Stockerston, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Stockerstone St Peter is an Ancient Parish.

STOCKERSTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Uppingham; containing 48 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £13, and in the gift of T. Walker, and G. Bellairs, Esqrs.: the tithes have been commuted for £202, and the glebe contains 37½ acres. John Boyvile in 1465 obtained leave of Edward IV. to erect an almshouse here in honour of the Blessed Virgin, for a chaplain and three persons, and to settle lands upon them in mortmain, of the annual value of £10. Stockerston Hall is a handsome brick mansion, the residence of Mr. Walker.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 207-209. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51304 Date accessed: 20 May 2011.

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

STOCKERSTON, a parish in the district of Uppingham and county of Leicester; 4 miles NNW of Rockingham r. station. Post town, Uppingham. Acres, 973. Real property, £1,543. Pop., 50. Houses, 11. S. Hall is the seat of T. Walker, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £240. Patron, alternately T. Walker, Esq. and G. Belairs, Esq. The church is good.

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: Stockerstone Bap 1574 - 1812 Marr 1574 - 1837 Bur 1574 - 1812

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Poor Law Unions
Uppingham 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 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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