Thurmaston, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Thurmaston St Michael is an Ecclesiastical Parish which was formed in 1794 from a chapelry in Belgrave, Leicestershire Ancient Parish combined with South Thurmaston chapelry.

THURMASTON, NORTH, a chapelry, partly in the parish of Barkby, and partly in that of Belgrave, union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3¼ miles (N. N. E.) from Leicester; containing 251 inhabitants. Petty-sessions for the hundred are held here. The walls of the ancient chapel, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, are still remaining.

THURMASTON, SOUTH, a chapelry, in the parish of Belgrave, union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Leicester; containing 978 inhabitants. The Leicester canal joins the MeltonMowbray canal near the village, which is also intersected by the Roman fosse-way. The chapelry comprises 1100 acres of land; the soil is in general light, and the substratum loam, gravel, and clay. In consequence of a benefaction of £200 by Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, and the surrender of £22 per annum by the vicar of Belgrave, the chapelry was severed from Belgrave in 1798: the patronage of the living, a perpetual curacy, belongs to the Pochin family, and the income is £100. A tithe-farm of 140 acres belongs to the see of Lichfield. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael, and contains many old monuments to the Simons family. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. The most ancient Roman milliarium known in Britain was found here; it is 3½ feet high, and 7½ inches in circumference, and now stands on a pillar in Leicester.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 351-355. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51342 Date accessed: 18 May 2011.

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

THURMASTON, a parochial chapelry, with a village, in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicestershire; on the river Soar, 1¼ mile SSW of Syston r. station, and 3½ NNE of Leicester. It comprises North T. township in Barkby parish, and South T. township in Belgrave parish; and it has a post-office under Leicester. Acres, 1,670. Real property, £5,748. Pop., 1,102. Houses, 238. The manor belongs to W. A. Pochin and T. Allen, Esqs. Framework-knitting is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £106.Patron, the Rev. E. W. Woodcock. The church was recently rebuilt. There are two Methodist chapels, and a national school.

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: Thurmaston Bap 1719 - 1957 Marr 1719 - 1974 (Banns to 1985) Bur 1719 - 1948

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Poor Law Unions
Barrow upon Soar 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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