WHO home page WHO pages only All the Web This year's programme of WHO lectures oldest WHO news next oldest WHO news barely old at all WHO news WHO archive catalogue the WHO's 'virtual museum' YouTube videos about Wolds history Local history articles Burton on the Wolds Cotes Hoton Prestwold Six Hills Walton on the Wolds Willoughby on the Wolds Wymeswold Wymeswold Airfield Walton on the Wolds records early C17th Wymeswold constable's accounts Wymeswold census returns 1841 to 1901 Wymeswold parish registers 1560 onwards Wymeswold marriage registers 1560 to 1916 Wymeswold Village Design Statement 2002 WHO publications available as free PDFs The Wolds Historian 2004–2008 2000 Years of the Wolds A walk Around Wymeswold Wymeswold fieldwalking report 1993 In addition the WHO has digitised versions of: George Farnham's unpublished MS of notes about Wymeswold medieval history (akin to a 1920s update of Nichols) Enclosure Award and later maps plus assorted terriers held in the archive of Trinity College Cambridge Marshall Brown's pharmaceutical journal 1869 Wymeswold school log books 1875–1982 Wymeswold Parochial Charities minutes 1880–1930 photographs taken by Philip Brown between 1890s and 1930s Sidney Pell Potter's A History of Wymeswold 1915 Lily Brown's diary 1916 Church Council Minute Book for St Mary's, Wymeswold 1932–1955 WI survey of Wymeswold gravestones (St Mary's; Baptist chapel; Methodist chapel; 'The Quakers') 1981–2 Rempstone Steam Fair programme 1983 Email bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk to discuss access to these (e.g. via memory stick or ZIP file). This website does not gather or store any visitor information.

Contents of Bringing Them Home by Ivor Perry and indices for Discovering the Wolds and People and Places of the Wolds For the benefit of those family historians and other researchers who do not yet own copies of the three WHO books still in print, here is a list of key names and selected topics. Please email bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk for details of how to obtain copies of any of these books. contents of Bringing Them Home by Ivor Perry The chapters of Bringing Them Home provide biographies of the lives of those from Wymeswold (or associated with the village) who died in the First World War – see list below. There is also a detailed account of the role of the YMCA in creating Memorial Halls nationwide, based on surviving correspondence with the then Vicar of Wymeswold.   Albert Edward Bacon Colin Bramall John Wilfred Brookes John Edward Clarke Thomas Clarke John James Collington John William Collington William Henry Dykes Eric Evans James Fermer Fletcher Horace Giles Ernest William Hubbard Robert Miles Jalland John Joseph Lamb George Harold Marriott Jesse Mills John Morris Herbert Isaac Orridge John Robert Ovendale Frederick Henry Robinson Alfred Savage Walter Foster Simpson William Bennett Sissins Walter Charles Smith Bramford Sparrow David Spicer George Spicer John Edward Spicer George Williams William Wilson   index to Discovering the Wolds   Adcock, Richard 38   Barnett, Catherine 75 Benedict, Abbot of Selby 16 Botham, Edwin 57 Brown, Joseph 33, 36, 38 Brown, Lily 81–3 Brown, Marshall 53 Burrowes, William (and descendants) 40–4 Burton (Greyhound) 36 Burton (pinfold) 37 Burton (sheepwash) 36–7 Burton Hall 19–26 Burton parish constable 33–7   Canner, William and Mary 30 Carver, George 33 Carver, Ted and Annie 75 cheesemaking 93–4 Clarke, William 38 Condon, John 33, 37–8 Cooper, John 31 Cooper, William 31 Cooper, William 33 Cotes (Upper Mill) 54–6 Cranoe 9 Cross, Mary 40 Cumberdale, Wymeswold 14–15   Egglestone, John 