Isley Walton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Isley Walton is a chapelry of Kegworth, Leicestershire Ancient Parish in Leicestershire. .

ISLEY-WALTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Kegworth, union of Shardlow, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 7 miles (N. E.) from Ashby-de-la-Zouch; containing 65 inhabitants. A rent-charge of £123. 2. 3. has been awarded as a commutation for the tithes, and there is a glebe of 11¾ acres. The chapel has been enlarged, the Incorporated Society having granted £200 in aid of the expense. William Crank, in 1759, bequeathed two cottages with land, at Market-Overton, now producing £15 per annum, for distribution among the poor.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 623-628. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51065 Date accessed: 13 March 2011.

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

ISLEY-WALTON, a chapeliy in Kegworth parish, Leicester; near the boundary with Derby, 2 miles SW of Castle Donington, and 5 W by S of Kegworth r. stationPost town, Castle Donington, under Derby. Real property, £745. Pop., 46. Houses, 8. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Kegworth, in the diocese of Peterborough.

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.

Isley Walton and Isley Langley, Langley Prior, Castle Donington became part of Loughborough registration district on 1 April 1938

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); 3A (1946-74).

Registers are now held at The Register Office, Royal Oak House, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AR. Tel: 01332 256526/35/36. Fax: 01332 256525. E-mail: registeroffice@derby.gov.uk

Church records
Isley Walton deposited registers at Leicester Record Office Bap 1710 - 1981 Marr 1734 - 1975 (Banns to1982)

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Poor Law Unions
Shardlow Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

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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Web sites
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