Frisby, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Frisby was formed as a chapelry of Gaulby, Leicestershire Ancient Parish.

FRISBY, a hamlet, in the parish of Gaulby, union of Billesdon, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 8½ miles (E. by S.) from Leicester;containing 15 inhabitants. Here was once a chapel.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 266-269. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50973 Date accessed: 19 May 2011.

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

FRISBY, a township in Galby parish, Leicestershire; 8 miles ESE of Leicester. Real property, £1, 601. Pop., 19. Houses, 4.

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
For Frisby records refer to Gaulby, Leicestershire deposited records at Leicester and Rutland Record office.

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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