Teigh, Rutland Family History Guide

Teigh is an Ancient Parish in the county of Rutlandshire.

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin: 1572

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TEIGH, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; 1½ mile NNE of Ashwell r. station, and 4¾ N by E of Oakham. Post town, Oakham.

Acres, 1,267. Real property, £2,306. Pop., 128. Houses, 31. The property is divided among four.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £430. Patron, R. Thompson, Esq. The church is modern Gothic.

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

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Teigh (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of OAKHAM, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 5 miles (N.) from Oakham; containing 235 inhabitants.

The parish comprises about 1400 acres, and produces a material resembling iron-stone, quarried for the roads: the Melton and Oakham canal passes through it. There is a strong petrifying spring, and fossil fish have been found in the blue rock.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £14. 2. 11.; net income, £349; patron, the Earl of Harborough: there is a parsonage-house, with a glebe containing about 60 acres. The church is a small neat edifice.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Rutland, Teigh – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Teigh, 1707-1853
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Teigh (Rutlandshire)

England, Rutland, Teigh, church records, 1572-1995
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Teigh (Rutlandshire); Leicestershire Record Office

Rutland parish registers
Author:    Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

England, Rutland, Teigh – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
LRFHS county burials, 1813-1865, for the parish of Teigh
Author:    Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

LRFHS county burials, 1813-1865, for the parish of Teigh
Author:    Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

England, Rutland, Teigh – History ( 1 )
The history of Teigh in Rutland
Author:    Redlich, E. Basil

Administration

  • County: Rutlandshire
  • Civil Registration District: Oakham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Rutland
  • Poor Law Union: Oakham
  • Hundred: Alstow
  • Province: Canterbury