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Friday 12 Sep 2025 | Winslow History Walk: Tudor, Stuart and Georgian Buildings Click here for full details and to book a place |
Keach's Meeting House, 11:00 | |
Friday 19 Sep | Winslow History Walk: Victorian Buildings Click here for full details and to book a place |
28 High Street, 14:00 |
News
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The Bucks Family History Society has published a transcription of the Winslow parish registers 1560-1901 on CD-ROM: click here to order |
A transcription of the Winslow Congregational registers, with lists of members and abstracts of some minutes, is now available from the Eureka Partnership. |
Winslow books for sale:
Please contact d.noy@btinternet.com for more information. |
Additions to website
5-6 July 2025 | Will of John Grace, carpenter, 1888 (proved 1895): cousin of John Grace the schoolmaster, owned property in the High Street Will of Susannah Mitchell, spinster, 1891 (proved 1895): her money was in the Buckingham Savings Bank Wills and administrations 1897-1899 |
27 June | Victory Day celebrations, 1946: full report of the procession, crowning of the Victory Queen, etc. |
19 June | Tinkers End brickyard: new information added |
31 May | Stereoview photo of The George and 14 Market Square, c.1865 Winslow Hall: arrival of Brigadier McCorquodale and family in 1938 Station Brickyard: page amended and 1897 plan added |
28 May | Will of Elizabeth Goodger, spinster, 1881 (proved 1894): had her own shoemaking business Will of Leah Walker, spinster, 1893 |
19 May | 1846 additions to Board of Guardians and Workhouse Summarised will of Mary Gibbs Morecraft (1892) |
14-15 May | Board of Guardians: outdoor relief and workhouse misbehaviour, 1846-47 Will of William Keys, gentleman, 1890 (proved 1891): retired coal merchant at 85 High Street Will of William White, retired huntsman, 1885 (proved 1891) |
2 May | Court of King's Bench: Peter Stutsbery & Richard Phipps v George Norris, 1676 |
23 April | 14 Market Square: valuation of fittings, 1882 |
15-16 April | The George: valuation of fixtures, 1876 Station Brickyard: valuation, 1882 |
11 April | 28 High Street: valuation after the death of George Maydon, 1876 |
4 April | 15 Market Square: valuation of household furniture, 1876 Henry Watts v Thomas Tomlyn, Thomas Illing and others, 1527-35: his opponents in court included Anne Boleyn and her servant Edmund Barton of Little Horwood John Boston v Henry Watts in a dispute about the tithes, 1531: Henry took cartloads of wheat and barley, presumably from the tithe barn |
3 April | Richard Mandeville, active c.1400-1450: an early Winslow businessman who has come to light through newly indexed material at the National Archives John Boston (d.1558): numerous Court of Common Pleas cases involving him |
30 March | Will of Thomas Ridgway, grocer, 1888 Biggin: new information about 16th-century occupants |
25 March | Will of George Verney, labourer, 1887 (proved 1889): lived at 29 Sheep Street Will of Maria Ray, widow, 1882 (proved 1888): lived at 31 Station Road |
21-22 March | Crooked Billet: valuation (1876) of all the contents down to the last glass Grace's School: new document showing his partnership with Mr Bond began in 1826 |
12 March | Guardians: outdoor relief and refractory Workhouse inmates, 1845 |
9-10 March | News from 1910 about Market Square (menagerie on display), Baptist Tabernacle, Old Post Office, Norden House, Night School, end of the Choral Society Opening of miniature rifle range in Park Road Telegraph posts in Great Horwood Road Redfield: cricket match v. Winslow Liberal meetings in the Oddfellows' Hall and Centenary Hall |
7 March | Will of Edmund Edwin, gentleman, 1882 (proved 1887): tenant of Yew Tree Cottage |
6 March | News from 1910 about 14 High Street, former Station Brickyard Railway: death of William Odell the porter Oddfellows' Hall: formation of British Women's Temperance Association branch Oddfellows' centenary celebrations Retirement of George Verney, Winslow & Fulbrook postman |
4 March | News from 1910 about Don Slate Club, The Plough, The Rose & Crown, Board of Guardians, Brook Hall, The Bull, Keach's Meeting House, Winslow United F.C., Sheep Fair Article about the Gibbs family by A.J. Clear, 1910 |
1 March | Valuation of the goods of Charles Chaplin, 4-6 Buckingham Road, 1876 |
28 Feb | Letter sent to Rebecca Wyatt in 1839 |
23 Feb | Station Brickyard: valuation and accounts, 1877-83 |
20 Feb | Will of Richard Coxill, cooper, 1877 (proved 1879) Will of John Woodward of Shipton, farmer, 1875 (proved 1880): tenant of Red Hall Farm |
17 Feb | Will of Emily Minter, matron of Winslow Union, 1883 (proved 1886) Will of Joanna Chaplin, widow, 1880: owner of 4-6 Buckingham Road Wills and administrations 1887-1890 |
9 Feb | Letter of Henry Wigley to Poor Law Board in support of W.H. Lomath, 1865 Workhouse: inspector's report, Dec 1865 |
4 Feb | Will of Mildred Anne Maydon, wife of George Maydon, 1868 (proved 1885): she was left £1,000 by an uncle which enabled her to make a will before the Married Women's Property Act Will of Charles Elley, baker, 1879 (proved 1880) |
31 Jan | Will of Ann Badley Dudley, spinster, 1864 (proved 1885): from the Dudley family of drapers Will of Rebecca Foxley of Padbury, widow, 1900 (proved 1901): proprietor of the Station Brickyard |
26-27 Jan | Guardians: Daniel Grace in trouble with the Poor Law Board, 1864 Workhouse: inspector's report, 1865 |
19 Jan 2025 | Workhouse: discussion of inmates' bedtime and inspector's report, Nov 1851 |
15 Jan | Workhouse: resignation of schoolmistress and schoolmaster, 1851 |
13 Jan | Will of Richard Gibbs, builder, 1878 Will of William Matthews, builder, 1862 (proved 1878) |
3 Jan | Workhouse: inspector's report, 1851 |