Burbage, Leicestershire Genealogy

Guide to Burbage, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BURBAGE, a chapelry, in the parish of AstonFlamville, union of Hinckley, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 1 mile(S. E.) from Hinckley. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents.

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

BURBAGE, or Burback, a chapelry and a subdistrict in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Aston-Flamville parish; lies on the verge of the county, at Watling-street, 1¼ mile SE of Hinckley r. station There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.

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

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: Burbage Bap 1562 - 2003 Marr 1562 - 2007 (Banns to 2002) Bur 1562 - 2001 In addition this office holds the following Non-Conformist records

Burbage WesleyanMethodists Bap 1838-1935 reference N/M/142/46-47

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain