Our members are encouraged to undertake research projects, either individually or as part of small groups. Some of the topics currently being researched by our members are the following:

- Records of Burgess Admissions

Four members have begun transcribing and analysing the records of the Burgesses (Freemen) of the Borough of Ludlow. When completed the transcription will be available and become an invaluable aid for work on Ludlow families and on our understanding of local politics.

- Bastardy Bonds

The Bastardy Bonds have now been transcribed as far as 1745, and is approaching the stage of entering the details onto a database and analysing the results. A general pattern is already emerging. The unfortunate young women who made these applications to the parish for financial help were almost all illiterate hired servants. Putative fathers ranged from fellow servants and labourers to dragoons from the regiment of soldiers stationed at Leintwardine.

- The Merchant House, Ludlow

The purpose of this study is to examine the construction, evolution and past occupancy of The Merchant House. This is a 15th century hall house that in more recent times gained international fame as Ludlow's first Michelin-stared restaurant and so played a key catalytic role in the creation of the town's present gourmet status.

- World War One Soldiers

An ongoing research project is looking into the backgrounds of the Ludlow men killed between 1914 and 1918 during the First World War.

If you would like to discuss any of these research projects, or have any information which you think may be of use, then please contact us.

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