Earl Shilton, Leicestershire Genealogy

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Parish History
EARL-SHILTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Kirby-Mallory, union of Hinckley, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 3¾ miles (N. E.) from Hinckley; containing 2220 inhabitants. Here was a Norman castle, belonging to the earls of Leicester, who were at one period lords of the manor; but it is now entirely destroyed, the site being denoted only by a mount, and a spot called the Castleyard, or Hall-yard. The township is situated on the road from Leicester to Coventry, and comprises by measurement 2017 acres, of which the soil is chiefly clay and gravelly loam: the population is partly employed in the stocking-manufacture, which is carried on extensively; and there are quarries of very excellent stone for building. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient edifice, said to have been built of the stones of the castle. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1778; the land comprises 85 acres. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. £56 per annum, arising from land awarded at the inclosure, in lieu of copyhold property purchased by a bequest of Sir Verney Noel's, are received for apprenticing children, and distributing bread to the poor, who are also entitled to about £20, the rent of 13 acres allotted at the same time for their benefit.From: 'Eachwick - Earnley', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 121-124. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50933 Date accessed: 11 September 2012.

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: Earl Shilton Bap 1552 - 1959 Marr 1552 - 1990 (Banns to1994) Bur 1552 – 1919 In addition the Office has records of Non Conformist congretations:

Earl Shilton Independent Births and Baptisms 1810-1838 reference MF 13(8) or R47 Earl Shilton Methodist (Wood St.) Marr 1951-1963 reference N/M/142/140-141

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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.

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