Ridlington, Rutland Genealogy

England   Rutland

Parish History
Ridlington St Mary and St Andrew is an Ancient parish in Rutland.

RIDLINGTON (St. Mary and St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, hundred of Martinsley, county of Rutland, 2½ miles (N. W. by N.) from the town of Uppingham; containing 299 inhabitants,and comprising about 2000 acres. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 1. 3., and in the gift of the Earl of Gainsborough: the tithes have been commuted for £353, and the glebe contains 46 acres.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 665-668. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51237 Date accessed: 12 May 2011.

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 Peterborough : Ridlington Bap 1559 - 1965 Marr 1559 - 1745;1756 - 1837 (banns to1983) Bur 1559 - 1995

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Poor Law Unions
Uppingham Poor Law Union, Rutland

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Rutland 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
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Web sites
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