Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire Genealogy

Guide to Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BREEDON (St. Mary and St. Hardulph), a parish,in the union of Shardlow, hundred of West Goscote,N. division of the county of Leicester, 5¼ miles (N. E.by N.) from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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.

Breedon on the Hill became part of Loughborough registration district on 1 April 1938

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); 3A (1946-74).

Registers are now held at The Register Office, Royal Oak House, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AR. Tel: 01332 256526/35/36. Fax: 01332 256525. E-mail: registeroffice@derby.gov.uk

Church Records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Breedon on the Hill deposited registers at Leicester record Office Bap 1562 - 1978 Marr1562 - 1988 (1993) Bur 1562 - 1982

Poor Law Unions
Shardlow Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain