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1 LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE The following records have been deposited during the year ended 31 March 1970: PARISH RECORDS I. Anstey (addnl.): register of baptisms, marriages and burials ; register of baptisms and burials ; registers of banns (2 vols.) ; faculty Asfordby : registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (4 vols.) register of baptisms and burials ; registers of baptisms (2 vols.) ; registers of burials (2 vols.) ; registers of marriages (5 vols.); marriage licences (23) ; service registers (6 vols.) ; list of burials in new burial ground ; faculties (13) ; deeds concerning benefice lands in Asfordby ; glebe terrier 1824; deeds and papers concerning the sale of glebe 1ands ; Churchwardens' account books (2 vols.) ; Parochial Church Council minute book ; Parochial Church Council account book ; Cams Charity minute book ; orders and schemes for charities in Asfordby ; school deeds ; tithe map and apportionment 1852; St. Michael's Mission Church minute book ; St. Michael's Mission Church service register Ashby-de-la-Zouch (addnl.): register of baptisms, marriages and burials (and Nonconformist births ) ; register of baptisms and burials ; registers of baptisms (5 vols.) ; registers of marriages (9 vols.) ; registers of burials (4 vols.) Ashby Folville and Barsby: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (3 vols.) ; register of baptisms (Barsby) ; register of baptisms (Ashby Folville) and (Barsby) ; registers of marriage (Ashby Folville), 3 vols ; register of marriages (Barsby) ; register of burials (Barsby) ; Churchwardens' account books (2 vols.) , ; faculties (4) ; marriage licences (2) ; Surveyors report 1935; specifications for new organ 1923; tithe redemption certificate 1921; correspondence and other papers concerning the amalgamation of Ashby Folville, Barsby, South Croxton and Gaddesby to form one educational unit So; papers relating to the sale of property of the Smith-Carrington charity in North Kelsey, Lines Barkestone (addnl.): register of baptisms ; registers of marriages (3 vols.) ; register of banns ; settlement bond 1666; enclosure award 1796; deeds of school land Burrough-on-the-Hill: register of baptisms, marriages and burials ; registers of baptisms and burials 181I - 12, registers of marriages (5 vols.) ; service register ; faculty 1946; deed and plan of additional land for the churchyard 1954; tithe redemption certificate 1922; Overseers of the Poor account book ; Overseers of the Poor receipt and payment book ; Surveyors of the Highways account book Frisby-on-the-Wreak (addnl.) : register of baptisms, marriages and burials ; register of baptisms ; register of burials ; registers of marriages (3 vols.) Huncote: Churchwardens' account book ; Surveyors of the Highways account book ; poor rate book Lowes by and Cold Newton: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (2 vols.) ; register of baptisms and burials ; register of marriages ; register of banns ; vestry minute book ; L!Jwesby National School cash book

80 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH 0LOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY IO. Measham: Overseers of the Poor account books (2 vols.). 1762-85, 1805-14. II. Packington (addnl.

2 80 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH 0LOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY IO. Measham: Overseers of the Poor account books (2 vols.) , II. Packington (addnl.): register of baptisms, marriages and burials ; register of baptisms and burials ; register of baptisms ; registers of marriages (3 vols.) ; register of banns (2 vols.) ; register of burials ; service registers (2 vols.) ; confirmation registers (2 vols.) ; faculties (3) ; Organ Fund and Church Restoration account book ; tithe map and apportionment 1851; Churchwardens' account book ; National School managers minute book ; papers relating to Packington day and night schools Pickwell: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (2 vols.) ; register of baptisms and burials ; register of baptisms ; registers of marriages (2 vols.) ; service register ; faculty 1949; "vestry book", containing accounts of parish officers Plungar (addnl.): faculties (3) ; deeds re lands in Plungar, Barkes tone and Wymondham ; memorandum on the charity of Thomas Wilson of Swinstead, Lines., for the instruction at school of three poor children of Plungar Queniborough: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (4 vols.) ; register of baptisms and burials ; register of baptisms ; registers of marriages (3 vols.) ; register of burials ; Churchwardens' account book (2 vols.) ; Surveyors of the Highways account book ; Queniborough National School minute and,account book ;,agreement for the pasturing of animals in the common fields of Queniborough Redmile (addnl.): register of baptisms, marriages and burials ; register of baptisms and burials ; registers of baptisms (2 vols.) 18r3-1912; registers of marriages (2 vols.) ; register of burials r ; settlement certificates (28) ; settlement examinations (4) ; removal orders (7) ; bastardy papers (5) ; enclosure award and map Rothley: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (4 vols.) ; register of baptisms and burials ; register of baptisms ; registers of marriages (6 vols.) ; register of burials ; preachers' book ; Churchwardefls' account book ; Churchwardens' account book (Wartnaby) ; vestry minute books (3 vols.) ; Constables' account book ; Overseers of the Poor account book (2 vols.); Woodcocks Charity (Keyham) minute book ; the Reverend Richard Burton's (sometime incumbent) personal accoilllt book Sapcote: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (2 vols.) ; register of baptisms and burials ; register of baptisms ; register of marriages (2 vols.) ; register of burials (2 vols.) ; service registers (4 vols.) ; faculties (7) ; Churchwardens' account books (2 vols.) ; glebe terriers 1638, 1719; Easter 0/ferings Book ; vestry minute book ; Constable's account books (2 vols.) (includes Surveyors of the Highways accounts ); valuations of Sapcote (2) Somerby: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (2 vols.) ; register of baptisms and burials ; registers of marriages (2 vols.) ; register of burials ; confirmation register ; Churchwardens account book , faculties (5) ; vestry minute book ; vestry and Parochial Church Council minute book ; deed relating to the extension of the churchyard 1872; deeds and papers relating to the advowson 18th - 20th centuries; papers relating to benefactions to the incumbent and church ; papers relating to the glebe and vicarage 19th - 20th centuries.

LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE 81 19. South Kilworth (addnl.): diary of the restoration of South Kilworth ChUich, 1868-78. 20.

3 LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE South Kilworth (addnl.): diary of the restoration of South Kilworth ChUich, Swithland: register of baptisms, marriages and buiials ; register of baptisms and buiials ; register of baptisms ; registers of marriages (2 vols.) I. Tilton-on-the-Hill: registers of baptisms, marriages and buiials (2 vols.) ; registers of baptisms and burials ; registers of baptisms (2 vols.) ; registers of marriages (2 vols.) ; register of burials PARISH COUNCIL RECORDS 1. Birstall (addnl.): minute books (9 vols.) ; parochial committee minute book Husbands Bosworth (addnl.): plan of grave spaces, Husbands Bosworth cemetery c (with later additions). I. Congregational: NONCONFORMIST RECORDS Market Harborough Congregational Church: Church Meeting minute books (2 vols.) ; Deacons' Meeting minute books (3 vols.) ; Subscription (later Finance) Committee minute books (7 vols.) ; ChUich account book ; subscription books (building fund) (2 vols.) ; graveyard account books (2 vols.) , ; letters of the Reverends Dr. Philip Doddridge, George Gill, William Gear & William Severn ; Sunday School rules 1809; Sunday School Teachers Meetings minute books (2 vols.) , ; Sunday School admission register ; Mutual Improvement Society minute book II. Methodist: Hinckley Methodist Circuit: (a) Wesleyan: Quarterly Meeting minute books (5 vols.) ; Circuit Stewards' account books (3 vols.) ; Hinckley Circuit book ; Superintendent's Book (memoranda) ; Local Preachers Quarterly Meeting minute book ; Circuit Schedules (7 vols.) ; Circuit Schedule, Lutterworth circuit ; Circuit Plans ; Circuit Trustees minute book ; registers of baptisms (5 vols.) ; Circuit Missionary account books (2 vols.) ; Stockwell Head Church Society Book ; Stockwell Head ChUich account books (6 vols.) ; Stockwell Head ChUich Trust minute book ; Stockwell Head Church Leaders Meeting minute book ; Barwell ChUich Trust minute book ; BUibage Church baptismal registers (2 vols.) ; Claybrooke ChUich Trust minute and account book ; Claybrooke Church baptismal register ; Peckleton ChUich baptismal register ; Sutton Cheney Church Trust account book ; Ward HUist Charity account book (b) Primitive Methodist: Quarterly Meeting minute books (9 vols.) ; Circuit Stewards' account books (6 vols.) ; Circuit plans ; Circuit schedules (5 vols.) rn; Circuit Missionary account books (4 vols.) ; registers of baptisms (2 vols.) ; Albert Road ChUich Leaders Meeting minute and account book ; Albert Road ChUich Sunday School Teachers minute and account books (2 vols.) ; Barlestone Church Trust minute and account book ; Barlestone Church Trust minute books (2 vols.) ; Barlestone Trust account books (2 vols.) ; BUibage ChUich Trust minute and account book ; Highamon-the-Hill ChUich Trust account book ; Limekiln Chapel Trust account book ; Newbold Verdon ChUich plans for alterations and proposed new schoolroom ; Stoke Golding Church Trust minute book ; Hinckley Primitive Methodist AmateUI Operatic Society minute book Market Harborough Methodist Circuit (addnl.): Quarterly Meeting minute book

