Archive CD Books:History, Topography & Genealogy Books on CD:Great Britain:England:Leicestershire & Rutland:Directories
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Three very rare directories on one CD
Note that these directories include only the main towns and market towns, and not the villages in each county.
Leicestershire: Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Hinckley, Leicester, Loughborough, Lutterworth, Market Bosworth, Melton Mowbray, Mount Sorrel.
Rutland: Oakham, Uppingham, plus Peterborough and Wisbeach (Cambridgeshire).
Norfolk: Attleborough, Aylsham, Burnham Market, Cromer, Diss, Downham, East Dereham, Fakenham, Hingham, Holt, Lynn Regis, North Walsham, Norwich, Swaffham, Thetford, Walsingham, Watton, Wells, Wymondham, Yarmouth. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Contains lists of masters, when they were appointed and which university they attended.
The real gems, though, are the lists of pupils. These show each one's name, year of birth, father's name and address, the dates they started at and left the school and even, if known, the date of their death. For example:
Came in January 1883.
Abbott, * John William. Jan. 1868. Son of J. Abbott, Braemar House, Lancaster Gate, W. Left July 1885. Died Sept 1890.
Bell, Henry. July 1870. Son of W. H. Bell, Christchurch Terrrace, Accrington. Left April 1888.
Blois,* Charles Godfrey. Dec. 1867. Son of Sir J. R. Blois, Bart., Cockfield Hall, Felsham. left Dec. 1884. Died on voyage to Australia, Dec. 1900.
Some of the earlier pupils have even more biographical information such as later qualifications and occupations.
Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
A very early and rare directory which covers the market towns and principal villages of the county (Please note that smaller villages and hamlets are not included). The descriptons of each place are excellent with lots of details about schools, hospitals, churches and other institutions plus detailed histories and directories of the nobility, gentry, clergy and classified directories of tradespeople. Also included is an excellent county map.
The places included in this directory are;
Ashby-de-la-Zouch and neighbourhood, Billesdon, Castle Donnington and Kegworth, Hallaton, Hinckley (with Earl Shilton, Higham-on-the-Hill and Stoke Golding), Husbnd's Bosworth, Leicester (with Ayleston, Belgrave, Birstall, Blaby, Great Glen, Humberstone, Oadby, Scraptoft, Thurmaston, Thurnby and Whetstone), Loughborough (with Quorndon and Sheepshead), Lutterworth (with Bitteswell, Dunton, Great Claybrooke and Ullesthorpe), Market Bosworth and neighbourhood, Market Harborough and Great Bowden, Melton Mowbray and neighbourhood, Mount Sorrel (with Barrow-upon-Soar), Wigston
Rutland: Oakham, Langham, Whissendale, Uppingham and barroden Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Particularly useful as it was published just before the first census of 1841, and is an invaluable aid to tracking down those elusive ancestors as well as giving detailed information about the towns and villages in the county, and each of the people with trades.
We have had this book beautifully rebound in a traditional style, with real gold leaf lettering on the spine, and hand-made motted paper covered boards. It couldn't be more different from the loose collection of unbound pages when it first arrived from the book dealer. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
An early and very comprehensive Post Office Directory, published by Kelly's.
Every place in the county is well described with details of schools, churches, hospitals etc. and directories of the traders there. Also included are a Court directory of private residents, a classified trades directory and a beautiful map of the counties
Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Lists every person in the county who owned 1 acre of land or more, with name, place, extent of land and its value.
Also see the full set for all English counties Price: £8.94 £10.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
An excellent and very comprehensive directory. Every place is described in wonderful detail in the county directory and each place has a list of private residents and commercial traders. The Court directory is an alphabetical list of private individuals, with their addresses, throughout the county and there is also a classified trades directory with lists of trades and the people who performed them.
This book was kindly loaned to The Archive CD Books Project by the Family Record Centre (the PRO) in London. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
An extremely comprehensive county directory, typical of White's. Covers the history of the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland in detail, and very extensive descriptions of each town and village, together with their facilities and all people with trades. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
A book loaned to the Archive CD Books Project by Paul Nix of Nottingham.
A typically comprehensive county directory of the period. Includes maps of both Leicestershire and Rutland in 1881 Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
(Includes Ilkeston and parts of Derbyshire and Leicestershire)
An unusual directory in that it contains details of villages in more than one county, covering the whole of Nottingham (and what are now the suburbs) parts of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
By 1912 we have a very special directory with much more detail. This one includes a section with a complete street by street and house by house directory of Leicester with all householders. Plus of course, a much more comprehensive county directory. One of its uses is to look at addresses where you know that your family lived in an earlier period, and then to see who is living there now. It is often a relative, and that can be extremely useful in breaking down some of those brick walls in your research. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
A typically comprehensive directory of Leicestershire and Rutland with the names and addresses of private residents and tradespeople in each town, village and hamlet. Leicester itself also has a superb street by street directory.
Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Excellent historical background and details of the instituions and facilities of each place, along with directories of private residents and tradespeople. The City of Leicester also has a very detailed street by street directory.
There are also directories of private residents and classified trade for the whole of the two counties, plus a veery good map. Price: £17.87 £21.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
Five huge volumes comprising the earliest directory for Great Britain, and one which is probably the most important directory for genealogists and historians that we have released on CD. For towns and villages the descriptions of the places are excellent, with details of their facilities, etc, and includes those residents with trades (even those such as farmers, hay-binders, labourers, bakers, shop keepers, etc.) and their addresses.
Although titled "Great Britain", this directory covers places in England and Wales. Volume 1 of the five is devoted to London, volumes 2 to 4 cover the places in the England and Wales in alphabetical order, and vol. 5 contains a number of the subsequent amendments and additions published in the next few years.
"The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture, comprehending Lists of the Inhabitants of London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark; and of all the Cities, Towns, and principal Villages, in England and Wales; with the Mails, and other Coaches, stage-wagons, Hoys, Packets, and Trading Vessels. To which is added, a genuine Account of the Drawbacks and Duties chargeable at the Custom-House on all Goods and Mechandize, imported, exported, or carried coastwise, with a particular of the Public Offices of every denomination; His Majesty's Court, and Ministers of State; The Peers of the Realm, and Parliament of Great Britain; The Court of Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common-Council, of London; together with an Historical Detail of the Antiquities, Curiosities, Trade, Polity, and Manufacturers, of each City, Town, and Village. The whole comprising a Fund of useful and important Information, equally interesting to the Nobleman, the Gentleman, and Man of Business." More details about these volumes Price: £29.79 £35.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
