Barlestone, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Barlestone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire.

The ecclesisatical parish of St Giles was formed as a chapelry to Market Bosworth, Leicestershire Ancient parish.

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

BARLESTONE, or Barlston, a chapelry in Market Bosworth parish, Leicester; 2¾ miles NE of Market Bosworth, and 3 SW of Bagworth r. station. Post Town, Market-Bosworth under Hinckley. Acres, 810. Real property, £2,910. Pop., 544. Houses, 140. The property is much subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the manufactory of hosiery. The living is annexed to Market-Bosworth. The church is plain. There are two dissenting chapels and a free school.

The modern village has both Baptist and Methodist chapels and a converted public house forms Elohim Church.

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
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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

Web sites
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