloak. That day the regiment sailed for England.
They arrived at Spithead on 3 February 1809 and marched to Hilsea
Barracks, three miles from Portsmouth. William Green recalled that such a lot
of ragamuffins never landed at Portsmouth before. They were so filthy with
vermin that they were not fit to sleep in a decent bed. All their clothing, and
the livestock it contained, was burnt in the Barrack Square.
After a brief period at the Brigade Headquarters at Hythe Barracks the men of
the Rifle Brigade, supplemented by a new intake from the militia, sailed from
Dover on 24 May 1809 for Lisbon amid very emotional scenes. From Lisbon
they went on to Talavera under Lord Wellington, where, again, they arrived
too late for the battle. The carnage affected the newcomers badly. One young
rifleman was so sickened that he went to hospital and died. The faces of some
casualties were covered with live maggots. William Green found a letter in a
knapsack belonging to one of the casualties. The letter came from the man’s
wife in Ireland who, it appeared had three children. William kept the letter and
eventually wrote to her to let her know her husband’s fate.
Retreating before Marshal Soult, provisions were very deficient. The men
boiled up acorns (which were much larger than the English variety) in camp
kettles. When the husks were pulled off they tasted something like potato.
They carried sheaves of wheat, which they thrashed with a ramrod and mixed
with water. Instead of bread the men were served with a little flour, which they
made into small balls and boiled, calling them dough-boys. At Mirabete on 20
September 1809, there was a conversation between William Green and
another Lutterworth lad. ‘Bill’ said the lad ‘I think we shall be kept on this
Dough-boy Hill till we all die of want. William Green’s response was ‘I think so
too; it is Lutterworth Feast today, (the first Friday after 16 September) our
friends will be eating plum pudding and roast beef.
By the time they arrived in Portugal they had about 5,000 soldiers in Elvas
Hospital, fever was raging and the hospital was soon full, most of the
casualties died there. They then went on to Campo Mayo, about 12 miles from
Badajoz.
One young man, a native of Hinckley, named John Moore, fell ill with fever
and was taken to the dead house, laid on a plank with his feet tied together.
He was to have been buried the same night. The sentinel on guard heard a
noise discovered the poor fellow had fallen off the plank and was trying to get
the string off his feet. He recovered and fought on.
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On 27 September 1810 came the Battle of Busaco. There was heavy fighting
and thousands of the enemy deserted their ranks and came over to the British
as prisoners of war. The enemy suffered 8,000 deaths in this encounter.
Executions for desertion were numerous and so the Rifles rubbed along,
some sinking under lack of the necessities of life and others falling in
skirmishes. William Green meanwhile having survived several skirmishes, had
learned to play the bugle and been made a bugler.
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On 20 January 1812, Cuidad Rodrigo was taken by storm. Then it was on to
Badajoz. 5,000 British and 2,000 Portuguese soldiers lost their lives in this
encounter. The provision ration was half a pound of bread and a gill of rum for
each man, and so they went on their desperate errand. On 6 April 1812,
during the storming of Badajoz, William Green was badly wounded, with one
ball in his groin and another through his left wrist. Even so, hearing his bugle
major sound the advance and the double-quick, William rolled on his back and
repeated the sound; that was the last time he blew a bugle. He spent four
days being looked after in the field before he along with other wounded were
put into carts drawn by oxen and taken to a convent at Elvas. This was the
first time he had laid on a bed since 24 May 1809. On 17 April he set sail
from Lisbon for home, arriving at Portsmouth on 3 August 1812. Twenty-nine
pieces of bone of varying sizes were taken from his arm.
After a three-week spell in Haslar Hospital, he went to barracks on the Isle of
Wight for a further three weeks. Those soldiers who could march then sailed
to Southampton and marched to Chelsea arriving during September. On 9
Dec 1812, William Green was pensioned off, receiving a pension of 9d. per
day. As his share of the prize money for the capture of Copenhagen he
received £3 16s 2d.
Altogether William had taken part in 27 battles, three in Denmark and twentyfour in Spain and Portugal.
Shortly before writing his memoirs in the mid 1850s, William Green met a
former comrade who was taken prisoner at Almeid, which was surrendered to
the French on 28 August 1810. He had been surrounded by French Hussars
who administered blows with their swords, which cut out his left eye and cut
into the thick part of his thigh. His name was Joseph Tomlinson, who lived at
Hinckley. Joseph had gone on to fight at Waterloo and was award a Waterloo
Medal.
William decided to return to Lutterworth, his first visit for five years. A couple
of miles before the end of his journey he called at a public house for some
refreshment. There he saw someone he knew but who had not recognised
him because he was in uniform. They continued the journey together and
went into another public house at Lutterworth. There were nine or ten men in
the room and William knew them all, but again they hadn’t recognised him.
They enquired which regiment he was from then after several Lutterworth men
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in the regiment. They asked after William himself and he said that yes he saw
‘him’ in London two days previously and he had a message for his father.
Someone fetched John Green who after a time recognised his son and took
him home to resume his life in Lutterworth.
His wounds having healed William lost little time in finding himself a bride. He
married Elizabeth Laughton at Lutterworth on 27 September 1813. William’s
brother, Thomas had married Elizabeth’s sister, Mary Ann Laughton on 23
November 1812.
William and Elizabeth had the following children baptised into the nonconformist Independent (later to become Congregationalist) Church at
Lutterworth.
Mary Ann
born 10 August 1814
baptised 23 August 1814
William
born 20 February 1816
baptised 18 March 1816
Elizabeth
born 29 June 1819
baptised 5 September 1819
John
born 17 April 1821
baptised 27 May 1821
Charlotte
born 30 November 1826 baptised 3 October 1830
William was a religious man and was obviously happily married. In his book,
he said that having ‘laid by tippling’ he was comfortable in his circumstances.
In 1816 William Green was examined by Nottingham Medical Board and again
found to be unfit to serve.
All was not plain sailing for William and Elizabeth, trade was bad and wages
low and, notwithstanding William’s record in the Army, the Overseers at
Lutterworth, fell back on his father’s Settlement at Welford and decided to
issue a Removal Order for “William Green, Elizabeth his wife and their
children, Mary Ann aged 4 and William age 3”, to be removed from
Lutterworth to Welford. The Order was dated 24 April 1819. In the event, the
Order was suspended due to Elizabeth Green ‘being far advanced in
pregnancy’, but on Saturday 5 June 1819 Robert Sparkman, a local doctor
certified that ‘The wife of William Green can be removed to Welford in a
chaise without danger’. The Parish of Welford was also asked to re-pay to
Lutterworth the 13 shillings that had been paid to William Green in poor relief
since 14 April.
Good fortune smiled on William later in 1819 when he was again examined,
this time by Newark Medical Board, and found unfit to serve. A chance
encounter with an old comrade at the Newark Board resulted in him applying
for and being awarded £15 blood money from the Royal Patriot Fund for his
wounds, which were considered equal to the loss of a limb. William found this
money very acceptable, having a wife and, by then, three children to support.
We cannot be sure precisely when he returned to Lutterworth from Welford as
it isn’t documented but return he did sometime before his son John was born
in 1821 and possibly before Elizabeth’s baptism on 5 September 1819. The
£15 blood money could have been a factor.
