‘The neat little village of Church Lawford, with its equally pleasant tributary, Kings Newnham, are most favoured localities, and the inhabitants of those rural places ought to be, and no ...
Hon. George Shirley
George Shirley was born in 1705 at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. At the age of 16, he joined the army as an ensign in the First Regiment of Footguards. ...
This is the curious case of a gentleman who had seemingly chosen to live a life of squalor, despite having the wherewithal to do otherwise. The occasion of his death ...
Between 1832 to 1843 there was an ongoing correspondence between Anna Jarrett and her brother Wathen Waller. She was the wife of John Jarrett, the owner of broad acres in Somerset and ...
Mr Alfred Jordan was a lengthman at the beginning of World War 2, and so was exempt from having to serve in the war because of this...
My dear Father
I received your letter of the 21st November. I hope that you all spent a happy Christmas. I have no doubt you did, I suppose that you had ...
In 1851, Henry Christopher Wise sold the Warwick Priory and 37 acres of its parkland to the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Co, which planned to lay its railway track through ...
Henry James Stretton-Ward was born in Coventry in 1895. He was the son of James Ward (a lodging house keeper) and Florence Rose Squirrell (the eldest daughter of the Rev. ...
Constance Linda Lucy (known as Linda) was 18 years old when she started this diary. She was the second of four daughters of Henry Spencer Lucy and his wife Christina. ...
In part one of this article, I gave an account of how the diary gives an insight into the everyday life of a daughter of the landed gentry. Among the events ...
The letter below paints a vivid picture of the traumas of the long voyage out to New Zealand and the hardship and exploitation suffered by the emigrants when they arrived. ...
In January 2016 Leek Wootton History Group received an email from a book and photograph dealer that read:
I have recently acquired an album of photographs with a dedication in the ...
Registers of Banns of Marriage
The baptism, marriage and burial records found in parish collections held at Warwickshire County Record Office are the family historian’s bread and butter. Banns registers, however, are an often ...
Miss Eleanor Archer, a lifelong resident of Warwick, was a keen writer and diarist. She was a well-educated woman, who wrote throughout her life on a range of topics, from ...
Sir Alfred Herbert loved the city of Coventry, and in particular the many who worked with him and for him building up his highly respected machine tools business which was ...
As well as the ongoing rivalries and development of the game on the field throughout the 1860s, there was another important area where progress was being made. This is an ...
The sentence of transportation was passed on a very great number of people found guilty of a wide variety of crimes during the 18th and 19th centuries. Periods of 7, ...
Good Morning, I collect ocean liner ephemera and I have a few items with a Warwickshire interest which you may not be aware of or even interested about but I ...
Picture the scene; the year is 1838, autumn is closing in. In the bustling streets of Victorian London we find Samuel Probert, a smith in his late 30s, purchasing a ...
While browsing the census records for Hillmorton in search of my family home, I couldn’t help but get drawn into the other names and families that surrounded them.
Bricks and sandpits
For example, in the ...
In the Leamington Spa Courier dated Saturday 30 December 1843, there is an advertisement for a series of lectures on Native Americans. We learn that the Mesquakie chief Joc-o-sot, or Walking Bear, ...
John Machen was born in Scotland, the son of a Glasgow merchant and magistrate. He became a surgeon by profession, and started in practice in Dartmouth, Devon. On 8th August ...
In the last ten years, scholarship has a cast a bright light on ‘absentee’ slaveowner, British residents – both men and women – who profited from the enslavement, subjugation, and ...
The first Earl of Warwick to experience the effects of slavery first hand (whereas previous Earls had experienced slavery at a distance) was also the same Earl to be listed ...