Hathern, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Hathern St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish.

HATHERN (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Loughborough, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (N. W.) from Loughborough; containing 1252 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £12; net income, £376; patrons, the family of Phillips: the tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1777:Increased accommodation has been provided in thechurch by the addition of 106 free sittings. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans. An estate consisting of 5 cottages and 22 acres of land,left for charitable purposes, produces £55 per annum,which sum is applied in teaching and apprenticing boys,and distributing coal, clothing, and flour among the poor.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 435-441. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51013 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

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

HATHERN, a parish in Loughborough district, Leicester; adjacent to the Midland rai1way and the boundary with Notts, and near the river Soar, 3 miles NW of Longhborough. It has a post office under Loughborough. Acres, 1, 340. Real property, £3, 177. Pop., 1, 1 12. Houses, 280. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to A. L. M. Phillips de Lisle, Esq. Many of the inhabitants are stocking makers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Valne, £650. * Patron, the Rev. Edward Smythies. The church is ancient, with a square tower; and was recently restored, at a cost of £1, 455. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and charities £73.

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: Hathern Bap 1563; 1573 - 1971 Mar 1563;1573 - 1776; 1802 – 1984 (banns to 1971) Bur 1570 - 1582;1594;1599 - 1936; 1950 - 1960 The following Non-Conformist registers are also deposited at the Leicester and Rutland record office:

Hathern (Shepshed) Roman Catholic Births 1862-1882 Hathern Wesleyan Methodist (circuit) Baptisms 1853-1876 reference N/M/207/182

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Poor Law Unions
Loughborough 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.

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