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William’s brother Thomas was buried at Lutterworth on 3 May 1823. His
widow Mary Ann re-married in 1824. In 1827 there was a Sessions Order,
issued at Leicester Castle, confirming the Removal of four of Thomas and
Mary Green’s children from Lutterworth to Welford. The children’s names
were Ann aged 14; George aged 12; John aged 9; and Mary aged 2 (This is
slightly confusing as Thomas Green died in 1823, but the baptismal record
shows that Mary was born on 21 February 1820 making her seven at the time
of the Removal Order) The Parish of Welford had obviously balked at being
asked to take responsibility for the grandchildren of John and Elizabeth Green
to whom they had granted settlement in 1783, and had appealed against the
Removal Order. It would appear that one of Thomas’s children (Thomas) was
‘adopted’ by his uncle and aunt, William and Elizabeth as the 1841 census
entry for them shows us a ‘Thomas aged 15’ (in 1841 ages of people over 15
years were rounded down to the nearest 5 years below that person’s age). A
Thomas Green son of Thomas and Mary was born on 19 April 1822. He would
have been just a year old when his father died. The 1830s and 1840s were
eventful in the life of William Green:
William’s mother, Elizabeth, was buried at Lutterworth on 29 January 1832
aged 76.
His father John was buried on 24 April 1833 aged 81.
On 11 November 1833, William’s eldest daughter, Mary Ann, then aged 19,
married a 21- year-old farmer from Bitteswell. His name was William
Wormleighton. The marriage took place by licence and with the consent of
Mary Ann’s father, William.
On 18 August 1846, William’s son, William married Ann Carvell, a widow,
whose father’s name was James Green (No relation as far as I can tell).
William’s wife Elizabeth was buried at Lutterworth on 10 October 1848
Daughter Elizabeth was buried aged 29 on 28 March 1849
In 1849, William Green was awarded the Military General Service Medal 1793
– 1814. The medal had four clasps representing Corunna; Busaco; Ciudad
Rodrigo and Badajoz. The silver medal was authorised by a General Order
dated 1 June 1847 and issued in 1848, thirty-four years after the last battle it
commemorates. The medal is often referred to as the Peninsular Medal even
though it also commemorates battles that took place in such places as Egypt,
East and West Indies and the USA. The medal wasn’t issued automatically to
those who had fought in the various battles but in response to personal
application from survivors. Medals were issued to the next of kin of men who
had applied but had died before the medal was issued. At this time William’s
pension was increased to 9d per day for forty years.
The 1851 census (HO 107/2078–folio 313) finds William at Bakehouse Lane
Lutterworth described as a widower and pensioner (‘Artilly man’). He had a
visitor staying with him; she was 15-year-old Harriet Munday from Chalford in
Gloucestershire.
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When the Duke of Wellington died in September 1852. Colonel Shirley, late of
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the 7 Hussars, who lived in Lutterworth, sent for William and said that he
wished him to attend the funeral. The Colonel paid William’s expenses to
London and back. Whilst in London, William visited Chelsea Hospital and
enquired whether any of his comrades were still there. There were several.
William was asked if he remembered Colonel Barnard who was wounded the
same night as William at the storming of Badajoz. He was now Lieutenant
Governor of Chelsea Hospital. As a result William wrote to him and in
January 1853 his pension was increased to 1/- per day for life.
In the meantime Alice Cheney had married William Pebody at South Kilworth
in 1823. Alice was the daughter of Jonathan Cheney and his wife and was
baptised at South Kilworth on 10 July 1803, the month after William Green
joined the Army. Alice was widowed in December 1849. In 1851 she was
living with her two youngest children Ruth aged 13 and Maria aged 10. Alice
was described as a pauper. Another of her children Elizabeth (Betsy) was in
service in Leicester. She died at Leicester Infirmary and was the first of the
family to be buried in Plot UL23 at Welford Road Cemetery at 3 pm on 14
December 1851.
Alice Pebody married William Green at the Baptist Church, Rugby,
Warwickshire, on 22 June 1853 and they lived together in Alice’s cottage in
South Kilworth for several years.
In 1857, The Rector of South Kilworth wrote on William Green’s behalf to the
Prince Consort presumably enclosing a copy of William’s memoirs. The
Prince’s response to the Rector’s letter was preserved for many years before
becoming lost, but the Prince Consort enclosed with it £5 to be given to ‘this
evidently deserving old soldier’.
A copy was sent to the Prince of Wales through the then Mayor of Leicester.
The Prince’s secretary responded and sent a cheque for £3. A copy of
William’s memoirs was also sent to the Duke of Cambridge who sent £1.
William then wrote to Miss Julia Moore, niece of Sir John Moore who had died
at Corunna. Miss Moore’s father, Sir John’s brother, had attended to William’s
wounds on his return to Portsmouth from Badajoz. Miss Moore in her reply
said that she had read William’s account of his travels with great interest and
sent her ‘best wishes’. Julia Moore failed to take the hint about money!
The 1861 census return for South Kilworth shows William and Alice Green still
living in Alice’s cottage at South Kilworth. William was described as a 76year-old Chelsea Pensioner. They had living with them a 2-year-old boy
called Walter Bottrill.
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By 1871 they had moved to Leicester to live at 15 Calais Street, near to
Alice’s daughter Ruth Stevens, who lived just across the road at No. 12.
William and Alice had living with them Alice’s daughter Maria ‘Peabody’ aged
30, a trimmer of hats, who said she was born at Walcote, even though her
mother in 1851 had given her place of birth as South Kilworth. Three of Ruth
Stevens’s children and her husband Thomas Joseph are buried in Plot UL23
at Welford Road, Cemetery
In 1877 William Green was a special guest at a Banquet to honour Leicester
and Leicestershire Veterans held at Leicester Corn Exchange on Inkerman
Day, 5 November. The banquet had been the brainchild of Robert Read jnr.
and was presided over by Colonel E S Burnaby. The gathering had been
suggested at a dinner of 66 urban veteran medallists held in the Old Town
Hall in June 1877. Funding for the larger banquet was provided by
subscriptions from The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and the
Duke of Rutland as well as many Leicester and Leicestershire people of note.
A local paper said that ‘it was a never to be forgotten incident in the annals of
Leicester’.
The veterans assembled at The Magazine Barracks at 4pm.Then, to the
strains of the Drum and Fife Band of the Grenadiers marched to the Corn
Exchange via Newarke Street, Belvoir Street and Granby Street, all of which
were lined by cheering crowds. Aged veterans were provided with cabs (we
have to assume that William was one such aged veteran). In a railed-off
enclosure on front of the Corn Exchange, two bucks, one presented by Earl
Howe, the other by Sir A B C Dixie of Bosworth Park had been done to a turn.
Sixty-six plum puddings were dragged from the mighty cauldron presented by
John o’ Gaunt to Trinity Hospital, which was being used for the first time since
Queen Victoria’s Coronation. There were also bountiful supplies of game and
joints from the town tradesmen. A Mr Crofts of Cosby, the oldest naval
veteran aged 80 and William Green now aged 93 were carried shoulder high
to respond to the toast for their respective branches of the service.
