Kilby, Leicestershire Genealogy

England LeicestershireLeicestershire Parishes

Guide to Kilby, Leicestershire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History =
KILBY (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Blaby, hundred of Guthlaxton, S. division of the county of Leicester, 6½ miles (S. S. E.) from the town of Leicester. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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: Kilby Bap 1570 - 1998 Marr 1570 - 1987 (Banns to1973) Bur 1570 – 1985 (some entries in Wistow, Leicestershire register)

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
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