Earl Shilton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England Leicestershire



Parish History
Earl Shilton St Simon and St Jude was formed as a chapelry of Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire Ancient Parish.

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

EARL-SHILTON, a chapelry and a sub-district in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Kirkby-Mallory parish; and lies 2 miles N of the Hinckley and Leicester railway, and 4 NE by E of Hinckley. It has a post office under Hinckley. Acres, 920. Real property, £7, 471. Pop., 2, 176. Houses, 480. The manor belongs to the duchy of Lancaster, and had formerly a Norman castle. The stocking manufacture is largely carried on; and the introduction of machinery to it occasioned a decrease of population, by migration, between 1851 and 1861. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Elmsthorpe, in the diocese of Peterborough. There are four dissenting chapels, a school with £36 from endowment, and other charities with £78.—The sub-district includes also Elmsthorpe parish, and Barwell township. Acres, 4, 860. Pop., 3, 579. Houses, 789.

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 Leicester: Earl Shilton Bap 1552 - 1959 Marr 1552 - 1990 (Banns to1994) Bur 1552 – 1919 In addition the Office has records of Non Conformist congretations:

Earl Shilton Independent Births and Baptisms 1810-1838 reference MF 13(8) or R47 Earl Shilton Methodist (Wood St.) Marr 1951-1963 reference N/M/142/140-141

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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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