Cold Overton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Cold Overton St John the Baptist is an Ancient parish in Leicestershire.

OVERTON, COLD (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Framland, N. division of the county of Leicester, 7 miles (S. E. by S.) from Melton-Mowbray; containing 118 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £19. 12. 3½., and in the gift of the family of Hartopp: the tithes have been commuted for £269, and the glebe comprises 45 acres, with a house.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 498-500. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51199 Date accessed: 11 May 2011.

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

COLD-OVERTON, a parish in the district of Oakham and county of Leicester; at the boundary with Rutland, near the Syston and Peterborough railway, 3½ miles WNW of Oakham. Post town, Oakham. Acres, 1, 657. Real property, £2, 714. Pop., 97. Houses, 19. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £300.* Patron, T. Frewen, Esq. The church is old but good, and has a tower and spire.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Oakham Poor Law Union, Rutland

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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