Rutland Local Studies & Family History Library

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1 Issue 12 Rutland Local Studies & Family History Lirary Rutland ounty useum atmos Street Oakham Rutland LE15 6HW Tel:

2 Introduction Rutland ounty useum houses numerous reference materials on Rutland and the surrounding area. egin to discover your Rutland Roots with our resources including: General Family History instruction titles (small loan collections are also held in Rutland Liraries), Local census returns (microfilm), Parish registers: aptisms, marriages, anns, and urials (microfiche), Local aps, Local newspapers (microfilm), Trade Directories, Local Author ollection, Local usic, Local History Lirary (loan copies of many titles are availale in Rutland Liraries, see our catalogue for details), Photograph & postcard collections, and more. Also availale is FREE access to Ancestry.co.uk Lirary Edition, and the ritish Newspaper Archive, enaling you to research your family history. The Local Studies room has a film reader and fiche reader/printer along with free Internet access for pulic use (Genealogy use only). If you have an enquiry please ask staff who will e happy to help. Rutland Lirary Service and Rutland ounty useum have a joint address for family and local history enquiries: history@rutland.gov.uk Want to learn more aout Rutland? Try our Guided Heritage Tours of the useum and Oakham astle availale to ook for groups of 6 or more. Open tours are advertised during the summer season in the local press and on our wesite. ore details and a tour leaflet are availale at: Our ollections The collections of the Rutland Local and Family History Lirary are an amalgamation

3 of the following collections: Rutland Lirary Service Local Studies and Family History Reference and Reserve ollections Rutland ounty useum Local History ollection The lirary of the Rutland Local History and Record Society Oakham School Local Studies ollection All of these materials, except for the Oakham School ollection, are availale to search on our lirary catalogue: All materials held in the lirary at Rutland ounty useum are Reference Only, and some items are held in secure store. However, we are not a county archive for Rutland, and do not hold original records for e.g. school admissions, church records, parish councils etc. These are availale at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland at Wigston agna (Tel: ) Newspapers The collection elow is availale on Film. Please note there are some gaps; therefore please contact the museum if you wish to view a particular edition. Where newspaper copies are listed as availale in Hard opy, these are availale at Oakham Lirary only, and require 24 hour notice to view (must e retrieved from storage). Rutland ercury Also Known as The Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford ercury Rutland Echo Rutland Journal FIL FIL FIL FIL FIL Hard copy 1996-date FIL* (*last 18 months 2yrs in Hard copy) FIL 20 Jul Oct 1989 Hard copy Rutland Times (not complete) Uppingham Gazette April 1977-date Hard copy Nov 1869 Jul 1870 FIL

4 Directories (Hard copy with some on fiche) All are located in the locked cainet at Rutland ounty useum. arker & o, Leicestershire & Rutland, 1875 arlow s Almanack, 1880, 1894, 1895, 1898, 1901, 1902 George Alexander ooke Topographical and statistical description of the ounty of Rutland 1801 Deacon s ourt Guide and ounty lue ook: Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire, 1890 & Doly s Stamford and Rutland Almanack, 1867, 1900, & 1903 J.G. Harrod & o s Postal & ommercial Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1870 Kelly s Directory of Lincolnshire, Kelly s Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1876, 1881, 1888, 1891, 1895, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1912, 1916, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1936, 1941, & Kelly s Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Deryshire, 1881, 1912 atkin s Oakham Almanack, ercer & roker s Leicestershire & Rutland 1877, Rutland 1870 Pigot s Directory of Leciestershire & Rutland, 1828/9, 1831, 1835, 1840, 1841 Post Office Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland (Kelly) 1855 Slater s Royal National ommercial Directory and Topography of Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire and Yorkshire N White s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (12 th ed.), & 1899 (15 th ed.) White s History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the ounties of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1846, 1846, 1862, 1863, 1868, 1877 & Also, Lincolnshire 1857 & Wright s Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland 1880, 1894, 1895/6, 1898, 1900 aps and Plans There are a selection of several hundred local maps (Rutland and surrounding counties) surveyed in 1884 onwards, with various editions and scales availale. Please feel free to request a map from a memer of staff. Also availale: Rutland Tithes Dataase on D-Rom.

