Sheepshed, Leicestershire Genealogy

Guide to Sheepshed, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SHEEPSHEAD (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Loughborough, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 4 miles (W.) from Loughborough. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans.

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 Leicester: Shepshed Bap 1538 - 1993 Marr 1538 – 1990 (Banns to 1985) Bur 1538 - 1969

Non Conformist records available at the Leicester and Rutland Record Office include:

Shepshed Particular Baptist (Charnwood Rd) Marriages 1861-1871 referenceN/B/289/12 Shepshed Particular Baptist (Charnwood Rd) Births 1861-1865 reference N/B/289/9

Shepshed Particular Baptist Births 1754-1837 Burials 1785-1794 Shepshed Roman Catholic Baptisms 1837-1908 Deaths1854-1894 Shepshed Methodist (Charnwood Rd) Marriages 1913-1968 reference N/M/207/306-307

Shepshed Wesleyan Methodist (Loughborough Circuit) Baptisms 1853-1876 reference N/M/207/182

Shepshed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Births, Deaths etc 1848-1891

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
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