Whitwell, Rutland Genealogy

England Rutland Rutland Parishes

Guide to Whitwell, Rutland family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
WHITWELL (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland,7 miles (W. by N.) from Stamford.

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


 * WHITWELL, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; 4½ miles E of Oakham r. station.

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

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 Peterborough : Whitwell Bap 1716 - 1995 Marr 1716 - 1837 (Banns to1985) Bur 1716 - 1990

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.