William Green died of old age at 21 Framland Street, Leicester on Thursday
27 January 1881. There had been very heavy snowfall and the ground was
frozen on the day of his funeral. He was buried with Military Honours in Plot
nd
UL23 at Welford Road Cemetery, at 12.45pm on Wednesday, 2 February
1881. His wife outlived him by a year and a week; she was buried with
William at Welford Road on 11 February 1882. Plot UL 23 is in a section of the
cemetery quite near to the main London railway line. Fortunately, Alice’s
timing was spot on to get a mention in the 1881 census. She was at 21
Framland Street, along with her daughter Ruth Stevens and two of Ruth’s
children, Mary aged 17, born at Derby and Henry aged 3 born in Leicester.
Ruth’s husband was at that time staying with his son Thomas Joseph jnr., a
butcher and his family at Coventry. Ruth’s husband, Thomas Joseph Stevens,
aged 57 was buried in Plot UL 23 in 1892.
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List of Sources consulted

Where Duty Calls Me – The experiences of William Green of
Lutterworth in the Napoleonic Wars, edited by John and Dorothea
Teague and based on William Green’s own book – Travels and
Adventures of William Green (late Rifle Brigade)

An extract from Modern Leicester by Robert Read jnr. Published by
Winks and Son, 53 High Street, Leicester 1881

Leicester Mercury Report on the Veterans’ Banquet held on
Inkerman Day – 5 November 1877.

William Green’s Obituary in Leicester Mercury 5 February 1881

Records held at the Records Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and
Rutland including:
 Settlement Certificate – DE 2559/71/6
 Removal Order – DE 2559/74/5/1
 County of Leicester Quarter Sessions decision – DE 2559/83
 Lutterworth Parish Records
 Non-Conformist Church Records held on microfilm
 HO Census Returns 1841; 1851; 1861; 1871 and 1881.
Special thanks are due to Mel Siddons who started this project off by
purchasing William Green’s Medal at an antique shop in Derbyshire. Also for
the valuable information he provided about the Military General Service
Medal.
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The Wedding Dress.
By Margaret Tasker
I was shown the wedding dress on the occasion of our Ruby wedding
celebrations, not in a terribly good condition I was fascinated by the design,
the tiny waist and the lace. Obviously handmade for a slender person I also
wondered who had been storing the beautiful silk for such an occasion.
Annie Margaret Tasker [nee Taylor] was my husband's mother and died
before I knew him, she was greatly loved by all that knew her.
She was born at 11am on 27.1.1893 at Spey Cottage, Garmouth to James
Taylor [ 1844-1921 ] and Barbara Taylor [ nee Rollo 1862-1957 ], their second
child. Registered by her father, Annie Margaret, her Mother was very annoyed
when he came back as she had wanted to call her Anne. Apparently he called
all his children pet names by adding the "i" sound onto each name, ie: Alecki
etc.
James Taylor was considerably older that his wife. There are family legends
that he was educated at a public school and that was why he didn't have a
Scots accent, that he had a previous wife who ran away to London as an
actress and that he sold a paisley shawl to Queen Victoria. I would love to be
able to check these out but haven't had time, I have checked some public
schools to no avail and that he wasn't divorced either in England or Scotland.
Certainly he built and owned some houses in Aberdeen but when he moved to
Spey Cottage he could not find a reliable factor to collect the rents and sold
them. He also gave a set of communion Glasses to Garmouth Church [now
redundant] and just before Alice died I was able to trace them to "The wee red
Kirk just down the road" where they are still in use.
The marriage certificate states that he was a Commercial Traveller, he worked
for Leith and Paterson, and Barbara was a housekeeper living at the same
address. The family believe that she met him when she went to retrieve a hen
that had flown over a hedge.
There were 6 children born of the marriage: Mabel Rollo Taylor
mar: William McGillivray
Annie Margaret Taylor
mar: Frank Tasker
Herbert James
mar: Mary Green
Alexander Harper
mar: Barbara Thurlow
Edith Minnie Taylor
mar: Edric Tasker-- Frank's brother
Alice Mary Taylor
mar: Thomas Wright
They all went to the local primary school in Garmouth and used to hide their
shoes in a hole in a wall so that they would be barefoot and not embarrass the
local children who had no shoes.
Aural history from Alice was that the house was always full of people and they
always had a maid. We have a photograph taken with one of them, called,
Grandma Much, this threw me for quite a while looking for a family
connection.
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At Fochabers Academy, Annie was the Dux of the school and then in 1911,
went on to Aberdeen Teacher Training College with her sister Mabel who had
waited a year so that they could go together.
Apparently there was a dearth of teachers in England at that time, interviews
were held in Scotland and both sisters obtained positions in Sheffield.
I do not know the school but she taught reception and had a great fear of
balloons as she knew of a child that choked and died.
They boarded with a Mrs Holmes in Sheffield, it was during the First World
War and the diet was very poor. They must have missed the food from the
farm that was behind Spey Cottage as it was owned by James and leased to
"Aunt Mary and Uncle James Rollo".
Mabel and Annie could only afford to go home for the long summer break.
Annie could play the piano, something that most teachers were expected to
do at that period, she was fluent in French and spoke a smattering of Italian
and German. She used to interpret for the Belgian refugees during the
Second World War.
Annie met her husband to be [Frank Tasker] at Hillsborough Baptist Church
where he spotted her from his position in the choir. He arranged a church
outing, asked her to go but noone else. At that time, following an
apprenticeship, he was managing a small engineering firm for his stepgrandfather.
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The marriage took place in Garmouth on 18 August 1918 and a few years
ago, a relative met two very elderly gentlemen who said that they had skipped
school to go and see Annie Taylor married as she was so beautiful.
The absence of men on the wedding photographs was because both her
brothers were still in the forces. Edith was sent to the station to meet the then,
unknown to her, Edric Tasker. Upon asking quite a few servicemen if they
were Edric, one replied," No but I wish I was"
Frank and Annie had seven children. She adored children and would have
liked twelve.
Barbara Rollo Tasker
Edric Robertson Tasker
mar Betty Anita Brook
Christine Thurlow Tasker mar: Denis Arthur Tyler
David Castle Tasker
mar: Margaret Alice Scott
Neil Robertson Tasker
mar: 1] Joyce Ayland 2] Valerie Wray
Janet McGillivray Tasker mar: Arthur Henry Phillips OBE
Ian Munro Tasker
mar: Norma Jean Collins
Her family meant a great deal to Annie and as was usual in that time she
baked everything including bread, sewed and knitted etc. I have some of her
recipes and have had to learn to cook mince with oatmeal. She thought that
children should not go to school until aged seven years as they should be with
their Mother and she taught them French before they went to school. She was
more successful with some than others.
She was apparently a marvellous laundry woman and both her Mother and
sister Mabel sent their woollies down to England for her to wash.
Frank eventually got work in Yorkshire as a Prudential Agent, Annie hated this
as he was out most evenings in the week. He also had frequent house moves
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as he moved up the ladder, this meant that some of the children had to
change schools quite often. They also had to use one room in the house for
an office and had to be quiet when it was in use. Eventually he became a
manager and they settled in Huddersfield.
My husband can remember travelling up to Nairn on the overnight train during
the summer holidays to stay at his grandmothers, where, after her husband's
death in 1921 she had bought a bungalow. Part of the family were there when
war broke out in 1939. David, an eleven year old, was actually staying with an
uncle on a farm in Yorkshire at the time, his mother, thinking that it would be
safer in Scotland stayed there at first. She came back after a while with Janet
and Ian and left Christine and Neil to finish their education in Scotland. I don't
know how long it was before grandma couldn't cope with Neil, apparently he
wandered into the fisher town and onto the beaches and so he was
dispatched south and Christine although well schooled was very miserable
split up from the family.
