Bottesford, Leicestershire Genealogy

Guide to Bottesford, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BOTTESFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Grantham, hundred of Framland, N. division of the county of Leicester, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from Grantham. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.

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

BOTTESFORD, or Botsworth, a village and a parish in the district of Grantham and county of Leicester. The village stands in the vale of Belvoir. near the Grantham canal and the Nottingham and Grantham railway, 7 miles WNW of Grantham. The parish includes also the hamlets of Easthorpe and Normanton. There are four dissenting chapels.

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
Bottesford parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Leicestershire Record Office.

Census records
Census Records 1841-1911 are available online and at The National Archives at Kew, Surrey, England

Genealogy
Webb, Valmai. a Letter To Paris. A letter from Samuel Edenborough to his 13 year old son Samuel Bolton Edenborough. Ilustrated with a photograph of Samuel Bolton Edenborough when he was grown and in the Army. Covers years 1555-1818, Article in Hel Achau, #104, March 2010, pages 8-9, Family History Library Ref. 942.93 D25h

Poor Law Unions
Grantham Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire

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