Hoton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Hoton St Leonard was formed as a chapelry of Prestwold, Leicestershire Ancient Parish.

HOTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Prestwold, Union of Loughborough, Hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (N. E.by E.) from the town of Loughborough; containing 460 inhabitants. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1759. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 559-562. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51048 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

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

HOTON, or HOUGHTON, a township and chapelry in Prestwold parish, Leicester; near the river Soar and the boundary with Notts, 3¼ miles NE of Loughborough r. station. Post town, Loughborough; Acres 1,850, Real property £3, 031, Pop., 401, and Houses 87. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Hastings. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the donatives of Prestwold, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church was rebuilt in 1837, and has an embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

The former church of St Leonard was closed in 1989 and subsequently deconsecrated and converted into a private residence.

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
It is advisable to research the Prestwold, Leicestershire registers

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: Hoton Bap 1653 - 1987 Marr 1653 - 1981 Bur 1653 - 1987

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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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