Teigh, Rutland Genealogy

England   Rutland

Parish History
Teigh Holy Trinity is an Ancient parish; the church almost unaltered since a 1782 rebuild, that features pews that face one another rather than the altar. The writer Arthur Mee proposed Teigh as one of the few Thankful Villages which lost no men in World War I. Richard Folville, a member of the gang of robbers led by his older brother Eustace was rector here from 1321. In 1340 41 he was besieged in the church and then summarily executed outside. Anthony Jenkinson, main trader of the Muscovy Company was buried here in 1611. He had travelled as far as Bukhara when trying to reach Cathay overland from Moscow, and established overland trade routes through Russia to Persia.

TEIGH (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 5miles (N.) from Oakham; containing 235 inhabitants.The parish comprises about 1400 acres, and produces a material resembling ironstone, which is quarried for the roads: the Melton and Oakham canal passes through it.Here is a strong petrifying spring; and fossil fish have been found in the blue rock. The living is a rectory,valued in the king's books at £14. 2. 11.; net income,£349; patron, the Earl of Harborough: there is a parsonage-house, with a glebe of about 60 acres. The church is a small neat edifice.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 310-314. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51330 Date accessed: 21 May 2011.

1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Teigh like this: TEIGH, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; 1½ mile NNE of Ashwell r. station, and 4¾ N by E of Oakham. Post town, Oakham. Acres, 1,267. Real property, £2,306. Pop., 128. Houses, 31. The property is divided among four. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £430.* Patron, R. Thompson, Esq. The church is modern Gothic. .

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 Peterborough : Teigh Bap 1572 - 1985 Marr 1572 - 1981 (Banns to 1995) Bur 1572 - 1984

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Oakham 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.

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