Rothley, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire  Leicestershire Parishes



Parish History
ROTHLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Barrow-upon-Soar, chiefly in the hundred of East Goscote, but partly in that of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 1½ mile (S. by E.)from Mountsorrel. There are chapels of ease at Chadwell, Keyham, and Wartnaby; and a chapel at Mountsorrel. The Wesleyans and General Baptists have places of worship.

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

ROTHLEY, a village, a township, and a sub-district, in Barrow-upon-Soar district, and a parish partly also in Billelon and Melton-Mowbray districts, Leicester. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, 1½ mile S of Mountsorrel, and 2¾ N W of Syston r. station; and has a post-office under Loughborough, and an ancient manorial court-house. The township comprises, with Rothley-Temple extra-parochial tract, 2, 170 acres. Real property, without that tract, £4, 224.Pop., 939. Houses, 202.—The sub-district contains also seven extra-parochial tracts, two parishes, and part of another. Acres, 14, 657. Pop., 4, 796. Houses, 1,067. The parish contains the townships of Rothley, Mountsorrel-South End, and Keyham, and the chapelries of Wartnaby and Wycomb-with-Chad-well. Acres, 5, 480. Pop., 2, 213. Houses, 486. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to H. R. Parker, Esq. The Barrow-upon-Soar workhouse is in R.township; and is a commodious structure, with a Tudorfront. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Keyham, Wartnaby, Wycomb-with-Chadwell, and Gaddesby, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £500.* Patrons, the Executors of the lateC. Macaulay, Esq. The church is ancient but good. The p. curacy of Mount-sorrel-Christchurch, is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £15 a year, a national school, and charities £20.

Civil Registration
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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: Rothley Bap 1562 - 1900 Marr 1562 - 1904 (Banns to1972) Bur 1562 - 1937

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Poor Law Unions
Barrow upon Soar 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.

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