A busy, quiet but determined lady, with her three oldest children away, and
the three youngest in bed, she delighted in watching the sky get darker and
sitting in the firelight with her middle child resting against her knees. August
1939 was the last time that the seven children were together as a family.
Edric came straight out of teacher training college and into the Navy as a
radio operator escorting convoys in the Arctic seas, he and his Mother
devised a code whereby she could work out where he was.
Barbara having finished teacher training was teaching at Hough Lane Infant
School. The school was evacuated to Gainsborough where, just like the
documentaries, they were put in a large hall and then picked off, both
teachers and children. One lady picked Barbara and A.N.Other because they
were thin and she only had a 3/4 size bed. After a month most parents had
reclaimed their children and Barbara returned and during the next year was
seconded to five schools in turn.
Annie's breast carcinoma was undiagnosed until too late. Annie Margaret was
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cremated at Lawnswood Crematorium, Leeds, on 24 December 1945, it
must have been a difficult Christmas.
We have very few mementoes of the Taylor/Rollo Family apart from the dress.
We have an engraved verve from a watch belonging to Thomas Taylor, and
two samplers stitched by Elspet Taylor as a seven year old in 1837. She was
James elder sister. Again family legend was that she and James were the
only two children of Thomas Taylor and Ann Milne but I have found another
six so far.
Barbara Rollo was very proud to be of the Robertson clan, we did find,
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rd
"Braco" the croft where she was born, the 12 child of John Rollo by his 3
wife. Many of her elder brothers and sisters emigrated to America and the
year before last we were visited by her sister Agnes's great great grandson.
Spey Cottage is now called, Drum Lodge. It is situated on the B 9015
Mosstodloch to Garmouth road
MARGARET TASKER, 31 BARBARA ROAD, ROWLEY FIELDS, LEICESTER LE3 2EB
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So ! Whither My Richard Lakin Now ?
By Trevor Drake.
My father, who died ten years ago, had often talked of his family and his
young days, when he and his brothers and sisters had spent time in their
Mothers village of Grafton Underwood in Northamptonshire.
The Family Bible was full of names of which I had no knowledge and the only
clue to its Two Hundred Year Old Story was from my Father, who had often
told me that his Grandmother Mary Catherine Drake (Nee Lakin), who in turn
had passed the Bible down in the family from her Father Richard Lakin (the
subject of my quest and of whom we shall learn about later); had said at the
time of her death “If you want to know more about me, you must go to Willey”.
This is a very small village near Lutterworth. She would say no more about
her family and past, all very intriguing.
Not much of a clue and how I wished I had listened a little more when my
Father and Grandmother had sat and talked.
I did go to Willey and found that many of the gravestones standing in the
Parish Churchyard of St Leonards' are memorial tablets to past members of
my family.
What I did not know at the beginning of my research however, was that
behind the seeming reluctance to talk about her life and family was the
seemingly sudden and perhaps dramatic and unexplained disappearance of
not only her Father Richard Lakin, who is the focal point of my quest, but also
his Sister, her Aunt Mary and two other of their close relatives some sixty
years previously.
A Synopsis of his life follows along with a Summary and PostScript in the
hope that by appealing to you through our Family History Journal, somebody
may be able to cast some light on the circumstances surrounding their
collective disappearance or perhaps point me in the right direction to help me
lay these particular ghosts to rest, particularly Richard Lakin, who plagues me
with his elusiveness!
However, curse him as I may for the years I have searched in vain for him, my
feelings towards him are possibly unfair, because if indeed he did meet with
an untimely end, then he cannot be wholly blamed for the current lack of
factual evidence to substantiate his demise.
RICHARD LAKIN - A PROFILE OF MY MISSING GT. GT. GRANDFATHER
1839
1843
Born in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, son of Richard Lakin Draper of High
Street, and Anne (nee Wallin) daughter of local farmer and landowner
Richard Wallin. Lakins and Wallins both prominent local families going
back generations.
Sister Mary born in Lutterworth, who was brought up by aunts Mary and
Elizabeth Lakin in Harlestone, Staffordshire. Sent there by time of 1851
Census and still living there in 1871.
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1849
1851
1851
1865
1866
1866
1869
1870
1871
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1881
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Lakin family move to nearby village of Willey, Warwickshire, after death
of Anne's father Richard Wallin, and take over farm in Willey Fields,
drapers business is now discontinued.
Census shows farm is 128 acres, employing three servants. Richard is
brought-up on this farm, - ditto 1861 Census entry.
Religious census of this year was compiled by Richard Lakin Senior in
his official post as Guardian of the Church; he was also the enumerator
of that year's Census for the area, so he was an educated man and a
prominent local figure in village life of Willey holding such positions as
"Overseer of the Poor" and "Assessor of Taxes" between 1854 and his
death in 1866.
Marries Mary Wright, village dressmaker, daughter of Martha and John
Wright, who is the village publican. C.o.E. Service in St. Leonard's
Parish Church in Willey
Move up A5 approximately twenty-five miles to take up farming at Old
Rail Farm, Hurley, Kingsbury, Staffordshire. Father and mother now
dead, Richard inherits mother's wealth, but we have no positive proof of
either substance or amount.
Daughter, Mary Catherine Lakin is born at Old Rail Farm. Baptised
back in family village church at Willey. C.o.E. Service at St. Leonard's.
Son George is born at Old Rail Farm, but dies aged seven months from
"teething"! Buried in churchyard of St. Peter and Paul's Parish Church
of Kingsbury. Large slate memorial tablet, such a large stone for a
baby suggests a well-to-do family. Entry in local newspaper reports
Coroners Report recorder Death by Natural Causes.
Daughter Mary Catherine possibly re-baptised into Wesleyan Methodist
persuasion, as they were extremely active in this area, and local chapel
was opposite entrance to Old Rail Farm. Christening mug is still in
possession of family - no makers' name. But dated 1870, four years
after she was born !
Lakin family have now left Old Rail Farm, coinciding with death of son
George and re-christening of daughter Mary Catherine. Cannot trace
family locally in Census of that year and have no idea of movements
over the next ten years.
No current trace of Lakin family or movements during this time.
Currently Missing Years.
Richard Lakin's family are now found on this year's census living in poor
circumstances on a smallholding of 33 acres in Lutterworth, in an area
called Blackenhall, Census Reports :Martha Wright,
mother-in-law.
Aged 70. Head of household.
Mary Lakin
Wife.
Aged 40
Mary Catherine Lakin. Daughter
Aged 14. Scholar
No mention of father Richard Lakin, and wife and daughter are definitely
not living in the relatively prosperous surroundings of ten years
previously. He has now totally disappeared.
1881
Checked Census Indexes of this year to determine whereabouts of
Richard Lakin and sister Mary, if still in U.K, no references found to
either party in whole of U.K. search.
1884
Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire. The last entry showing Richard Lakin
as a principal landowner in Willey. But this entry is probably misleading,
as the information contained therein always took a considerable time to
compile in those days and was invariably out of date by the time that
years edition went to print. Also the Land Tax Assessments for both
farms in Willey and Hurley ceased being in Richard Lakins name in
1872.