5 Periodicals A numer of local history periodicals are availale including the Rutland Record (current and historical), East idlands historian (incomplete to 2004),The Rutland agazine & ounty Historical Record, Vols. I-V ( ), Uppingham agazine , among others. ost are not current. Genealogy and Family History Poor Law Record of the Guardians of Oakham Union Workhouse (PDF files) Leicestershire and Rutland Poor Law Index s DRO DRO Quarter sessions , Removals and Settlements , astardy Order ooks and astardy ooks Stamford Union Workhouse Parts ook (Incl. parts of Rutland. Extracts from Poor Law Union Workhouse inutes: transcripts of all entries that mention Paupers y name incl. full surname index) ensus Oakham, Rutland, and Uppingham Oakham and Rutland Oakham, Rutland, and Uppingham Oakham, Rutland, Uppingham, and Stamford All are also availale via Ancestry, including 1911 census for Rutland. Wills 1841 FIL 1851 FIL 1861 FIL 1871 FIL 1881 FIHE 1891 FIHE 1901 FIHE A calendar of wills relating to the counties of Northants and Rutland (set of 3 fiches) Index to wills and administrations proved and granted in the Archdeaconry ourt of Leicester (set of 5 fiches) Hard opy FIHE FIHE Family and Local History for hildren A numer of Local Studies resources have een chosen for children and are availale for loan from Rutland Liraries. Oakham Lirary also has a selection of lassroom Support Resources to support Local History in the curriculum, these are availale for loan to teachers.

6 classroom Allexton Ashwell Ayston & & & , & Folder 1 Folder 1 Folder 1 arrow see ottesmore arrowden Folder & elton-in- Rutland isrooke raunston rooke urley aldecott lipsham ottesmore with Parish Registers held at Rutland ounty useum =apt, =arriage, =ur, =anns arrow , & & & & & & , & , , & , & & & & & Edith Weston Egleton Empingham Essendine Exton with Horn Glaston Great asterton Great Easton Greetham Hamleton Ketton Langham Little asterton Lyddington , & & / & & & & , & & & & & , & & , & & & & & & & , & Folder 4 Folder 4 Folder 4 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 5 Folder 5 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 6 Folder 6 Folder 7

7 Lyndon anton arket Overton orcott Normanton North Luffenham Oakham (transcripts only to 1812) Pickworth Pilton Preston Ridlington Ryhall Seaton South Luffenham , , & & & & & & & ,, also on D-Rom & & & & & & & & & , & , , & & Folder 7 Folder 7 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 8 Folder 8 Folder 9 Folder 11 Folder 11 Stoke Dry Stretton Teigh Thistleton Tickencote Tinwell Tixover Uppingham Wardley Whissendine Whitwell Wing Withcote & & & & , & , & & , & & Also 1 fiche copy of register entries , , & & & & , & Incl ( urials in woollen ) & & & & , & Folder 11 Folder 11 Folder 13 Folder 13 Folder 14 Folder 14 Folder 14 Folder 14

8 Indexes & D-Roms Aircraft crashes in the East idlands International Genealogical Index (IGI, 1992 Edition) for Leicestershire, and Rutland Leicestershire and Rutland Strays Index Leicestershire & Rutland ounty urial index Leicestershire & Rutland ilitary Indexes National urial Index for England and Wales 2 nd edition Phillimore s Leicestershire arriages Rutland arriage Index Parts Rutland Pu Index Index to the names of females appearing in the astracts of Leicestershire arriage onds and Allegations for arriage Licences 1570 to 1729 Rutland ensus Index 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 Rutland Parish Registers , over 20 parishes Vol 1&2 The Leicester Project (68 Parish Registers) Stamford ensus Surname Index 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, & 1851 Includes ourne Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Indexes to Non-conformist aptisms & urials DRO FIHE DRO DRO DRO DRO DRO Hard copy DRO Hard copy DRO DRO DRO FIHE DRO Useful addresses Oakham Lirary (for hard copy newspapers & reserve stock) atmos Street, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 6HW Tel: The Rutland Local History & Record Society is located at the museum, address details on front cover. We: The Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society LRFHS Research entre & Lirary, Unit 4, Pilot House, King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RN Enquiries Tel: We: for local contact details Follow us on Faceook/rutlandcountymuseum and