Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire Genealogy

Guide to Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BARROW-UPON-SOAR (Holy Trinity), a parish,and the head of a union, partly in the hundred of East,but chiefly in that of West, Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester. The parish consists of Barrow proper; a part of the market-town of Mountsorrel; the chapelries of Quorndon and Woodhouse, and the consolidated chapelry or district of St. Paul's, WoodhouseEaves. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Non Conformist records available at the Leicester and Rutland Record Office include:

Barrow on Soar Methodist Marriages 1951-1969 reference N/M/207/322

Barrow on Soar Wesleyan Methodist (Loughborough Circuit) Baptisms 1853-1876 reference N/M/207/182 Barrow on Soar Methodist Baptism 1868-1968 reference DE 5896

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain