Richard Robbins was a bootmaker, who played an active role in Launceston during the course of the century. One of his sons, Sir Alfred Robbins, a
Ullesthorpe is a village in south Leicestershire.
The parish of Buckminster, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern, is in north-east Leicestershire, and adjoins the county of
Hartpury Probate Inventories, 1632-1790
In the winter of 1830 unrest amongst agricultural workers spread across southern England in the face of ‘grinding poverty’.[1] Wages were low, the