Ashby de la Zouch Holy Trinity, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Ashby de la Zouch Holy Trinity, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Ashby de la Zouch Holy Trinity, Leicestershire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | West Goscote |
County | Leicestershire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Ashby de la Zouch |
Registration District | Ashby de la Zouch |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1561; Separate registers exist for Blackfordby beginning 1653 and also for Donisthorpe beginning 1838 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1564; Separate records exist for Blackfordby beginning 1630 and also for Donisthorpe beginning 1838 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Akeley |
Diocese | Peterborough |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester |
Location of Archive | |
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH (St. Helen), a market town, parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester,18 miles (N. W. by W.) from Leicester, and 115 (N. W. by N.) from London; containing, with part of the ecclesiastical district of Woodville and part of the chapelry of Blackfordby. A church dedicated to the Holy Trinity was erected... At Woodville is a district church: in the township of Blackfordby is a chapel of ease; and there are places of worship in the parish for Baptists, the Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon, Independents, and Wesleyaus. [1]
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]
Ashby de la Zouch Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FS PRs = England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991 (FamilySearch) - free | |||||
FS = FamilySearch - free | |||||
FMP = Leicestershire Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($) | |||||
FMP Banns = Leicestershire Banns (FindMyPast) - ($) | |||||
FMP Marr = Leicestershire Marriage Licences, 1604-1891 (FindMyPast) - ($) | |||||
MyH = Leicestershire Parish Births, Marriages, Burials (MyHeritage) - ($) | |||||
TGEN = Leicestershire Parish Records (TheGenealogist) - ($)[2] | |||||
PC = Parish Chest - ($) Registers delivered by email. | |||||
JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - ($) | |||||
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free | |||||
FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free |
Ashby de la Zouch Holy Trinity Online Parish Records | ||||||
Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FS PRs | 1533-1991 | 1533-1991 | 1533-1991 | |||
FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
FMP | 1538-1916 | 1537-1931 | 1538-1991 | |||
FMP Banns | 1637-1940 | |||||
FMP Marr | 1604-1891 | |||||
MyH | 1510-1900s | 1510-1900s | 1510-1900s | |||
TGEN | 1550s-1900s | |||||
PC | 1500s-1900s | 1500s-1900s | 1500s-1900s | |||
JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
IGI | ||||||
FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
FS Catalog BTs |
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Leicestershire Record Office.
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
Ashby de la Zouch Poor Law Union, Leicestershire Genealogy
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. 81-85. Date accessed: 13 August 2012.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Leicestershire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk