Barkby Leicestershire Family History Guide
Barkby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire. Barkby Thorpe and North Thurmaston are chapelries of Barkby.
Other places in the parish include: Barkby with Hambleton and Hambleton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1586
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1562
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Barkby Parish Registers
Barkby Marriages 1586 to 1812 Leicestershire Parish Registers Marriages Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Thomas M. Blagg, F.S.A. Vol. II. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124 Chancery Lane. 1909 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
Barkby
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BARKBY, a township and a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester. The township lies on an affluent of the river Wreak, 1½ mile S by E of Syston r. station, and 4½ NE of Leicester; and it includes the hamlet of Hambleton. Real property, £3,739. Pop., 504. Houses, 117. The parish contains also the township of North Thurmaston and the hamlet of Barkby-Thorpe; and its Post Town is Syston, under Leicester. Acres, 2,290. Real property, exclusive of Thurmaston, £4,739. Pop., 791. Houses, 183. Barkby Hall is the seat of W. Pochin, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250. Patron, W. Pochin, Esq. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BARKBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 5 miles (N. E.) from Leicester; containing, with the chapelries of Barkby-Thorp and North Thurmaston, 849 inhabitants, of whom 70 are in Barkby-Thorp. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £10; net income, £250; patron and impropriator, W. A. Pochin, Esq. The tithes, with some exceptions, were commuted for land in 1762. The church has been repewed.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Hambleton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HAMBLETON, a hamlet in Barkby parish, Leicestershire; 3 miles NE of Leicester. It belonged to William de Hambleton, grandson of the first Earl of Leicester; is alleged, by some, to have given rise to the Scottish ducal family of Hamilton; and gives the title of Viscount Hamilton to the Marquis of Abercorn.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Barkby
Hambleton
Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Barrow upon Soar
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Goscote
- Poor Law Union: Barrow upon Soar
- Hundred: East Goscote
- Province: Canterbury