People and Places in the Village Josephine, Alfreda, Lilley, Shercliff (1902-1985) 6 Dec 20175 Aug 2025 I haven’t found anyone in Rolleston who has heard of this woman. Neither had I before 2017. Since then I have learned a lot about her using the internet and…
People and Places in the Village The Vipond family of Cragg, GARRIGILL, Cumberland 8 Sep 20258 Sep 2025 See my musings page.
People and Places in the Village The Brookhouse 12 Aug 202512 Aug 2025 Rolleston Staffordshire Gooogle Street View 2010 It’s a fine building which has been renovated and converted into apartment for sale in 2025 Above the front door is a date stone…
People and Places in the Village ROLLESTONIANS who served in the 1914-18 War 22 Dec 202425 Jun 2025 This project was inspired by an extract from a St. Mary’s Parish Magazine of May 1917 given to me by Tom Martin. It began as a supplement to Arnold Burston’s…
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Remembers (Those Rollestonians who gave their lives in WW1 WW2). 28 Oct 202428 Oct 2024 This is the time of year when we gratefully remember those who gave their lives to protect this country and enable us to live and flourish. I thought it appropriate…
People and Places in the Village LIFE ON THE ENGLISH MANOR (A STUDY OF PEASANT CONDITIONS 1150-1400) : H.S.BENNETT : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 27 Jun 2024 LIFE ON THE ENGLISH MANOR (A STUDY OF PEASANT CONDITIONS 1150-1400) : H.S.BENNETT : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive — Read on archive.org/details/lifeontheenglish020976mbp/page/n248/mode/1up
People and Places in the Village My search for the boundary of the ancient Parish of Rolleston in Staffordshire 23 Apr 202424 Apr 2024 In the Spring of the year of two thousand and eleven, I was seventy years old. “Full of years” as they used to say. My body was beginning to wear…
People and Places in the Village Image Display – Staffordshire Past Track 16 Apr 2024 Images, documents and views from the past for the area where you live, work or visit. — Read on www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/details.aspx
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Hall Gardens (4) The Conservatory 9 Apr 20249 Apr 2024 Staffordshire Archives have an image of the interior of the Conservatory It also appears in the Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, December 16, 1875 with the following account. It…
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Hall Gardens (3) The 1875 and 1896 accounts 9 Apr 20249 Apr 2024 These contemporary eye witness accounts are reproduced in their entirety and require no comment from me. Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener December 16, 1875 January 13, 1876 A different…
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Hall Gardens (5) – The Frost of 1837/8 8 Apr 202410 Apr 2024 On December 4, 1838 Professor John Lindley PhD. FRS, who became Vice Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society read a paper to the Horticultural Society. (This was before the Society…
People and Places in the Village Georeferenced Maps – Map images – National Library of Scotland 29 Mar 202411 Apr 2024 Georeferenced Maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland — Read on maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Hall Gardens (2) 11 Mar 20249 Apr 2024 Sadly, although the late Tom Martin gave a talk about Rolleston Hall Gardens, he didn’t convert his extensive notes into a written article. What follows is my attempt to do…
People and Places in the Village Brook Hollows past and present. 23 Feb 202411 Apr 2024 BROOKHOLLOWS: A Short History The absence of Rolleston estate papers, probably lost in the fires at Rolleston Hall in 1871 or later family home in Ireland, mean that information on…
People and Places in the Village Last of the line (3), the Emery family 21 Feb 202411 Apr 2024 In 1866 Thomas Emery when he married Eliza Upton would have been reasonably confident that he and his wife would produce a family who would be able to continue the…
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Village Sign 16 Jan 202417 Jan 2024 In 2018 Helen Richardson posted this picture on the village Facebook page. Now another has come to light from Julia Abbotts. Helen has pointed out that the young man with…
People and Places in the Village Methodism in Rolleston (on Dove) 14 Jan 202422 Feb 2024 Since the time the Church of England came into being there have been practising Protestant Christians who have not assented or conformed to its doctrine. Rolleston has had its share.…
