Great Dalby Leicestershire Family History Guide
Great Dalby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.
Alternative names: Dalby Magna, Great Dalby, Magna Dalby
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1591
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1565
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Hungarton with Twyford and Thorpe Satchville
- Ashby Folville
- Burrough on the Hill
- Somerby
- Kirby Bellars
- Melton Mowbray with Burton Lazars, Freeby, Sysonby and Welby
- Little Dalby
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DALBY (Great), or Dalby Magna, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 3 miles S by W of Melton-Mowbray r. station. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 2, 328. Real property, £3, 252. Pop., 484. Houses, 97.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £209. Patron, Sir R. Burdett, Bart. The church is old and bad.
There are a Wesleyan chapel and a free school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Melton Mowbray
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Goscote
- Poor Law Union: Melton Mowbray
- Hundred: East Goscote
- Province: Canterbury