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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Leicestershire => Topic started by: Annie65115 on Thursday 29 July 10 20:52 BST (UK)
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What bits of Leicestershire do you and your ancestors hail from?
I'm originally from Kirby Muxloe; my gran lived in Thornton until 10 years ago, when she died, so I knew Thornton quite well.
But aside from all over the city of Leicester, I've also found direct links in:
Blaby, Enderby, Desford, Ibstock, Barwell, Newton Linford, Great Glenn, Mkt Bosworth, Belgrave (or does that count as city now?), Shepshed, the Langtons, Stathern, Kibworth, Quorndon, Tilton, probably others that escape me at the moment ---
I don't live in Leicestershire anymore and never felt very connected with it before, having left when I was a child - but now that I know I had ancestors in all corners, it's starting to feel like home!!
Where are your Leicestershire roots?
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Greeting’s Again. Annie…….
;D……..We know a song about that. ……. ;D
“I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man " ……..
Johny Cash....
MIKE. …… ;D
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Hey, you dissin' mah family ? >:( :P ;D
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Well me
I been everywhere too.... Hinckley - Burbage - Barwell - Shenton - Tilton - Orton - Stathern - Goadby Marwood - Houghton - --Anstey -- Groby -- and Barrow then most areas in the centre... or City..
maybe missed some of them...
xin
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well. I'm a relative newcomer then! the first generation of my family to be born 'down here' in good old loughborough. Geordies for parents and generations back!
However i have worked in 60 or so schools throughout the county -so does that count!
Diddy (but still willing to help!!) ;D
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I am a 7 generation Leicester / shire lady on two sides and both ends of the county...
So I think I am a Leicestrian / Ratae - Coritonurum ..ish
(spelling)
xin
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sounds like you've had a few!!! :o
Diddy
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oh does it now, ;) I never touch anything sstrorrnger than a cuppa... ;D ;D
thats supposed to be the Roman name for Leicester....well it was when I was at school.. but that is so long ago.. I probably got it wrong......
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xin :)
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the Romans called it Ratae (only know cos i googled it!!)
Diddy (about to go and have a cuppa now!)
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Snap
I decided to see if my School Education in Braunstone Leicester had stayed in the old brain cells and found this page :
http://www.roman-britain.org/places/ratae.htm
it is Ratae Coritorejrejijijfd whatever I was right.... Good old Miss Henry
xin
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:o…...... FIGHT. !!....FIGHT !! ....... :o
;D.......Now then…… Ladies can we have a good clean fight ……. ;D
“ No Hair pulling and No Rabbit Punches.” …….
MIKE. …..Isle of Wight Roots…… :P
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Que pasa' Mike xin does not fight she smiles....... ;D ;)
just was testing me edumacation .. good old Medway ay!?!?
so you have isle of right woots .. now did the Romans get there?!?!
:) ;)
xin
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;D..........Front Crawl ..across the Channel ........ ;D
MIKE. .... ;)
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;D ;D ;D ;D
oh dear so funny thanks for the smile
xin
I will be good and go away now... dont want to go Off Topic ... sorry rc
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sadly I now have a picture of Mike swimming up the Grand Union Canal to Leicester!!
I had my cuppa and watched us getting medals in the athletics.!! Brill
Friends as always Xin ;)
Diddy
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Wow where do I start - so many places in Leicestershire.
Seemed the only ones who moved away were some of my parent's generation and then they moved fffffaaaaaarrrrrrr away.
Some of my aunts still live within a 10minute walk of the grandparents' homes.
Coalville, Shepshed, Heather, Blaby, Ibstock - I even had 3 generations of one family in the Market Bosworth workhouse.
Oh and a whole family who worked for the Beaumonts at Coleorton Hall.
So I'm a naturalized Aussie - but I think I'm really a Leicestrian.
;D Ted
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interesting you have Gadsbys in leics there Ted - my hubbys sister is married to a lovely gadsby who came from leics family and they now live in Aussie. shes over here at the moment actually!
Diddy (long-range relative ??)