1887
Richard and sister Mary Lakin's old aunt Elizabeth dies in the village of
Claybrooke Magna in Leicestershire, and is buried there. Mary's name
appears on death certificate as informant to registrar of death. So Mary
now 44 was around at this time. But we no trace of her whereabouts
since the 1871 Census.
1888
Kelly's directory of Warwickshire. No mention of Richard Lakin. All the
known holdings of land in both Willey and Hurley are now in other
people’s names.
1890
Wife Mary Lakin dies October of this year in St. Peters home, Kilburn in
London. Is buried back in family village churchyard of St. Leonard's
Willey by daughter Mary Catherine. No memorial stone, Mary
Catherine is, I would assume too poor to afford one, as she is now
running a lodging house in a poor area of Leicester and would not have
the money. Death certificate states Mary is widow of Richard Lakin,
farmer, suggesting he is now dead, but we have no evidence of this.
During my research it has been said to me that the Informants of
Deaths would under normal circumstances , not knowingly supply false
information for fear of prosecution. So can we safely conject that she is
telling the truth and she knows the circumstances of her father's death.
1892
Daughter, Mary Catherine Lakin, marries my Gt grandfather Henry
Osborne Drake, who she met as a lodger. He moved to Leicester from
the village of Lilbourne in Northamptonshire where the Drake family had
lived for many generations. Their marriage certificate says she is the
daughter of Richard Lakin, farmer, deceased, second statement that he
is dead. Once again, a statement testifying his death for which we have
no positive proof.
Strangely enough, the Drake Family which became prominent in Lutterworth,
were directly related to Henry Osborne Drake, as they all moved from Lilbourne
around the same time c1880, reflecting the migration from country villages to
towns and cities to seek more profitable employment or indeed start their own
businesses.
I recently got in touch with another side of the Drake Family, who with the
passing of time had lost contact with my own immediate family. Conversations
with them over my research bought some surprising new possible evidence
over Richard Lakins strange disappearance. This has led me to an area that
up to now has not featured in my research – Bedford.
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These relatives, now all in their eighties are the Grandchildren of Mary
Catherine Drake (nee Lakin) our errant Richard Lakin's daughter. They all
recollected quite vividly that once as children when passing through the town
of Bedford, they were told “This is where your Grandma and her family lived
and that her father Richard Lakin kept either The Swan or The Bridge Inn,
both of which are sited in the river that runs through the centre of the town.
Richard it would seem as well as keeping an Inn also had an interest in a
Brewery.
Coupled with this life as a Publican, he reputedly kept both Hunters and
Racehorses and was a Horsedealer. Not uncommon in these times for
somebody to be involved in various pursuits, especially if he had the “Ready
Cash” to support his interests.
He would therefore on both counts as a Publican and Horsedealer have mixed
in those days with characters of a dubious nature, which may have played a
part in his ending.
The story continues that one day he left the Inn on business and was never
seen again! Supposedly murdered by persons unknown and his body
disposed of in one of the many deep dykes there were in this area at that
time.
All this allegedly happened around 1885, when Mary Catherine Lakin would
have been nineteen years of age. The course of her life it could be surmised
is now suddenly and dramatically changed, as my relatives now recount as to
put it colloquially she is “done out” of her share of her Father's Estate by an
Uncle called Bullen (They were all adamant of his name), who gives her £100
cash, (Which although a lot of money in those days may have been
significantly less that the sum her Father Richard Lakin may have actually
been worth) and kicks her out!
The next time we hear of her is when she appears again on the 1891 Census,
running a poor Lodging House in the back streets of Leicester, in what I can
only assume would be in fairly impoverished circumstances far cry from the
relatively comfortable life of her formative years. In this Lodging House she
meets Henry Osborne Drake, they marry and become my Great Grandparents
on my Fathers side.
A hundred years on, this narrative is of course all conjecture based on
possibly failing memories and what little actual facts are now available. The
whole true story will never now be known, but I do feel that somewhere in this
account of the sudden disappearance of Richard Lakin and the resulting fall in
social standards of his family, there is perhaps a semblance of reality and
possibly the truth. The dates in question add up and all my relatives
independently recounted this same story of the alleged disappearance of
Richard Lakin.
I subsequently spent a considerable amount of time trying to track-down this
“Bullen” connection, without any real success. Nothing came to light in the
Bedford area, but strange to recount a George Bullen appeared as an Agent
for The Leicestershire Banking Co based at their Nuneaton Branch in
1881.This branch would have been strategically placed to conduct
transactions for business people in the Lutterworth area, from whence our
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Richard Lakin hailed and we know he had both Farming and Commercial
interests that would have required the use of a banks services.
Pure coincidence? Perhaps we shall never know.
I would thank you for taking the time and trouble to read My Family History
Quest and if you have any comments, suggestions on how my future research
might progress or indeed if you have any information concerning this story I
would grateful to hear from you.
Trevor_Drake@fuji.co.uk
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The first reservoir was at Thornton
(Question by Dave Kirkwood – Leicester Mercury)
2 In 1821 the streets of Leicester were lit by gas for the first time.
3 Lady tram drivers made first appearance in Leicester, replacing men
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4 The New Post Office
5 The First Telephone Exchange in Granby Street Post Office
6 The North Evington Poor Law Infirmary
7 St George's Church, Rutland Street
8 Pedestrians - 54,300 and vehicles – 2,966
It also recorded 5,900 drivers and passengers
9 The Poor Law Offices
10 The last electric tram ran in Leicester along Humberstone Road on
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9 November 1949, but the last horse tram ran along Humberstone
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Road on 31 October 1904
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H0655 HUMBER Miss FRANCES J. 53 DUNSTER ST LEICESTER LE3 0SE
H0656 HAMMOND, Mr. KEITH FICUS TRIQ-IL-PEDIDALWETT St. ANDREWS STJO3 MALTA
H0657 HEWITT, Mr. DON 2 SEACOURT RD SLOUGH SL3 8EW
J0179 JOHNSTONE, Mrs. MARIE 36 WOODBROOK RD LOUGHBOROUGH LEICS. LE11 3QD
J0180 JAMESON, Mr. PHILIP FLAT 16 "APPLEBY HOUSE" St. PETERS COURT PRIORY
WALK
HINCKLEY LEICS LE10 1JR
K0167 KING Mrs. MURIEL D VALLEY COTTAGE TINSEL LANE WELLSBOROUGH
NUNEATON CV13 6LL
K0168 KINDER, Mrs. VERNA J QUINTA DAS OLIVEIRAS SITIO DA AMENDOEIRA POCO
BARRETO 8300-042 SILVES PORTUAGAL
L0266 LEES, Mr. PETER 2 RUSSET CLOSE BRAINTREE
ESSEX CM7 1DR
M0471 MANSELL, Mr. CHRISTOPHER J 30 FOREST RISE OADBY LEICESTER LE2 4FH
M0472 MACKNESS, Mrs. PATRICIA A 29 CARMEN GROVE GROBY LEICESTER LE6 0BA
N0123 NEILL, Mr. BRIAN-Mrs. FREDA 15 BANKART AVE LEICESTER LE2 2DD
N0124 NEWTON, Mrs. IRENE 17 MOUNTAIN VIEW MACHEN CAERPHILLY
CF83 8QA
P0405 PEERS, Mrs. JACQUELINE 72 SANDHURST RD LEICESTER LE3 9RU
P0406 PALMER, Dr. RAY-Mrs. CYNTHIA 103 BARKBY RD SYSTON LEICESTER
LE7 2AH
P0407 POINTON, Dr. TOM
49C WELLINGTON RD ENFIELD MIDDLESEX
EN1 2PG
R0286 ROTHWELL, Mrs. FIONA D.E. 'TWO OAKS' RED LANE BURTON GREEN
KENILWORTH WARKS. CV8 1PB
R0287 RHODES Mrs. LESLEY BRIDGE COTTAGE PLUM ORCHARD NETHER COMPTON
SHERBORNE DORSET DT9 4QA
R0288 READ, Mr. BARRY WILLIAM 54 St. MARY'S AVE BRAUNSTONE LEICESTER LE3 3FU
S0673 STENSON, Mr DENIS MELVYN172 AYLESTONE LANE WIGSTON LEICESTER LE18 1BD
S0674 SKELLY, Miss. SARAH 6 MANTLE RD
LEICESTER
LE3 5HG
S0675 SOUTHIN, Mrs. ANNE 232 GLENEAGLES AVE RUSHEY MEAD LEICESTER LE
S0676 SAUNDERS, Mr. KENNETH MALCOLM 15 HALL CLOSE KILSBY Nr. RUGBY WARKS.
