The little building in Humberstone Gate & Rutland Street corner was a weighbridge office before the taxis started to use it. And there was an old rail carriage tea and food bar that is cobs & sandwich next to it used by the wholesale market workers among many others.

Re:- William Elliott Thank you Bill Pallatt for your reply. Bill my information on William is very sketchy. John Elliott - is the confirmed ancestor. John stated he was the son of William Elliott on his marriage to Amelia Spencer in Foleshill, War. John further stated on census records that he was born in Lutterworth, Leic. I have located only one record of a John Elliott christened in Lutterworth, son of William and Elizabeth, it was dated 14 Jan 1816. The age fits with other records so am inclined to accept it. Marg Elliott

Hi Keith you will find this info on the Willett spreadsheet I sent to you Regards Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:leicestershire- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of keith Hammond > Sent: 17 February 2012 13:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LEI] 1871 census lookup please > > Hi, > can anyone please help with an 1871 census lookup please ? I am > looking for a JOHN WILLETT living hugglescote and wife Elizabeth also > children john frederick willett aged 2.Any help would please be so very > kind.Thank you. > > Keith in Malta. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message

Hi Marg I have a few details for the RAINBOW family in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. John RAINBOW b.13/1/1747 in Cotesbach, Leicestershire was married to Ruth HURST on 14/10/1773 in Leicester. They had 7 children - one of them Ruth c1783 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire.   I do not have a record of either of their sons John RAINBOW c.1777 or Joseph RAINBOWc.1785 having had a daughter named Ruth.   I have only just come across this branch of the RAINBOW family so my research is still a little thin on the ground, but with the name Ruth, I would think that this is your Ruth's RAINBOW family. Just as a point of interest, Cotesbach is a small village at the southern tip of Leicestershire one mile from Lutterworth situated on the south eastern slopes of the Swift Valley. It is notorious as the location of the 5,000 strong Enclosures Riot in 1607, which gave a precedent for action and environmental change. If I can be of any help, please contact me. June FLEETWOOD (nee RAINBOW) West Yorkshire   From: Marg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2012, 1:22 Subject: [LEI] Elliott Family Hello Everyone I am not experienced at writing to the list so apprehensive but seeing the list is so active and wonderfully interesting at present here goes. Can anyone help.I purchased microfiche from leicester to help gain the following information William Elliott was married to a 'Elizabeth' (was she Tomlinson?). William and Elizabeth Elliott had 10 children together between 1802 & 1820. A Elizabeth Elliott aged 47 of High Street, Lutterworth was buried (St Mary's records) 14 Sept 1829. A William Elliott (widower) married Ruth Rainbow, aged 34 years, on 14 September 1834 - Ruth died in 1839. William Elliott was recorded as being a 'Grocer' in High Street, Lutterworth. I do not have his death date as yet.(He had a son called William too to make things a little harder.) I know it was early days in Lutterworth but reading all the stories about shops, stores etc in Leicestershire has made me very curious about Lutterworth in the early to mid 1800s May I say that the family stories I write all include background information, descriptions and if I am very lucky photos or paintings of the areas in which they all lived. Marg Elliott Queensland ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Everyone I am not experienced at writing to the list so apprehensive but seeing the list is so active and wonderfully interesting at present here goes. Can anyone help.I purchased microfiche from leicester to help gain the following information William Elliott was married to a 'Elizabeth' (was she Tomlinson?). William and Elizabeth Elliott had 10 children together between 1802 & 1820. A Elizabeth Elliott aged 47 of High Street, Lutterworth was buried (St Mary's records) 14 Sept 1829. A William Elliott (widower) married Ruth Rainbow, aged 34 years, on 14 September 1834 - Ruth died in 1839. William Elliott was recorded as being a 'Grocer' in High Street, Lutterworth. I do not have his death date as yet.(He had a son called William too to make things a little harder.) I know it was early days in Lutterworth but reading all the stories about shops, stores etc in Leicestershire has made me very curious about Lutterworth in the early to mid 1800s May I say that the family stories I write all include background information, descriptions and if I am very lucky photos or paintings of the areas in which they all lived. Marg Elliott Queensland