4 82 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH 0LOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ; Local Preachers' Quarterly Meeting minute book ; Market Harborough Wesleyan Church Leaders Meeting minute book Melton Mowbray Methodist Circuit (addnl.) ; Stones by subscription and account book for building new church and converting former church into a Sunday School ; ground plan of new church n.d.; Twyford Wesleyan day school timetable OFFICIAL RECORDS r. Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Service; Hinckley Fire Station occurrence books (9 vols.) ; Wigston Magna Fire Station occurrence books (II vols.) Belvoir Highway Board: poster relating to penalties for throwing of stones and the straying of animals on the highway FAMILY AND ESTATE Farnham of Quorn: letters patent granting lands in Quorn, and other Leics. parishes to Thomas Farnham and another Hastings of Castle Donington: agents accout book, Hastings estate Hazlerigg of Noseley: the "Cromwell" letters (17) , (mostly to Sir Arthur Hazlerigg from Commonwealth generals, and including four from Oliver Cromwell). Jennens of Gopsall; diaries and estate memoranda books of William Dickinson of Twycross, steward to Charles Jennens (32 vols.) ; medical prescription for Charles Jennens 1738; papers relating to the law suit on the disputed claim to the Jennens-Howe estate at Gopsall, late-19th century. Paget of Birstall: deeds and allied papers, Birstall and Thurmaston Steele of Orton-on-the-Hill: deeds and estate papers, Orton-on-the-Hill and Moorbarn in Merevale 17th - 19th centuries. MAPS AND PLANS Architectural drawings by A. W. N. Pugin of Mount St. Bernards Abbey, Whitwick (4) Architectural plans and allied papers relating to the parsonage houses of Ashby Folville, Ashby Parva, Long Wharton, and Market Harborough EDUCATION RECORDS r. Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ivanhoe School; English and Council School log books (4 vols.) Barlestone Church of England School: admission register ; Barlestone Council School Bosworth Park School: log book Burton Overy Church of England School: log books (3 vols.) Carlton Church of England School: log books (3 vols.) ; admission register 19n Desford Bosworth School; attendance register of the former Dixie Grammar School Market Bosworth Harby Church of Englanl School; poster advertising sermons to be preached on behalf of the school building fund Remington Council School: managers' minute books (2 vols.) Huncote Church of England School: managers' minute book K.egworth Council School; managers' minute book II. K.ibworth Church of England School: log books (2 vols.) 19n - 67; admission registers (2 vols.) ; Kibworth Council School log book Kirkby Mallory Church of England School: admission register , receipt and payment book , log book Meas ham County School; managers' minute book r.

5 LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE 14. Newbold Verdon County School : log book Smeeton Westerby Church of England School: log books (2 vols.) ; admission register Snarestone Church of England School: managers' minute book Staunton Harold Church of England School: managers' minute book Stoney Stanton Church of England School (addnl.): log book Swithland Church of England School : managers' minute book Syston Men's Adult School: Committee and Annual Meeting minute books ; Trustees minute book ; account book ; Articles of Association Thurlaston Church of England School: managers' minute book : CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Leicestershire County Cricket Club : Club Committee minute books (8 vols.) ; Finance Committee minute books (2 vols.) ; Ground Committee minute books (2 vols.) ; Selection Committee minute books (6 vols.) ; account and subscription books (18 vols.) ; Scorebooks (92 vols.) Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of Women's Institutes: Survey of Burbage housing, industry, services, social facilities etc., compiled by Burbage Women's Institute Jubilee Year (1965) Scrapbooks: Eaton; Narborough and Littlethorpe. Leicestershire Field Name Survey: maps and reference books for Anstey, Appleby Magna, Arnesby, Bagworth, Barkby, Barlestone, Billesdon, Bitteswell, Blaby, Blaston, Breedon-on-the-Hill, Cossington, Countesthorpe, Dadlington & Stoke Golding, Desford, Dunton Bassett, Elmesthorpe, Enderby & Lubbesthorpe, Foxton, Frisby-on-the-Wreak, Gaddesby, Glenfield, Great Easton, Great Glen, Groby, Hoby with Rotherby, Brooksby and Ragdale, Hungarton, Ilston-on-the-Hill, Kirkby Mallory, Lowesby, Market Bosworth, Misterton, Mowsley & Laughton, Newtown Linford, Noseley, Packington, Peatling Magna, Peckleton, Ratby, Rearsby, Rolleston, Rothley, Sapcote, Saalford, Shangton, Shearsby, Slawston, Smeeton Westerby, South Croxton, Stoney Stanton, Stoughton, Swinford, Westrill & Starmore, Thurlaston, Thurnby and Bushby, Tilton-on-the-Hill, Twyford & Thorpe, Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Willoughby Waterleys, Wymondham. United Ancient Order of Druids: Good Intent Lodge, no. 154, Sileby : sealed order for the establishment of the Lodge 1839; minute books (3 vols.) ; book of rules 1914; book of ceremonies MISCELLANEA Deeds relating to properties in many Leicestershire parishes 16th - 20th centuries; letters patent granting a pardon to John Elmer of Bradgate for his part in Wyatt's rebellion (1553) 1560; MS. treatise on the geology of N. W. Leicestershire, compiled by Edward Mammatt 1833; MS. notes, essays, etc on the history of Anstey, collected by the late Miss G. Bickley, 19th - 20th centuries. 57 New Walk, Leicester L. A. PARKER Opening Hours : Monday - Friday 8.30 a.m p.m.

LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE

LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE The following records have been deposited during the year ended 31 March 1969: PARISH RECORDS 1. Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Holy Trinity): register of baptisms 1858-1911; registers