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OF Course Diddy I cant stop gigling when I imagine Mike in the GUC with his little white swimming cap bobbin up and down!!!! ;D ;D
xin
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Oooh Diddie - there were a lot of Gadsby's - my grandfather was Fred (not fredrick just Fred) and my grandmother was Ivy - they lived on the main street in a coalboard house in Coalville.
Their children who emigrated were Peter, John and Kathleen.
;D Ted
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think we are talking the same family as my brother in law is - John and one of a big family. not sure of all names in his family but i know he has family in Aussie and still in Coalville /hugglesote area (my sister in law has instructions to visit his sisters whilst here!!)
I will PM you as members of family we are talking about are still alive!!
Diddy
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well folks -it turns out Tedscout and I are related by marriage / in-laws etc!!
what a small world.....
Diddy ;D
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Well done you two... how great to find a rellie thats 'ALIVE' on roots.
xin
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;D :o ;D
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Ashby Parva is my main area of interest apart from Leicester city centre, although I am also now researching an ancestor from Lutterworth to Walcote to Sutton Bassett.
My Grandfather ran The Shoulder of Mutton pub in Ashby Parva for approx 20 something years up until the early 1960`s.
I believe it is now called The Hollybush.
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Mums the one from Leicester so I must be half Leicester! Both her parents are from Leics and and except for her mothers father (a Geordie!) every other ancestor is Leicester born n bred. Hinckley/Barwell - Dales,Cuers,Shipmans and Grewcocks on grandmothers side and Sheepy Magna,Claybrook,Higham on the Hill, Ratcliffe and surrounding villages for Grandad.
Coincidently my daughter is now at Demontford Uni and calls Leicester her home now! Her digs are just round the corner from where gt gt gt grandfather Cuer lived.
Niglor
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I'll start with Mountsorrel, Rothley, Quorn(don), Hemington & Lockington moving out to Loughborough and Leicester itself, round to Wigston, squeeziing over the border to Stanford on Soar, out to Notts, Derbys, Warwicks, oop north via Durham et al to Dumfriesshire, also across the bridge to Caernarvonshire and down to the tip of Cornwall. Across the water to Ireland
Over the pond to New York State, up to Canada, back down to California, across Minnesota, Iowa to Pennsylvania.
Far far away to Switzerland, Germany, South Africa, India, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
With help from Rootschat, Leicestershire has spread a long, long way.
A lot of the names mentioned on previous Leicestershire Rootschat pages have appeared on the way, including Holmes, Baum, Toon(e), Shuttlewood, Merriman, Cufflin, Truelove, and Tyack not forgetting the occasional Smith (there are over 2700 surnames). We haven't got the time to fill in a lot more names and lines that could be there. Perhaps when we retire. I've heard tell that we'll have loads of spare time!
For someone from south Derbyshire, I found the Alan Godfrey maps a real help, even if (Thurcaston) hubby already knew where to look. Smart a...lec. ;D
Updated last night: http://www.antill.org.uk
Mareanna
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Mine go back to Whitwick, Loughborough & Lowesby but, I'm struggling now, can't find any siblings to William & Thomas Walker, found their father Anthony Walker, not mother though.
William Walker 1797 married Harriet Brown 1801 from Loughborough 11 Dec 1821, later moved to St. Benedict's lane, Lincoln.
Thomas Walker 1806 married Mary Maria Clifford 1809 from Lowesby 6 Nov 1827, they also moved to St. Benedict's lane, Lincoln.
Their father Anthony Walker abt 1758 is on William's second marriage cert & on the 1841 census has William & Thomas coming from Whitwick. Have family rings of Australian gold, maybe its their siblings who went to Australia, don't know, or know who came back.
Can anyone offer any help on siblings & mother of the above, would really apreciate it,
regards spatts. :) Merry Xmas to you all.
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My direct ancestors were from Lutterworth, Peggs Green & the Coleorton Area,Seagrave Walton on the Wolds,Their families stayed at home but they travelled,whether through work or marriage.Sometimes makes it interesting,how come a daughter & a son from a family that seemed to be ag.labourers was born in Devon.There father was a coacman for a few years and I guess he must have been with a family.
