Hi Vern Don't know whether you have found this site, which has a lot of links to other pages & sites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanchec/EMidBaps.htm I found Hugglescote General Baptist Memorial Inscriptions Name Died Age Details Hannah STENSON 12 Nov 1843 66 w/o William William STENSON 27 Nov 1861 91 of Coalville Caroline BURGESS 12 Oct 1862 49 wid/o Robt, Donnington-le-Heath Younger d/o Wm & Hannah STENSON, Coalville Don't know if you had these - is this your William? You said he died aged 91 in a later email, which I had deleted. Regards Geraldine Bancroft -----Original Message----- From: Vern Prescott Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 6:43 PM To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: [LEI] Old school records I'm wondering if anyone knows whether there would be any old school records surviving from about 1780. I am grasping for anything at all that might help me identify the parents of William STENSON (Stinson) born about 1770 in Cole-Orton. Vern in lovely SW Ontario ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi and thanks, Geraldine Yes, I did have these and William and Hannah are my G G G Grandparents. Blanche Charles was very helpful a few years back, sending me quite a bit of Stenson information, including some wills. In 2007, I visited Coalville area and managed to see William's grave and take a few photos. The graveyard was supposed to be open, but was locked. Luckily there was a low wall at one point that we were able to easily climb over! Later the same day, I took a stroll through the Coalville Cemetery which was open, but somebody came and locked the gates while I was inside. The chap must have thought it a good joke and came back a few minutes later to release me. Vern