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    This post will be added to as time permits and other links are found.

    See also Wikipedia entries for various towns and villages.

    Genuki for Rutland
    https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RUT
    has links to most things for Rutland including
    parishes
    https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RUT/parishes
    and Societies
    https://www.lrfhs.org.uk/
    https://www.rutlandhistory.org/

    FamilySearch wiki
    https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en...land_Genealogy

    Remember also ordinary Wikipedia.

    Note: Rutland's archives are held at Leicester Record Office.
    You have to scroll down but there's a link to a list of the parish and non-conformist church registers held at the Record Office. Sorry, Rutland is just lumped together with Leicestershire.
    https://www.recordoffice.org.uk/reso...nd-findmypast/

    FMP has indexes for baptisms, banns and marriages, and burials, as well as the actual PR images.
    It also has Northamptonshire and Rutland Probate Index, covering 1452-1857, based on records in Northampton Record Office.
    Plus Leicestershire and Rutland, Soldiers Died 1914-1920 and Rutland Registers and Records.

    Newspapers
    The Lincolnshire Rutland and Stamford Mercury has been printed for over three hundred years, though these days its title has been shortened to Rutland and Stamford Mercury. Available through BNA and FMP using the shortened title of Stamford Mercury. (Updated after reading post #2 in this thread.)

    The British Newspaper Archive (and FMP) have some years of the Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser available online. At routhe time of posting, seems to be from April 1877 to 1887.

    Clipsham
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070804...e/clipsham.htm

    Essendine
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070930.../essendine.htm
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pam Downes View Post
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    The Lincolnshire Rutland and Stamford Mercury has been printed for over three hundred years, though these days its title has been shortened to Rutland and Stamford Mercury. Sadly it doesn't seem to be available online through the BNA.

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    The "Stamford Mercury" is available on the British Newspaper Archive for 1714 to 1911 - a quick look at a page I have downloaded for 1878 indicates that this is actually "The Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury".

    The British Newspaper Archive also has the: "Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News" for 1881 to 1915.

    Interestingly neither of the above two titles is produced when searching by 'county' on the British Newspaper Archive site.

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    Thank you very much for that information, Mitch.

    A little more digging finds that the LR&S Mercury began life as plain Stamford Mercury, and it was still called that in 1770. However by 1785 the title had expanded slightly to (main heading) The Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury followed by 'and Boston, Grantham, Gainsbro', Horncastle, Louth, Grimsby, Peterborough, Bourn, Sleaford and Spalding Weekly Journal'. Cost threepence, and you got four pages, along with all the latest foreign news as well as the local gossip such as "Monday last was married at Newark, Mr Richard Brooksby, draper, to Miss Ann Martin; an agreeable young lady with a genteel fortune". (Page 3, 4 February 1785.)

    FMP show the Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser under Rutland, possibly because it was published/printed in Oakham.

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