Ashwell Rutland Family History Guide
Ashwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Rutland.
Alternative names: Exwell
Parish church: St Mary
Parish registers begin: 1595
Nonconformists in Ashwell: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Ashwell, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; on the Midland railway and an affluent of the river Wreak, near the Melton-Mowbray canal, 3½ miles N of Oakham. It has a station on the railway, and its Post Town is Oakham.
Acres, 1,799. Real property, £3,081. Pop., 206. Houses, 48. The manor was known, in the Saxon times, as Exwell; belonged to Earl Harold; and passed, in the time of Edward III., to the Touchets, and afterwards to others.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £401. Patron, Viscount Downe. The church is a handsome edifice, with a tower; and contains three interesting altar-tombs.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ASHWELL (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 3 miles (N. by W.) from Oakham; containing 223 inhabitants.
It comprises 1800 acres by measurement; the soil is fertile, and a coarse kind of stone is quarried for inferior buildings, and for the roads. The Melton Mowbray and Oakham canal passes within a mile of the parish.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £20. 16. 3., and in the gift of Viscount Downe: the tithes have been commuted for £412, and the glebe comprises 130 acres. The church is a neat substantial structure, in the later English style.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Palmes, William, of Ashwell, co. Rutland, esq., bachelor, 24, and Mary Ewry, spinster, 20 and upwards, daughter of Anne, now wife of Philip Sherrard, of Whissendine, said county, who is her guardian, and consents — at St. Martin-in-the-Fields or St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex. 8 July, 1663. F.
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Ashwell, 1841-1891
Church Records
Rutland parish registers Author: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society
Directories
History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Rutland William White 1863
Brook John station master
Cooper John wheelwright &c
Fuller Francis parish clerk
Hawkins John shopkeeper
Turner Ann Elizabeth
Yard Rev Thomas rector Rectory
COAL &C MERCHTS
Bennett and Son
Ellis and Everard
Laxton William
FARMERS & GRZRS
Bullivant William, Hose
Cooper Joseph
Freeman Thomas
Healy Richard
Jackson William Field House
Jackson Elizabeth
Tidd Henry
Tidd John
Willsher J Noakes
Administration
- County: Rutlandshire
- Civil Registration District: Oakham
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Rutland
- Poor Law Union: Oakham
- Hundred: Alstow
- Province: Canterbury