I have really enjoyed all the recent posts about our memories it has bought my interest in my tree alive again My interests are the names North from Queniborough,Syston and Belgrave also Mason from Belgrave Margaret On 17/02/2012 21:17, Nivard Ovington wrote: > Hi Terry > > > From the lists home page > > Topic: anyone with an interest in genealogy, family surname origins, or historical research related > to the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland, England. > > All that has been discussed *is* genealogy or local history related to Leicestershire > > You have a delete button if you are not interested, many others including me appear to be > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> We seem to be drifting off what this site was designed for. Terry >> Ratcliffe > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4815 - Release Date: 02/17/12 > >

Is this the same Elizabeth Elliott that has a grave at Lutterworth church yard? I've been walking past the grave for years and wondered about it - I am an Elizabeth and I married an Elliott so we share the same name! Best regards Elizabeth Elliott nee York -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marg Sent: 18 February 2012 01:23 To: [email protected] Subject: [LEI] Elliott Family Hello Everyone I am not experienced at writing to the list so apprehensive but seeing the list is so active and wonderfully interesting at present here goes. Can anyone help.I purchased microfiche from leicester to help gain the following information William Elliott was married to a 'Elizabeth' (was she Tomlinson?). William and Elizabeth Elliott had 10 children together between 1802 & 1820. A Elizabeth Elliott aged 47 of High Street, Lutterworth was buried (St Mary's records) 14 Sept 1829. A William Elliott (widower) married Ruth Rainbow, aged 34 years, on 14 September 1834 - Ruth died in 1839. William Elliott was recorded as being a 'Grocer' in High Street, Lutterworth. I do not have his death date as yet.(He had a son called William too to make things a little harder.) I know it was early days in Lutterworth but reading all the stories about shops, stores etc in Leicestershire has made me very curious about Lutterworth in the early to mid 1800s May I say that the family stories I write all include background information, descriptions and if I am very lucky photos or paintings of the areas in which they all lived. Marg Elliott Queensland ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

We seem to be drifting off what this site was designed for. Terry Ratcliffe -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 527 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

    Hi Listers   I have just counted the e-mails the Leicestershire Plus List has received from 1 February 2012. & apart from a handful of individual requests for help with their research, which as usual has been dealt with by kind persons, most of the e-mails (over 250) were on this subject - Memories.   The list has been extremely quiet for several months now & I for one have been delighted to see familiar names including their memories.   I have personally received over a dozen e-mails from Listers applauding this topic & wishing it to continue for some time.      The Victorian Letters kindly shared with us by a fellow researcher from 1st. February started the ball rolling with discussions about various dialects & phrases of Rural Leicestershire, especially the reference in the letters to 'worrit' & 'fair to middling'.   From then the discussions have widened to cover many topics which have highlighted the lives of our ancestors in living memory.   Surely this is adding yet another facet to our research & enabling us to have a much fuller picture of life in those times.      Perhaps in the coming week another topic will be received with the same enthusiasm &  our present interest in Memories will wane.     Life in the 40s, 50s & 60s was not always good & for some was very hard indeed, but even through these hardships some happy memories have surfaced.   We have all moved on in our busy lives, but hopefully not too busy to still have time to remember our past & our roots.   To just record names, dates, places of birth, marriage, death & burial, whilst accurately recording the life of our ancestors , it does not bring them to life as the recent discussions have for most of us.    May I thank you for the contributions & I will now, to the best of my ability, try & put these memories into an interesting text.   Regards to you all June Fleetwood (nee Rainbow) West Yorkshire

