Barkestone, Leicestershire Genealogy

Leicestershire  Leicestershire Parishes



Parish History
BARKESTONE (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Bingham, hundred of Framland, N.division of the county of Leicester, 4 miles (W. N. W.)from Belvoir Castle. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 141-145. Date accessed: 13 August 2012.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Leicestershire Census

Poor Law Unions
Bingham Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain