Aylestone, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Aylestone St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire. Glen_Parva,_Leicestershire and Lubbesthorpe,_Leicestershire are chapelries of Aylestone.

AYLESTONE (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Blaby, partly in the hundred of Guthlaxton, and partly in that of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2½ miles (S. by W.) from Leicester; containing, with the township of Glen Parva and the chapelry of Lubbesthorpe, 757 inhabitants. It is situated on the road to Lutterworth, and contains about 2700 acres; the Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor. The Union canal passes through the parish, and soon after joins the river Soar. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £31. 8. 11½.; net income, £845; patron, the Duke of Rutland. The tithes were commuted for 350 acres of land, in 1767.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 120-124. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50772 Date accessed: 13 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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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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