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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2079
TitleLeonard Wheatcroft (1627-1706) of Ashover, parish clerk, tailor, publican and poet
Date1627-1749
Extent1 item
LevelFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorLeonard Wheatcroft (1627-1706) of Ashover
Administrative HistoryLeonard Wheatcroft (1627-1706) was parish clerk of Ashover for 56 years, a tailor, publican and poet. His youngest son Titus (b.1679) was also Clerk of Ashover parish
Custodial HistoryThis item was deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in June 1979 by a local historian to whom the item had been donated by a descendant of Leonard Wheatcroft.
Organisation Sub-TypeWriters
Related MaterialSee D5433 and D5775 for other Wheatcroft family records.
See 'The autobiography of Leonard Wheatcroft and Titus Wheatcroft ed. by C. Kerry', in the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (1899) Volume 21, pp. 26-60, for a transcript.
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Ashover 
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