Greetham, Rutland Genealogy

England   Rutland

Parish History
Greetham St Mary is an Ancient Parish.

GREETHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 6 miles (N. E.) from Oakham; containing 583 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 3. 9.; net income, £163; patron, G. Finch, Esq., who, with G. Heathcote, Esq., is impropriator: the tithes were commuted for land in 1763. Here is an endowed school, founded in the reign of William III.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 338-340. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50990 Date accessed: 18 May 2011.

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

GREETHAM, a village and a parish in Oakham district, Rutland. The village stands on an affluent of the river Gwash, 3¼ miles E of the Melton Mowbray canal, 4 NNW of Empingham, and 6 NE of Oakham r. station; possessed some importance in the Saxon times; is long and straggling; and has a post office under Oakham. The parish comprises 2, 800 acres. Real property, £3, 756. Pop., 706. Houses, 145. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to G. Finch, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £163. Patron, G. Finch, Esq. The church is ancient; has a tower and lofty spire; and was restored in 1860. There are a national school, with £36 from endowment, an infant school, and several charities.

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 Peterborough : Greetham Bap 1576 - 1709; 1729 - 1945 Marr 1576 - 1709; 1729 - 1975 (Banns to1983) Bur 1576 - 1709; 1729 - 1977

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Census 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 Rutland 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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