Uppingham, Rutland Genealogy

Guide to Uppingham, Rutland ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
UPPINGHAM (St. Peter and St. Paul), a market town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Martinsley, county of Rutland, 6 miles S from Oakham, and 89 NNW from London. There are places of worship for Independents and 'alvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists.

The Victoria County History of Uppingham (1935) is available. It includes a history of the manor, church, advowson, and charities.

UPPINGHAM, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Rutland. The town stands 3 miles SSW of Manton r. station, and 6 S of Oakham. There are four dissenting chapels.

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The grammar-school was founded in the time of Elizabeth I; was rebuilt in 1863, at a cost of £40,000; has a chapel in the decorated English style, built in 1865, at a cost of nearly £6,000; includes accommodation for from 250 to 300 boarders; holds two scholarships of £70 a year each, and three exhibitions at the universities; had Archbishop Manners Sutton, Bishops Ferne and Bramston, and Lord Chancellor Manners for pupils; and has, in connexion with it, an hospital-charity for decayed tradesmen, widows, and others.

Pop. of the town, in 1861, 2,176. Houses, 392. The parish comprises 1,210 acres. Real property, £.9,201; of which £140 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 2,068; in 1861, 2,186. Houses, 397.

The manor belonged to the Montforts; passed to the Beauchamps, the Cecils, the Greys, and others; and belongs now to the Earl of Gainsborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £661. Patron, the Bishop of P. Jeremy Taylor was rector.

The sub-district contains 12 parishes. Acres, 19,007. Pop., 5,356. Houses, 1,080.

The district includes also Barrowden and Great Easton sub-districts, and comprises 52,698 acres. Poor rates, in 1863, £6,179. Pop. in 1851, 12,719; in 1861, 12,367. Houses, 2,626. Marriages in 1863, 73; births, 371,-of which 35 were illegitimate; deaths, 259, -of which 100 were at ages under 5 years, and 7 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 756; births, 3,920; deaths 2,206.

The places of worship, in 1851, were 31 of the Church of England, with 6,817 sittings; 4 of Independents, with 818 sittings; 9 of Baptists, with 1,161 sittings; 1 of Quakers, with 60 sittings.; 8 of Wesleyans, with 895 sittings; 2 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 186 sittings; 2 undefined, with 380 sittings: and 1 of Latter Day Saints, with 30 sittings. The schools were 18 public day-schools, with 1,170 scholars; 39 private day-schools, with 554 s.; and 37 Sunday schools, with 1,971 s.

Jeremy Taylor (15 August 1613 – 13 August 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August.

He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. He went on to become chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I as a result of Laud's sponsorship. This made him politically suspect when Laud was tried for treason and executed in 1645 by the Puritan Parliament during the English Civil War. After the Parliamentary victory over the King, he was briefly imprisoned several times.

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
Uppingham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers are found at the Leicester and Rutland Record Office. Deposited bishop's transcripts are held at the Northamptonshire Record Office.

Diocese of Peterborough: Uppingham Baptisms 1571 - 1927; Marriages 1571 - 1968 (Banns to 1993); Burials 1571 - 1984

Poor Law Unions

 * Uppingham 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain