Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BARKBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of East Goscote, N.division of the county of Leicester, 5 miles (N. E.)from Leicester; containing, the chapelries of Barkby-Thorp and North Thurmaston.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Barkby like this: BARKBY, a township and a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester. The parish lies 1½ mile S by E of Syston r. station, and 4½ NE of Leicester. The parish contains also the township of North Thurmaston and the hamlet of Barkby-Thorpe. There are two Methodist 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
Barkby Thorpe parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Leicestershire Record Office.

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: Refer to Barkby, Leicestershire

Poor Law Unions
Barrow upon Soar 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain