Uppingham - Rutland

Uppingham - Rutland Index of Copyholders Part One The Manor of Preston with Uppingham Uppingham Local History Study Group Peter N Lane (editor) Page -- 1 -- Click here for the Nominum Index The Copyholders Index - Sources and Group Contact Biographical The medieval parish of Uppingham contained two manors known as the Preston Members of the Uppingham Local History Group (the forerunner of the Uppingham with Uppingham Manor and the Rectory Manor. They comprised roughly Local History Study Group) who in the 1970s investigated and recorded the manorial 45% and 15% of the land area respectively and were held in copyhold tenure records of the town and parish of Uppingham. by tenants according to the custom of the manor. The reminder of the parish was held freehold but formed part of the Preston with Uppingham Manor. The David Parkin - Retired solicitor, formerly practicing at Oakham where he served also smaller Rectory Manor was vested in the Rector of Uppingham by the right of his as Clerk to the Governors of the Hospital of St John and St Anne from office for the period of his incumbency. It contained no freehold other than that 1970 to 1991. The Rutland Record Society has published his studies belonging to the parson. Ownership and descent of the larger Preston Manor of Rutland Charities – The History of the Hospital of Saint John the can be consulted in the Victoria County History of Rutland. Evangelist and of Saint Anne of Okeham, Gilson’s Hospital at Morcott The Court Rolls of the Preston Manor comprised 12 volumes, the first written in and Byrch’s Charity at Barrow. Latin and the remainder in English numbered ‘A’ to ‘K’ covering (with some gaps in Mary Parkin - Read languages at University gaining her degree in French and Latin. the early years) the period from 1658 to 1936. When they came to be deposited Thereafter she joined the staff of the Plymouth High School for Girls for safe keeping with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland , teaching languages until her marriage to David Parkin, sharing with Volume F (1830-1850), Volume J (1892-1908) and Volume K (1907-1937) were not him his interests in history and old documents. Her knowledge of included and no trace of these books has been discovered since. A number of languages allied with her husband’s legal training greatly assisted other rolls and part rolls are known and will be considered in Part 3 of the Index. the translation and interpretation of the court rolls. In the 1970s members of the Uppingham Local History Group made summaries of Betty Finch - Life Member and former Vice-Chairman of the Rutland Record Society. all twelve volumes including those now missing and from them prepared the Card She has contributed to historical research on Uppingham and Rutland Index that is copied here. With hind sight and in view of the subsequent loss of and extensively on the Finch family. the three volumes it is now regretted that the summaries and therefore the Index did not cover transactions dealing purely with agricultural land. In the following Norman Byford - Retired actuary who moved to Uppingham in 1970 where he became years, additional information, mostly identifications of properties referred to a Reader at the Parish Church and investigated the history of his in the rolls, has been added to the Summaries and Index as investigations into 17th century house and other buildings in the High Street. Uppingham’s past have progressed. Peter Lane - Retired from the Colonial Service (Uganda) in 1968 and joined the Typed and edited copies of the Group’s summaries of the Latin Volume, a Corby Development Corporation as Assistant to the General Manager, British Library Volume and Volumes A and B are deposited at the Record Office then spending several more years reviewing and archiving records and in the Local Studies Room of the Rutland County Museum. of other English new towns for the Commission for the New Towns. A life member of the Rutland Record Society and member of the The material has been widely used in publications by the successor Uppingham Uppingham Local History Study Group. Local History Study Group which is sponsoring its addition to their webpage. It is hoped that ultimately the court roll transcripts, the card index and other original source material about Uppingham will find their way to ROLLR to be available to researchers. Research and publications by members of ULHSG on Uppingham’s history can be accessed at – uppinghamhistory.org.uk Correspondence should be addressed to [email protected] Page -- 2 -- Description of the Contents The Index comprises three parts - Part 1 Copyhold Tenants of the Preston with Uppingham Manor; Part 2 Copyhold Tenants of the