West Leake, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to: West Leake, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Parish History
LEAKE (WEST), is a parish, with a village, in the district of Loughborough, and county of Nottingham; on an affluent of the river Soar, 2 miles SE of Kegworth railway station, and 5½ N by W of Loughborough. The post town is, Loughborough.

Additional information:

West Leake St Helena is an Ancient Parish.

Church history West Leake St Helena

The church of St Helena has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

The modern parish is united with

Costock, Nottinghamshire St Giles

East Leake, Nottinghamshire St Mary

Rempstone, Nottinghamshire All Saints

Stanford on Soar, Nottinghamshire St John the Baptist.

See also West Leake Wikipedia

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
West Leake 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 Nottinghamshire Archives.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

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 Nottinghamshire 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

Websites
West Leake in GENUKI