Tickencote, Rutland Genealogy

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

Parish History
TICKENCOTE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of East, county of Rutland,3 miles NW by W from Stamford.

TICKENCOTE, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; 3 miles NW of Stamford railway station.

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

Additional information:

Tickencote St Peter is an Ancient Parish; the includes a Norman chancel arch and unusual chancel roof ribbing. From 1909-12 the vicar was the Venerable Lonsdale Ragg, later the Archdeacon of Gibraltar from 1934-45. The church was partly rebuilt by Samuel Pepys Cockerell in 1792.

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
Tickencote parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers are found at the Leicester and Rutland Record Office. Deposited bishop's transcripts are held at the Northamptonshire Record Office.

Diocese of Peterborough: Tickencote Baptisms 1574 - 1812; Marriages 1574 - 1972; Burials 1574 - 1812

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.

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