Parish/Chapelry:  Measham

Adjoining Parishes:  Swepstone (LEI), Snarestone (LEI), Packington, Ashby de la Zouch (LEI), Willesley, Church Gresley

Dates of original CofE registers in the Leicestershire RO:

Measham St Lawrence transferred to Leicestershire 1897, Repton and Gresley Hundred, Ashby de la Zouch Union
baptisms:  1681-1941
marriages:  1681-1970
burials:  1681-1973

 

Records from churches of other religions:

Measham Wesleyan Methodist, founded 1797 (Lewis 1833)
baptisms:  1796-1837 DRO*

Measham Baptist, founded 1811, built 1841
Original records 1861-1974 at Leics RO

Dates of I.G.I.: 1813-1875

Dates of Bishops Transcripts (LRO):  1662-1835

Dates of local marriage indexes: 1662-1837

Dates of Boyd's marriage index:

Date of registers at Soc. Gen.:

Dates of registers not at Soc. Gen.:

Dates of Pallot's marriage index:  1790-1837

Dates of non-conform. records at PRO: 1797-1837

Leicestershire Record Office, Long Street, Wigston Magna, Leicester LE18 2AH
Telephone:  0116 2571080

Other records at DRO:

• Bishops' Transcipts, up to mid 19th century for Derbyshire at Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, Staffordshire, W13 6QG
• Marriage bonds and allegations, for Derbyshire at Lichfield Record Office
• Poor Law Records
• County and Derby borough Court Records
• Electoral registers, 1832 onwards
• Tithe Maps and apportionments, 19th century
• Taxation Records
• School Records
• Wills, indexed registers 1858-1928
• Cemetery records
• International Genealogical Index (IGI), name index with register up to 1900
• Church of England registers

Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, WS13 6QG
Telephone:  (+44) 01543-510720

The Public Record Office, at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
Telephone:  +44 (0) 20 8876 3444
 

Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Rd, London EC1M 7BA
Telephone:  (020) 7251 8799

* Also filmed by the LDS Family History Library (dates may vary)
 

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last updated January 17, 2008