Liz
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:) :) :)Hey diddy
you couldnt do me a favour could you please
we still are having trouble finding my mums relative parents elizabeth geary born stanton under bardon 1810 ,we where told it was a john geary but that was the wrong one his wife was born newbold verdon .our elizabeth married Charles cooper 1830 thornton 17th nov .in the presents was william geary and ann hopkinson markfield.the curate samuel roe, clerk john geary.i found the copy of the marriage in coalville libary .i did ask a friend to look in wigstone but nothing came up she was told that the records for the grey family who william worked for had dissappeared ,i wonder why .and what the secret was or is ,?
thanks
Danone
merry christmas
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Hi Steve, i found the 1810 baptism on the pilot site - 28/4/1810 Ashby parents John & Alice. but if the marriage cert says William & Ann then you have your answer.
coalville library also has the stanton records so you should be able to check the Baptism there.
Diddy
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My ancestors lived in Flora Street, Noble Street, Great Holme Street. Another branch ran a pub in Highcross Street, I think it was called The Golden Ball. Another branch lived in Wigston Magna.
I lived in Leicester Forest East when I was a child, many years later my parents moved to Kirby Muxloe.
My father worked for many years in Hinckley.
I haven't been back there for a long, long time, I expect it's all different now!!
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LFE was my childhood home too for around 21 years. The fields where the LFE motorway service station now stands were my adventure playground. I walked along the M1 when it was being built.
I was born in the City however (within shouting distance of Welford Rd. Tigers!). Kirby Muxloe was a "stamping ground" as a teenage as well as being on the school bus route. Family connections in the City (lots) on both sides and also Earl Shilton and Croft.
Still support the Tigers from down south but too far to attend matches sadly, except when they play away in this area or go to Twickenham.
cheers
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I lived in Kirby Muxloe and went to school there for all of 6 weeks before we moved away!
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Kirby was on the bus route to Market Bosworth where I went to school at 11. My first school was in LFE. So I didn't go to school in Kirby, just played tennis there and went to the Red Cow!
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Hi TonyV,
Did you go to Holmfield Avenue school?
If you did I expect I know you, or my brother will.
Do you remember the spinney/wood where the motel is now, by the motorway on the Hinckley Road?
I used to walk through it on the way to and from school, but I was always too frightened to go to the back of the wood as there were often strange noises coming from there, probably only sawing wood but to an 8,9,10 year old it could have been anything!!
I used to live near Worthingtons shop, do you remember that?
Regards
Foz
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up the Tigers!!
Diddy ;D BIg fan x x
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Hi Foz
Holmfield was indeed my first school from 1950-56.
The spinney I and my mates used to use as an adventure play area was on the line of St. Mary's Avenue. Part is still there today (if Google Map is to be believed) but I can see that there is now development on both sides with a road running through it. It too use to have funny noises coming from it but probably mainly from older teenagers getting it off in the bushes! Great sport for us younger ones spying on them and trying not to giggle and give ourselves away!
Worthingtons as I recall was on the Hinckley Road. My mother used to take me as a child to a shop in a converted garage in one of the houses fronting Hinckley Rd. in the days of rationing. I think that I probably had my first sweets from there.
Up the Tigers indeed Diddymiller.
cheers
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Hi TonyV,
Yes, I remember the sweet shop in the converted garage.
Can't remember the name of the person who it belonged to though.
Do you remember the other little shop on the Hinckley Rd near Hobills Farm......was it called Lippitts?
Did you live on the Hinckley Road?
Did you hear that Holmfield Avenue school closed down last summer? There was a reunion but I didn't manage to get there.
Regards Foz
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Hi Foz
Park Drive.
I don't remember the other shop but I do remember Hobill's farm.
I knew about the reunion but although I told my younger brother about it (he still lives in Leics. and attended Holmfield too) I didn't really fancy it. I live in Hampshire so it would have been a bit of a trek. Mr Basford was the head when I went there.
Small world.
regards
Tony
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Hi Tony,
Yes, I know Park Drive.
