Bottesford, Leicestershire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BOTTESFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Grantham, hundred of Framland, N. division of the county of Leicester, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from Grantham. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bottesford like this:

BOTTESFORD, or Botsworth, a village and a parish in the district of Grantham and county of Leicester. The village stands in the vale of Belvoir. near the Grantham canal and the Nottingham and Grantham railway, 7 miles WNW of Grantham. The parish includes also the hamlets of Easthorpe and Normanton. There are four dissenting chapels.

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: Bottesford Bap 1563 - 1941 Marr 1563 - 2007 (Banns to1977) Bur 1563 - 1995

The Family History Library has these church records for Bottesford

Census records
Census Records 1841-1911 are available online and at The National Archives at Kew, Surrey, England

Genealogy
Webb, Valmai. a Letter To Paris. A letter from Samuel Edenborough to his 13 year old son Samuel Bolton Edenborough. Ilustrated with a photograph of Samuel Bolton Edenborough when he was grown and in the Army. Covers years 1555-1818, Article in Hel Achau, #104, March 2010, pages 8-9, Family History Library Ref. 942.93 D25h

Poor Law Unions
Grantham Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire

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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