My brother took Spanish guitar lessons at Chamberlin's and later bought his first bass guitar and Vox AC30 amplifier from there in 1963 , His group"The Swinging Cortels" Featured on the front of the Leicester Chronicle ( that was the peak of their fame!) . Later he favoured Moore and Stanworths on Belgrave road but I thought Chamberlin's superior. Graham. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Godfrey Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 9:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Midland Red In reply to Jill Grey, Would the 'little music shop' be 'Chamberlains'? I would go there when I couldn't get what I wanted at Evans' music shop in Coalville! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

hi Terry it is a family history list , which means meat on the bones as well as just names and census data;- regards Terry Sundby Hopkin > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:17:59 +0000 > Subject: Re: [LEI] Family Reaserch > > Hi Terry > > >From the lists home page > > Topic: anyone with an interest in genealogy, family surname origins, or historical research related > to the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland, England. > > All that has been discussed *is* genealogy or local history related to Leicestershire > > You have a delete button if you are not interested, many others including me appear to be > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > > > We seem to be drifting off what this site was designed for. Terry > > Ratcliffe > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That's the place. I could not remember the name of the extremely wide Humberstone Gate. The taxi base was in a small building in the middle of the road as you say. Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Memories the Saturday shopping trip NarboroughRd and intoLeicester Hi Peter The best way I can describe the location of Vestry street If you stand with your back to the Palais facing across Humberstone Gate, Vestry street was dead opposite , the baths were at the end on the right

I disagree. A huge part of genealogy for many people involves trying to imagine what life was like for their ancestors and what it was like to live where they lived. It's about the places as well as the family tree. For those who have never visited Leicestershire, I think threads like those of the last few days can lift Leicester from just being a name on the map. Although I grew up here, i was born in the 70s so the joy for me has been reading about what the city would have been like when my mum was growing up and later on - she moved from Wigston around the beginning of WW2, into one of the new Boot houses on Southfields Drive, and she went to Alderman Newtons. School later on. She doesn't talk about it much but I find it all fascinating. Sent from my mobile device, please excuse lack of formatting. On 17 Feb 2012, at 21:12, "terry ratcliffe" <[email protected]> wrote: > We seem to be drifting off what this site was designed for. Terry > Ratcliffe > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 527 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Terry >From the lists home page Topic: anyone with an interest in genealogy, family surname origins, or historical research related to the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland, England. All that has been discussed *is* genealogy or local history related to Leicestershire You have a delete button if you are not interested, many others including me appear to be Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > We seem to be drifting off what this site was designed for. Terry > Ratcliffe

In reply to Jill Grey, Would the 'little music shop' be 'Chamberlains'? I would go there when I couldn't get what I wanted at Evans' music shop in Coalville!

Hi Donald I would strongly suggest that you join the Record Keeping Methodology group ... http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Genealogical_Computing/RECORD-KEEPING-METHODOLOGY.html It's only quiet (so you won't be inundated with emails) but once a question like yours is posted, there will be soooo much experience and advice freely-given :-) Heather On 15/02/2012 16:23, Donald Hurd wrote: > <snip> > > I am wondering if anybody could suggest a way of dealing with this material. My paper mementoes go back to the early 20th century and include old letterheads! > and bills and programmes of concerts and competitive music festivals where my mother sang, although a large part is more personal - letters , cards etc. I also have a photo of the last tram outside City Boys School. > > In 2004 this list had a spell of Christmas reminiscences in which posted I a couple of times about mince pies and pork pie. This provoked some discussion about whether a genealogy site should devote time to memories. > > <snip> > > Regards > Don Hurd, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. >

Yes, I refined my swimming techniques at Cossington Street, but my first strokes were at I think Vestry Street (was that located at the end of the wholesale fish markets? If so yes it was a bit basic but because Dad had the G Goodman & Sons F & V wholesale business in the F & V portion of the market it was convenient for Mum or Dad to take me. Then we discovered Cossington Street and went there more often and my brothers learned to swim there & I learned better techniques. Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 6:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Memories the Saturday shopping trip Narboroughrd and into Leicester Hi Margaret We did go to Cossington street , I think it was when our usual venue was closed for repair , that being Vestry street When I think back, Vestry street was a working museum really, quite small with dressing cubicles down the sides, quite dark compared to newer baths I got my life saving badge there for rescuing a drowning rubber brick <vbg> I remember when St Margarets Baths opened and it was so big and airy, a world apart from Vestry street, mind you it was quite strange to have windows where people could see you from the outside ! it took some getting used to <g> There was also Guthlaxton and Aylestone, the latter being another of the old school type of swimming baths Now is it me or did a lot more people go swimming then? I am out the loop of school trips and swimming but it seems to me that far fewer seem to go swimming than once did Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