CV23 8XZ
S0677 SMITH Mrs. JUNE 9 OAKLANDS CT WARWICK RD KENILWORTH WARKS CV8 1FD
S0678 STAMMERS, Mr. PAUL GRANVILLE 4 HAWTHORN DRI MELTON MOWBRAY LEICS.
LE13 0PQ
S0679 SUFFOLK, Mrs. MAGGIE 36 ELLIOTT RD LEICESTER LE4 2GP
S0680 SIDDON, Mrs. JACQUELINE 20 WOODNEWTON DR EVINGTON LEICESTER LE5 6NJ
T0278 TAYLOR, Mr. RICHARD F 60 AVENUE RD LEICESTER
LE2 3EB
T0279 TIDMAS, Miss. HELEN 39 KINROSS CRESC LOUGHBORO LEICS
LE11 4UQ
T0280 TERRY, Miss. SUSAN 47 MILL LANE DORRIDGE SOLIHULL B93 8NU
T0281 TAME, Mr. MICHAEL J 13 ALFRETON RD WIGSTON LEICESTER LE18 1FA
W0578 WORRALL, Mr. ALAN 1205/7 ROCKWALL CRESCENT POTTS POINT N.S.W. 2011
AUSTRALIA
64
W0579 WRATHALL, Mr. & Mrs. ROBERT 1 IVYDENE COURT THE MOUNT DUNTON
BASSETT LUTTERWORTH LE17 5JL
W0580 WARD, Mr. BRIAN - Mrs. RUTH 9 HAYES END DESFORD LEICESTER LE9 9FX
New Members – July 2002
A0241 ADCOCK, SARAH JAYNE 3 GAYHURST CLOSE NARBOROUGH RD SOUTH
LEICESTER LE3 2UP
B0874 BAGSHAW, Mr. DAVID MARCUS 1 HALL CROFT BEESTON NOTTINGHAM NG9 1EL
B0875 BROWN NONI UNIT 1207 SURFERS PLAZA 4 FERNY AVE. SURFERS PARADISE
4217 GOLD COAST QLD AUSTRALIA
B0876 BREWIN, Mr. GARY DAVID 1119 MELTON RD SYSTON LEICESTER LE7 2JS
B0877 BATES, HELEN 4 DEVONSHIRE RD SHERWOOD NOTTINGHAM NG5 2EW
B0878 BROWN, Mrs. JULIE E. 51 CHISLEHURST AVE NARBOROUGH RD SOUTH
LEICESTER LE3 2UH
B0879 BOTT, Ms. ANNE 9 WOOD END CLOSE SAVILE HEATH HALIFAX HX3 0JU
D0288 DILKS, Mr. STEPHEN BARR 1302 BROOKDALE TERRACE VIENNA VIRGINIA
22182 U.S.A.
E0146 EATON, Mr. RAYMOND A 23 THE FAIRWAY BLABY LEICESTER LE8 4EN
G0369 GODFREY, Mr. STANLEY - Mrs P. 12 ORCHID CLOSE NARBOROUGH
LEICESTER LE19 3AY
G0370 GODDARD, Miss. AUDREY MAY 33 HELES TERRACE PLYMOUTH PL4 9LH
G0371 GRANT, Mr. JAMES HERBERT P. 35 AQUITAINE CLOSE ENDERBY LEICESTER
LE19 4SN
G0372 GROOME, Mrs. JANET 2 SPRINGFIELD LANE, SMEETON WESTERBY LEICESTER
LE8 0QW
H0658 HARTLEY, Miss. L.C. LE NID COTTAGE HIGHLAND'S LANE St. SAVIOUR JERSEY
JE2 7LH
K0169 KENT, Mrs. K.A. 21 ELIZABETH DRIVE CHAPEL St. LEONARDS SKEGNESS
LINCS. PE24 5RS
K0170 KERROD,Mrs. E. 19 WELCOMBE AVE BRAUNSTONE LEICESTER LE3 2TA
L0267 LAWRENCE, Mrs. MARY MONICA 76 THORNDALE IBSTOCK LEICES LE67 6PS
M0473 McDONALD, Mrs. SALLY ANN 46 MAIN STREET SMEETON WESTERBY
LEICESTER LE8 0QJ
M0474 MARCHANT, Mr. HOWARD 67 CEDAR AVE TWICKENHAM MIDDLESEX TW2 7HD
M0475 MATTHEWS, Mr. GRAHAME FRANK 4 MANOR FARM CLOSE COPMANTHORPE
YORK YO23 3GE
N0125 NICHOLSON, Mr. ANTHONY M 203 BLABY RD ENDERBY LEICESTER LE9 5AR
P0408 PEARCE, CAROLE 7 THE COTTAGES PEABODY ESTATE FULHAM PALACE ROAD
HAMMERSMITH W6 9PZ
P0409 PRIME, Miss. DELIA JAYNE 18 GARDENFIELD RD LEICESTER LE4 9FZ
R0289 RICKETTS, Mr. DAVE 5 WARWICK RD LITTLETHORPE LEICESTER LE19 2JA
R0290 RUSSELL,Mr. T.J. & Mrs. D. 17 CURTIS WAY OSBASTON Nr. NUNEATON
WARKS. CV13 0EX
S0681 SMITH, Ms. ADA 10 MERITON RD LUTTERWORTH LEICS. LE17 4QE
S0682 SPICER, Mrs. JEAN 76 GREENACRES DRIVE LUTTERWORTH LEICS. LE17 4TW
S0683 SCOTT, Mr.BRIAN - Mrs.ANNE WARNECLIFFE THE CLOSE TREVONE PADSTOW
CORNWALL PL28 8QT
T0282 TAYLOR, Mr. SYDNEY G. 6 St. MARY'S COURT St. MARY'S RD CROMER NORFOLK
NR27 9BX
W0581 WILKINSON, Mr. ROBERT 13 KNIGHTSWAY SANDAL WAKEFIELD WF2 7EG
W0582 WILCOX, Mr. COLIN 95 BIRDMILL COTTAGES APPLEBY MAGNA DE12 7BM
Change of address
B0541 BARNSLEY,MRS. MAUREEN E. WALNEY COTTAGE 7 AMERY HILL ALTON HANTS.
