Tag Archives: Gloucestershire Archives

Helpful Hannah, The Thieving Servant

by cotswoldhistory Posted on February 18, 2013

TweetHannah Kilby was a servant working on Slaughter Hill Farm in Upper Slaughter. Born in Naunton, she had been working on the Slaughter farm for at least three years, and was, at the time of her arrest, 22 years old. … Continue reading →

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The Cotswold Vagrants: The Songbook Seller

by cotswoldhistory Posted on December 17, 2012

TweetIn Gloucestershire Archives is a pass addressed to the Keeper of the House of Correction, Cirencester, asking him to convey Elizabeth Markham, apprehended wandering and begging in the borough of Cirencester, to the parish of Burford in Oxfordshire, en route … Continue reading →

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The desire to own a thing of beauty

by cotswoldhistory Posted on January 16, 2012

TweetOn 21 May 1766, a poor couple from Chipping Campden were returning home from Cheltenham, where they had been seeking work. They were tired, and on reaching Winchcombe, decided to stay the night at the Rising Sun inn, to refresh … Continue reading →

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The Husbandmen Of Over Norton

by cotswoldhistory Posted on November 24, 2011

TweetThe village of Over Norton is, today, the lesser-known sibling of Chipping Norton. It is situated just up a hill from the latter market town, heading out towards the Warwickshire border. Yet, in common with many other villages of the … Continue reading →

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Happy Days: Archive Holds Conference On Social History And School Records

by cotswoldhistory Posted on January 26, 2011

TweetA day’s mini-conference, entitled The Happiest Day Of Your Life? Social History Through Education Records, is being held on Saturday 19 February, from 12.30pm until 6pm, at Gloucestershire Archives (Alvin Row, Gloucester). Speakers at the event include Fiona Mead, who … Continue reading →

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Vagrants, Rogues And Vagabonds

by cotswoldhistory Posted on November 18, 2010

TweetIt’s always rather satisfying when you request some documents from an archive, to find that the archivist hasn’t seen them before, and can’t remember anyone else asking to see them. That happened to me this week when I ordered a … Continue reading →

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350 Years Of Drinking At Fossebridge

by cotswoldhistory Posted on April 23, 2010

Tweet On the Fosseway, the Roman road that stretches through the Cotswolds to Cirencester, lies an architecturally pleasing public house – The Inn At Fossebridge. Gloucestershire Archives researchers believe there has been a building on the site since 1634. It … Continue reading →

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Campden Ashes: A History Through Auctions

by cotswoldhistory Posted on February 15, 2010

TweetIn 1824, a local landowner, who owned Campden Ashes, Upton Wold, and Spring Hill farms, between Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Hill, decided to sell off his farming stock – or, as the local paper put it, his “farming stock, implements, corn, hay, … Continue reading →

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