Coalville Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Coalville is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Leicestershire, created in 1840 from Ibstock Ancient Parish, Whitwick Ancient Parish and Packington Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1840

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist New Connexion, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

THE MARKET HALL, COALVILLE, LEICESTERSHIRE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, COALVILLE, LEICESTERSHIRE
BELVOIR ROAD, COALVILLE, LEICESTERSHIRE

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COALVILLE, a chapelry in Ibstock, Whitwick, and Packington parishes, Leicester; on the Burton and Leicester railway, 4¾ miles ESE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It has a post office under Leicester and a r. station. Pop., 1, 540. Houses, 303. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £134. Patron, the Rev. T. W. Minton. The church is good; and there are four dissenting chapels, and two public schools.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Leicestershire, Coalville – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Coalville, 1840-1889
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Coalville (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Church records, 1844-1917, 1979
Author: Ashby-de-la-Zouch Circuit (Leicestershire : Wesleyan Methodist); Coalville Circuit (Wesleyan Methodist)

England, Leicestershire, church records

England, Leicestershire, Coalville, church records, 1840-1964
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Coalville (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

England, Leicestershire, Coalville – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Coalville, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1840-1875
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Leicestershire, Coalville – History ( 1 )
Coalville : the first 75 years, 1833-1908
Author: Baker, Denis W.

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Ashby de la Zouch
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Sparkenhoe
  • Poor Law Union: Ashby de la Zouch
  • Hundred: Sparkenhoe; West Goscote
  • Province: Canterbury