110 Rare Old Books on Leicester History and Genealogy People Towns Villages Legends Ancestry Parish Records Maps UK - Instant PDF Download

LEICESTERSHIRE - HISTORY, ANCESTRY & GENEALOGY

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 110 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of LEICESTERSHIRE'S HISTORY & GENEALOGY.

Read about the antiquities of this fascinating county and its surrounds. Discover its history, its landscape and its people. Search the old local parish registers and directories for genealogical information, revealing ancestry and family heritage. Explore the old buildings, landmarks, industry, scenery, legends, superstitions, traditions and folklore that have helped to shape this county over thousands of years. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Leicestershire and its local history, ancestry and genealogy. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

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Full List of Books Included:


A chronicle of the Church of St. Martin in Leicester, during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth - T. North (1866)

A flora of Leicestershire - M. Kirby (1850)

A Topographical History of the County of Leicester - J. Curtis (1831)

An Account of some of the More Rare English Plants Observed in Leicestershire - W. Watson (1755) (article)

An index to the ancient manuscripts of the Borough of Leicester, preserved in the Muniment Room of the Leicester town hall - J. C. Jeaffreson (1878)

An inventory of the church plate of Leicestershire, with some account of the donors - A. Trollope (1890)

Analysis of the Moira Brine Spring near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire - A. Ure (1834) (article)

Ancient records of Leicester - W. Kelly (1855)

Barker & Co.'s Directory for Leicestershire & Rutland (1875)

Bennett' Business Directory for Leicestershire (1901-02)

Bennett's Business Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1888)

Buchanan & Co.'s Directory of Leicester & Market Towns (1867)

Bygone Leicestershire - W. Andrews (1892)

Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the county of Leicester, proved in the Archdeaconry court of Leicester, 1495-1649 (publictaion date - 1902)

Chronicles of the castle and of the earls of Leicester - W. Reeve (1867)

Commercial Directory of Leicestershire (1861)

Deacon's Leicestershire, Rutland & Northamptonshire (1890)

Epitaphs in the graveyard and chapel of the Great Meeting, Leicester - A. H. Paget (1912)

Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1861)

Genealogies of the families of Bate and Kirkland, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch - J. P. Rylands (1877)

Handbook for travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire - J. Murray (1892)

Harrod & Co.'s Directory of Derbys, Leicestershire, Rutland & Staffordshire (1870)

Historical record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot - R. Cannon (1848)

History of freemasonry in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1809-1909 - J. T. Thorp (1909)

History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1846)

History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1863)

History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1877)

History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire, and the small county of Rutland - W. White (1846)

Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1881)

Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1895)

Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1899)

Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1908)

Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1912)

Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1916)

Kirby Muxloe Castle near Leicester - C. R. Peers (1917)

Leicester - sanitation versus vaccination - its vital statistics compared with those of other towns - J. T. Biggs (1912)

Leicester and its inhabitants in 1664 (1900)

Leicestershire - G. Pingriff (1920)

Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner Vol. 1 (1891)

Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner Vol. 2 (1893)

Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner Vol. 3 (1895)

Leicestershire marriage licences Vol. 38 - being abstracts of the bonds and allegations for marriage licences, preserved in the Leicester Archdeaconry Registry, 1570-1729 (publication date - 1910)

Leicestershire parish registers Vol. 1 (1908)

Leicestershire parish registers. Marriages Vol. 2 (1908)

Leicestershire parish registers. Marriages Vol. 11 (1908)

Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents - W. Fletcher (1887)

Leicestershire words, phrases, and proverbs - A. B. Evans (1848)

Leicestershire words, phrases, and proverbs - A. B. Evans (1881)

Lutterworth, John Wycliffe's town - A. H. Dyson (1913)

Market Harborough parish records to A. D. 1530 - J. E. Stocks (1890)

Mediaeval Leicester - C. J. Billson (1920)

Melville & Co.'s Directory & Gazetteer of Leicestershire (1854)

Memorials of old Leicestershire - A. Dryden (1910)

Outlines of the geology of Leicestershire - W. H. Coleman (1862)

