Redmile Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Redmile is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1654
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1578

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

REDMILE, a parish, with a village, in the district of Grantham and county of Leicester; on the Grantham canal, 2¾ miles S of Bottesford r. station, and 9 W of Grantham. Post-town, Bottesford, under Nottingham. Acres, 1, 170. Real property, £3,090. Pop., 521. Houses, 116. The property is divided among a few.

The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £450. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is early English, and has a tower and spire. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel 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

REDMILE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Grantham, hundred of Framland, N. division of the county of Leicester, 9 miles (W.) from Grantham; containing 518 inhabitants.

The parish is intersected on the north-west side by the canal between Grantham and Nottingham. It comprises by measurement about 1700 acres, of which the portions of arable and pasture are nearly equal; the surface is generally flat, and the soil clay, on a lias formation. The lands stretch below the well-wooded ridge of hills on which Belvoir Castle stands.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £12. 9. 2.; net income, £391; patron, the Duke of Rutland. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1792.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Leicestershire, Redmile – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscription of Redmile Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions
Author: Nottinghamshire Family History Society

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

England, Leicestershire, Redmile – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Redmile, 1578-1850
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Redmile (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

England, Leicestershire, Redmile, church records

England, Leicestershire, Redmile, church records

England, Leicestershire, Redmile, church records, 1654-2007
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Redmile (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Marriages at Redmile, 1653-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Redmile (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Redmile – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Redmile, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1759-1850
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Redmile, Leicester, England ; marriages, 1760-1836
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Leicestershire, Redmile – Court records ( 1 )
Town records, 1746-1792
Author: Redmile (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Redmile – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Town records, 1746-1792
Author: Redmile (Leicestershire)

Administration

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