Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Newton Harcourt St Luke was formed as a chapelry of Wistow, Leicestershire

The church drew tithes from the lands in the chapelries of Kilby, Fleckney, and Newton Harcourt, but nothing is known of tithes from Wistow itself. There is no evidence of glebe land in Wistow, though in 1632 there was a small close in the southwest of the parish called 'the Parson's Close'. The glebe at Newton Harcourt was in lay hands in the early 17th century.

From: 'Wistow', A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5: Gartree Hundred (1964), pp. 336-345. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22077 Date accessed: 20 May 2011.

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

NEWTON-HARCOURT, a village and a township-chapelry in Wistow parish, Leicestershire. The village stands on the Union canal, near the river Soar, and near the Leicester and Hitchin railway, 1 mile W N W of Glen r. station, and 6½ S E by S of Leicester; and has a post-office under Leicester. The chapelry comprises 880 acres. Real property, £1, 886. Pop., 207. Houses, 51. The manor belongs to Sir Henry Halford, Bart.; and the Manor House is the residence of H. St. John Halford, Esq. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Wistow, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church stands near the Manor House, and has a low tower. Charities, £12.

Civil Registration
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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: Refer to Wistow, Leicestershire registers

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Poor Law Unions
Billesdon 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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