Barrow, Rutland Genealogy

England Rutland

Parish History
Barrow was formed as a chapelry to Cottesmore, Rutland.

BARROW, a chapelry, in the parish of Cottesmore, union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 5 miles (N. by E.) from Oakham; containing 142 inhabitants. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, under an inclosure act of the 39th and 40th of George III.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 158-161. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50781 Date accessed: 11 May 2011.

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

BARROW, or Berk, a hamlet in Cottesmore parish, Rutland; 5½ miles NNE of Oakham.

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 : For Barrow see Cottesmore Bap1655 - 1849 Marr 1655 - 1963 (Banns to1982) Bur 1655 - 1877

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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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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