My Grandmother and Aunts lived in Holmfield Avenue in the house nearest to the Post Office.
You probably remember one of my Aunts, she was an invalid and used to sit in the garden outside
the front of their house in the summer in her invalid carriage. Another one of my Aunts ran the Library.
I remember Mr Basford.....he was lovely.
Are you on Friendsreunited? Have you seen all the school photos from Holmfield?
Foz
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Hi Foz
Sadly I don't recall your relatives but my mother used to fetch her pension from the post office until the pension service made all pensioners have accounts.
I have been on FR in the past but don't really use it these days. However, I'll see if I can get in and look at the pictures. Sounds interesting.
When were you at Holmfield?
Tony
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Hi Tony,
I was at Holmfield from about 1951 till 1957, then I went to Anstey Martin School.
My brother is older than me, and brainier!! He must have been there around 1942 till 1948. He then went on to Wigston Grammer School.
I don't want to mention any names on here, but does your surname have four letters in it?
In the back of my mind I remember my brother used to talk about someone he knew from down your
part of LFE who had a name very similar to yours.
Regards
Foz
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Hi Foz
I guess that this is getting a bit like Friends Reunited! I looked at the photographs there earlier and several showed faces I recognised but in the main couldn't name accurately. I don't think that I was on them but several of my contemporaries were - possibly different classes, albeit the same year. However, I am fairly sure that whoever name tagged a lot of them got some wrong.
You'll see my name at the head of my research list. Names from your end of LFE in my year would include Richardson and Wolstenholme, both from Hinckley Rd. and Leaman, even further along well beyond the Red Cow.
Are you sure about Wigston Grammar School. I didn't think that there was one. Wyggeston Grammar School was in Leicester and Wigston was a secondary modern I seem to recall. The local grammar schools for that part of the county were surely Kibworth and Lutterworth?
Quite a few of my friends at Holmfield from my immediate area went to Anstey. I went to Dixie and lost contact with many of them particularly after leaving Leicester for work in London in the later 60's. I also have two younger brothers who both went to the same schools as me. So we must have left some sort of mark!
cheers
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Hi Tony,
It seems you are not the person I was thinking of!! Never mind, it's still good to reminisce.
Well, my brother definitely went to Wigston school, I always thought it was a Grammar but obviously not.
I vaguely remember the name Wolstenholme from Hinckley Rd, but I definitely remember the Richardsons - Ann and Martin. They lived next door but one to me. I can't remember Leaman.
So, you went to Dixie did you? Did you know someone called Taplin from Earl Shilton? and Robert Brown and Jeff/Geoff Craythorne, both from Hinckley?
Regards
Foz
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I'm not a mod, so I don't want to speak out of turn, but maybe it would be better to take this conversation onto PM as you're now mentioning living(?) people and where they're from ---
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Good point Annie well made. I think that we may have come to a natural end anyway as I do not recall the people mentioned.
cheers
Tony
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Yes, they were my thoughts exactly !!
Thanks for the chat anyway.
regards
Foz
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You too Foz. Good luck with your genealogy research
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My Mum was born in Leicester 1929 in Greenhill Road, I have been working on her family for quite a while on and off, she was Jean Mary Knight, I have been told that her Grandparents William Williamson and Ada had a corner shop in Leicester maybe in 1930's or later. Would be interested in comments on how to check this story.
A-M
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Hi A-M. you could have a look in the historical directories online :
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/
Diddy
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Two of my grandparents came from families that go back to Leicestershire, though, in one case it's clear that's not where they "came from" (however you define that) & I suspect that, in due course, I'll discover that the others didn't, either. My Ashers were Prussian Jews who settled in Nottingham between 1796 & 1820. I believe they were related to Ashers already living (& later to come to), Notts, Derbys, & Leics. My gggg grandmother (from Northants) married a William Asher at Leicester, St Martin's in 1814. They later moved to Nottm & William disappears after 1816....he's replaced as her partner in 1820 by Lyon Asher. Trying to untangle this knot is one of my main projects. I don't think Lyon & William were brothers or as closely related....could be way offbeam....but I do think they were part of the same larger Asher family.
