Seagrave Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Seagrave is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1682
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1562

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SEAGRAVE, a parish, with a village, in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester; 2 miles NNE of Sileby r. station, and 6 SE by E of Loughborough. It has a post-office under Loughborough. Acres, 2, 470. Real property, £3, 422. Pop., 443. Houses, 96. The property is subdivided.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £404. Patron, Queen’s College, Cambridge. The church was restored in 1858.

There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and some charities. Burton, the author of the “Anatomy of Melancholy,” was rector.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Leicestershire, Seagrave – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Seagrave, 1562-1882
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Seagrave (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

England, Leicestershire, Seagrave, church records

England, Leicestershire, Seagrave, church records

England, Leicestershire, Seagrave, church records, 1682-1987
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Seagrave (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Marriages at Seagrave, 1682-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Seagrave (Leicestershire)

Seagrave, Leicestershire, 1669-1910
Author: Leicestershire Parish Registers

England, Leicestershire, Seagrave – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Seagrave, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1769-1875
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Seagrave, Leicester, England ; marriages, 1769-1850
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Barrow upon Soar
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Goscote
  • Poor Law Union: Barrow upon Soar
  • Hundred: East Goscote
  • Province: Canterbury