James Leveson & Wolverhampton
James Leveson was the son of Richard Leveson of Prestwood. His brother Nicholas was a successful wool merchant who moved from Wolverhampton to London and became a Merchant of the Staple. James shared ...
John Leveson of London & Wolverhampton
The Sutherland Papers contain many rentals relating to the lands owned by the Leveson family. One particularly intriguing rental dates back to 1545-50 and details the lands owned by John Leveson of London ...
Read All About It: The Wolverhampton Chronicle 1848-1849
Printed and published by the proprietors, Thomas Wood and W. B. Upcott, 7 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the Wolverhampton Chronicle and General Advertiser for Staffordshire and the Midland Counties featured ...
Schooling in Wolverhampton through the Ages
Educational provision in Wolverhampton was greatly improved by Sir Stephen Jenyns in the early sixteenth century. Born in Wolverhampton, Sir Stephen was a very important Merchant of the Staple who rose ...
Seventeenth Century Shops in Wolverhampton
The Sutherland Papers contain many documents relating to land and property acquisition from as early as the fourteenth century. Amongst these is an intriguing document from 1615 relating to a butcher's ...
The Collegiate Church of St. Peter in the Sutherland Papers: The Church and the Leveson family in the Fifteenth Century
The Leveson family’s history is closely associated with the history of St. Peter’s Church in Wolverhampton. R. F. Wisker refers to an entry in the Calendar Patent Rolls stating that heads of the Leveson ...
The History of Local Buildings: Shops on Darlington & North Street, Wolverhampton
The Sutherland Papers contain many plans relating to lands in Wolverhampton. These include a particularly interesting plan from 1838 which shows a number of buildings which were used as shops at the junction ...
Wolverhampton & The Leveson Family
During the thirteenth century the Leveson family lived in Willenhall, near Wolverhampton. During the late 1290s Richard Leveson married a lady called Margery who was the heiress of Henry, son of Clement ...
Wolverhampton and the Arrival of the Railways
The Sutherland Papers include a wide variety of documents relating to Wolverhampton’s railway history during the early nineteenth century. Sketch maps of the projected Birmingham to Liverpool railway ...
Wolverhampton Life in the Sutherland Papers
A number of letters in the Sutherland Papers concern tenants who leased land and property on the Leveson-Gower family’s estate in Wolverhampton. Their letters to the family’s estate agents reflect issues ...