I've got back to the 1790s with my Hudson family & the first place I can find them is Shepshed. They hover around the Notts/Leics border, occasionally making forays into Derby. My branch eventually settled in Nottingham, but I think you can say the heart of the family was between Loughborough & Nottingham. I suspect they originally came down from Yorkshire, but this is just speculation at the moment
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Until quite recently I did not even know my ancestors came from Leicestershire (Paternal side) Came as a bit of a shock as we always thought we were good old Yorkshire stock but only from my dad as my grandad was born in Leicester. The name Baxter and its line has been traced back to late 1700 and we are still researching.
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Researching Hornby from Melton Mowbray, Thorpe Arnold, a 2nd great uncle Hornby who when he died was landlord of the Wheat Sheaf Inn at Alwalton near Peterborough but back then it was in Huntingdonshire.
My 2nd great grandmother Hornby moved to Hooton Pagnell Yorkshirewhere she married into the Fish family from there to Somerset and marriage into the Godfrey then to Derbyshire, back to Yorkshire then back to Derbyshire and now I'm in the USA. Does any of that make sense????
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I am a London born naturalized Canadian.
I am coming back to this after a number of years looking for other ancestors in the UK. My grandmother was born in Leicester in 1883. Ancestral names I have in Leicestershire include: -
~ Holyland
Where: Desford, Ratby, Balby, Billesdon and South Croxton
~ Fulshaw
Where: Desford
~ Cooper
Where: Desford, Hugglescomb and Donnington
~ Parker
Where: Appleby Magna, Queninborough, Balby and South Croxton
~ Richards
Where: Billesdon
~ Upton
Where: Hinkley
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Going back to 17th century my directs came from Whitwick and Osgathorpe (Wright and Hope and Roe families)earlier generations from surrounding villages.I have just visited Whitwick and Osgathorpe but 2 disappointments. In Whitwick there was nowhere to parkas the road was up and in Osgathorpe the church was closed.Never mind I got a general feel of the area.
Ringrose
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:) :) :)Hi Annie
Danone
you live at kirby muxloe, kirby castle how far from you ,william geary of old hays farm markfield , i think his uncle or nephew or great great grandafather worked there in 1480s ,and i think his name was william i was asked to reseach the castle ,how much of it is still there is it walking distance
thanks
Danone
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:) :) :)Hi diddymiller
Thanks for that on william and ann ,i would have gone with john and alice myself
any way thanks
steve
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HI Danone,
I left Kirby Muxloe when I was 5! But the castle was literally at the bottom of the road when I lived there (on Armson Avenue). It's now owned by English Heritage; it's ruined, but there's enough of the buildings left to be able to understand the layout and explore a bit. And it has a moat! All good castles/fortified houses should have a moat!
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/kirby-muxloe-castle/
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:) :) :)Hey Annie I was born in coalvile ,1964 march 14th stayed in skeggness for some time came back lived here in markfield when i was a kid in the 70s ,lived in ellistown ,came back here this was my grandads house he died in 1877from miners lung
so i have seen some parts of the country been in turlangton as well would love to live there ,would love to live on the farm where my mums family lived old hays ratby lane markfield and go back to how things was run ,i have a feel for the country ways ,
Danone
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Interesting question.
Most of my family connections are in Leicestershire as far back as the 1700's. One of my Grandma's was from Essex and one Great Grandma was originally from Wolverhampton.
So turning to Leicestershire, I am connected to the following (in no particular order): Hathern, Shepshed, Rothley, Croft, Enderby.
Family names are Nelson, Holyland, Timson, Norman, Fisher & Cooper. Nelson (my name) was in the Shepshed area as far back as the early 1800's - before that ancestors were from Lowdham and Lambley in Nottinghamshire.
Holyland (my Mum's maiden name) is a bit of an odd one. Having thought my ancestors were from Desford, this has recently been thrown out after I discovered the name was adopted in the early 1860's. My Great Great Grandad was illegitimate and born with his mothers surname of Norman, in Rothely Workhouse. She met a Holyland and so my Great Great Grandad was unofficially adopted. The Norman became a middle name and Holyland his family name.
