Market Bosworth, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Market Bosworth, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Market Bosworth, Leicestershire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Sparkenhoe |
County | Leicestershire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Market Bosworth |
Registration District | Market Bosworth |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1567 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1562 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Sparkenhoe |
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]
Market Bosworth, market town, par., and township, Leicestershire, 7¾ miles NE. of Nuneaton and 104 NW. of London by rail - par. [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]
Market Bosworth, Leicestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
PC = Parish Chest - (£). Registers delivered by email.[2] | |||||
TGEN = The Genealogist - (£)[3] |
MARKET BOSWORTH PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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PC | 1567-1910 | 1588-1910 | 1571-1914 | |||
TGEN | 1767-1877 |
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.
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]
- ↑ 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles. Date accessed: 31 July 2013.
- ↑ 'Leicestershire Parish Registers', Parish Chest, accessed 27 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 21 January 2021.