Loddington, Leicestershire Genealogy

England Leicestershire Leicestershire Parishes

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Parish History
LODDINGTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Billesdon, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 7¼ miles (N. by W.) from Uppingham.

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

LODDINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Billesdon district, Leicester; on the river Eye, adjacent to Rutland, 5½ miles WNW of Uppingham, and 6½ SW of Oakham r. station.

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

Diocese of Leicester: Loddington Bap 1554 - 1998 Marr 1554 - 1989 Bur 1554 - 1993

Poor Law Unions
Billesdon 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
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