Leicestershire

Situated in the centre of England, Leicestershire at one time included England's smallest county of Rutland. 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.
County town: Leicester Other major towns: Hinkley, Loughborough, Coalville Leicestershire Places of Worship Regional projects Forum	Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland

• Leicestershire Libraries & Information Service

• Leicestershire Family History Society

• Leicestershire Online Parish Clerks

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• East Midlands General Baptist History

• Leicester Chronicler

• Knitting Together

• Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Parish Records

• Leicestershire during World War Two

• Leicestershire Roots

• Leicestershire Villages

• Leicester Wills 1552-1546

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Appleby Magna and Appleby Parva

• Ashby de la Zouch museum

• Barlestone

• Barrow upon Soar

• Barwell

• The Guys of Bottesford

• St Mary's Church, Broughton Astley

• Enderby Parish Records

• Framland Hundred Pages

• Hoton Marriages 1654-1826

• The Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel, Leicester

• Epitaphs in the Graveyard and Chapel of the Great Meeting, Leicester

• Accounts of Churchwardens of St Martin's Church, Leicester 1489-1844

• Materials for Loughborough 1540-1640

• Lubenham

• Measham links and records

• Phillimore Marriages 1562-1837 (Melton Mowbray area)

• Phillimore Marriages 1555-1837 (Melton Mowbray area)

• Netherseal and Overseal Parish Pages

• Quorn Village Site

• Ratcliffe Culey - Includes some Parish Records

• Redmile Archive

• Rothley Baptist Births Part one

• Rothley Baptist Births Part two

• Records for Sheepy Magna

• Somerby Baptisms - 1813 to 1830

• Swannington Heritage

• Tilton on the Hill

• Wartnaby Marriages 1635-1838

• Welford Road Cemetery

• Welford Road cemetery plan

• Wymeswold Local History

Photographs and Maps

• Photographs of the East Midlands

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)

• 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.

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our Volunteers Needed thread.

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