Burbage Leicestershire Family History Guide

Burbage is a chapelry of Aston Flamville Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Sketchley.

Alternative names: Burback, Burbage and Sketchley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1562
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1563

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURBAGE, or Burback, a chapelry and a subdistrict in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Aston-Flamville parish; lies on the verge of the county, at Watling-street, 1¼ mile SE of Hinckley r. station; and has a post-office under Hinckley. Acres, 3,170. Real property, £7,725. Pop., 1,865. Houses, 416. The property is much subdivided.

Many of the inhabitants are stocking-makers.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Aston-Flamville, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is old but good, and has a tower and spire.

There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Leicestershire, Burback

England, Leicestershire, Burbage – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Burbage, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Leicestershire, Burbage – Census – 1891 – Indexes ( 1 )
Hinckley & district 1891 census index
Author: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society; Denny, John

England, Leicestershire, Burbage – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Burbage, 1563-1881
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Burbage (Leicestershire)

Church records, 1838-1935
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Burbage, Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Burbage and Aston-Flamville, church records

England, Leicestershire, Burbage, church records, 1562-2003
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Burbage (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Parish register transcripts, 1563-1751
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Burbage (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Burbage – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Parish register printouts of Burbage, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1752-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Burbage, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1816-1865
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Burbage, Leicester, England ; marriages, 1564-1836
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Burbage, Leicester, England ; marriages, 1752-1767, 1785-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Burbage, Leicester, England, christenings, 1562-1751
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Leicestershire, Burbage – Civil registration – Indexes ( 1 )
Hinckley registration district marriage index 1837-1911
Author: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Hinckley
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Guthlaxton
  • Poor Law Union: Hinckley
  • Hundred: Sparkenhoe
  • Province: Canterbury