Teigh, Rutland Genealogy

Guide to Teigh, Rutland ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
TEIGH (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 5 miles N from Oakham.

The Victoria County History of Teigh (1935) is available. It includes a history of the manor, church, advowson, and charities.

TEIGH, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; 1½ mile NNE of Ashwell railway station, and 4¾ N by E of Oakham.

'Additional information:

Teigh Holy Trinity is an Ancient parish; the church almost unaltered since a 1782 rebuild, that features pews that face one another rather than the altar. The writer Arthur Mee proposed Teigh as one of the few Thankful Villages which lost no men in World War I. Richard Folville, a member of the gang of robbers led by his older brother Eustace was rector here from 1321. In 1340-41 he was besieged in the church and then summarily executed outside. Anthony Jenkinson, main trader of the Muscovy Company was buried here in 1611. He had travelled as far as Bukhara when trying to reach Cathay overland from Moscow, and established overland trade routes through Russia to Persia.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
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 * Rutland Records and Archives
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 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

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