Pigot's Directory of Leicestershire (1822, 1828, 1835)

Post Office Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1855)

Post Office Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1876)

Rambles Round Rugby - A. Rimmer (1892)

Records of the borough of Leicester Vol. 1 (1901)

Records of the borough of Leicester Vol. 2 (1901)

Records of the borough of Leicester Vol. 3 (1901)

Romance of Ashby-de-la-Zouch castle - C. H. Poynton (1902)

Rutland - G. Phillips (1912)

Slater's Directory of Leicestershire (1862)

Street, Alphabetical & Trade Directory of Leicester (1870)

Testimonials to John Taylor & Co., bell founders, Loughborough, Leicestershire (1901)

The accounts of the churchwardens of S. Martin's, Leicester. 1489-1844 - T. North (1884)

The armorial windows erected, in the reign of Henry VI. By John, viscount Beaumont ... by the park of Beaumanor, in Charnwood forest, Leicestershire - J. Nichols (1860)

The Celtic element in the dialectic words of the counties of Northampton & Leicester - J. Davies (1885)

The church bells of Leicestershire - their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Leicester bell founders by T. North (1876)

The church bells of Rutland their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses; with chapters on bells and bell founders - T. North (1880)

The counties of Chester, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Rutland, illustrated - T. Noble (1836)

The cream of Leicestershire - E. P. Elmhirst (1883)

The cream of Leicestershire - eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from The Field by E. P. Elmhirst (1883)

The early history (1803-1859) of the Knights of Malta Lodge, Hinckley, (Leicestershire) - J. T. Thorp (1899)

The geology of the country between Atherstone and Charnwood forest (1900)

The geology of the Leicestershire coalfield - E. Hull (1860)

The geology of the south-west part of Lincolnshire, with parts of Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire - A. J. Dukes-Browne (1885)

The Heyricke letters - J. G. Nichols (1860)

The history and antiquities of Hinckley, in the County of Leicester; including the hamlets of Stoke, Dadlington, Wynkin, and The Hyde - J. Nichols (1782)

The history and description of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (1852)

The history of Leicester in the eighteenth century - J. Thompson (1871)

The History of Market-Harborough, in Leicestershire, and It's Vicinity - W. Harrod (1808)

The History of Thurlaston, Leicestershire - J. Hulme (1904)

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad - E. J. Thompson (1919)

The Old town hall library of Leicester (1919)

The Quorn hunt and its masters - W. C. A. Blew (1899)

The registry of St. Mary, Leicester, in the county of Leicester (1909)

The roman sites of South West Leicestershire - A. J. Pickering (1888 - article)

The rural economy of the Midland counties; including the management of livestock, in Leicestershire and its environs Vol. 1 - W. Marshall (1796)

The rural economy of the Midland counties; including the management of livestock, in Leicestershire and its environs Vol. 2 - W. Marshall (1796)

The vertebrate animals of Leicestershire and Rutland - M. Browne (1889)

The Victoria history of the county of Leicester Vol. 1 - W. Page (1907)

The Victoria history of the county of Leicester Vol. 2 - W. Page (1907)

The Victoria history of the county of Leicester Vol. 3 - W. Page (1907)

The Victoria history of the county of Leicester Vol. 4 - W. Page (1907)

The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619 - W. Camden (1870)

Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society Vol. 1 Pt. 1-4 (1862)

Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society Vol. 2 Pt. 1-4 (1866)

Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society Vol. 5 Pt. 1-4 (1879)

Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society Vol. 6 Pt. 1-5 (1884)

Visitation of the county of Rutland in the year 1618-19 - W. Cambden (1870)

Wright's Directory of Leicester & Fifteen Miles Round (1883-84)

Wright's Directory of Leicester & Six Miles Round (1878)

Wright's Directory of Leicester (1914)

Wright's Directory of Leicester and Twelve Miles Round (1889-90)

Wright's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1880)

Wright's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1899)

Wright's Directory of Leicestershire (1892)

Wright's Directory of Leicestershire, (1887-88)




An absolute must for anyone with an interest the local history, ancestry and genealogy of Leicestershire and surrounds – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!


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