History & Heritage of Coleorton
Cemetery audit
Samuel Stewart has detailed the names and birth & death dates on the old gravestones in Griffydam Methodist church. Many residents of Coleorton and Peggs Green as well as Griffydam were buried there. He and John MacDonald have also transcribed and collated information about St Mary’s and St John’s cemeteries, the burials of the Beaumont family and the memorials inside and outside St Mary’s. More about the Coleorton & Griffydam cemetery audits >>
Memories project
The Coleorton Heritage Group have been putting together people’s memories of Coleorton’s past. Do you have any memories? If so the group would love to record them for a planned booklet. Old photos would also be very welcome (we can copy and return them to you). More >>
Coleorton Heritage Group photo library
 The Coleorton heritage Group has a collection of several hundred photographs, both historical and contemporary. See a sample of the photos of school and other groups >>
About the Coleorton Heritage Group >>
 Viscount Beaumont children take part in the Respect Challenge
The children of the school invited local residents to take part in their project ”What is special about Coleorton?” by sharing memories about people and places in and around Coleorton. See the project video on the school web site www.viscountbeaumonts.leics.sch.uk/council.html
Coleorton Population Census now available for 1901
John MacDonald our heritage warden has completed the transcription of the 1901 census records for Coleorton. This involves reading and deciphering the handwritten pages from the original census folios and typing the data into a format that is electronically searchable. He has now transcribed the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 census folios. Thank you John for your hard work! We hope to expand the information about population census in future months to make it easier to find ancestors and get a better view of what life was like in Coleorton in previous centuries. Population census details >>
 War Memorial Project
See Heritage wardens’ reports for details of the project which attempts to ensure all fallen from the Coleorton area are included and to find out something about the men and women who died in active service.
More about the Coleorton War memorial >>
Do you know about the history of Coleorton or have some photos of places and people from Coleorton’s past? If you would to contribute a story or photos please email sandra@realcom.co.uk
“Coleorton and The Beaumonts”
Exhibition ran during Spring 2010 at Ashby Museum showing fascinating details of the Beaumont family and life in Coleorton. Details >> Following the exhibition there is now a permanent display at the museum about Coleorton Parish (partly funded by the Coleorton Parish Council).
An overview of Coleorton parish and history
Lawrence Poole kindly wrote an introduction to the Coleorton Parish Plan which includes some interesting history of places and people from the parish. Download the Plan from here >>
Websites & resources with historical information about Coleorton and surrounding areas:
Warner family in Coleorton
Can you help with the following request?
“I am trying to find out more about Coleorton's history. My 4 x great grandfather Isaac Warner came from Coleorton, born in 1787 and his father Thomas Warner 1757 and grandfather John c1719. Isaac was involved in both the Lace and Framework Knitting industries with both John Heathcote and Cartwright & Warner. Did Coleorton have a weaving / lace industry as well as Coal? Is there anyone who might know more about 18th century Coleorton?”
If you can help or you have some information about Coleorton history to share please email webmaster@coleorton.org.uk. If you want to remain anonymous that’s fine - messages can be passed on through the Coleorton web site.
History Project - www.leicestershirevillages.com
This project is going to put genealogical material for every settlement in Leicestershire onto www.leicestershirevillages.com.
This could take the form of a parish register transcript or a single family history.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please contact PAT GRUNDY or LOIS EDWARDS at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Long Street, Wigston Magna, LEICESTER, LE18 2AH. Tel : 0116 257 1080, Fax : 0116 257 1120 or Email : recordoffice@leics.gov.uk
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