People and Places in the Village Transcripts of the Manor Court 1826-7 2 Jan 20242 Jan 2024 It is three years since I posted about the Manor Court in Rolleston. Now I have transcribed the proceedings of the courts in the years 1826 and 1827 when they…
People and Places in the Village Village life in Rolleston in the 17th Century – some random thoughts. 1 Jan 20245 Sep 2025 The people who lived in Rolleston had lived through turbulent times. Some would have been born in the time of “good Queen Bess” who was succeeded by; James I of…
People and Places in the Village The Caldwell Story (Part 3) 31 Dec 202331 Dec 2023 The third son mentioned on the Caldwell memorial in Rolleston church was Lawrence. He left a will which has also survived and can be viewed using Ancestry.com. As with his…
People and Places in the Village The Caldwell Story (Part 2) 19 Dec 202331 Dec 2023 Unfortunately, the parish records for the baptism and possible marriage in Rolleston of Florens are lost, just like those of his brother William, the subject of my previous blog, To…
People and Places in the Village The Caldwell Story (Part 1) 19 Dec 202331 Dec 2023 William Caldwell’s Will of 1610 is a “treasure trove” of information for the amateur family or local historian which is rather fortunate because the parish records for the village of…
People and Places in the Village The Caldwell family of Rolleston. 15 Nov 202315 Aug 2025 I expect that many people have seen the monument on the east wall of the sanctuary in St. Mary’s church, Rolleston. The Caldwall memorial in St. Mary’s church, Rolleston. I…
People and Places in the Village Secondary Schooling after 1909 13 Nov 202331 Dec 2023 This blog is not finished. I have published it prematurely in the hope that readers will send me more information to include and improve it. I know that more contributions…
People and Places in the Village WWI Belgian Refugees in our area 13 Nov 202331 Dec 2023 Hundreds of thousands of civilians from Belgium made their way to England and were settled all over the country by willing and enthusiastic people initially through many local voluntary Belgian…
People and Places in the Village Things were different then 11 Nov 202311 Nov 2023 My son in law is a keen angler. Nowadays it is all barbless hooks and catch and release. It wasn’t like that when I was young. Everyone who fished, or…
People and Places in the Village Primary Schooling after 1909 16 Oct 202316 Nov 2023 This blog is not finished. I have published it prematurely in the hope that readers will send me more information to include and improve it. I know that more contributions…
People and Places in the Village Bishop Robert Sherburne 14 Oct 202317 Oct 2023 In Rolleston not many people realise that we should be grateful to this man for founding the Free Grammar School here in 1524. The illuminated foundation statutes of Rolleston Free…
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Schools from 1520 onwards 14 Oct 202316 Nov 2023 This is not a completed blog. It is a work in progress. Information is being assembled and added as it becomes available. Many thanks to all who have, and will…
People and Places in the Village Colonel Francis Russell died in 1696 4 Oct 202316 Jul 2024 On February 1st 2016 whilst browsing through the website of The National Archives at Kew something caught my eye. “The Will of Colonel Francis Russell of Rolleston in Staffordshire”. I was…
People and Places in the Village The 1921 Census 3 Oct 20233 Oct 2023 For general information on this census use these links. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20s-people/the-1921-census/where-can-i-access-the-1921-census/ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20s-people/the-1921-census/whats-interesting-about-the-1921-census/ For my information about Rolleston in this census use this link https://1drv.ms/w/s!ApM3LuV0KYVHguZV5rxCdAzDLjRC9A
People and Places in the Village 1911 Census 2 Oct 2023 A Transcript Of The 1911 Census of Rolleston in Staffordshire By M V WARDELL 2012 The census for 1911 took place on the night of Sunday April 2nd. There were…
People and Places in the Village The Sutton Family in Rolleston 11 Aug 20233 Oct 2023 On the internet I came across this entry which caught my eye. I remembered that the late Mrs. Delia Wyers (much missed by local historians like myself). I thought I…
People and Places in the Village Rolleston Free Grammar School 10 Aug 202315 Nov 2023 It all began with Robert Sherburne. (Let’s not get hung up about the spelling of his name - Sherborne and Sherbourne among others are alternatives. There was no standardised spelling…
Rolleston on Dove History 