33 Edward II 17–18   Fielding, William, Mary, Eliza and Ellen 45–6 First World War 80, 81–3 Flitteris Wood 8 Framland 7 Frisby, Joseph 36   Gamble, James 31 Gamble, William 34 Glover, William 31 Grundy, Susanna 40, 42–5   Harrison, John 36 Harrison, Thomas 33, 37 Harrow (hearg) 6 Hoby, 2, 4, 6 hoh 2–11 Holworthy's Ointment 47 Hose 2, 4–5 Hoton (Methodist chapel) 77–9 Hoton (The Bell) 31 Hoton (toll bar) 32 Hoton 2, 4 Houghton 2, 9   Jackson, Samuel 38 James, George 33, 34 James, John 38 James, John 86 James, Lizzie and Harriet 86–7 Jowett, Mary 40   Kendrick, Thomas 34 Kirk, Daniel 28–31 Kirkland, John 31   Lacey, Thomas 31 Lacy, Thomas 33–4 Lisrthwerent, Richard 31 Loseby, William (and descendants) 57–76 Lowe, Joseph 36 Lymeswold cheese 93–4   Market Harborough 9 Marshall, Elizabeth 40 McCurdy, Edward 88 Mee, Benjamin 33, 35 Monk, William 36 Morris, Robert 38 Mundy, Charles Godfrey 24–6, 33, 36 Mundy, Emily 25   Needham, Thomas 34 Noon, John 19–27   Packe, C.J. snr and jnr 33 Packe, Cahrles William 36 Perkins, Gregory 35 Potter, T.R. 25 Prestwold (Red Lion Inn a.k.a. Queen's Head) 28–31 Primrose Health Salts 98   Rawlinson, Charles and Ann 31 Roehoe Wood 5 Rutland 7, 8   Savage, Edward 31 Seagrave, Thomas 31 Seal, Joseph 33–5, 38 Seal, Thomas 38 sedges 12–14 Shuttlewood, John 31 Six Hills (Seggs Hill) 6, 12–14, 16 Smith, Ernest 77–8 St Mary in Arden 9 Stafford, John 38 Stanford on Soar 57 Stapleford 4, 6 Stephen, Abbot of Whitby 16   Thomas, Earl of Lancaster 17–18 Thornton, Mary 40 Toutatis 10 Tysoe Hill, Glenfield 10   Vermeneton 6   Wainwright, Ann 31 Walker, Rev Robert 49–52 Walton (C19th carvings) 48 Ward, Ann and Henry 35 White, John 33, 35 Wilde, Mary 40 Wood, Thomas 34 Wye, Charles and Eliza 73–4 Wyfordby 4, 6 Wymeswold (Bull's Head) 38 Wymeswold (forge, Brook Street) 84–7 Wymeswold (pinfold) 98 Wymeswold bowling club 89–92 Wysall 9   Zouch 17–18   index to People and Places of the Wolds   Alkemade, Nicholas 84–7   Baxter, Sandra 89–105 Bird, Montague 'Bertie', Louise and Nora 70–8 Birkin, Luke 35 Bosse, Elizabeth 13 Brown, Ivor 107 Brown, Marshall 55–62 Burbidge, F.W. 37–9 Burton Bandals 110–13 Burton cricket team 1908 78 Burton cricket team 1950s 81 Burton Hall 21–7   Collington, Herbert and Nora 89 Collington, Michael 104 Cotes (Civil War battle) 14–15 Cotes (St John's chapel) 7–13 Cotes Mill 108–9 Cotton, William 32–6   Ella, James and Elizabeth 43–4 Ella, Maria 43, 45 Ella, William Fisher 43, 45 Emmerson, Herbert Edward 43, 49–51 Emmerson, John Edward 43, 50 Emmerson, Lydia 43, 48–9   Fisher, Richard 13 Fisher, William and Elizabeth 43–4   Glass, Jane 96, 99   Hall, Samuel Auton 43, 47, 48 harrow (hearg) 2–6 Hodson, Mrs 101 Holwell, Walter 43, 48–9 Hoton fire (1931) 79–81   Jackson, Rev Lawrence 100 James, Christine 105 James, Thomas 16–18   Keightley, Thomas 43, 45–6   Lawrence, John 36 Lovett, Harry and Susan 112 Lowe, James 19   Mothering Sunday 83 Mundy, Charles and Harriet 20–9   Packe, Charles 40–1 Packe, Charles William 19 Paget, Joan Frances 43, 48 Paget, Peter William 43, 47–8 Paget, William Byerley 43, 47 Paget, William Edward 43, 47–52 Ponsoby, 'Fred' 17 Potter, Thomas Rossell and descendants 63–9 Prestwold (Mothering Sunday) 83 Prestwold 13 Preswold (Natural Burial Ground) 110–13   RAF Wymeswold 88 Rempstone (toll bar) 33–5   Sawbridge 36 Six Hills 5–6   Talbot, Jack and Val 95–6 Tyler, Ann 29   Vernemeton 5–6   Walton parish registers 53–4 Weldon, Mrs 101 Woodruffe, Samuel 32–6, 43, 46–7 Wymeswold (Hall Field c.1920) 82 Wymeswold (Manor House owners and occupiers) 42–52 Wymeswold clockmakers 30–1 Wymeswold pharmacy (C19th) 55–62   WHO home page