Freeby Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Freeby is a chapelry of Melton Mowbray with Burton Lazars, Freeby, Sysonby and Welby Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1604
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1578

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FREEBY, a chapelry in Melton-Mowbray parish, Leicester; near the river Wreak and the Melton-Mowbray canal, 1 mile NW of Saxby r. station, and 3¼ ENE of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1, 546. Real property, £2, 016. Pop., 126. Houses, 26. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Melton-Mowbray, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is old; and there is an Independent chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Leicestershire, Freeby – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of Freeby Cemetery

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

England, Leicestershire, Freeby – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Freeby, 1578-1865
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Freeby (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

England, Leicestershire, Freeby and Melton-Mowbray, church records

England, Leicestershire, Freeby, bishop transcripts, 1574-1866
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Freeby (Leicestershire); Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland

England, Leicestershire, Freeby, church records, 1604-1834
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Freeby (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Freeby, Leicestershire, England parish registers : baptisms 1605-1910, marriages 1605-1910, burials 1605-1910
Author: Mortensen, Jennifer L.

Marriages at Freeby, 1601-1775
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Freeby (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Freeby – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Freeby, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1578, 1604-1638, 1674-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Freeby, Leicester, England ; christenings, 1820-1866
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Melton Mowbray
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Framland
  • Poor Law Union: Melton Mowbray
  • Hundred: Framland
  • Province: Canterbury