North Luffenham, Rutland Genealogy

England Rutland Rutland Parishes

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

Parish History
LUFFENHAM, NORTH (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, hundred of Wrandike, county of Rutland, 6 miles (S. W. by W.)from Stamford.

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

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

Diocese of Peterborough : North Luffenham Bap 1572 - 1869 Marr 1572 - 1837 (Banns to1967) Bur 1572 - 1923

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.

1524

 * Original held at TNA ; Microfilm: 2228721; Publication:
 * Cornwall, J. The County Community Under Henry VIII: The Military Survey, 1522, and the Lay Subsidy, 1524-5, for Rutland. Oakham, England: Rutland Record Society, 1980. 942.545 R4c (see page [#] for North Luffenham)

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain