Burley Rutland Family History Guide
Burley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Rutlandshire.
Alternative names: Burley on the Hill
Parish church: Holy Cross
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1577
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1701
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BURLEY, or Burley-on-the-Hill, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; in the vale of Catmose, 2 miles NE of Oakham r. station. Post Town, Oakham. Acres, 3,390. Real property, £4,572. Pop., 237. Houses, 40. The manor belonged to the Segraves, the De Lisles, the Spencers, and others; passed to Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; and belongs now to G. Finch, Esq. The Duke of Buckingham, in his mansion here, entertained James I. with Ben Jonson’s mask of the Gypsies, and had the dwarf Geoffrey Hudson served up at table, in the presence of Charles I. and his queen, in a great pasty. The mansion was burnt in the civil wars; but the stables belonging to it are still standing.
A Grecian edifice, built by Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, and now the residence of the Finch family, occupies the site of the Duke of Buckingham’s mansion; is 196 feet long; commands a beautiful extensive view; and contains many family portraits and some masterpiece pictures. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £350. Patron, G. Finch, Esq The church is pleasantly surrounded with trees. There is a free 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
BURLEY (Holy Cross), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 2 miles (N. E. by N.) from Oakham; containing 252 inhabitants.
The manor came, by purchase, into the possession of Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, who greatly enlarged and embellished the mansion here, in which he successively entertained James I. and Charles I., with their respective courts. This stately edifice, on the breaking out of the civil war, was garrisoned by a small body of parliamentarian troops, who, unable to sustain an attack of the royalists, set fire to the house, which was burnt to the ground; the site is now occupied by an elegant modern mansion. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £10. 13. 1½.; net income, £350; patron and impropriator, G. Finch, Esq.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriage Licences
Lincoln Marriage Licences
Lincoln Marriage Licences. An Abstract of the Allegation Books preserved in The Registry of the Bishop of Lincoln 1598 to 1628. Edited by A Gibbons. London: Mitchell & Hughes, 140 Wardour Street, W. 1888.
The name in brackets at the end of each entry is the church where the marriage was to be solemnized; where a saint’s name only is given, the church was at Lincoln. “Ditto ” in brackets signifies the same church as in the preceding entry; and where both parties reside in the same parish, and the marriage was to be solemnized at their parish church, the name is not repeated in brackets. In order to economize space, “aged” is abbreviated “æt.,” “yeoman” “yeom.,” “husbandman” “husb.,” “widow” “wid., “application” “appln.;” besides a few other obvious abbreviations. Places situate in other counties than Lincoln are generally so specified.
1612 Jan. 8 Mathewe Stacie, of Burleighe, co. Rutland, gent. , æt. 27, & Margerie Dalbie, of Gt Paunton , spr, æt. 20, dau. of Wm Dalbie, of Burleighe, [clk. Great Paunton.]
Parish Records
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England, Rutland, Burley-on-the-Hill
Rutland Historical Directories
Directory Transcriptions
History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Rutland William White 1863
Oakham Finch G & G jun Esqrs Burley Hall
Brown Eliza & Carr Martha, schools
Brown John stonemason
Chambers Humphrey smith & farrier
Cooper Edward carpenter
Gall Matthew, shoemaker, Toll Bar
Gunner James, head gardener
Jones Rev John MA Vicarage
Lane Mrs Sarah
Toon John parish clerk
FARMERS AND GRAZIERS
Berridge William Chapel farm
Bradshaw Chpr Jas Alstoe House
Fabling William Park farm
Painter Benjamin Cow Close farm
Smith Christopher (Executors of)
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