Rectory Manor of Uppingham; Part 3 Strays and Irregulars. One part is allocated to each of the two manors and the third records information found in a number of other rolls and portions of rolls that did not find their way to be bound with the main body of the court rolls. The Part 1 section is a copy in digital format of the card index used to locate references to tenants named in the court rolls. It was created as a tool to search for people. Subsequently addresses were added when it was realised knowing the location of properties owned or occupied by copyholders could be equally valuable. Where it was felt needed to clarify an entry, information such as rentals, relationships, neighbours, occupations, etc has been added. Names of people to whom there are cross-references appear in bold and the address or location of a property in red. Additional references and sources have been added as footnotes. The Index is the work of several people under the leadership of David & Mary Parkin. It was the method of members of the group to prepare summaries of the entries the court rolls dealing with built property and from them to make out a card in the name of each person named therein. For those with the same name where it was not certain they were the same person, separate cards were made. The index cards provided limited space, so necessitated use of abbreviations. By and large these have been retained and a list of their meanings provided. To assist users of the Index, a list of street & place names formerly in use but now no longer current and also a map of the town showing the organisation of the manors, has been added. In most cases the spelling of people’s names has been left as written in the court roll. A recurring problem are people who used different versions of their own names at different times, made worse by those writing up the court rolls having their own ideas. Fashion played a part too. When writing the cards, members followed what appeared in the court roll. Those using the Index should use imagination and initiative to test variant spellings. Because this is the work of several people over a period of years, entries vary in length, in the amount of information and detail provided and their accuracy. Being two steps away from the original material, inevitably errors and contradictions will be found. It cannot be emphasised too strongly that the Index is a search tool and should not be treated as an authoritive source which are the court roll volumes held in the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland at Wigston. Page -- 3 -- Abbreviations The following abbreviations are used in the text - a.r.p. acre(s), rood(s), perch(es) NSW North Street West adj adjacent, adjoining occ’d, occ’n occupied, occupation adm’n, adm’d admission, admitted OI Old Inclosure (1804 Inclosure of Map of Uppingham) appts appurtenances pa per annum bldg building p, pg, pp page(s) CR court roll ppty property CS conditional surrender pt part c, cott cottage (qv) see at, refer to dec’d deceased R Recto (of page or folio) E East ref reference f, ff folio, folios ROLLR Record Office of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland HSE High Street East RMU Rectory Manor of Uppingham HSW High Street West RMUCR Rectory Manor Court Rolls gent gentleman S South Ind indenture snr, sr senior jnr, jr junior surr surrender MPU Manor of Preston with Uppingham t tenement MPUCR Manor of Preston with Uppingham Court Rolls Upp’m Uppingham m, c or t messuage, cottage or tenement V Verso (of page or folio) m, c or d messuage, cottage or dwelling Vol volume N North W West NSE North Street East YR yearly rent Page -- 4 -- Old Names of Streets and Yards B Bear Yard �� Orange Street. Now Goldmark Gallery. Beast Market . Includes South View, part of Station Road and the south end of Swan Yard including Archdeacon Johnsons School. Bennett’s Yard or Entry �� Sheilds Yard, High Street West. Binnett’s Yard or Entry . Sheilds Yard, High Street West. Blue Coat Lane . Access & yard beside the Methodist Church leading off Orange Street giving rear access to 2, 4, 6 High Street West and to the gate to the garden behind the Thring Centre. Bodkin Square �� The car park behind Uppingham Library, Queen Street. Bottom Lane �� Not identified. Assumed to be the same as Nether Lane. Located in the vicinity of Dead Lane. Bullock’s Yard. Hopes Yard, High Street East. C Chapel Lane �� Orange Street. Church Lane �� London Road between High Street West and Spring Back Way. Crown Yard �� Crown Passage, High Street East. D Dead Lane . Between Norton Street and Adderley Street, now 33 South View. F Fishers Yard. Printers Yard, High Street East.

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