Braunstone Frith, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Braunstone Frith is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

BRAUNSTONE-FRITH, an extra-parochial district, in the union of Blaby, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Leicester; containing 7 inhabitants.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 347-350. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50824 Date accessed: 13 May 2011.

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
Braunstone Frith is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

England Jurisdictions 1851 may be helpful.

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
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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