Evington, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Evington, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Evington, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St Denys Evington Leicester | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Gartree |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Billesdon |
| Registration District | Billesdon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1601 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1604 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Gartree |
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Evington |
| Location of Archive | |
| Leicestershire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
EVINGTON (St. Denis), a parish, in the union of Billesdon, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2½ miles (E. S. E.) from Leicester. There are a place of worship for dissenters. [1]
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Evington like this:
EVINGTON, a parish in Billesdon district, Leicestershire; near the Midland railway, 3 miles ESE of Leicester. Post town, Thurnby, under Leicester. There is a Calvinistic 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]
Evington, Leicestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| PC = Parish Chest - (£). Registers delivered by email.[2] |
| Evington, Leicestershire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| PC | 1601-1910 | 1601-1910 | 1601-1910 | |||
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: Evington Bap 1601 - 1961 Marr 1601 - 2007 (Banns to1987) Bur 1601 - 1990
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. 191-195. Date accessed: 06 September 2012.
- ↑ 'Leicestershire Parish Registers', Parish Chest, accessed 24 January 2014.