The Fisher was my paternal Great Grandmother, who was from Hathern. That leaves Timson, which was my paternal Grandmothers name - who was born in Enderby. Her mothers name was Cooper.
For me personally, although my Dad was also born in Enderby & my Mum was born in Colchester, I was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. They were living in Hinckley at the time. I later lived in Braunstone Town and now I live near Paris in France!
John.
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I have a few families from Leics , some lived in Buckingham St and districts of St Margarets and St Marys. Going further back they were from Thurmaston, Birstall and Queniborough. I haven't been able to find them before Queniborough though. I don't know Leics, apart from visits to Buckingham St in the early 60's and much later visits to the record office at Wigston, that's all I know.
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I have a few families from Leics , some lived in Buckingham St and districts of St Margarets and St Marys. Going further back they were from Thurmaston, Birstall and Queniborough. I haven't been able to find them before Queniborough though. I don't know Leics, apart from visits to Buckingham St in the early 60's and much later visits to the record office at Wigston, that's all I know.
I had ancestors that lived in the Saint Margarets' parish back in the 1800's - which are the streets between the present day Saint Margarets' Bus Station and the southern part of Abbey Park. Those from the same family also seemed to have ended up near the bottom of Melton Road in Belgrave.
Most of that area was slums.
John.
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Hi all
I myself am from kibworth beauchamp. My Mums side of the family ended up in belgrave, but have found further back in st margrets in Leicester as well as st Leonard's, thurmaston, birstall, wigston and walcot.
Dad's family is mainly northamptonshire, but part of it goes back to tilton on the hill and halstead.
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In the 1860's some of my family ended up in the slums of Belgrave & Saint Margarets. One part coming from the Workhouse near Rothley the other from Desford.
I have family originally from Higham on the Hill, Peckleton, Enderby, Croft, Shepshed & Hathern.
Hi all
I myself am from kibworth beauchamp. My Mums side of the family ended up in belgrave, but have found further back in st margrets in Leicester as well as st Leonard's, thurmaston, birstall, wigston and walcot.
Dad's family is mainly northamptonshire, but part of it goes back to tilton on the hill and halstead.
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My wife and I are both born and bred "Brummies" but tracing her family back we have found a direct line back to 1570 and then for another 10 generations up to 1829 all born in Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, family name Kinsey.
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I love this post, cos it shows
'MIKE' was here :) a wonderful part of Roots chat - was Mike always ready to help xx and chat
xin
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Framland or more particularly the golden diamond between Melton Mowbray to the south and Bottesford to the north.
Cheers
Guy
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Strange you should mention Kinseys from Breedon, Greenvale.... I am looking at Platts from Breedon, Worthington, Loughborough and Barrow upon Soar and I saw a couple of Platts/Kinsey marriages only today.
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Broughtons from Knighton back to the early 1800s
Crol
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I am connected through my husbands family his Grandfather John G Rose was born Medbourne 1867 in 1901 he was a groom living in stables in Payne's Lane Medbourne his wife Angelina(nee Hercock) was a housekeeper for Taylor Pateman landlord at the Neville Arms in Medbourne in 1911Angelina was a school caretaker at Blaby Kirby Muxloe.
In 1908-13 my OHs father and his sister attended Kirby Muxloe primary school and I am VERY lucky that I have a class school photo with them on it. :) :) :)
Kathy
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I only knew of Leicester St. Margaret's for the past 25 years..... BUT thanks to the many marvellous peeps on RC, most who I've seen comment on this thread... my brickwall has most likely been broken down and I can probably add.... Rothley, Shepshed, Diseworth, Lockington, Breedon on the Hill! I hope the list will go on.
I'm a 5th gen Australian but I have a feel for Leicestershire I cant explain. Bring on March 2017...
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My 3x Great Grandfather, Rev. William Young Nutt, was rector at Borough on the Hill and Cold Overton. Most of his fifteen children were also born in Leicestershire.