Belton, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Belton, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Belton, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St John the Baptist Belton Leicestershire | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West Goscote |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Loughborough |
| Registration District | Loughborough |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1538 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1578 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Akeley |
| 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]
BELTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Loughborough, hundred of West Goscote,N. division of the county of Leicester and contains the extra parochial liberty of Grace-Dieu. There are places of worship for Baptists and Methodists. [1]
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Belton like this:
BELTON, a parish in Loughborough district, Leicester; 4½ miles NNE of Swannington r. station, and 6 WNW of Loughborough. Its statistics include the extra-parochial tract of Grace-Dieu. There are two dissenting chapels and a Roman Catholic chapel.
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]
Belton, Leicestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| PC = Parish Chest - (£). Registers delivered by email.[2] |
| Belton, Leicestershire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| PC | 1538-1907 | 1538-1907 | 1538-1907 | |||
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: Belton Bap 1538 - 1907 Marr 1538 - 1838 (Banns to1959) Bur 1538 - 1878
In addition the Leicester and Rutland Record Office has deposited records for
Grace Dieu Roman Catholic Ba 1859-1873 & Marr 1861-1869
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]
Loughborough 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. 203-207. Date accessed: 16 August 2012
- ↑ 'Leicestershire Parish Registers', Parish Chest, accessed 25 January 2014.
