Braunston, Rutland Genealogy

England Rutland

Parish History
Braunston All Saints Rutland was formed as a chapelry to Hambleton, Rutland Ancient Parish.

BRAUNSTON, or Branston (All Saints), a parish, in the union and soke of Oakham, county of Rutland, 2 miles (S. W.) from Oakham; containing 443 inhabitants. It comprises between 1500 and 2000 acres, of which the greater portion is arable; the soil is various, but chiefly clay of inferior quality. An act of parliament was passed in 1801, for inclosing the waste lands. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Hambleton: the church is a small neat edifice.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 347-350. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50824 Date accessed: 11 May 2011.

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

BRAUNSTON, or Branston, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; on the river Gwash, 2½ miles SW of Oakham r. station. It has a post office under Oakham. Acres, 3,250. Real property, £2,710. Pop., 398. Houses, 104. Braunston Lodge is a chief residence. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Hambleton, in the diocese of Peterborough. There are a Baptist chapel. and charities £59.

The parish should not be confused with Braunstone, Leicestershire or Braunston, Northamptonshire

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 Peterborough : Braunston Bap 1558 - 1871 Marr 1558 - 1845 (Banns to1927) Bur 1558 - 1907

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Oakham Poor Law Union, Rutland

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Rutland 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
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Web sites
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