Loughborough, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Loughborough All Saints is the Ancient parish of the town; Loughborough Emmanuel, Leicestershire Ecclesiastical Parish was built as a second District church and subsequently other ecclesiastical parishes were formed in the town.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at£40. 16. 3.; net income, £1848; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge: the tithes were commuted for land in 1759. The church is a handsome edifice in the later English style, and has a fine tower, built by subscription, towards the close of the sixteenth century. In 1837, a second church was erected, at a cost of £5600, the principal contributorsbeing the Rev. William Holme, B.D., rector, and MissTate, of Burleigh, aided by the Commissioners for building Churches.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 175-179. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51120 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Loughborough like this:

Loughborough, market town, par., and township, Leicestershire, on Loughborough Canal, 10½ miles NW. of Leicester and 115 miles from London by rail - township, pop. 14,681; town and par., 5820 ac., pop. 14,803; P.O., T.O., 4 Banks, 3 newspapers. Market-day, Thursday. Loughborough is the second town, in point of size, in the co.; it has a grammar school founded in 1495. The principal industry is the mf r. of all kinds of hosiery; there is a large bell foundry; there are also engineering and machine works, dyeworks, and brick-works; the coal trade is extensive.

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: Loughborough All Saints Bap 1538 - 1997 Marr 1538 – 1978 (Banns to1950) Bur 1538 - 1913

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Non-Conformist churches and 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

Loughborough Primitive Methodist (Dead Lane) Births, Baptisms 1828-1837

Loughborough Primitive Methodist (Nottingham Rd) Marriages 1911-1979 reference N/M/207/380-387

Loughborough Primitive Methodist (Swan Street) Marriages 1904-1962 reference N/M/207/297-302

Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (Ashby Road) Baptisms 1925-1963 reference N/M/207/104

Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (High Street Circuit) Births, Baptisms 1800-1836 Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (Leicester Rd) Baptisms 1838-1944 reference N/M/207/43-44

Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (Woodgate) Baptisms 1889-1907 reference 16D60/11

Loughborough Wesleyan Methdist (Circuit) Baptisms 1853-1876 reference N/M/207/182 Deaths 1804-1820 reference N/M/207/7

Loughborough New Jerusalemite Swedenborgian (Moira Street) Births, Baptisms 1828-1837 Loughborough Presbyterian (and Mountsorrel) Births, Baptisms 1791-1836 Loughborough Roman Catholoc (St. Mary) Baptisms 1803-1908 Confirmations 1842-1852 s 1855-1900;1841-1855 Marriages 1839-1840 deaths 1855-1907+ Loughborough Unitarian (Victoria St.) Birhts, Marriages, Deaths 1918-1969 CLOSED TO PUBLIC ACCESS

Loughborough The Rushes Salvation Aarmy Marriages 1982-1989 reference DE 4126

Poor Law Unions
Loughborough 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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