Hambleton, Rutland Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAMBLETON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Martinsley, county of Rutland, 3 miles ESE from Oakham.

Additional information:

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

Hambleton St Andrew is an Ancient parish in Rutland with a chapelry at Braunston, Rutland within the parish boundary.

In 1976 the opening of Rutland Water (previously Empingham Reservoir) created Anglian Water's largest reservoir serving Eastern England. The Gwash valley was flooded to create the reservoir; Nether Hambleton and most of Middle Hambleton were demolished and their wells were plugged as part of the ground preparation. Their neighbouring village of Upper Hambleton survived, and now sits on a peninsula within the lake known as the Hambleton Peninsula.

The Jacobean style Old Hall in Middle Hambleton (built in 1611) is now situated on the water's edge.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Rutland Records and Archives
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

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.

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