Burbage, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Burbage St Catherine was formed as a chapelry of Aston Flamville, Leicestershire parish.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Burbage like this:

BURBAGE, or Burback, a chapelry and a subdistrict in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Aston-Flamville parish; lies on the verge of the county, at Watling-street, 1¼ mile SE of Hinckley r. station; and has a post office under Hinckley. Acres, 3,170. Real property, £7,725. Pop., 1,865. Houses, 416. The property is much subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are stocking-makers. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Aston-Flamville, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is old but good, and has a tower and spire. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.-The subdistrict contains five parishes. Acres, 11,210. Pop., 5,137. Houses, 1,158.

Civil Registration
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
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: Burbage Bap 1562 - 2003 Marr 1562 - 2007 (Banns to 2002) Bur 1562 - 2001 In addition this office holds the following Non-Conformist records

Burbage WesleyanMethodists Bap 1838-1935 reference N/M/142/46-47

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Poor Law Unions
Hinckley Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

Probate records
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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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