GU34 1HS
B0430 BETTONEY, MR KEITH ARTHUR 33 GORSE LANE OADBY LEICESTER LE2 4RR
C0295 CUMMINS, Mrs JEAN 2 / 12 WESTLAND PLACE BALLINA N.S.W. 2478 AUSTRALIA
H0463 HARPER, MRS.HEATHER V 74 NEW RD HOLMFIRTH HUDDERSFIELD
W. YORKS HD9 3XY
65
J0081 JACKSON, Rev. Dr. DAVID ALLEN 8 & 10 DALE ST ULVERSTON CUMBRIA LA12 7BA
L0192 LEWIS, MRS. CHRISTINE MARY 36 HIGH ST MOULTON SPALDING LINCS. PE12 6QB
M0365 MURRAY, Mrs. JOYCE 11 BLANDY RD HENLEY-ON-THAMES OXON RG9 1PH
M0402 MEASURES, Miss. CAROL 12 TAVERNER DRIVE RATBY LEICESTER LE6 0HQ
M0427 McGILCHRIST, Mrs. TRISH 52 LINNET STREET ALTONA VICTORIA 3018 AUSTRALIA
P0216 PRETTY, MR JOHN 3 CAROLINE COURT LEICESTER LE2 8QW
S0459 SIMPSON, MRS. KATHY 6 FRANKLINS GDENS BINLEY COVENTRY WARKS. CV3 2UE
T0037 TURNBULL, MRS LAURA BOX 1191 ONOWAY ALBERTA T0E 1V0 CANADA
New Members Interests
ASHBY
LUTTERWORTH 1749 R0286
ASHBY
STH KILWORTH 1745
R0286
BAILEY
LEICESTER 1860
B0868
BAILEY MKT BOSWORTH 1860
B0868
BANTICK SUFFOLK 19C
B0873
BARKER GOADBY ANY
W0581
BASKILL NOTTINGHAM 1850+
S0679
BELLING LUTTERWORTH
1750-1870
G0370
BLAND
LEICESTER 1860
T0278
BLOXOM LEI 1650-1900
W0578
BODYCOT LEICS 1820
B0868
BONNER HILLINGDON MDX 1860 B0870
BOWNESSNORTHANTS 1800S
B0870
BRACEBRIDGE LEI 1600-1900
W0578
BRADFORD ORTON ON HILL
1500-1999
P0407
BRADWELL CHURCH GRESLEY DBY
1800S
M0472
BRADWELL E LEAKE NOTTS
1800S
M0472
BRAY
LEICESTER 1850
P0406
BREWSTER STAMFORD 1800
F0244
BRIERS WIGSTON ANY
S0665
BRIERS FLECKNEY ANY
S0665
BROGDEN LANCS 1800S
S0680
BROUGHTON LEICESTER
1750-1800
S0677
BROWN ESSEX 1845
D0286
BROWN MOUNTSORREL
1780-1850
G0370
BUCKINGHAM LEICESTER 1900+ T0279
BUXTON OAKHAM 1880
B0867
BYRNE
LEICS/NOTTS ANY
G0367
BYRNE
NOTTS/LEICS ANY
H0655
BYWATER MARKFIELD 1700S
H0656
CAKEBREAD
ESSEX 1845 D0286
CART
SYSTON PRE1800
D0287
CAYGILL CO DURHAM 1800S
S0680
CHAPMAN KIBWORTH 1700-1850 G0370
CHARITY RUT 1800-1858
F0244
CLAPTON LINCS ANY
R0290
CLARKE WILLOUGHBY W'LESS
19C
K0167
CLARKE NORTHAMPTON 19-20C K0167
CLARKE LOUGHBORO' 18C
S0677
CLAY
LINCS ANY
R0290
CLULEY-FOWLER
BLABY 1882 D0286
COEKIN ANY1867-1870
R0288
66
COLLIS
KNIGHTON ANY
COLLIS
MOUNTSORREL ANY
COLLIS
CHESTERFIELD 1881+
COLLIS
LAVERTON GLS 1902+
COLVER STH LEICES 1800-1950
COOKE
LEICESTER? ANY
CRONAN LANCS 1800S
DAKIN
DBY ANY
DAWSON WYMESWOLD ANY
DAWSON BROUGHTON SULNEY
ANY
DEACON N LEICS 1800+
DEAN
N LEICS 1700-1800
DEEBLE CORNWALL ANY
DENNIS ASFORDBY PRE1829
DENNIS N LEICS 1600-1700
DEXTER LINCS/RUT 17C
DODDS
N W KENT 1872
DODSON STH LEICES 1800-1950
DRAYCOT(T) LEICS 1820
DRIVER SYSTON PRE1930
DRIVER LUTTERWORTH PRE1930
EARY
THEDDINGWORTH
1750-1870
EATON
AYR 1758
EDNUTT LEI 1600-1850
ELLIOTT ANSTEY c1800
ELSON
GOADBY ANY
FARDELL M MOWBRAY PRE 1865
FARMER SIBSON C1844
FARMER ANY
FARMER LEICS 17C+
FI(Y)SH
MKT HARB PRE1700
FLETCHER
DUNTON BASSETT
1784-1902
FLOOD
LIVERPOOL 1890-1980
FREEMAN NOTTS 19C
GAMBLE
NAILSTONE AREA
1800-1920
GASCOIGNE FRANCE 1850+
GEARY
ANSTEY c1770
GIBBINS LEICESTER 1880+
GIBSON ARDROSSEN 1820
GILLIVER MOUNTSORREL 1900+
GLOVER ARNESBY 1806
GLOVER LEICESTER ANY
GOLDBY STH KILWORTH 1708
GOODE KETTERING PRE1878
GOODGER BASTON/LEICESTER
S0665
S0665
S0665
S0665
B0869
S0675
S0680
D0287
D0285
D0285
S0683
S0683
S0683
R0287
S0683
D0285
D0286
B0869
B0868
D0287
D0287
G0370
N0123
W0578
B0879
W0581
R0287
L0266
R0288
T0280
F0245
R0286
S0676
B0873
B0869
T0279
B0879
T0279
N0123
T0279
R0286
W0582
R0286
S0665
1880
S0675
GOULBY STH KILWORTH 1708
R0286
GRANT
KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP
18C
S0677
GRANT
KILMACON EIRE 1900 G0371
GREGG OAKHAM 1890S
B0867
HACKETT WIGSTON ANY
S0665
HANNAM LEICS/SOM PRE1920
G0367
HANNAM LEICESTER ANY
H0655
HARRIS FENNEY DRAYTON
C1869
L0266
HARRIS DUNTON BASSETT
1748
R0286
HAWKES LEICESTER 1800-1850 G0372
HAWKES RUGBY/BERKS
1800-1950
G0372
HEMSON LONDON 1870
J0180
HENDRY LEICS/KINGS LYNN
1800+
P0406
HIBBETT EDITH WESTON 1858+ F0244
HIBBITT EDITH WESTON PRE1885 F0244
HIPWELL LUTTERWORTH 1839+ R0286
HOLDEN LANCS 1800S
S0680
HUMBER LEICS/NOTTS ANY
G0367
HUMBER LEICS/NOTTS ANY
H0655
IRESON THEDDINGWORTH
1750-1870
G0370
JACQUES SHEPSHED 1700-1920 B0869
JACQUES CO DURHAM 1800S
S0680
JARRATT LEICS/WARKS 1820
B0868
JARVIS
HUNTINGDON
P0407
JARVIS
FLITCHAM ANY
P0407
JOHNSON ASTON B'HAM ANY
L0266
JOHNSON NORTHANTS 1880-1881K0169
JONES
N W KENT 1872
D0286
JORDAN LEICESTER 1910?
