Stretton Magna Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Stretton Magna is a chapelry of Glen Magna Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.

Alternative names: Great Stretton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1585
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STRETTON-MAGNA, a chapelry in Glenn-Magna parish, Leicestershire; 2¾ miles N of Glenn r. station, and 4¾ SE of Leicester. Post town, Leicester. Real property, £1,435. Pop., 42. Houses, 7. S. Hall is the residence of Lieut. Col. King. The living is annexed to Glenn-Magna.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Leicestershire, Stretton-Magna – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Monumental inscriptions & church histories : 10 churches in the Gartree hundred
Author: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions of Streeton-Magna Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions, Stretton Magna, Leicester, England

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

England, Leicestershire, Stretton-Magna – Church history ( 2 )
Great Stretton history, parish registers, probate inventories
Author: Wilshere, Jonathan; Church of England. Chapelry of Stretton-Magna (Leicestershire)

Monumental inscriptions & church histories : 10 churches in the Gartree hundred
Author: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

England, Leicestershire, Stretton-Magna – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Stretton-Magna, 1604-1833
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Stretton-Magna (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Stretton-Magna and Glenn Magna, church records

England, Leicestershire, Stretton-Magna and Glenn Magna, church records

England, Leicestershire, Stretton-Magna, church records, 1813-1954
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Stretton-Magna (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Great Stretton history, parish registers, probate inventories
Author: Wilshere, Jonathan; Church of England. Chapelry of Stretton-Magna (Leicestershire)

Marriage transcripts, 1602-1822
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Stretton-Magna (Leicestershire)

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Billesdon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Gartree
  • Poor Law Union: Billesdon
  • Hundred: Gartree (Leicestershire)
  • Province: Canterbury