Horn, Rutland Genealogy

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

Parish History
Horn is a civil Parish in Rutland to view ecclesisatical records refer to Exton, Rutland parish

HORN, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; on Horn-lane, or Ermine street, adjacent to Exton park, 5½ miles NW of Stamford r. station. Post town, Oakham.

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

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 Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office.

Diocese of Peterborough : Records are found with Exton, Rutland which has Exton Bap 1597 - 1915 Marr 1597 - 1964 (Banns to1977) Bur 1597 - 1942

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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