Earl Shilton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England Leicestershire

Parish History
Earl Shilton St Simon and St Jude was formed as a chapelry of Kirkby_Mallory,_Leicestershire Ancient Parish.

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

EARL-SHILTON, a chapelry and a sub-district in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Kirkby-Mallory parish; and lies 2 miles N of the Hinckley and Leicester railway, and 4 NE by E of Hinckley. It has a post office under Hinckley. Acres, 920. Real property, £7, 471. Pop., 2, 176. Houses, 480. The manor belongs to the duchy of Lancaster, and had formerly a Norman castle. The stocking manufacture is largely carried on; and the introduction of machinery to it occasioned a decrease of population, by migration, between 1851 and 1861. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Elmsthorpe, in the diocese of Peterborough. There are four dissenting chapels, a school with £36 from endowment, and other charities with £78.—The sub-district includes also Elmsthorpe parish, and Barwell township. Acres, 4, 860. Pop., 3, 579. Houses, 789.

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
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Census records
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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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