Stoke Dry, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Stoke Dry is an Ancient Parish mostly in the county of Rutland, with part of the parish within Leicestershire. Other places in the parish include: Holyoakes and Holy Oakes. In 1885 the part in Leicestershire was transferred to the ancient parish of Stockerston, Leicestershire and the part in Rutland became the entire parish of Stoke Dry, Rutlandshire.

STOKE, DRY (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, partly in the hundred of Gartree,S. division of Leicestershire, but chiefly in the hundred of Wrandike, county of Rutland, 3½ miles (S. S.W.) from Uppingham; containing, with the liberty of Holy-Oakes, 51 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,valued in the king's books at £11. 2. 1., and in the gift of the Marquess of Exeter: the tithes have been commuted for a yearly rent-charge of £385; the glebe contains 28½ acres.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 217-220. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51307 Date accessed: 12 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
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 Peterborough : Stoke Dry Bap 1559 - 1812 Marr 1559 - 1837 (Banns to1966) Bur 1559 - 1812

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Poor Law Unions
Uppingham 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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