Stockerston, Leicestershire Genealogy
Guide to Stockerston, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Stockerston, Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter Stockerston, Leicestershire | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Gartree |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Uppingham |
| Registration District | Uppingham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1574 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1564 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Gartree |
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Leicestershire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
STOCKERSTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Uppingham. [1]
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stockerston like this:
STOCKERSTON, a parish in the district of Uppingham and county of Leicester; 4 miles NNW of Rockingham r. station.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Stockerston parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FS PRs = England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991 (FamilySearch) - free | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch - free | |||||
| FMP = Leicestershire Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($) | |||||
| FMP Banns = Leicestershire Banns (FindMyPast) - ($) | |||||
| FMP Marr = Leicestershire Marriage Licences, 1604-1891 (FindMyPast) - ($) | |||||
| MyH = Leicestershire Parish Births, Marriages, Burials (MyHeritage) - ($) | |||||
| TGEN = Leicestershire Parish Records (TheGenealogist) - ($)[2] | |||||
| PC = Parish Chest - ($) Registers delivered by email. | |||||
| JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - ($) | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free | |||||
| FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free |
| Stockerston Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1533-1991 | 1533-1991 | 1533-1991 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP | 1538-1916 | 1537-1931 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP Banns | 1637-1940 | |||||
| FMP Marr | 1604-1891 | |||||
| MyH | 1510-1900s | 1510-1900s | 1510-1900s | |||
| TGEN | 1550s-1900s | |||||
| PC | 1500s-1900s | 1500s-1900s | 1500s-1900s | |||
| JOIN | 1813-1837 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Leicestershire Record Office.
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: Stockerstone Bap 1574 - 1812 Marr 1574 - 1837 Bur 1574 - 1812
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Uppingham Poor Law Union, Rutland
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 207-209. Date accessed: 14 September 2012.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Leicestershire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
