Loughborough, Leicestershire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LOUGHBOROUGH (All Saints), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester.

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Loughborough like this:

Loughborough, market town, par., and township, Leicestershire, on Loughborough Canal, 10½ miles NW. of Leicester and 115 miles from London by rail.

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
Loughborough All Saints 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.

Non-Conformist churches and 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

Loughborough Primitive Methodist (Dead Lane) Births, Baptisms 1828-1837

Loughborough Primitive Methodist (Nottingham Rd) Marriages 1911-1979 reference N/M/207/380-387

Loughborough Primitive Methodist (Swan Street) Marriages 1904-1962 reference N/M/207/297-302

Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (Ashby Road) Baptisms 1925-1963 reference N/M/207/104

Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (High Street Circuit) Births, Baptisms 1800-1836 Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (Leicester Rd) Baptisms 1838-1944 reference N/M/207/43-44

Loughborough Wesleyan Methodist (Woodgate) Baptisms 1889-1907 reference 16D60/11

Loughborough Wesleyan Methdist (Circuit) Baptisms 1853-1876 reference N/M/207/182 Deaths 1804-1820 reference N/M/207/7

Loughborough New Jerusalemite Swedenborgian (Moira Street) Births, Baptisms 1828-1837 Loughborough Presbyterian (and Mountsorrel) Births, Baptisms 1791-1836 Loughborough Roman Catholoc (St. Mary) Baptisms 1803-1908 Confirmations 1842-1852 s 1855-1900;1841-1855 Marriages 1839-1840 deaths 1855-1907+ Loughborough Unitarian (Victoria St.) Birhts, Marriages, Deaths 1918-1969 CLOSED TO PUBLIC ACCESS

Loughborough The Rushes Salvation Aarmy Marriages 1982-1989 reference DE 4126&lt;

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.

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