Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Map (source: Wikipedia)

Leicestershire

County town: Leicester

Other major towns: Hinkley, Loughborough, Coalville

Situated in the centre of England, Leicestershire now includes what was once England's smallest county of Rutland.

The county is a stronghold of fox hunting with famous hunts such as the Quorn, the Belvoir and the Cottesmore meeting regularly in the winter season. Market Harborough's claim to fame is the invention of the liberty bodice and later other ladies undergarments.

Lady Jane Grey, the nine-days queen executed by Mary Tudor, lived part of her short life at Bradgate House in Charnwood forest near Leicester.

Register Office

For events within Leicestershire but not within the city of Leicester

Leicestershire Registration Service
County Register Office
County Hall
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicester
LE3 8RN

Tel 0116 265 6509 (for further information and general enquiries only)

Website:Copy certificates for family history-Genealogy

E-mail registration@leics.gov.uk

Orders cannot be taken by phone or e-mail, postal applications only. Copy certificates usually supplied within 3-5 days of order.

• City of Leicester Events

For the following areas and dates you will need to apply to the Leicester City holdings office at:

Leicestershire Records Office
Long Street
Wigston Magna
Leicestershire
LE8 2AH

Record Office Lookup Requests

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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Records Office Lookup Contacts

• Leicestershire R/O JoJo

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Leicester/Leicestershire (anywhere) JoJo

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please PM the member with your queries.

Links

Primary Reference Links

• The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland

• GENUKI: Leicestershire

• Leicestershire Libraries & Information Service

• Library Links

• Local History Society Gateway Page

• Leicestershire Family History Society

• Leicestershire Online Parish Clerks

• Leicestershire Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange
• IGI for Leicestershire

Countywide Interest

• Leicester Wills 1552-1546

• Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Parish Records

• Leicestershire Workhouses

• Leicestershire during World War Two

Countywide Interest

• Leicestershire Roots

• Leicester Chronicler

• Leicestershire Villages

Specific Town Village Interest

• Appleby Magna

• Ashby De La Zouch museum

• Barlestone

• Barrow upon Soar

• The Guys of Bottesford Includes online Bottesford Parish Records

• Enderby Parish Records

• Framland Hundred Pages Includes Village Maps and Directory Listings for this area of North-East Leicestershire
• St. Margaret's Church, Leicester. Marriages: July 1, 1837 to May 12, 1897
• St Martin's Cathedral, Leicester- Monumental Inscriptions from 1589
• Some Inscriptions from Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester
• Lubenham

• Measham links and records

• Netherseal and Overseal Parish Pages Includes Parish Records and Trade Directory Listings

• Directory Of Quorndon Village Websites

• Quorn Village Site

• Ratcliffe Culey - Includes some Parish Records

• Redmile Archive Includes some Census and Parish Records

• Rothley Baptist Births Part one

• Rothley Baptist Births Part two

• Records for Sheepy Magna

• Swannington Heritage
• Wartnaby Marriages 1635-1838
• Wymeswold Local History

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