What parts of Leicestershire are you connected with?

[Annie65115]

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 ---

[TonyV]

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

[Foz]

Yes, they were my thoughts exactly !!

Thanks for the chat anyway.

regards

Foz

[TonyV]

You too Foz. Good luck with your genealogy research

[AnneMarie James]

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
 

[diddymiller]

Hi A-M. you could have a look in the historical directories online :

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/

Diddy

[greyingrey]

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

[JeanH]

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.

[pamsmum]

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?