B0867
JOYCE
APPLEBY MAGNA ANY P0407
KEIGHTLEY HATHERN 17C
S0677
KEMP
SFK/ESS 1800
P0406
KENNEY LEICESTER 1870+
W0582
KNIGHT LEICESTER 1860
B0868
LANGSTEAD LUDDERSDOWN
KEN 1750
J0180
LEEDHAM LEICESTER ANY
G0367
LEEDHAM LEICESTER ANY
H0655
LEES APPLEBY MAGNA PRE1795 L0266
LESTER LEICESTER? ANY
S0675
LOWE
LEICS 1820
B0868
MAHAN
CO DURHAM 1800S
S0680
MANSELL YORKS 1912
M0471
MARTIN BAGWORTH 1830S
H0656
MARWOOD GOADBY ANY
W0581
MASSEY APPLEBY MAGNA
PRE1795
L0266
MAYES
LEICESTER PRE1854 K0168
McDERMOT AYR 1851
N0123
MCKENNA LANCS 1800S
S0680
MEASURES LEICESTER 1860
B0868
NAYLOR NORFOLK PRE1780
S0678
NEWBERRY N LEICS 1700+
S0683
NICHOLLS LEICS 1850
W0579
NICHOLSON HULL 1927-1945
C0554
NOON
LEI 1600-1900
W0578
OLPHIN LEICS 1800S
B0870
PALLETT MKT BOSWORTH 1850+ S0679
PALLETT NEWBOLD VERDON
ANY
P0409
PALMER LEICS 1772-1910
K0169
PALMER LEICESTER ANY
R0290
PARSONS KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP
18C
S0677
PASSAND N LEICS 1700+
S0683
PECK
NFK/SFK PRE1895
S0678
PEGG
LEICESTER 1850-1950 T0282
PIKE
LEICS/ BERKS 1800-1950 G0372
PIKE
RUGBY ANY
G0372
PIKE
LEICES/BERKS ANY
G0372
PLANT
CADEBY 19C
K0167
POINTON APPLEBY MAGNA
1500-1999
P0407
POOLE
DESFORD ANY
P0409
PORTER UPPINGHAM c1890
B0866
PORTLOCK LEI 1650-1900
W0578
POUCH
SOUTHAMPTON 1830 N0123
PRESTON WHITEHAVEN 1780
N0123
PRIME
LEICS ANY
P0409
RAMSELL LEICS 1850
W0579
READ
ANY
R0288
ROBERTS LEICESTER 1800-1850 J0179
ROBINSON
ANY
R0288
RODGERS LEICESTER 1835
G0368
ROWELL LEICESTER 1880-1931 T0279
ROWELL DERBY 1861+
T0279
RUDKIN LOUGHBORO' 1800
F0244
RUSSELL CO DURHAM 1800S
S0680
RUSSELL KENT ANY
R0290
SAUNDERS LIVERPOOL 1895-1980 S0676
SHARROD SNARESTONE C1792 L0266
SHEAVYN HUGGLESCOTE ANY
P0407
SHEAVYN BREEDON ANY
P0407
SHEDDON AYR 1851
N0123
SHERWIN HUGGLESCOTE
1500-1999
P0407
SIMONS KETTERING PRE1878 S0665
SIMONS ELTON HUNTS PRE1878 S0665
SIMONS LEICESTER 1878+
S0665
SIMPSON LEICESTER 1835
G0368
SMITH
LEICESTER 1888
K0169
SPENCER LEICESTER 1860+
W0582
SPIERS
BURBAGE 1700-1750
S0677
SPRINGTHORPE(E) ASHBY
PRE 1850
B0879
STAFFORD LUTTERWORTH
PRE1861
R0286
STALLARD LEICESTER PRE1876 K0168
STAMMERS SUFFOLK ANY
S0678
STENSON SAWLEY DBY 1800
S0673
STONE
LEICESTER 1860+
P0406
STONE
BELTON RUT 1860+
P0406
SUTTON N W KENT 1880
D0286
67
TAYLOR BELGRAVE 1910
TAYLOR LEICESTER 1850-1950
THACKER STH LEICESTER
1800-1950
THORPE UPPINGHAM c1850
TOMES
OVERWHITACRE 19C
TOON
LEICS 1880
TOON(E) ASFORDBY 1800-1900
TOON(E) SCALFORD 1885-1900
TOON(E) REARSBY 1760-1800
TOON(E) SYSTON 1724-1750
TOONE
HOBY 1628-1691
TYLER
LEICS/NOTTS 19C
WALDRAM KEYWORTH 1800-1900
WALDREN KEYWORTH 1800-1900
WALLIN LEI 1650-1900
WALPOLE LINCS 1600S
WARNER LEICESTER 1860
WARNER NORTHAMPTON 1860
WARREN BUMPSTEAD ESS
PRE1800
B0867
T0282
B0869
B0866
K0167
W0579
R0287
R0287
R0287
R0287
R0287
B0873
N0124
N0124
W0578
B0870
B0868
B0868
WARREN STEEPLE ESS PRE1800 P0406
WATSON ANY
R0288
WEBB
KENT ANY
R0290
WHEELDON SYSTON ANY
H0658
WHITWORTH LEICESTER? ANY
S0675
WILCOX LEICESTER ANY
W0582
WILLETT MARKFIELD/ANSTEY
ANY
H0656
WILLIAMS HIGHFIELDS 1880-1950 B0869
WILTSHIRE LEICESTER ANY
W0582
WINDOWS M MOWBRAY 1800-1866 R0287
WOLDRAM KEYWORTH 1800-1900 N0124
WOOD
GLOSSOP 1863
G0371
WOOD
HELLINGWORTH 1891 G0371
WORRALL LEICES/MELTON M
1600-1900
W0578
WRATHALLYORKS 1900
W0579
WRIGHT LEI 1700-1850
W0578
WRIGHT DURHAM ANY
S0681
P0406
Extra Interests
TOWERS - LEICES 1700-1900
GREEN - LEICES 1700-1900
LEE - LEICES 1700-1900
MEASOM - LEICES 1700-1900
POTTERTON - LEICES,
NORTHANTS 1700-1900
KINCH - LEICES 1700-1900
MYATT - LEICES,
STAFFORDS,
MERSEYSIDE,
ISLE OF ANGLESEY 1700-1900
PICK - LEICES 1700-1900
COOLING - LEICES1700-1900
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54 Burgess Road, Belmont Park,
COALVILLE, Leicestershire, LE67 3PX.
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