Allexton, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Allexton, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Allexton, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter Allexton Leicestershire | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East Goscote |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Billesdon |
| Registration District | Billesdon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1636 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1566 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Goscote |
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Leicestershire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ALEXTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Billesdon, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3½ miles (W. by N.) from Uppingham. [1]
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Allexton like this:
ALEXTON, a parish in Billesdon district, Leicester; on the river Eye, 3 miles W by N of Uppingham, and 6 NW of Medbourne Bridge r. station.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Allexton, Leicestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| PC = Parish Chest - (£). Results delivered by email.[2] |
| Allexton, Leicestershire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| PC | 1636-1910 | 1636-1910 | 1636-1910 | |||
Deposited records are found at the Leicester and Rutland Record Office
Contact: The Record Office
Telephone: 0116 2571080
Fax: 0116 2571120
E-mail: recordoffice@leics.gov.uk
Diocese of Leicester: Allexton Bap 1636 - 2005 Marr 1636 - 1829; 1846 – 1951;1963 - 2003 Bur 1636 - 2005
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Billesdon Poor Law Union, Leicestershire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Leicestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 31-34. Date accessed: 13 August 2012.
- ↑ 'Leicestershire Parish Registers', Parish Chest, accessed 24 January 2014.
