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SAMUEL T STEWART

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THE STEWART FAMILY OF LOUNT 1901

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Local Historian & Author Of Books On The Social And Industrial History Of Villages In North West Leicestershire

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You will find over 200 articles covering many subjects on the history of villages and hamlets in this area of North West Leicestershire.

Go to Publications or select a number on the map to find out more.

What's New

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A transcription of an 1837 Charity Commissioners Report associated with Margaret Mead.

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A publication about one of the many King families residing in Osgathope in the 1800's.

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Jonathan, Joseph and John Bostock, the subject of this publication (in that chronological order), were descended from an ancient line of Bostocks who have been traced back to 1619.

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This publication provides a transcription of John Allsopp's will and his connection with Osgathorpe via a bequeathment.

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Although the school was closed in 1901, there apparently being insufficient pupils available to teach, we know that a number of years later it was re-opened for the teaching of infants.

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The purpose of this publication is to add some clarity to the instructions given in Thomas Harley's will with regard to the Manor of Rolleston and the original formation of what eventually became known as the 'Thomas Harley Osgathorpe Charity', referred to initially as 'Osgathorpe Hospital'

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This publication provides some previously unrecorded details of the Manor House and the surrounding lands, which was under the ownership of Thomas Harley and the Thomas Harley Osgathorpe Charity from c.1650 until 1962. This Charity is still in existence today.

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This publication relates to the sale of a particular small triangle of land owned by the Thomas Harley Charity in the parish of Coalville at the time it was sold. It was the start of development of the area to the south east of the junction where Broom Ley's Road meets London Road

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Samuel T Stewart's childhood memories of a World War 2 evacuee hosted in Coleorton

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A brief history of Clay Smoking Pipes and Clay Pipes discovered in Griffydam

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At the rear of the Griffydam Wesleyan Chapel are several allotments where various historical artefacts' have been found

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The remarkable story of a local couple who emigrated to North America with their family and became Latter Day Saints

Latest Updates

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Updates include a table of the 28 pupils who went from Frank Barkby's Penny School to the Griffydam Wesleyan Methodist Day School

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Updates include an 1889 newspaper article and additional photographs

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Updates include an additional newspaper article about the Sunday School treat at Newbold School plus a picture of the former vicarage

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Updates include the transcription of the Indenture of Sale between Sir Edward Aston and Henry Beaumont

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Worthington, was an Anglo-Saxon settlement, which was later recorded as WERDITONE in the Domesday survey of 1086/87. Eight hundred years later, after it had been part of the parish of Breedon-on-the-Hill for hundreds of years, it became a civil parish in its own right which included Griffydam, Newbold, Gelsmoor and the Outwoods.

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There has been very little recorded about Worthington's Water Driven Corn Mill. Therefore, this publication is the author's own interpretation based on old O/S maps, trade directories, census records and other fragmented pieces information.

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