How much you willing to pay for my autograph as you were obviously a fan! Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Underwood Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 12:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Memories I must have seen you on several occasions - living in one of the police houses in Broad Street next to the Newsagents wooden shop then. Very good shows. Dennis

Good grief, what a wonderful indulgence in nostalgia ! Has anyone mentioned Joseph Johnson's or the Mid Ed, suppliers of very nice pens and deckled-edged writing paper in Market Street (was it?) ?! Or the little music shop in Wellington Street where you could riffle through paper scores for anything from Clementi Sonatinas to Que Sera Sera? There was a great little drapers shop at 21 Mayfield Road run by two ladies who lived 'at the back' and who, despite their long occupational and domestic cohabitation only ever addressed each other as Miss Brown and Miss Goffey. It's some years since I mentioned this on the List, but I'm bringing it up again because as a child I knew Miss Elsie Goffey very well, spent many happy hours organising boxes of Silko behind the counter and mulling over the baffling uses for corsets and certain items mentioned only in whispers as "S.T"s, and I've carefully kept some bits and pieces relating to the Goffeys that I'd love to pass on to anyone connected to that family. When I ordered a 2nd-hand book on the history of Corah's over the internet some years ago, I called the dealer and found to my amazement that he was operating from Treasure Trove Books - a shop at that very address : 21 Mayfield Road. Needless to say, book business over, we carried on at some length about what had happened to Highfields during the past 40-odd years and I was delighted to hear that the Victorian outside lav at numero 21 that I'd visited as a 6-year-old was still there with its wooden seat and long metal chain. Re the trams (in which a small passenger could spend an entire twopenny ride poking her fingers into the elaborate arrangement of holes in the back of the seats) : I have a letter dated 15 December 1903 from my great grandfather at Berners Cottages to his daughter in Devon in which he writes - 'All trade is fearful for Lester. Old and young that have a bit of work are half timers there. Hundreds of navvies are breaking up the roads and streets for the new tramlines and putting up posts for electrical light. They are like scaffold poles and 40 feet in height.....' He executed the carving of 2 of the 4 statues on the Clock Tower and was responsible for the carved animal heads on the gates of the Cattle Market in Welford Road. I believe they're still there although these days, they usher the visitor somewhat ingloriously to a supermarket. Jill Subject: Re: [LEI] Midland Red ........And do not let us forget the trams...........Can remember travelling down Narborough Road on one to my ballet class on Satuday mornings.   Can I also suggest another shop - Simpkin & James.   The cafe upstairs where my mother & I had a pot of tea for two & cream cakes on Satuday mornings in the 50s.   Such a special shop smelling of spices.     Have recently found that I am connected, be it through many marriages, to the Simpkins.   June     e

Hello, I have an extensive Elliott line in my tree. Do you know where and when your William was born. Most of my Elliotts were from the Countesthorpe area. Bill Pallatt- sunny southern california -----Original Message----- >From: Marg <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 17, 2012 5:22 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LEI] Elliott Family > >Hello Everyone > >I am not experienced at writing to the list so apprehensive but seeing the list is so active and wonderfully interesting at present here goes. > >Can anyone help.I purchased microfiche from leicester to help gain the following information > >William Elliott was married to a 'Elizabeth' (was she Tomlinson?). >William and Elizabeth Elliott had 10 children together between 1802 & 1820. >A Elizabeth Elliott aged 47 of High Street, Lutterworth was buried (St Mary's records) 14 Sept 1829. >A William Elliott (widower) married Ruth Rainbow, aged 34 years, on 14 September 1834 - Ruth died in 1839. >William Elliott was recorded as being a 'Grocer' in High Street, Lutterworth. I do not have his death date as yet.(He had a son called William too to make things a little harder.) > >I know it was early days in Lutterworth but reading all the stories about shops, stores etc in Leicestershire has made me very curious about Lutterworth in the early to mid 1800s > >May I say that the family stories I write all include background information, descriptions and if I am very lucky photos or paintings of the areas in which they all lived. > >Marg Elliott >Queensland > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message