New Parks, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
New Parks is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

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

NEW PARKS, an extra-parochial tract in the district and county of Leicester; 1 mile W N W of Leicester. Acres, 800. Pop., 52. Houses, 9. New Parks House is the seat of T. Stokes, Esq.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
New Parks is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

England Jurisdictions 1851 may be helpful

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