We are working frantically on the family tree and now have nearly 10,000 people who lived in Minster Lovell or were in some one connected to them. Do please send in any more information you might have as we want to get it all finished by late spring 2012 to publish it online. Family stories are especially welcome.
Minster Lovell family tree
January 4th, 2012Talk on Charterville 23rd January 2012
December 27th, 2011Graham Kew will be giving a talk on the Charterville site at Minster Lovell on Monday 23rd January at St Kenelm’s village hall at 7:30pm. A small charge will apply. Hope to see you there!
Migration to/from Minster Lovell
December 9th, 2011We are still gathering information on people who have come to live in the village, even for a short time, and those who have left to go somewhere else, so do contact us if you have any data. We’ve had two extra families added to our database this month from the website. Next year we hope to publish our full family tree for everyone to see. We’ve just got about 50 more surnames to complete then all the error correction to do!
Charterville in Minster Lovell and War Dead
November 10th, 2011We are hard at work on a map showing the whole of Minster Lovell (Old Minster, Little Minster and Charterville) with names of who lived in which house from the 1400s to 1950. Do send us any information you have. We are particularly trying to trace each owner of the original Charterville plots through the sale of them after the Chartist Land Company failed and up to the families in the 1950s. Although we have many names, the challenge is matching the names to specific plots. We want to have a big display in June 2012 for the village Jubilee celebrations.
The parish council has carved two extra names on the War Memorial for Minster men who were missed off originally and they will be honoured this weekend. There is one more – unfortunately too many people were named Lock in the village because there were two men called ‘H. Lock’ which is what is carved on the memorial. We have records of Horace Lock died 30/12/1917 and Herbert Lock died 01/11/1918, so we just need to discuss what to do with their inscriptions. We are so grateful that these extra names are being added.
Blog issues
September 28th, 2011We’ve been having some problems with the blog and lost a few entries. I will try and catch up soon! Meanwhile do contact us if you are interested in Minster Lovell history.
Lower Crescent in Minster Lovell – was it once a crescent?
July 6th, 2011We have been looking at old maps so we can build our map of who lived where in the village. Both Upper Crescent and Lower Crescent come off the Burford Road. But Lower Crescent isn’t a crescent at all but a cul-de-sac road. Was it a crescent originally – maybe going through to Little Minster or looping back into the Burford Road? If not, why did it gets that name? All help appreciated.
War memorial
June 27th, 2011We have heard that the Parish Council are arranging for 3 more minster Lovell names to be carved on the war memorial. Thanks especially to Peter Gough for his persistence in tracing the war dead. Ernest Greenaway still eludes us but we will find him – maybe in Canada having survived WWI?
Who lived where in Minster Lovell?
June 27th, 2011Thank you to everyone who came to our stand at the Methodist anniversary fete on Saturday, especially those who bought copies of the book/DVD/film to help us pay for printing etc. on our projects. We also got some extra information on who lived in certain houses in the village – especially some of the Charterville bungalows. We have good data for when they were first built in 1845 and for the 1950s but need to fill in the gaps, so if you know of a family at a specific address then please contact us.
Cox and Harris families
February 22nd, 2011We now have two active groups with common ancestors in the area – with the names Cox (18th century) and Harris (16th century). It’s great to see everyone sharing their findings. We are still compiling our Minster Lovell family tree so if you have ancestry in our village – even only for a generation or two, then do contact us.
Moving on to the next phase – Minster Lovell research continues
February 10th, 2011We have now finished all the paperwork for the lottery side of the project. This week we have just received our copies of the DVDs of all the Minster Lovell photos, documents etc. which we gathered through 2010. They will be available via this website soon. Contact us if you want a copy. The team is carrying on doing research so please send anything you have on the village or its residents to us (’contact us’ link on this website). Priorities for 2011 are:
1. A map of all the houses with names of residents from medieval to 20th century by house. Do send us any known addresses or residents you know of.
2. A war dead memorial booklet – do send any details through if you have any.
We are also continuing to research the family trees in the village, interview residents and record gravestones.
