Kirkby Mallory Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Kirkby Mallory is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire. Earl Shilton is a chapelry of Kirkby Mallory.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1598
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1562

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIRKBY-MALLORY, a village and a township in Market-Bosworth district, and a parish partly also in Hinckley district, Leicester. The village stands 3¼ miles SW of Desford r. station, and 4 SE of Market-Bosworth; and formerly had a market and a fair.

The township comprises 2, 190 acres. Real property, £3, 868. Pop., 216. Houses, 52. The parish contains also the chapelry of Earl-Shilton, which has a post office under Hinckley. Acres, of the parish, 3, 110. Real property, £11, 339. Pop., 2, 392. Houses, 532.

The manor belonged anciently to the Mallorys; was held, for a time, by Leicester abbey, and passed through various hands, to the Noels; and it had anciently a castle. Kirkby Hall, a handsome mansion in a fine park, is the seat of the Baroness de Clifford.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £410. Patron, Earl Lovelace. The church has a tower, and contains monuments of the Noels. There are a free school, and charities £45. See Earl-Shilton.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Leicestershire, Kirkby-Mallory – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Kirkby-Mallory, 1562-1851
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Mallory (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Kirkby-Mallory, church records

England, Leicestershire, Kirkby-Mallory, church records

England, Leicestershire, Kirkby-Mallory, church records, 1598-1992
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Mallory (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

England, Leicestershire, Kirkby-Mallory – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Kirkby-Mallory, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1813-1851
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Kirkby-Mallory, Leicester, England ; marriages, 1813-1836
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Leicestershire, Kirkby-Mallory – Civil registration – Indexes ( 1 )
Market Bosworth registration district marriage index 1837-1911
Author: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

Administration

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