Leicester St Anne, Leicestershire Genealogy

Parish History
Leicester St Anne was formed from part of the Ancient Parish of Leicester St Mary de Castro, Leicestershire

In 1914 St. Anne's Church was built just inside the western boundary of Bromkinsthorpe to serve a newly created conventional district. In 1934 a permanent church was built to replace the original temporary one, and the parish was set up. The Bishop of Leicester has beenfrom the first, and in 1956 still remained, the patron.

From: 'The ancient borough: St. Mary's', A History of the County of Leicester: volume 4: The City of Leicester (1958), pp. 369-380. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66579 Date accessed: 21 May 2011.

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 Leicester: Leicester St Anne Letchworth Road Bap 1914 - 1960 Marr 1922 - 1986 (Banns to 1983)

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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