Launde Abbey, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Launde Abbey, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Launde Abbey, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 Launde Abbey Chapel, Leicestershire | |
| Type | Extra-parochial |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East Goscote |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Billesdon |
| Registration District | Billesdon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: For records see surrounding parishes | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: For records see surrounding parishes | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Not Applicable |
| Diocese | Not Applicable |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Search the courts of the surrounding parishes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Leicestershire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
LAUNDE, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 6¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Uppingham.[1]
Launde is set in beautiful countryside. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, so liked its position that he wrote in his diary "Myself for Launde". But Cromwell never occupied the house as he was executed in 1540 for treason. In that same the year the building of the new house commenced. His son, Gregory, lived at Launde Abbey for ten years after its construction with his wife Elizabeth, the sister of Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII.
front view
The chapel is thought to be all that remains of the original Priory Church. Some of its stained glass is mediaeval and Nikolaus Pevsner has described the monument to Gregory Cromwell as "one of the purest monuments of the early Renaissance in England". The chapel is used for daily worship by the resident community and guests, and is an attraction for visitors.
The records of Loddington, Leicestershire are the relevant neighbouring parish
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]
Launde Abbey 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 - ($) | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free | |||||
| FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free |
| Launde Abbey Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1533-1991 | 1533-1991 | 1533-1991 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP | 1538-1916 | 1537-1931 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP Banns | 1637-1940 | |||||
| FMP Marr | 1604-1891 | |||||
| MyH | 1510-1900s | 1510-1900s | 1510-1900s | |||
| TGEN | 1550s-1900s | |||||
| PC | 1500s-1900s | 1500s-1900s | 1500s-1900s | |||
| JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Leicestershire Record Office.
Refer to Loddington, Leicestershire
Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
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. 33-37. Date accessed: 27 August 2012.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Leicestershire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
