Dishley, Leicestershire Genealogy

England Leicestershire

Parish History
Dishley All Saints and Thorpeacre was an Ancient parish. Other places in the parish include Knight Thorpe.

DISHLEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Thorp-Acre,union of Loughborough, hundred of West Goscote,N. division of the county of Leicester, 1¾ mile (N. W.)from Loughborough; containing 33 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Soar, and the Loughborough canal.The living is a donative curacy, with that of Thorp-Acre united; net income, £70; patron, C. M. Phillips,Esq. The chapel is dedicated to All Saints.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 58-60. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50921 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

In the need to develop housing for local manufacturers, post 1945 housing reversed the church needs and Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire became the parish church site to be retained and developed.

All Saints Church, Thorpe Acre with Dishley, was built in 1845 and extended in 1968. Dishley Church is now a ruin on the Derby Road, Loughborough. Robert Bakewell (1726–1795), the agriculturalist, is buried there.

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 Leicester: Dishley and Thorpe Acre Bap 1681 - 1973 Marr 1681 - 1753;1766 - 1990 (Banns to 1991) Bur 1681 - 1967

Note that the later registers relate to Thorpe Acre with Dishley parish.

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Poor Law Unions
Loughborough 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.

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Web sites
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