Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Stoney Stanton St Michael is an Ancient Parish.

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

STANTON-STONEY, a parish, with a village, in Hinckley district, Leicester; 4¼ miles E by N of Hinckley r. station. It has a postal letter-box under Hinckley. Acres, 1,750. Real property, £3,850; of which £30 are in quarries. Pop., 703. Houses, 163. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400. Patron, T. Frewen, Esq. The church was repaired and enlarged in 1843; and has a tower and spire. Charities, £8.

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 Leicester: Stoney Stanton Bap 1558 - 1970 Marr 1558 – 1987 (Banns to1989) Bur 1558 - 1973 In addition this office holds the following Non-Conformist records:

Stoney Stanton Congregational Church Bap 1901-1969 reference N/C/310/6

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Poor Law Unions
Hinckley 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

Web sites
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