Tickencote, Rutland Genealogy

England Rutland Rutland Parishes

Guide to Tickencote, Rutland family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
TICKENCOTE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of East, county of Rutland,3 miles (N. W. by W.) from Stamford.

Tickencote St Peter is an Ancient Parish; the includees a Norman chancel arch and unusual chancel roof ribbing. From 1909-12 the vicar was the Venerable Lonsdale Ragg, later the Archdeacon of Gibraltar from 1934-45. The church was partly rebuilt by Samuel Pepys Cockerell in 1792.

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


 * TICKENCOTE, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; 3 miles NW of Stamford r. station.

The Victoria County History of Tickencote (1935) is available online. It includes a history of manors, the church, and advowson.

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

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 : Tickencote Bap 1574 - 1812 Marr 1574 - 1972 Bur1574 -1812

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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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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