Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Thorpe AcreRagdale, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West Goscote |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Loughborough |
| Registration District | Loughborough |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1845 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| 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]
THORP-ACRE, a parish, in the union of Loughborough, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 1¼ mile (W. N. W.) from Loughborough. [1]
Thorpe Acre All Saints with Dishley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Leicestershire, created in 1850 from Dishley, Leicestershire Ancient Parish.
All Saints Church, Thorpe Acre with Dishley, was built in 1845 and extended in 1968. Dishley Church is now a ruin on the Derby Road, Loughborough. Robert Bakewell (1726–1795), the agriculturalist, is buried there.
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]
Thorpe Acre 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 |
| Thorpe Acre 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 | 1813-1836 | |||||
| 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.
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. 341-342. Date accessed: 17 September 2012.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Leicestershire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
