Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Kirby Bellars St Peter is an Ancient Parish.

KIRBY-BELLARS (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Melton-Mowbray, hundred of Framland,N. division of the county of Leicester, 3½ miles (W.by S.) from Melton-Mowbray; containing 236 inhabitants. It takes the adjunct to its name from the foundation of a college here in the reign of Edward II. by Roger Beller, for a warden and twelve priests; this college, in 1359, was made conventual, for a prior and Canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, and at the Dissolution the revenue was estimated at £178. 7. 10.The parish comprises 2600 acres; it is situated on the road from Melton to Leicester, and on the navigable river Wreak. Here, also, is a station of the Syston and Peterborough railway. The living is a perpetual curacy;net income, £84; patron and impropriator, Sir Robert Burdett, Bart.: the tithes have been commuted for land.The church is a neat plain edifice of stone, with a tower surmounted by a lofty spire. In 1821, many teeth andbones of the elephant and other animals, together with the horns of the antelope, and also an urn containing black beads, were dug up.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 687-689. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51080 Date accessed: 13 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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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: Kirby Bellars Bap 1713 - 1812 Marr 1713 - 1836 (Banns to1985) Bur 1713 - 1812

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Poor Law Unions
Melton Mowbray 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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