Stretton Magna, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Stretton Magna', Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy:' parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Stretton Magna, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 Former St Giles Great Stretton, Leicestershire | |
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Gartree |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Billesdon |
| Registration District | Billesdon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1585; For more records see Glen Magna | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1604 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Gartree |
| 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]
STRETTON MAGNA, a chapelry, in the parish of Glen Magna, union of Billesdon, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 5½ miles(S. E. by E.) from Leicester. [1]
The lost ancient village of Stretton Magna contains the Ancient Parish church of St Giles which still stands derelict in fields near the modern village of Great Stretton.
The lost village is included in land adjacent to the site of the abandoned World War II airfield known as RAF Leicester East and Stoughton aerodrome then Leicester Airport near Stoughton village.
The proposal to develop the area into an eco town (with the working title of Pennbury) was not included in the announcements of permitted development and is strongly opposed locally.
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]
Stretton Magna, Leicestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| PC = Parish Chest - (£). Registers delivered by email.[2] | |||||
| PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[3] |
| STRETTON MAGNA PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| PC | 1587-1910 | 1587-1910 | 1587-1910 | |||
| PRTS | 1602-1822 | |||||
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. 246-250. Date accessed: 17 September 2012.
- ↑ 'Leicestershire Parish Registers', Parish Chest, accessed 27 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 27 September 2013.
